After a strangely satisfying day at work I feel like I’m on a roll. I’m reading a great book (thank you Sarah) – a Douglas Coupland that eluded me – Eleanor Rigby. Pretty much every page has a beautiful idea or joke – like the idea that the reason that the FBI witness relocation program is so successful is because anyone who goes on it gets shot. Genius!
And I’ve rediscovered a lost gem in my CD collection (thank you Smilja wherever you are) – Are You Okay? by Was (Not Was). It’s from 1990! It still sounds great! It has an up-tempo song that’s actually about domestic murder! It has Leonard Cohen singing about Elvis’s Rolls Royce! It has a song – oddly not heard on the radio much since 9/11 – called ‘I Blew Up The United States’! And I feel better than James Brown! I feel better now. How do you feel?