Audience of One

Could any song title capture this blog more effectively?

Cold War Kids - Audience of One

Nausea, Heartburn, Indigestion, Upset Stomach, Diarrhea!

Hey Pepto Bismol!

Survived dinner with Judy? Check. Saw a relatively enjoyable movie? Check. Raptors won in exciting fashion? Yep, that too. The night was going along swimmingly until I woke up with terrible nausea at 3 am -- and proceeded to spend the next two hours shaking and sweating and trying to induce burps. This was among the worst nausea I've ever had -- and I've lived through lots of bad stuff. I'm an upset stomach kind of person. It got so bad I started to hallucinate that the toilet was a big jelly-filled rock in the Arabian desert. Ha.

The ordeal lasted two hours and it didn't kill me, but I don't feel any stronger. A wild night.

Van Morrison - Wild Night


Dave Van Ronk - Midnight Hours Blues

I'm Sick Y'all

Finally finding my way back to health. I don't exactly know what I've been sick with, but it has required lots of sleep and I've had virtually no energy for a couple days. Otis Redding, in his classic style, wrote this song to be a kind of meta-fabric of previous songs: it's a blend of Try a Little Tenderness (the "got to, got to, got to" part) and Pain in My Heart (the "pain in my heart" part). I don't really know where this was recorded, but it has the feel of an off the cuff live performance. It arrives here courtesty of disc two of the sublime Otis! The Definitive Otis Redding anthology. This is Otis, y'all, and he kills it. A must listen.

Otis Redding - I'm Sick Y'all


I'm sure I missed some more meta-references. If you hear one or eight, comment it.