Shane McGowan is re-recording Fairytale of New York...with Kate Moss: [link]

Why?!?

I think I've now heard everything. On the radio this morning -- a mash-up of "Rapture" by Blondie and "Riders on the Storm" by the Doors.

Works better than I expected, which isn't saying much.

I believe Sumi said it best about Shane McGowan, although the answer is almost certainly "heroin".

Don't forget "Guinness"!

I have tickets to see the Pogues in March. I don't even care if they suck, is how much I want to see them.

I guess the record is a benefit to help Kirsty McColl's family. They are trying to get in inquiry open into her death. [link]

The Kate Moss thing defies all explanation.

He just wants to call her "an old slut on junk."

Does LB also say, " 'Sup, cat?"

He will NOW.

Oh hey, the mystery song has been ID'd! It is "Gong-Ho" by Paolo Conte.

I just sent "Nine Lives to Rigel Five" and "Regenisraen" by Game Theory to Buffistarawk.

Sweet! Thanks.

I guess the record is a benefit to help Kirsty McColl's family. They are trying to get in inquiry open into her death.

BBC4 aired a documentary about her death a couple of months ago. It intimated that a wealthy businessman had caused the accident and had paid off someone to take responsibility.

Hi, everyone. I've been having back problems (herniated disk) since a week before Thanksgiving. I can walk again, but still can't sit for more than twenty or thirty minutes; throw in a keyboard and mouse and that decreases to maybe five minutes. About a week ago I realized that my wife's iBook has a wireless connection and I could play online while lying on my back. Woo and hoo! (One would think that this would have dawned on me earlier as she checks her email each night while sitting on the couch, but in my defense I was in severe pain and heavily drugged.) Anyway, I caught up on what I missed, have been lurking since, and now that I can type again I'll post some of the backlog of comments. Btw, I'm telling you this to explain my recent radio silence and the upcoming serial posts, not because I'm looking for a bunch of {{}}s. Now on to the business at hand...

First, flea's Xmas-recommendations-for-Mom request. You must must must check out the Triplets of Belleville soundtrack. I got it a few months ago & no other purchase this year, save Monk at Carnegie Hall has made me so happy. (NB: I've convinced my wife to let me name our son -- that's theoretical, not an announcement -- Thelonious, so Monk vs pretty much anything else isn't really a fair fight.) I posted the title track on Buffistarawk. I also love "'Cieco Cieco' Barber" and the faux surf guitar on "Pa Pa Pa Palavas".

Per the Bob Dorough conversation resulting from the recommendations request, here's Gary Giddins on Dorough. Giddins calls Dorough's 1966 album Just About Everything "irresistible." It's available from emusic. Seems like I had another bit of info relating to this but I can't remember it. Oh well, maybe later.

Along with the Triplets track I also sent the Youngsters' "Christmas in Jail," which I found on the Hound's website. Look up the song for links to his various Xmas shows which have a bunch of other eccentric holiday tunes. And apropos of nothing except Youngsters being near Yardbirds in the artist search, check out "Train Kept a Rollin'" for some killer Jeff Beck. Not as killer as his "I'm a Man" solo where he runs out of fretboard & does a percussion solo on his guitar, but killer nonetheless.