camel's eye

Day: 7/28-7/29 of 06
Song: "Toast in the Water"
On the way up north to go camping Mike inadvertantly combined the colloquialisms "you're toast" with "dead in the water" resulting in this phrase and a weekend of inventing new lyrics to "Smoke on the Water". Examples include:
toast in the water/the soggy butter side
and
luke, I am your father/you know it to be true
we could rule the galaxy/if I joined up with you
(in the cool light of reason, its possible this last one might be disqualified since I don't think the original has the 4th line).
Oh Well, I guess you had to be there.

Day: 7/31/06
Song: Needles in the Camel's Eye (link courtesy of/heartlessly stolen from The Rich Girls Are Weeping)
Artist: Brian Eno
Source: Here Come the Warm Jets
I stumbled across a mention of Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy and this song popped into my head. Now the Eno-savvy of you out there (or those of you who read the header) will no doubt point out that this song is not from TTMbS and you'd be right. But I've always liked this album better. Sure "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More" is probably a better song than anything on Jets, but if its pop you are craving, Jets is the better all around bet.

... which is indeed what I was craving. Needle in the Camel's Eye was the lift I needed to get me through a blistering 100 degree monday with the airconditioning only half functioning at work. Try it sometime, things can only seem so bad while you are listening to this song. (Setting aside buzz-kill reductio ad absurdum examples - dental procedures without novicaine, genocide - for a moment here.) From the band pounding away on their wobbly guitars to the way Eno sings at the edge of his vocal range with just the right level of ease and strain, the song is nigh perfect without seeming so; the arty/cacluated elements simmering just under the surface of the song's melody and drive. Even the guitar solo, a rock artifact that I'm usually suspicious and/or resentful of (unless its Lou Reed's interlude in "What Goes On"), is laudable model of restraint the accentuates the rest of the song instead od destracting you from it. And how can you not love a song with 4 grand pauses?