Arms Aloft - Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros - Streetcore - 2003

Wow, you blink your eyes and all of the sudden it's two weeks later and you haven't touched your already ridiculously ambitious blog...sigh. It's busy times here in my life. Work is insane, the world is falling apart, and I have a bitch of a chest cold (my second of the winter)...and I leave for a weeklong vacation in 6 short days.

Though I must say nothing gets you jazzed up for a trip to drive around England and Scotland quite like Joe Strummer singing about driving around England and Scotland. I shall add it to the Driving In England playlist, post haste.

All In A Day - Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Streetcore - 2003

Sign It's Spring #1 - I saw two apartment supers spraying off the sidewalk this morning as I was walking to the train. At a certain point, one of them jokingly sprayed some water at the other one and I thought to myself "Yes, it is the season to spray people with garden hoses and run through sprinklers" Good stuff.

Joe Strummer's solo stuff tends to be not that interesting, and occassionally down right banal...but this song actually has decent energy and a hook. Worth a listen at least.