If You Do Something, Do It Well

Don't know how I stumbled upon this on a Monday morning as I try to get the caffeine levels up to a point sufficient to attack a boring brochure about charitable gift annuities with some degree of enthusiasm, but it's inspiring. I have to find something I do well.

You Tubery Musical Friday Flashback

Seven old songs that could start a weekend. Crack open a brew or two and crank up the speakers. (But you gotta watch, too.)

• In a nice companion piece to a Jeremiah Wright sermon, a couple of blind Black superstars rip into Livin' For The City.
• Beck and his secret homage to Shatner that occurs at about 2:25.
• From the 1966 film Blowup, Jimmy Page, (Jeff) Beck and the Yardbirds rearrange Train Kept a Rollin. An extremely bizarre scene.
• The Eels reenact many of my dreams in this video of a song that won't grow old: Novocaine for the Soul.
• The wit, art, fun and funk of RHCP.
• Tracy Chapman ruled the world with this song for a month a long time ago. Heard it in a store this afternoon, prompting this post.
  
• A Sony/BMG Market Research team took CAKE's "Short Skirt Long Jacket" out into the streets of LA to see how it would play to a broad focus group. They got some funny, honest results.

New York City - Just Like I Pictured It

The collective Google Street View People are hard at play, finding the obscure, the cool, the weird and the unexpected.

I found this one pretty interesting. I'll bet on any given day you can spot the out-of-town stoner pilgrims having their pictures taken here, much like at the Abbey Road crosswalk.

Bonus Trivia: The building is also featured in this Stones video.

The Mark of the Beas....oh, wait

That was last year. May your day be lucky, then.