The amazing Grace Jones has finally, after almost 20 years, released a new album called Hurricane. And it is hard to believe, watching her live performance, that she is 60. It is a shame the new album can’t be downloaded from iTunes or Amazon.com. Few here across the pond will pay $19 for an imported CD, so I hope she will get an MP3 distribution deal over here soon.
I always enjoyed her zany, edgy persona. Her second new single Williams’ Blood is autobiographical and the studio version ranks up there for me with her gorgeous singing on La Vie en Rose and her unforgettable take on Demolition Man.
Cried all night ’til there was nothin’ more
What use am I as a heap on the floor?
Heaving devotion but it’s just no good
Taking it hard just like you knew I would
O-o-old habits die hard
When you got, when you got a sentimental heart
Piece of the puzzle, you’re my missing part
Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
Cried all night ’til there was nothin’ more
What use am I as a heap on the floor?
Heaving devotion but it’s just no good
Taking it hard just like you knew I would
O-o-old habits die hard
When you got, when you got a sentimental heart
Piece of the puzzle, I’m your missing part
Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
Oh what can you do with a sentimental heart?
Google has a new SearchWiki function where you can customize the search results by promoting, demoting and adding new pages and annotate the results. Like others, I find it visually annoying and Google won’t let you turn it off – at least not yet. So I found an anti-SearchWiki GreaseMonkey script for Firefox to clean up my search results, which are already greatly enhanced by the Firefox GooglePedia add-on.
True love will find you in the end
You’ll find out just who was your friend
Don’t be sad, I know you will,
But don’t give up until
True love finds you in the end.
This is a promise with a catch
Only if you’re looking will it find you
‘Cause true love is searching too
But how can it recognize you
Unless you step out into the light?
Don’t be sad, I know you will,
But don’t give up until
True love finds you in the end.
True love will find you in the end
You’ll find out just who was your friend.
So don’t be sad, I know you will,
Don’t give up until
True love find you in the end.
True love will find you in the end.
True love will find you in the end.
People will know
when they see this show
The kind of a guy I am
They’ll recognize just what I stand for
and what I just can’t stand
They’ll perceive what I believe in
What I know is true
And they’ll recognize I’m a one man guy
Always was through and through
People meditate
Hey that’s just great
Trying to find the inner you
People depend on family and friends
And other folks to pull them through
I don’t know why I’m a one man guy
Or why I’m a one man show
But these three cubic feet of bone and blood and meat are all I love and know
‘Cause I’m a one man guy in the morning
Same in the afternoon
One man guy when the sun goes down
I whistle me a one man tune
One man guy a one man guy
Only kind of guy to be
I’m a one man guy
I’m a one man guy
I’m a one man guy is me
I’m gonna bathe and shave
And dress myself and eat solo every night
Unplug the phone, sleep alone
Stay away out of sight
Sure it’s kind of lonely
Yeah it’s sort of sick
Being your own one and only
Is a dirty selfish trick
‘Cause I’m a one man guy in the morning
Same in the afternoon
One man guy when the sun goes down
I whistle me a one man tune
One man guy a one man guy
Only kind of guy to be
I’m a one man guy
I’m a one man guy
I’m a one man guy is me
-Loudon Wainwright III
Performance by Rufus Wainwright, Teddy Thompson, & Martha Wainwright
Meador Manor 