Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Weekend w/ my friend at her place down in San Diego was really fantastic. Ate lots of good food including dim sum, her family's home cooking, Extraordinary Desserts (a delucioso Passion Fruit Ricotta Torte that I didn't think twice about finishing), met all of her friends, which I'm amazed to say I think I remember all of their names now - quite a feat considering the sheer amount of them and most of them looking very much the same. Enjoyed very fine San Diegan weather which is clean and crisp, warm with a cool breeze and pretty much the antithesis of ole smoggy Riverside air. Had a moment of reflection on Mount Soledad, looking at all the war veteran plaques and the 360 degree view of the area surrounding, and walked along the coast in La Jolla. Pretty fantastic.


Mount Soledad

Extraordinary Desserts Site


Now I got to study my ass off and finish many assignments to make up for the fun weekend.

Oh yeah:

The man was on Letterman on friday looking absolutely drop dead gorgeous - hard to believe but I'd have to say even more than usual. I mean just look at his dimples and white teeth and perfectly mussed hair! Whoever is the touch up person for Letterman's show, much props. Aah! I can hardly stand it he's so hot!

Recommended Tunes For Today:
(A fun one today)

Bad songs that are so gratuitously bad/over-the-top/schmaltzy that they've completely gone around the circle back to good again - either that or the song has just creeped into my brain to the part that says bad!bad!bad! and "grown on me" like some fungus.

+ George Michael - Faith
(From the church organ beginning to the clap-clap-clapping, this song reminds you of those rather forgotten years when you were an embarrassingly "faith"ful Wham! fan. I, happily, was not old enough at the time to be one - I had some other forget-worthy singer to fawn over, who shall remain nameless)

+ ABBA - Dancing Queen
(Cheap disco lights, blindingly shiny lamé and roller-skate disco rinks aside, this is the ultimate cheesy fun/bad song of its era. Keeping on this topic, "238 Miles" It’s a “documentary” of sorts where a guy listens to ABBA’s song “Dancing Queen” over and over and over and OVER again on his four or five hour drive from Iowa City, IA to Chicago, IL. Why? I do not know.)

+ Wilson Phillips - Hold On
( hahahaha. Whoooo! I went to look for this song on iTunes (scarily enough, its under the "rock" genre) and a flood of memories came rushing back to me. My sister has to share the blame for this one, I was just an impressionable young child when she bought her first cd - Wilson Phillips and proceeded to play it continuously for a year)

+ Usher - Yeah!
(Well, for someone who never listens to the radio besides the only classic rock station left in Los Angeles, 95.5 KLOS and Indie 103.1 which would probably rather slit its throat and cut limbs off before playing an Usher song, I have to give somebody credit for so thoroughly saturating every media outlet with this song enough to get it into my head - this is definitely one of those fungus songs)


I put this pic here because you must admit, Usher is really the only eye pleasing one of them all. Suprisingly, the guys from Better Than Ezra were pretty disappoiting.

+ Billy Bob Thornton - Angelina
(Watching their relationship was like watching a train wreak except with lots of screwing in the backs of a limos.. With just as much blood. Can't keep your eyes off)

+ Rod Stewart - Forever Young
( and with such blasphemy/or balls to name another song with the same title of a Bob Dylan song, you're riveted by the man's attempt to be just as insightful and failing horribly - but at least you got a pop song out of it)

+ Phil Collins - Take Me Home
(I think I'll have to consider this the pinnacle of Phil's career.)

+ Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me
(wait a minute, I thought this was Bad Songs That Are Good so why is this turning into Song's I'm Embarrassed to Admit I Like? I admit it ok? I got taken in by this sucker like a - well, I can't even think right now. I'm going to go now and hide my head under a pillow)

Better Than Ezra - King Of New Orleans
(When this song came out I though the world had somehow changed. Where there aliens invading? Was the sky about to explode? What was this wondrous, magical melody blaring out of the radio? Yeah, I was a stupid kid)

Kansas - Dust In The Wind tied Carry On Wayward Son
(Its freakin Kansas for G's sake.)

