Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Are You Experienced? - 1967

It's really ridiculously cold here in NYC today. I know, it's January and I live in the Northeast, I should expect this stuff, but keep in mind the majority of us NYCers have to walk a lot. Leaving my apartment this morning, my hair froze in the half block walk it took me to get to the coffee shop.

The title track from this classic rock staple is a lot more experimental than I generally give Hendrix credit for. Sure, he's a great guitar player, but at least in what we hear on the radio, he's rarely more than a flashy blues player. But the backwards tape loops and chiming piano part sound like something from more of a studio innovator than Hendrix is generally credited with being. No complaints on my part.

Animals and Insects - The Stills - Logic Will Break Your Heart - 2003

I've only ever been to Montreal in August, but I can only imagine that this song is pretty good indicator of what the city must be like in the late fall/winter. There's just something about it that seems to evoke a day in which the sun sets at 3 in the afternoon and won't be back till 10 the next morning.

I don't know, it's been kind of a moody week for me in general...with all sorts of fun adult life stuff dropped into my lap. It would be really easy to sink into this mood, and with the sun setting earlier every day...SADD is only a month or so away. Ugghhhh.