talbotlucas.org: a word to the wise is sufficient

Soothing the savage studying beast tonight (and compensating for the racket my neighbors are making):

++ Arlo Guthrie, City of New Orleans
++ Johnny Rivers, Memphis, Tennessee. My favorite version of this Chuck Berry tune, by far. Chuck Berry may have written it, it may be in the Elvis canon, but Rivers' version is my all-time, turn-up-the-car-radio version.
++ Scissor Sisters, Comfortably Numb remix. Terrence--being more familiar with Pink Floyd than I am--finds this pulsing electro-falsetto version too creepy to listen to.
++ Damien Rice, tracks from O. Lots of folk music is creeping into my iTunes these days, see below. Rice got a lot of airplay with The Blower's Daughter, one of the tracks on the O album.
++ The BBC Philharmonic's performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Available now for download on the BBC3 web site.
++ Arlo Guthrie, Alice's Restaurant. Terrence asked if I knew this song/story and I didn't. Out came the LP, he fired up the turntable, and we listened to all 18+ minutes of it last night after dinner. Coincidentally, the movie version is airing tomorrow (isn't the DirecTV/TiVo guide a beautiful thing?) and so I'm going to be fully Arlo-ed out soon. I'm also listening to Arlo's Motorcycle Song. Is this the source of Bob Collins' affection for saying "motorsickle"?

For those of you not from Chicago, Bob Collins was a WGN radio host and amateur pilot who died while piloting a plane a few years ago. Crashed right into the roof of a building, if I remember. He was not my favorite WGN personality, but r.i.p...Can I even get WGN radio on the web? What I'm really interested in is the morning agribiz report. One's morning eggs taste better accompanied by news of winter wheat futures. I don't know if porkbellies were part of the agribiz report, but if not they preceded or immediately followed it, and hearing about porkbellies just seems like an important breakfast component. Maybe not for you, but my weekday breakfast hasn't been the same without it. KTLA is amusing and all, but...and what about Larry Shriner? Is he still on? Are they still letting him do the same from-the-street crime reports? Slouching in his sports car while the bullets are zinging overhead? I miss Larry and the agribiz report more than I can say. Really.

++ Bill Withers, Ain't No Sunshine. Soooooo smooth.