Joe Cocker - With A Little Help From My Friends
(The Ray Charles wannabe. It pisses me off, but this song's pretty damn feel good)

Melissa Etheridge - I'm the Only One
(.......that driving rhythm that is the formula for a hit)

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Two listings found on Best of Craigslist (one hilarious, one beautiful):

Listing Number 1:

THANK YOU FOR TELLING ME ABOUT THE MUTATED SUBWAY ROACH ON MY LEG

Reply to: anon-11368183@craigslist.org
Date: Fri May 16 06:31:20 2003


Well…I took the V to 51st and LEX and transferred there to the downtown 6. The train was crowded as usual and I stood next to an old man with a tennis racket in a bag. I was reading a magazine so I ignored him as he moved his bag around from side to side…looking underneath and in it. I stopped reading when I heard him say “where did it go?”. A girl sitting near him responded: “um…brush your leg”. Realizing that she was talking to me, I looked down and saw a 2.5 inch cockaroach on my f%!@ing leg!!! I did my usual dance…brushed it off with my magazine…throwing the magazine on the ground…everyone on the train looked at me like I was crazy. I asked the girl if she saw it run away and she said “yes…you got it”. I sighed and bolted off the train at Grand Central, found my stairwell and my turnstile and rushed up the escalator to the front of my building removing my coat to check to see if it was still on me (even though the girl said I had gotten it…I did not see it run away MYSELF). SO I got into the elevator holding my coat over my arm…and looked down…and there she was…on the sleeve of my green coat. Even though two more people were on the elevator with me, I flung the coat on the floor, stood back and said “THERE IS A ROACH ON MY COAT!!!” The man who was sharing the elevator w/ me and another woman shook it off and killed it. I just finished the crying…but am still paranoid that there is something on me. I have considered going home for the day.

I am horrified of roaches. Thank you for pointing it out to me. And no thanks to anyone who saw me walking thru Grand Central w/ it on my coat...for not telling me.

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Listing number 2:

To the couple dancing on the platform of the L

Reply to: anon-5249212@craigslist.org
Date: Sun Aug 18 16:22:43 2002


you were white, she was asian, you were both tall, elegant, composed; your very presence on the dim, thick-aired platform imbued it with an air of accidental grace. you, ivy league-posterboy handsome, wore a black sport-coat over a white collared shirt, yet seemed miraculously devoid of sweat. her face glistened a bit, which only added to her loveliness.

a bit farther down the platform, a subway performer sang "somewhere over the rainbow," in pure, melancholy tones. you engaged her in an silly, impromptu dance, spinning her, pulling her towards you. she giggled deeply, your beamed. you were both so in love, a love so pure, so genuine, so removed from the base, sweaty, violent lusts and conquests of your average subway denizen (myself included) that i was overcome. with sadness, longing, joy? i'm not sure. all i know is that it restored my faith in humanity. thank you for the brief glimpse of transcendence on an otherwise wretched day.



How beautiful is that??

Recommended Tunes For Today:

+ Elvis Costello - Still
(makes me think of the dancing listing)

+ Willie Nelson - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

+ Isreal Kamakawiwo'ole - Panini Puakea

+ Death Cab For Cutie - Someday You Will Be Loved

+ Stellastarr* - Lost In Time

+ Bob Dylan & Van Morrison - Crazy Love

+ Elvis Costello - Lost In The Stars


Can never say no to a little Laurie

Monday, February 20, 2006

House on at special time today. Very good but they are treading a fine line. Any more melodrama and it might get a tiny bit over the top. Am crossing fingers they will get back to normal programing in a little while.

Roomate was slightly annoying in her chattering while I wanted to focus all attention on House, especially in opening montage scene which gives me a mental note of never wanting to watch an episode with her again. She's still younger than me in mind (and years) so she'll probably never understand (or admit) any feelings towards Hugh Laurie. At the understanding that I'll probably scare the heck out of her, I'm forced to pretend I am also crushing, as she is, over Jesse Spencer who is cute but [yawn] typical.

Must go to bed now. Assignment due tomorrow!

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Okay, here it is.

Mind you, this was written quite a while ago so my frenzy has calmed a little, though just as intense. sigh. Lovely man:








Am. Totally. Smitten. With. HUGH LAURIE!!!!!!!


Hugh Laurie is the new primetime hottie. It took me a while but I finally watched an episode of House and am totally hooked on both the character and the actor.

