Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
I want to live at / The Holiday Inn / Where somebody else makes the bed / We’ll watch TV while / The lights on the street / Put all the stars to death / It’s been on my mind since Bowie died / Just checking out to hide from life / And all of our problems, I’m gonna solve ’em / With you riding shot-gun, speeding, ’cause fuck the cops
And you, you must have been looking for me / Sending smoke signals / Pelicans circling / Burning trash out on the beach
These days I rarely compile The Idelic Hour on a Tuesday. Monday I was feeling under the weather. Although we tried to stay out of last weekend’s “smokey conditions,” my body felt heavy and slow to start the week.
By Tuesday I was feeling back to par and spent most of the day in my cozy office, working away at the hustle of the 21st century music business, drinking coffee and eating delicious vegetables from my beloved Hollywood Farmers Market. The thought dawned on me that both “smoke” and “Tuesdays” have a fair share of tunes. I nonchalantly threw a few tunes on a playlist. My mind went from “Smoke on the Water” to a childhood favorite from The Platters. Then from “Ruby Tuesday” to Bowie’s Deram Records classic “Love You Til Tuesday.”
Gotta love those female muses of the ’60s: Bowie’s Hermione Farthingale, Jagger’s Marianne Faithfull, and Morrison’s Nico.
To be young lover on a Tuesday… What a life. Enjoy the ride to this hour of songs.
Idelic Single of the Week: Palehound – Your Boyfriend’s Gun
My current Idelic muse: veggies from the Hollywood Farmer’s Market. What a life.
