Spiralling Smog

Tuesday, Aug. 05, 2008 - 12:23 a.m.

A couple of things to report.

First -- yesterday at their behest via email, I went to the official Keane website and downloaded the first single released from their forthcoming third CD, Perfect Symmetry.

The single is called 'Spiralling', and it will be available for download until August 11th.

I have been a hardcore Keane fan ever since I heard them via the web on Virgin Radio UK in 2004. All of them are talented, handsome as the day is long, and one of my long-standing fantasies is to cook a decent meal for Tom Chaplin, their lead singer, and then forbid him to smoke anything in my living room. I loved their first CD, Hopes And Fears very much. I loved their second CD, Under The Iron Sea almost as much, and I have collected various Keane related memorabilia, including Hopes And Fears matchbooks, and posters and handouts at concerts, Hopes and Fears on vinyl LP, and ticket stubs and three different Keane T-shirts, and of course, their autographs on just about every relevent portable flat thing I had at my disposal whenever I got the opportunity.

But this single... THIS single, my friends... is going to take me a hell of a long time to learn to like.

Right now, to my undereducated American ears? It sounds like a Hall & Oates B Side.

From twenty-five years ago.

This is only my opinion, mind you, and it's possible things are colored by my seasonal malaise.

At least that's what I thought until I asked John what he thought of it.

My beloved husband says he thinks the Keane single, and I quote, "sucks big green donkey dick."

I hope for the sake of the band that the rest of the album sounds better that this example.

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Second -- speaking of my seasonal malaise, I found something that I have actually been consciously seeking to do and enjoy.

No, not that, har dee har har, -- I'm going through my books from childhood and I'm enjoying them immensely.

I fart around here on the web an awful lot, but somehow it is different than curling up with a favorite book and reading for pleasure.

I'm perusing A Girl Of The Limberlost, and next I'll probably work through the Little House books again.

For those who have been emailing me and who understand the issues I face because my insides tend to synchronize with the weather outside, thank you. This book thing is already working. When John's workload eases up, I'll go downtown where there's sunshine and have a big long lunch with him. And you guys remember Cheri? She'll be here in a couple of weeks for a visit, so that will be nice, too.

In the meantime, I'm aware that it's just a type of chemical imbalance, I'm basically okay, and John and I are now pricing lightboxes for me to prop up over here where I'm sitting when I'm online.

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Finally, in the International Leg Pulling part of the news, China claims the Olympic participants will be safe.

I just saw one of the eleven o clock news shows reporting from there.

If the air looked like that over here, the word would come down that the air would knock you over the minute you walked out the door, and they'd invent a new label for the AQI that goes beyond maroon.

Dear China:

That's nice that you honestly think nobody will be blown up by a bomb, but don't you even try to tell me that a marathon runner will be safe in that shit. Thank you.

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All right. Have a good Tuesday.

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