This is a "Safe For Work" version of my new painting, "Two by the Fire". You can see the full version by clicking here to visit Fine Art America.

For awhile now I've been Blipping musical diaries, one song a day except for a Saturday scifi marathon last week. For some reason I never thought to blog them. Probably won't blog them daily; it's actually sorta amazing that I've managed to stay motivated enough to do the basic blips.

I have malleable theme days. Generally songs about sunshine on Sunday, funny songs Monday, blues or dance songs Tuesday, Did Wednesday Woe for awhile, but I'm not really the woeful type so not sure that will continue, Friday is songs for my husband the technomage, Saturday is songs more than 30 years old.

Thursday is the hardest. I do songs based on literature. Some song influences are so thinly veiled you need to really pay attention.

 

So today I featured Meg & Dia's "Hug Me", based on Aldous Huxley's dystopian future full of pneumatic babes and birth-control belts, Brave New World.

 

Meg & Dia - Hug Me from LaundroMatinee on Vimeo.

 

But before that, I think the first musical diary I did for book lovers was the Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil, based on the book The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. It's a satirical, darkly humorous masterpiece about a visit by Satan to atheist Russia.

 

If that's not enough, it also has a talking cat.

 

It took 12 years to write and Bulgakov still hadn't finished final edits when he died in 1940. The following video is a fan mashup of Sympathy for the Devil and House, MD, just for fun.

 

 

 

So, yes, pop stars read books. Try not to faint.

Something tells me my Latin books arrived from Rome via a leaky merchant ship. :/

I think clover honey is the prettiest food in the galaxy.

At least that's what those trees look like when the zoom is off.

This all makes sense to me.