Just when I was starting to doubt the SOTD premise that I don’t really pick the SOTD, the SOTD happens to me, John Aielli rocked SOTD back into action Friday morning with “Everybody Ona Move.” I got Thea into the car to take her to the vet one more time, but this was the happiest trip to the vet we’ve had since the day she broke her leg: time to take the stitches out on the other, crazy, summer-dominating, bedsore-turned-gaping-hole-in-her-”good”-leg wound. In other words, Thea was ona move.
You probably haven’t heard Everbody Ona Move either. So, go to the iTunes Store and buy it. Go buy it now. It’ll cost 99 cents. Come on–I have NEVER told you to go buy something here on Prematurely Grey. If I’m telling you to buy it, you should buy it.
“This track is love 45/This track is love amplified/This track combats genocide.”
It’s by Michael Frant and Spearhead and is the first song that’s made me dance about the Middle East since Rock the Casbah. It has a little bit of a Double Dutch Bus/Tom Tom Club feeling, which is like saying a country song reminds me of Johnny Cash.
It’s funny: KUT has made some changes to their schedule. Eklektikos is shorter (ends at 11), Jay comes in at noon, and David Brown has a weekly show on Texas music on Fridays at lunch time. Of course, part of me is protesting, but only a very little part. John’s vacation this summer wasn’t nearly as painful for me as it was last year. Part of that has to do with how busy I’ve become and my need to stop making listening to the radio the primary achievement of the day. It’s part of the adjustment to working with other people again and having to accomodate their schedules. KUT became my companion when I stopped working in 2003. Or, more accurately, KUT kept me sane during a time of tremendous change and profound aloneness. I wasn’t lonely when I listened to the radio.
Now KUT’s made changes, not me. My changes seem to have happened without any serious forethought. Right now, I’m trying to decide how permanent I want these changes to be. Are there are other changes to make? What I know for sure is that my life barely resembles the one I started living when the girls went back to school in 2003 and I didn’t. The life where John Aielli’s musical choices, like playing Ravel’s Bolero everyday for a month, could be the primary thing I thought about. Now I’m lucky that I managed to get Thea in the car at just the right time, given the things I’m supposed to do on any give day between 7:45 and 2:45, let alone the ones that come post-pickup. Everybody Ona Move.
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