Closing time
This is not a real blog, I am just going to blah on about music. Lastnight, while hanging about in the city waiting for bible study to start, I ended up in JB Hi-Fi, which is always kind of dangerous, and I bought an old and cheap Tom Waits CD. I was flicking through Tom Waits just because I discovered that Sarah McLachlan sings a cover of one of his songs "OI'55", and then I discovered that this was on a CD together with a song that Marc Cohn sings a cover of "I hope that I don't fall in love with you" (he sings that on the movie "The Prince and Me", which is a fairly silly movie but it features Marc Cohn singing Tom Waits and Bach's Cello Concerto No. 1, which is redeeming) and that this CD could be mine for less than $10. The CD is called Closing Down, and so far I really quite like it, especially the latter song, which is presently being repeated quite often ... Think of the sort of music that goes with the late-night closing of a restaurant or pub - that mellow, everyone's gone, sweep the floor and straighten the furniture type of music - and that is exactly what you have ... and Tom's voice is nowhere near as rasping on this CD as it is later on (don't mistake me for an indiscriminate Tom Waits fan - I am not - am very selective about my Tom Waits).
I was also pleased to discover that Sarah McLachlan has a new CD coming out soon, on which she sings a cover of Joni Mitchell's "River" - looking forward to that!
... I wish I had a river I could skate away on ...