The Coolest Sport in the Winter Olympics?

Have you seen the Google logo on their search page yet?  For tiny percentage of the public that doesn’t use Google as a search engine, Google periodically alters its logo to mark holidays or commemorate certain events, etc.  There’s a gallery in their site.  Today the two instances of the letter “o” are transformed into curling stones.  If you don’t know what curling stones are, where have you been?  It is only the coolest sport in the Winter Olympics!

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Sunday Morning Music

Every time that I put my iTunes list on random that I realize how large and diverse my iTunes library is.  Here is my list from this morning, rather mellow, purely by coincidence.  If there are songs you like a lot and want to check out the album, click on the links.  If you decide to purchase and do so through the link, a portion of your sales will benefit the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies.

1) Underneath Your Clothes – One of the songs in English recorded by the Colombian (of Lebanese descent) superstar singer-songwriter Shakira. It’s from her album Laundry Service, and has an interesting lyric. While best know for he hip-shaking dance music (Hips Don’t Lie is probably her biggest American hit to date), Shakira rich, full voice is beautiful on ballads as well.

2) Bitter End – This is from the Dixie Chick’s award winning album Taking the Long Way, their first since the controversy over their 2003 comments in London about George Bush and the one that included the hit “Not Ready to Make Nice.”

3) Life Support – From Damn the TorpedoesTom Petty tune on her Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled.

5) Bismillah – Tinariwen play Rock and Roll Mali style. The title of this song, translated, is “in the name of God,” and it is from the album Mataraden Anexan.

6) Another Pot O’ Tea – I found this track on Anthology: The Warner/Reprise Years. Emmylou’s distinctive, plaintiff voice is just beautiful.

7) Hell is for Children – One of my favorite artists of the 1980’s, Pat Benatar, had a hit with this angry song about child abuse.

8) The Nearness of You – As you can see on this link,Lino Patruno has many talents. But here it is a band leader and performer performing this great standard by Hoagy Carmichael. It is from the album It Had To Be You.

9) Gold Rush Brides – 10,000 Maniacs. The performance that came up on my iPhone today was from MTV Unplugged. As the title suggests, the song is about the wives of the men who went west in the California Gold Rush.

10) Big Day – There is a lot of flashback music here. This XTC song is from the album Skylarking and it takes me back to my college days.

11) Ntssana Rjouak – Well this was a surprise. I didn’t think I would find this Amazon, but I did. The song is called “I’ll Wait for Your Return” and it’s from Saida Fikri’s second album, released in 1995, called Salouni Al’adab. Saida Fikri is a Moroccan singer/songwriter who mixes genres and cultural traditions.

12) Who Needs the Kwik E Mart? – Hit and Run Bluegrass are the kind of band you really just need to check out so click on the link above and see their site. Here they perform the song that the Simpsons sang to cheer up Apu when he lost his job at the Kwik E Mart in that obscure animated TV series The Simpsons. The album is called Four Finger Music: The Bluegrass Tribute to the Music Made Famous By the Simpsons.

I’ve made an iMix with this and other music, so you can hear samples and so you can buy the songs easily. If you want the whole albums, however, use the links above and, as I mentioned, you will be helping support the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies.

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