I've always thought he was a hot lookin guy (I mean if you're watching Stuart Little and you start having fantasies involving Mr. Little, I think its a sign the guy's got something attractive under that nerdy exterior. I think it was the whole good w/ kids attractiveness) Over the years in various places Black Adder, Sense and Sensibility, Friends, it seems whenever he shows up, he catches my eye and puts a mmm "phwoar" thought in my head but somehow (and I suspect his fairly bland sounding name) he fades into the background afterwards. Ah, but not this time my friends. After watching House and getting totally hot and bothered over his grouchy yet do-good character, I looked him up and the more I read about him the more I was attracted. So I decided to do a tally by adding up all these attractive points:

- Number 1 - He went to Dragon Prep school, then Cambridge and has a degree in Archeology! We all know full and well by now how a well educated man gets me hot under the collar....roawr (definitely points for being brainy)

- Number 2 - He has a British accent. (I'm a sucka for Brit accents! Bonus points!) And he does a very convincing American accent on House. Unlike, sorry to say, many well know brits including poor Colin Firth (Very impressed points!)

- Number 3- He was a rower/boatman. Rowed in Cambridge as "strongman" which I can only guess at what it means but it sounds darn good (mmm athletic toned muscles..... A fluffy eye candy bonus point)

- Number 4 - He plays piano, harmonica, sax, drums, guitar and when I say play, plays them significantly well! Played percussion in university orchestra (Musician too! more bonus points!) And believe it not, can actually rap fairly decently in terms of the old school alternative style rhythm and breathing! (Pleasantly surprised and amused points!)

- Number 5 - His best friend is Stephen Fry! (at a time when it wasn't very popular to openly have such a close friendship w/ a gay man) He also dated my personal hero Emma Thompson! (another very close friend) (Lots and lots of bonus points!)

- Number 6 - He has battled Depression and "other problems" and has talked about it a insightful fashion with inteligence and truth. It definitely made a connection to me (Deep admiration and empathy points)

- Number 7 - Is extremely funny in the British funny (the best kind of funny) sort of way w/ a track record to prove it. Collaborations w/ Stephen Fry, lovely comic timing in much of his work - anyone see Sense and Sensibility?? and often present in his interviews, etc etc (Love a funny man. A generous shower of points!)

- Number 8 - The man also wrote a freaking novel. And none of those self serving masturbatory drivel/crap "celebs" dish out. Actually a very well reviewed fiction novel called the Gun Seller which is quite a feat considering critics well documented hatred of actors who attempt to write. (In awe bonus points)

- Number 9 - An extremely humble, self depracating guy. (Awww. bonus points!)

- Number 9a - Whilst claiming to have "buns of yogurt" actually has in reality very lip-bitingly pinchable buns. I direct you to Fortysomething for proof (Gah! girly squeely bonus points!)

- Number 10 - He rides and has a passion for motorcycles and other Steve McQueen-ey vehicles (oooh! a little edgy. Manly man points!)

- Number 11 - He likes to box like my favorite musician - Bowie. Used to hate this sport but have grown interested in the ballet of it all - Ali, Million Dollar Baby, Bowie, and now Laurie. (Beefy sweaty biceps points!)

- Number 12 - He has dimples! He has goggly bright blue eyes (seriously it is soo blue)! Eeeeeiiiii! (Heart dropping bonus points!!)

- Number 13 - Um hello, have you seeeen House? That scruffy beard and the way his biceps fits his shirt so well oooaaahhh (Bonus points! Bonus points!)

- Number 14- And finally he LOVES Muddy Water and the blues. I LOVE THE BLUES! (Ding ding ding ding! About a billion bonus points!)

Final calculation: About a gazillion points for sexiness!!! Now to end (quite rightly I think) w/ a gratuitous amount of Laurie pics...


The comedy kind of lust


Hot dad Stuart Little lust


BBC lust


Wooster lust


Total Wooster lust !!! (Omigod how Valentino rwoar)


Sense and Sensibilty lust (lol)


He just looks hot here (dimples!) lust


motorcycle lust


see i'm not the only one who's lusting


omg. Man in uniform lust!!!


Brainy author of book lust


mmmmmm House lust


more House lust


and more House lust


And yet some more House lust


Golden globe lust. Yay!

Recommended Tunes For Today:

I'm all Hugh Laurie'd out today so, this is just the Soul/classic R&B list I'm listening to at the moment on my iTunes:

+ Martha Reeves & The Vandellas - Easilly Persuaded

+ Frank Wilson - Do I Love You (Indeed I Do)

+ Staple Singers - I'll Take You There

+ William Bell - Just As I Thought

+ J.J. Barnes - Chains Of Love


+ Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand The Rain
(Am desperately trying to find a cd copy of it somewhere..)

