Nano Notes Roxy Roll
Months and months and months after getting my first Nano (November of last year), I spent an hour or perhaps a little less today uploading a clutch of CDs that, for the most part, would have to be classified as “rock.” Examples:
Mosaic (Wang Chung)
Arc of a Diver (Steve Winwood)
Bilingual (Pet Shop Boys)
Avalon (Roxy Music)
Shake It Up (The Cars)
Speaking In Tongues (Talking Heads)
But also:
Both Sides Now (Joni Mitchell)
Studio (Julien Clerc)
And for the first hour or so I was infected with a virulent case of spring fever that, were I still drinking martinis, would certainly have led to another broken neck. When my Saturday-afternoon tidying was all done — the only word for it, week after week lately, is “brilliant”; it’s as though I’ve learned to read a hitherto impenetrable language — after I was showered and dressed in clean clothes, and I’d run an errand to Gristede’s across the street, and fixed myself my cocktail of choice, diet quinine with a wedge of lime, I sat on the balcony for the first time this season and looked out at all the jewel-like lights of buildings near and far — especially far, in Queens. The lights in Queens looked just like the lights in Queens as seen from a plane descending upon one of the airports, endless ribbons (not so particularly endless in my truncated view) of red, white, and green lights against a background of dark. I wish someone had been there to see it with me.
Jack Hues, of Wang Chung (née 黄钟), really stands up as a gifted singer. To think that I fell in love with “Everybody Have Fun Tonight” on MTV! As I recall, there a suitcase with legs, no? What a brief golden age that was.