With all the luck you’ve had
Why are your songs so sad
You sing from a book you were reading in bed
And took to heart
All of your lives unled
Reading in bed

Saw Emily Haines tonight at The Paradise and it was totally amazing. Aside from the fact that she sounds like Blossom Dearie reincarnate as a very cool Canadian indie rocker, and also aside that she’s hilarious and clever inbetween songs — she is kind of insanely gorgeous, which I am suddenly now vividly aware of. Man I’m glad I didn’t go with anyone or they would have seen me daydreaming like a teenager…  They even played my favorite Pink Floyd song on the PA at the end to kick us out – of course it was “See Emily Play”   But anyway…  yes.

Barry: I wanna date a musician.
Rob Gordon: I wanna live with a musician. She’d write songs at home and ask me what I thought of them, and maybe even include one of our little private jokes in the liner notes.
Barry: Maybe a little picture of me in the liner notes.
Dick: Just in the background somewhere.

Positive psychology brings the same attention to positive emotions (happiness, pleasure, well-being) that clinical psychology has always paid to the negative ones (depression, anger, resentment). Psychoanalysis once promised to turn acute human misery into ordinary suffering; positive psychology promises to take mild human pleasure and turn it into a profound state of well-being. “Under certain circumstances, people — they’re not desperate or in misery — they start to wonder what’s the best thing life can offer,” says Martin Seligman, one of the field’s founders, who heads the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Thus positive psychology is not only about maximizing personal happiness but also about embracing civic engagement and spiritual connectedness, hope and charity. “Aristotle taught us virtue isn’t virtue unless you choose it,” Seligman says.

From the NY Times Magazine.

Was annoying myself this fine Sunday afternoon with all this great new music that I have no clear way to specifically share with people. What I need is a radio station (podcast station) and I do not have the knowhow to build one. But I will anyway. Until then:

My nervous energy today has thus manifested itself in this mixtape, which I just whipped  up from music I have been listening to in the last week, and this should be a good taste of what my podcasts would sound like. (and it’s been a great week for music) But I’ll let you be the judge, and please… judge.

Watch for the 3 Emily Haines tracks as I celebrate that I’m seeing her tomorrow at the Paradise. I’ll leave the rest as a surprise, with a playlist available on request, and a zipped copy of all tracks in a week or so for those of you who want to pick and choose, or don’t trust me, or don’t particularly like me – but still want free music, unless you want to arrest me.

It’s called Lazy Someday, its 02:02hrs long, consisting of 31 songs, mainly indie stuff, mostly newish, and track 3 is dedicated to the 70° day we had yesterday in Boston, in January, in the Northern Hemisphere, because global warming is based on “fuzzy science”…

One big track:

www.greaterthanradio.com/chas/lazysomeday.mp3

Or as two halves:

www.greaterthanradio.com/chas/lazysomeday01.mp3

www.greaterthanradio.com/chas/lazysomeday02.mp3

You’ll notice what the name of the podcast site will be called above… if you want to contribute, hit me

Regards and Happy Sunday