+ Aretha Franklin - Respect

+ Ike Turner & Betty Everett - I'll Weep No More

+ Irma Thomas - She's Taking My Part

+ Betty Wright - Shoo Rah! Shoo Rah!

+ Sam Hawkins - Hold On Baby

+ Timmy Thomas - Why Can't We Live Together

+ Aretha Franklin - Sweet Sweet Baby Since You've Been Gone

+ Fred Hughes - Ooo Wee Baby I Love You

+ Bettye Swann - I Think I'm Falling In Love

+ Mavis Staples - Chained

+ Muddy Waters - Bus Driver
(mmmm Laurie...that sexy bastard. Look above to Number 14)


The last girliedom note:



Those eyes are criminal I tell ya. Cri-mi-nal.


so now I hope you understand a little bit of my Laurie crush and maybe, hopefully you've been swayed too. Maybe you'll think about checkin' out House on Fox (usually I hate this station with such ferver but for this one hour, I put it aside). Its on at Tuesdays 9pm (at least in LA) except for Feb 20th when it will be on Monday at 8pm (I seriously don't know why they're trying to screw up one of the most popular shows they have. But thats lovely Fox for you!! Don't even get me started on them interviewing Dick "buckshot" Cheney.........

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Had about four hours of sleep from 5:30am to 9:30am this morning. F&%@#!G tired as you can imagine but still have to stay up to read for midterm tomorrow. Am not in the mood for anything. Wanted to finally post that Hugh Laurie thing (just about the only thing that brings a smile to my face in these haggard times) but I want to do it when I'm well rested and joyful, not now, not like this.

Absolutely no reason for being here except to satisfy my little whims pics:


Jeeves and "dimply adorably" Wooster


Utterly Gorgeous with a very intentional capital U and a VERY intentional capital G


Eeeeeeeiiiiiiiii!!!!!!! *loud panting and clawing ensue* *dies*


Recommended Tunes For Today:

+ Gary Jules - Pills
(I need some)

+ Sleepy John Estes - 38 Pistol
(yes, very sleepy)

+ Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney - Bed Is For Sleeping
(Indeed. And I would like to make use of it right now)

+ The Cloud Room - We Sleep In The Ocean
(what happened to them after the wonderful "Hey Now Now"??

+ David Bowie - Let Me Sleep Beside You
(For you anything, sweetie)

+ Nick Drake - River Man
(plinky plunky music)

+ Archer Prewitt - I'll Be Waiting

Am off to take a wee nap and hopefully dream about that scruff and piercing baby blues from picture #3.

Thursday, February 09, 2006

OH man!!!
Went to Apple trailers and am now very excited for a bunch of movies coming up, even though it is traditionally movie dumping season (after Oscars).

Movies I Wanna Watch:

* V for Vandetta - I just saw the trailer for it and it looks pretty darn awesome! Hugo Weaving is awesome. I recognized his voice right away before I found out he was in the movie and that the Wachowski bros directed it. Then it all made sense. The only thing I'm worried about is the costume of the character V. I guess it's faithful to the comic? but it seems borderline stupid (bad period french haircut and mask)

The original illustration

The Poster
V For Vandetta Trailer

* The Fountain - I read about this a while ago in Premiere magazine and must say the story immediately piqued my interest. From what I've gathered its basically a love story spanning from the sixteenth century to 2500 directed by the guy who did Pi and Requiem For A Dream. The trailor doesn't disappoint. My sis is super jealous of Rachel Weisz. She's played opposite all the hot men in Hollywood that she likes.
Couldn't find a poster of the film so here are a few (well, actually a load of) pics:





The Fountain Trailer

* Friends With Money - Looks interesting and funny. J.Aniston picks pretty good movies. Good taste or good agent. Also with Joan Cusack, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener
No poster so here's a pic:

Friends With Money Trailer


* Marie Antoinette - C'mon its Sofia Coppola! I'm sure there are many w/ fidgeting hands just waiting for the next flick after the great Virgin Suicides and Lost In Translation
Couldn't find a poster so here's a still:

Marie Antoinette Trailer
Have to say its an awesome trailer too, even if she doesn't have anything to do with it. Matching the french period images w/ that music and that punk-y black on pick graphics - daring.

