The things you find on the internet...

Like a Billy Bragg concert on CBC radio 3.

Wah hah hah

Wah.

Hah.

HAH.

This?

Is all.

It's a sin to waste good uploads...

Or something. Herewith, songs I have put on YouSendIt for various people this week, that which because they might as well be shared more widely.

Dire Straits, Iron Hand

A dark little song about Thatcherite England; it's got that deep rich guitar thing going on that always gets me.

Oysterband, Put Out The Lights

I love this song so much I can't even talk about it. It's like a big warm fuzzy blanket of a love song, without being even one little bit sappy, and my world is a better place for benet having put it on a mix tape for me way back when.

John Barrowman, Anything Goes.

Go ahead. Sing along. You know you want to. Just belt it right out, I'm going to.

No reason, really...

Some people I know were telling me of a curious experience which they had recently; they put a collection of old and rejected household articles in their car and drove to a dump to dispose of them. While busy at the dump, they were accosted by a strange figure, a woman of tall and stately presence, wearing a paper crown and carrying a staff in her hand, who strode majestically through the avenues of ashes, tin cans, dishonoured wash-boilers and superannuated bathtubs, attended by a rabble of admiring children. This apparition hailed my friends in a strange, incoherent, but musical language, and her breath was richly perfumed with bay-rum, or it may have been lilac lotion; she was in fact as high as a kite and as mimsy as a borogrove. Having said her say, she strode off in queenly style, and she and her raffish crew were soon lost in the mazes of the dump... My theory is that this was Titania, the fairy queen, fallen upon evil days, but magnificent in ruin; or it may simply have been some rumdumb old bag with a sense of humour. In either case the matter is worth investigating.

Robertson Davies
The Diary of Samuel Marchbanks