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Red Days And Green Flowers

Uptown
It’s murder
Out in the street

So I’m talking to Allamagoosa while Pandora Radio is playing and this song comes on. “Oh, there’s a cheerful Valentine’s Day song… especially if you consider the massacre.”

Since she’s a fan of anime and many things Japanese, does that make her my Mandarin Plum?

 

Nothing Changes On New Year’s Day

…so you go back, Jack, and do it again

100 Encores

Blogger makes 100 posts, blames me

Now that I’ve shamelessly appropriated undue credit…

What Do You Do For An Encore? has reached 100 posts. Pretty quickly, too. His focus is primarily on music, ranging from funk to progressive to jazz to J-Pop and a couple things I don’t know what they are. I’ve discovered some great stuff there, such as Kimiko Kasai covering Herbie Hancock’s Butterfly (I had never heard either one, as far as I recall), the utter surreality of Caroline Charonplop Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, and something called alley shrines. And sometimes he just goes nuts. I suspect heavy drinking is involved, but he says no.

Go check it out and get some learnin’  about all kinds of music and maybe a little about Japanese culture, too.

Why It’s Here

No real reason, actually, just a place for me to write about whatever random stuff that pops into my head, the occasional look back at stupid things from my life, and music. So I might as well kick off my new hangout hitting all three with a forward looking song from my past.