I never had an imaginary friend. Ironically, I’ve recently made one, and have been writing to A.B. occasionally for the last week and a half. This makes more sense than it might first appear to.
I didn’t write vast tomes of fiction/poetry/what have you except for school assignments. Okay, there was that one letter to the girl down the road, but it’s long gone and will never see the light of day.
Can’t think of any more offhand. Anyone else?
It’s on rare occasions that I visit the free download or recommended links on websites, because they’re invariably linking to stuff in which I have no interest whatsoever. But today was an exception, and an exceptional exception at that: I found two tracks that are worthy not only of adding to my library but of blogging.
The first is something of a novelty item, granted, and I didn’t technically follow Amazon’s link to find it (it came from another site) but it’s still fun, and not just for the title — David Gillis’s The Theme to Spiderman – Acoustic Flamenco Solo Guitar Instrumental. It’s just… well, exactly what it says it is, and unlike Michael Bublé’s take was released without a Major Motion Picture™ to support it. I may just have to recommend it to Brian Ibbott.
The other is right off today’s edition of Amazon’s free downloads page, Apollo Sunshine’s Today Is The Day. I do love the rockabilly, and this one’s got the drive and the straight-ahead lyrics (now if that grass looks fun to roll in, then roll in that fun grass / look at that bird, he can fly, don’t you wish you could fly
) to qualify, and even some surf-rock elements that give it that extra sumpin-sumpin. Good stuff, that.
(More astute readers will observe that both tracks are by male artists, which is in itself a remarkable occurrence on this blog. To redeem myself slightly I’ll point out that I found the initial link on a page that linked to Oh Camille.)