I have her first album, and it’s quite lovely. Why do some British girls have that smooth, smoky voice (Christine McVie [nee perfect], Dusty Springfield) that no American singers I know of have?

And Eminem is a snotty little fuck, but when I hear “Stan” with the sampled first verse from “Thank You” I still get chills.

Why do some British girls have that smooth, smoky voice (Christine McVie [nee perfect], Dusty Springfield) that no American singers I know of have?

And Marianne Faithful.

Some of us have no family, T.All alone and only people thousands of kilometres away to talk to. A little compassion, if you please.

Happy Holidays and New year to all Boggs.

Chocolate Rain

TBogg is a heretic. December 25th is the birthday of someone far more important than Dido. Try these on for size:

1899 – Humphrey Bogart, American actor (d. 1957)
1907 – Cab Calloway, American bandleader (d. 1994)
1908 – Quentin Crisp, English author (d. 1999)
1924 – Rod Serling, American television writer (d. 1975)
1943 – Hanna Schygulla, German actress
1946 – Larry Csonka, American football player
1949 – Sissy Spacek, American actress
1950 – Karl Rove, American presidential advisor
1954 – Annie Lennox, Scottish singer
1968 – Helena Christensen, Danish model

Merry Christmas all … and I am now much more willing to wade through mythology to read more on Dido.

I was expecting Steely Dan…

Here. Have some Charles Brown Soul Christmas!

1950 – Karl Rove, American presidential advisor

Some people take all those “And there shall come an Anti-Christ” stories way too seriously. Really, Karl, you don’t have to keep working so hard — we’ll just take your word for it.

For Dido, I’d like to say ‘born in a Prêt à Manger’, even though the yuppie sandwich takeaway didn’t exist in 1971. But it would be so fitting.

Cab Calloway gits mah vote!

Minnie was Moocher fer shure but ever body loved her still.

Thirty-six…? Damn, how old is Aeneas, then?

Kenosha,

You also forgot

1946 – Jimmy Buffett (singer, songwriter)

and ME!