Wax Tailor - "Hypnosis Theme" (Tales of the Forgotten Melodies)

the usual Wax Tailor stuff, but good enough to mention here. I've almost managed to forget his silly attitude at Sziget.

Maggi, Pierce & E.J. - "Jaded" (The Gold Album)

(via Pandora's Gogol Bordello channel)

Not sure how/what to call this. Cabaretesque singersong writers? Catchy.

word: defenestrate

To throw out of a window.

The Submarines - "1940 (Amplive Remix)" (Honeysuckle (Remixes))

I recognize her voice, or think I do. (Blake Hazard?)

This is a remix, so I'm not sure what the original is like, but intriguing enough.

Stanley Kubrick on mortality

I suppose it comes down to a rather awesome awareness of mortality. Our ability, unlike the other animals, to conceptualize our own end creates tremendous psychic strains within us; whether we like to admit it or not, in each man’s chest a tiny ferret of fear at this ultimate knowledge gnaws away at his ego and his sense of purpose. We’re fortunate, in a way, that our body, and the fulfillment of its needs and functions, plays such an imperative role in our lives; this physical shell creates a buffer between us and the mind-paralyzing realization that only a few years of existence separate birth from death. If man really sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should be bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space?

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.

Melody Gardot - "Your Heart Is As Black As Night" (My One And Only Thrill)

Swinging, a trumpet, nightclub...

(this time on the Gloria Lynne channel, not Vaya Con Dios!)

Firewater - "Bourbon And Division" (Get Off The Cross... We Need The Wood For The Fire)

I remember getting tired of a Firewater-only Pandora channel, but with shuffle all it is a good addition to the random mix. This song isn't spectacular, but good cabaretesque.

word: apodyopsis

The act of mentally undressing someone.