* Thank You For Smoking - I cracked up when I saw the trailer. Thinkin I should read the book first though. Its always better right?? Who'd ever thought I'd be rooting for the Tobacco lobbyist.

Thank You For Smoking Trailer


* Lady In The Water - I must say, I've liked all of M.Night Shyamalan's films (except for the Village) Good suspense and storyline if you disregard the whole twist ending. Plus theres Paul Giamatti whom I love as joe schmoes.

Lady In The Water Trailer

* Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story - This looks reaaally good. A film about filming Tristram Shandy, a famous story that can't be filmed. I wonder why there hasn't been more people talking about this. With Steve Coogan, Gillian Anderson, Stephen Fry and a bunch of other cool people.

The only poster image I could find

Hahahahah! You have to watch the trailer!
Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story Trailer

Recommended Tunes For Today:

Recommended Tunes For Today:
(Curtesy of my old desktop computer at home - full of mp3 goodies I haven't heard in a while)
+ Radiohead - No Surprises
(anybody watch that german film Was Tun Wenn's Brennt?? Interesting use of the song)

+ Radiohead - Hunting Bears
(one of my favorite Radiohead songs among many)

+ Reindeer Section - Will You Please Be There For Me

+ Tenacious D - Tribute
(Jack Black is some kinda demented genius. I'm just not sure which he is more of)

+ Chris Whitley - Scrapyard Lullabye
(have yet to find a used copy of Dirt Floor by Whitley)

+ Frank Black & Teenage Fanclub - Sister Isabel

+ Scorpions - Still Loving You
(........and then he said, "I bet I can go higher than you!".......)


+ Etta James - How Deep Is The Ocean
(freakin fantastic version, but then again its Etta James)

Wednesday, February 08, 2006



I Like Eric Clapton.


There. I'm not ashamed to say it anymore. I'm quite aware how just how very unhip that comment is, relegating me to some sad adult fm fan [shudders] but I'm only being honest. True, this formerly great artist has, in the opinion of many, sunken to a new artistic low, a lull if you will, of comfortably sogginess (though consistently soggy) existence. This is a state of existence where the guitar notes that used to wail out in beautiful, rubbed-raw-and-bloody agony is now a half assed diddy you secretly know he could (and probably did) come up with while sitting on the porcelain during a toilet break between being a daddy and playing with the kids in the yard. You get quite angry with him at times, because you're convinced he still has the chops to whip out something as awesome as Bell Bottom Blues and all those Cream tunes but continues to be drawn to write schmaltzy songs.
In fact I don't even know why people keep calling him a blues rock n' roll-er. The blues part I get because the whole parallel with Robert Johnson and his blues guitar solos still smoke but the whole rock n' roll thing I don't think still applies so much anymore. His best songs (in his solo years) have always been admittedly pop with soft melodies and quiet lyrics of heartaches and unrequited love. Most of the people who claim these are rock songs are the suits who think Hotel California is the best rock song ever written and go to the beach on weekends to sit in the local "bar" with their khakis shorts and $15 dollar drinks thinking the thick version of Ride, Sally, Ride the "house band" is playing is some really smokin' blues. Not to say Clapton's songs are not good. In fact they're quite nice - just not rock. I think it'd be better for everyone if we'd just stop kidding ourselves and admit the fact.

Why am I even writing a blog entry about Clapton you ask?? Well, I was browsing around on the internet (ok yes, wasting time) and I came across an article promoting Clapton's new album Back Home. I went over to iTunes to check it out. Its a whole album about how's he's finally found happiness with a woman he really loves and settled into his role as typical English fuddy duddy daddy and husband. It is further erosion to his rocker image and it was a little surprising to me, by the way his voice sounded, how much he didn't care. I was a huge fan at one time, a bit of time ago, researching into all his albums, following every detail of his life professional and personal, even going so far as to buy his electronic/dance side project TDF: Retail Therapy, which I admit requires a certain level of fandom. While I delved deep into his life, I realized that understanding the troubles and struggles with love, addiction and loss he went through was integral to his music and appreciating it. He's one of those artists who's music is attached/connected in such an incredible way to the events of his life, its sometimes impossible to tell the two apart. Those are the songs that speak to us, the way his voice cries out and guitar wails that makes our heart break for him and spring tears in our eyes, because maybe he was going through so much shit and confusion he didn't know how to do it himself. Perhaps in that way, we liked him better when he was in pain and there was turmoil in his life. I myself would have to say he certainly created better music when he was a drug addict and vastly unhappy but to say I would want him to continue in that way just so I could have the benefit of a few lovely songs, that's just plain stupid. Quite the contrary, I've felt such a connection to his life and pains that when I hear these plain unchallenging exercises of schmaltzy hand-holding love and cliche fatherhood ballads in the new album Back Home (that he probably recorded to fulfill his contract rather than answering any creative need), I just feel, not disappointed but so.......surprisingly......happy for him.

