SOUNDTRACK: THE MOMMYHEADS-“Day Job” (2010).
This is the final bonus track on Dromedary‘s recently reissued Mommyheads album Flying Suit.
This is probably the most conventional Mommyheads song that I know of. It reminds me a lot of the music from Late Night with David Letterman. It swings, it’s jaunty, it’s kind of funny and it has some almost zany guitar work on it.
It is probably the ideal “bonus track” for a band that usually writes quirky, off -kilter songs as it doesn’t sound like it should be on the album, but it is still in the spirit of the rest of the songs. The jazziness if reminiscent of their other work, but there’s something oddly rocking about this track. It’s a real treat.
Check the songs out (and buy them) here.
[READ: September 10, 2010] “The Thing with Feathers”
Wells Tower week continues with this article about the thought to be extinct Ivory-Billed Woodpecker. He mentions humorously in the article that NPR went crazy about the woodpecker when one was seen in Arkansas, and I remember that very well. There were several pieces about the woodpecker and I was really excited about it.
Hairy Woodpecker
I’m not a serious birdwatcher, but ever since I saw my first hairy woodpecker at my apartment in Boston, I’ve been a huge fan of having birds around. The hairy woodpecker is tiny (and very cute). Since we moved to a wooded area of New Jersey, I’ve been lucky enough to see a red-bellied woodpecker and, I believe, the even more elusive pileated woodpecker. We’ve even had flickers in our yard.
So this article sees Wells Tower heading down to Arkansas to talk to the man who claims to have seen the first Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, Gene Sparling. The man who caused all the fuss to begin with back in 2005.
And this is a great piece of non-fiction. Tower brings his excellent storytelling skills and describes a trip into the Arkansas woods looking for this possibly extinct bird. (more…)
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