Month: June 2012

The music of Monday

Here’s a picture of a sunny day. Today was not that. Except when it was. Honestly, the weather was a bit all over the place today, and chillier I expected. It rained, because apparently that’s what it does here now, constantly, but the rain also gave way to bright sunny moments now and again.

That and some e-mails is about as exciting as the day got. So, in lieu of any real content, here’s my music mix for May:

  1. “Darkness” by Leonard Cohen
  2. “Shake the Walls” by Amanda Shires
  3. “New York City Song” by Tanya Tucker
  4. “Change” by Tracy Chapman
  5. “Beecharmer” by Nellie McKay & Cyndi Lauper
  6. “Heard it in a Love Song” by the Marshall Tucker Band
  7. “Albuquerque Lullaby” by Dan Bern
  8. “King Harvest (Has Surely Come)” by the Band
  9. “Sure Shot” by the Beastie Boys
  10. “Blood Like Lemonade” by Morcheeba
  11. “New Ceremony” by Dry the River
  12. “Headlights” by Morning Parade
  13. “Leave the Lights On” by Meiko
  14. “Ho Hey” by the Lumineers

Make of it what you will.

Everybody’s home again

I shouldn’t be exhausted, right? I mean, I’m not the one fighting a six-hour jet-lag, not the one who started the morning in Venice and ended it, a nine-hour flight later, in New York. That would be my parents, home from two weeks on a tour of Italy. Me, I just spent the day cleaning the house, vacuuming, doing laundry, and then driving to the airport to pick them up. But I nodded off a little after dinner nonetheless.

Anyway, it’s good to have them home. I got to see lots of lovely photos — Capri, in particular, looks gorgeous – – and hear about the tour group. I think they had a really good time.

The dog, of course, was disappointed they only managed to bring back a single squeaky toy. For this he put up with two weeks of upset in his regular routine? Well all right, but he’s only going to play with the toy under protest.

And that was Sunday. Well, that and the crossword puzzle, but that’s pretty much a given.