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vessantara

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:40:00 -0500

Thanks for listening! This blog entry simply provides a feed for the iTunes podcast. If you'd like to get the full scoop about this song and many more, please visit the marble tea webthing at marbletea.com. Rock on.

listening to richard brautigan

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:54:00 -0500

MP3: Listening to Richard Brautigan

quebec city

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Sat, 1 Oct 2011 13:54:00 -0400

MP3: Quebec City

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noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Thu, 1 Sep 2011 00:46:00 -0400

MP3: Carry A Lamp

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a little like elvis

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:49:00 -0400

MP3: A Little Like Elvis

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You Are Like the River

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 20:32:00 -0400

MP3: You Are Like the River

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1-2-3 Sew!

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 19:44:00 -0400

MP3: 1-2-3 Sew!

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classic cars

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 20:30:00 -0400

MP3: Classic Cars (2.3 mb)

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never trust a seagull in penguin pajamas

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 21:21:00 -0400

MP3: Never Trust a Seagull in Penguin Pajamas (5.8 mb)

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a great moving wave of bliss

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Wed, 9 Feb 2011 12:50:00 -0500

MP3: A Great Moving Wave of Bliss (6.3 mb)

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one snowflake for your thoughts

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 20:40:00 -0500

MP3: One Snowflake for Your Thoughts (6.1 mb)

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tryptophan

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:03:00 -0500

MP3: Tryptophan (6.3 mb)

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zombie love

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:22:00 -0400

MP3: Zombie Love (5.9 mb)

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painting a cat

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:19:00 -0400

MP3: Painting A Cat (Earwig Version) (4.3 mb)

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meet me at the gulf of mexico

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Wed, 1 Sep 2010 15:55:00 -0400

MP3: Meet Me at the Gulf of Mexico (iPhone Demo) (1.8 mb)

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petri dish

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:41:00 -0400

MP3: Petri Dish Demo (2.7 mb)

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the buddha or the bomb

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:23:00 -0400

MP3: The Buddha or the Bomb (6.1 mb)

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asleep & dreaming

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:59:00 -0400

MP3: Asleep & Dreaming (3.5 mb)

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sunny afternoon

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:24:00 -0400

MP3: Sunny Afternoon (4.2 mb)

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travel light on your road

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:09:00 -0400

MP3: Travel Light on Your Road (2.9 mb)

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i'd rather see you than avatar

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 18:50:00 -0500

MP3: I'd Rather See You Than Avatar (2 mb)

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9 stories

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:41:00 -0500

MP3: 9 Stories (2.2 mb)

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PS: There's a video with this song at the marble tea site....

masti love theme

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:23:00 -0500

MP3: Masti Love Theme (3.6 mb)

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let it snow, let it snow, let it snow

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 13:27:00 -0500

MP3: Let It Snow (2 mb)

I love snow. Probably because, growing up in the Deep South, there wasn't a lot of it around. Oh sure, we managed a flurry most years, but accumulation was a rare and meager thing: one inch and the whole town shut down. White Christmas? I didn't know what that song was about until I was a teenager, since having snow on Christmas Day was never even a remote consideration.

Living in New Jersey these past nine years has allowed me to get to know snow better, and I still love it. Yes, it comes on big and brawny sometimes, and shoveling it is a royal pain, but as long as it's cold outside it might as well be pretty, says I. And it is, at least until it gets mucked up along the roadways with all the dirt and grime of life and travel. Ah, but we must take the black with the white. Always.

Here's a view out my window when I was recording yesterday:

And that brings us to this month's song. Written by Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne in July 1945 (in Hollywood of all places), it's always been one of my favorites of the Holiday Season. But that's kind of a shame really, that it's so closely associated with Christmas...there's no mention of that joyously celebrated day anywhere in the song, its authors were Jewish, and it was written in the middle of the Summer in Hollywood, CA for Pete's Sake!

As lauded as the these two songsmiths are, I know that I'm not the only person to think the opening couplet should have been written slightly differently, and I took the liberty to do just that. You're welcome.

So - while I present this version as a Christmas song, even though the tone is more somber than festive - remember that it's okay to sing it whenever snow may appear throughout the year. Even if you're noshing Gefilte fish by a pool under the bloody red sun of phantastic L.A.

Happy Holidays to you!

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is tom hanks giving you a hard time?

noreply@blogger.com (the marble tea) — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:31:00 -0500

MP3: Is Tom Hanks Giving You A Hard Time? (3.7 mb)

Thanksgiving came and went without so much as a burp, if by burp you mean song (and I do). This song was intended to be a song for that holiday, but well you know me and so it's moved along and become probably just what it wanted to be all along: not that at all. Oh there's still some Thanksgiving in it - we haven't finished all of our turkey, after all - but it's mostly Tom Hanks giving you a hard time, not me. Just let it go....

Coincidentally, if you believe in that sort of thing, Mr. Hanks appears on David Letterman tonight. I did not plan that.

IS TOM HANKS GIVING YOU A HARD TIME?

Tom Hanks is a movie star
Cadillac is a fancy car
The Pavilion was my favorite bar
But it's gone gone gone

Tom Hanks in a rocket ship
Section 25 From the Hip
Can't kiss if you got no lip
It's just gone gone gone

It's gone, all these things have gone
But I'm happy for the other things
That keep coming along

Bosom Buddies and a face like mine
Slice of pizza and a jug of wine
Skinny-dippin' back in '89
It's just gone gone gone

It's gone, all these things have gone
But I'm happy for the other things
That keep coming along

Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Just let it go, let it go...

Ol' da Vinci never had a clue
That I may be more than quarter Jew
Or about the things you like to chew
He's just gone gone gone

Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Is Tom Hanks giving you a hard time?
Just let it go, let it go...

Tom Hanks on a fated trip
Jungle dancing in a sexy slip
Give me one of those I'd like a sip
And we're gone gone gone

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