Top Ten Tasty Men

O.k. ladies, the ballots are in, and here are your choices for Large Marge's Top Ten Tasty Men List: 1. Eddie Vedder. 2. John Cusack 3. Johnny Depp 4. Benicio Del Tor 5. Anderson Cooper 6. Bradley Cooper 7. Jake Gyllenhaal 8. Clive Owen 9. Colin Farrell 10. Gael Garcia Bernal 11. George Clooney 12. Brian Williams 13. Sting 14. John Corbett 15. Jon Hamm 16. Jim Caviezel 17. Ben Harper 18. Josh Ritter 19. Bruce Springsteen 20. Zac Ephron or John Mayer 21. Michael Franti

Patty Griffin: Making Pies

I haven't had much time to blog the last couple of days, and probably won't for a few more days. But today, as we're making pies in the kitchen, I've got Patty Griffin's song "Making Pies" stuck in my head. Enjoy, and Happy Thanksgiving! Give thanks!

Sara Melson: Feel it coming....

My 'ol buddy, Eric Teel, is spinning some great tunes on JPR's Open Air session this gorgeous November afternoon. This song by Sara Nelson entitled "Feel It Coming" is getting a fair share of airtime on JPR these days. It's a great tune, with a great guitar riff and it captures my mood today. Lyrics are here. I especially like these lines: "That’s it, I’m all better now. Spit up the last of what made me hurt. I feel light as a feather now. At last I finally know my worth.... Something better's coming, soon... I feel it coming." Amen, sistas. Check out more of Sara Nelson's tunes on her MySpace page. Enjoy.

Sam Phillips: Baby, I Can't Please You...

As you may know by now, I am a complete World Cafe junkie. David Dye played Sam Phillips "Baby, I Can't Please You" last night on World Cafe (no, not that Sam Phillips, the other Sam Phillips!). It took me right back to Austin, circa 1994, when I first purchased this little gem of a CD called Martinis & Bikinis. Little did I know how much I would relate to this song 14 years later. And that's all I'm going to say about that. Here's Sam Phillips on YouTube. Lyrics are here. Here's her website: http://www.samphillips.com/. Enjoy! Image Source: Amazon.com.

Radiohead: Weird Fishes

I've had Radiohead's latest CD, In Rainbows, stuck in my car CD player for days. I can't seem to get it out, I just keep playing it, and listening in amazement.... Radiohead boggles my mind. Here's Weird Fishes. Another live version of Weird Fishes here. Lyrics are here. Here's a great description of this song: "On this track Greenwood plays the Ondes-Martenot, an electronic keyboard developed by Maurice Martenot, a colleague of Leon Theremin. The Ondes-Martenot produces elegiac tones that sound like a cross between the warm buzz of a Rhodes piano and the resonant blare of a pipe organ. Such tones are perfect for Yorke's tremulous voice and his equally tremulous words-- 'Your eyes, they turn me/ Why should I stay here?' The Orchestra joins the fray slowly, xylophones and trumpets giving way to gliding gilded strings bowed and plucked. The confluence of these swirling bits produces a bit of dissonance, with Yorke's voice rubbing awkwardly against the Orchestra near the end of the performance. Given that 'Arpeggi' ends on a questioning tone-- Yorke repeating the word 'escape' in a weak, wispy manner as a two-note pattern is repeatedly plucked-- that friction is no doubt intentional." Enjoy! Image Source: The extremely talented MalloryPhillipy, who also has a Radiohead-inspired card collection on Etsy.com. Check her out!