"The Dog Days Are Over"

My favorite song, at the moment.  By the glorious Florence and the Machine.  I love the build to it and the rhythms it manipulates.  If the rest of the album is this good, I may buy it...and that's a big deal for me; I very rarely buy CDs.  (But I won't buy it from Amazon, not till they tell me why they dropped two of my books.)

I first heard it on a rock station out of Toronto that broadcasts from the CN Tower.  I listen to them on the way home from work (en route to work, the station is hijacked by a couple of idiots who love the sound of their own voices nattering over nonsense more than music so I now listen to classical in the mornings).

Right now, I have three of Loreena McKinnitt's albums.  Her voice is bewitching...a Gaelic mirror to David Gahan's voice (he of Depeche Mode fame).  I heard her work on Pandora.

I flew back from NYC on an earlier flight than I'd planned for, thinking I could get home and settled before dark, but a snowstorm kept us circling the airport for 45 minutes and by the time we landed night was settling in.  I was so beat, I zoned and forgot to do my daily blog.  I DID start inputting changes to "The Lyons' Den" -- stuff I'd written onto a printed copy.  But as per my usual practice, I'm changing my changes as I input them and making other changes and doing a third draft as I input the second draft.

"Porno Manifesto" has a new fan living in Phoenix.  He even thinks Alec is charming in an "Anti-social and Schizoid Personality Disorder" sort of way.  I am most honored and pleased.