"why a duck?"

making a mix cd for a friend's birthday, & I got to thinking how great Bill Wells's remix of the pastels' the viaduct is.

I don't really know much about the musicians. the pastels are a band from scotland ( a l b a ) & Bill Wells is a bass player & bandleader from scotland. his mix is gorgeous, I think, just really harmonically lush, & quiet enough to haunt a small, intimate thrill out of the vocals.

click here to hear &/or download the viaduct by the pastels as remixed by Bill Wells.

when I first heard it it was kind of a revelation to me, because a different remix of the song -- kid loco's -- has been a many-years favorite of mine. but kid loco's remix is on a completely different plane from Bill Wells's; his version is totally unadventurous, but Istill find it compelling. he seems to conceive it as kind of a lovely dull song, something static to dance with drums around. but here, for some fun, first listen to just the instrumental track from kid loco's remix, if you don't already know it, & see if you can imagine what the vocals will sound like over this instrumentation.

click here to hear &/or download the instrumental track of Kid Loco's remix of the pastels' the viaduct.

& ok, now click here to hear &/or download kid loco's remix of the pastels' the viaduct vocals intact. what would stop anyone from listening to this song all day? matte!

music is surely one of the best things.

another thing I could do all day is watch that clip of mccain saying it's a tenet of socialism. what a horse's ass. Obama's as shady as any of them (& buying up all that tv time tonight -- while it's sort of a champion moment because you're rooting for him & goddamn -- is a pretty creepo move) but it's surely the case that mccain is a new bottom (not the one everyone's hoping for), a high water mark of cynicism, incredible stupidity, & profoundly incorrigible contempt for america. & that Obama, despite his participation in this depraved system, does have -- & promise to confer on america -- a certain basic dignity.

(meanwhile, on another side of town...)

I am really really really really really really really really really really nervous about the election.