Recommended Tunes For Today:
Some highlights of Clapton's career accompanied by the album cover from where the song came.


+ Cream - Strange Brew
(The layers of vocals are way very cool)
+ Cream - Tales Of Brave Ulysses
(The recording is amazing. I don't think he coul ever reproduce it live (or in the studio for that matter) ever again.


(Probably his best album)
+ Derek And The Dominoes - Bell Bottom Blues
(Personally I think this is more achey and anthem-ic for love than Layla. "Do you wanna see me crawl across the floor to you?" the anguish in his voice is just breaking surface yet undeniable)
+ Derek And The Dominoes - Keep On Growing
(With the bright melody, optomistic lyrics and the overwhelming feeling that Clapton believes with such hope every word he sings, you can't help but want to believe in the power of love too)
+ Derek And The Dominoes - Little Wing
(I never thought a Hendrix song could be interpreted in a way that could compete with the original and especially with a song as beautiful as Little Wing. Until I heard this.

- I'd like to add here that I know he never liked his voice, he wanted the old black man's voice from the blues records he loved so much and now that he's gotten older, he tends to utilize that grumble of age. However, I actually prefer the young sweeter, straining voice. It was much more unique and added an element of fragility to his songs that was quite nice.


+ Eric Clapton - Floating Bridge
(The first disc of Blues (Studio blues) is a fine example of his blues power. Sometimes better than his live performances where the solos can go a bit over the top. The restraint in some of the shorter songs are almost perfect. Favorites: Mean Old World, The Sky Is Cryin, Cryin, Alberta, Give Me Strength, To Make Somebody Happy)


+ Eric Clapton - Behind The Sun
(The fact that Phil Collins produced this album shouldn't deter you from listening to this song. The screaming strain of heartbreak from his Derek and the Dominoes days have been compressed to a voice just above a whisper, internalized)


+ Blind Faith - Presence Of The Lord
(At the top of his game, the riffs from the solo come streaming out with ease and precision. I would also like to note with this song, Clapton is a bit unique and interesting that while all the hippies/rockers around him were getting turned on to Eastern religion and alternative thought, he was quite attached to traditional his Catholic upbringing and continued/continues throughout his career)


+ Eric Clapton - Running On Faith
(The solos are almost self indulgent but I must admit, he always picks the right notes, the right sequence and which to accentuate/hold. This is probably the reason he's so popular)


+ Eric Clapton - Told You For The Last Time
(A very young Clapton in his first solo album with a very fine example of that sweet vulnerable voice)
+ Eric Clapton - Blues Power
(Ironic that the song Blues Power isn't very bluesy at all. Adding further insult to injury the first line is "Bet you didn't know I knew how to rock n' roll" is accompanied by a decidedly funky soul-ish rhythm. Well, I won't be picky. I love this song anyways)


+ Eric Clapton - Please Be With Me
(Another quiet number, but the anguish isn't there, replaced with a contemplative calm)
+ Eric Clapton - Mainline Florida
(Very thematic song, almost summing up the feel for the whole 461 Ocean Boulevard album)
+ Eric Clapton - Motherless Child
(This sure isn't the same song as the one From the Cradle, boy oh boy. Everyobody plays like they're posessed


+ Eric Clapton - I Want A Little Girl
(Geez, I wonder if this has anything to do w/ his new wife - or girlfriend at the time - he'd never admit it though.


+ Eric Clapton - Born In Time
(You might hate the way he changed it into a pop song but I admire the way he could transformed a Dylan song into the gentle result. Almost makes Dylan into a romantic)


Wow. Found this while image hunting. I've never seen this pic before and I thought I'd seen them all.