“I hope that you’re the one, if not, you are the prototype”

it’s almost summertime in the city. my favorite time of the year.

“while I’m alone as blue as can be, dream a little dream of me”

I don’t know if it’s my new obsession with “Mad Men” but I’ve also been obsessed with songs of yesteryear. Well, everyone tells me I’m really a 55-year-old white woman in my heart anyhow, so this makes perfect sense.

Anyway, I heard this song in Buttermilk Channel while having dinner tonight, and it took me right back to when I was 10 and in my theatre group. This was one of the older girl’s solo songs. I used to love the way she performed it so much, I’d sing along in the wings, waiting for my slot in that segment (my solo was “Broadway Baby” from “Follies” and I kilt it every night, son!). Everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Ella Fiztgerald covered this record, but I think my fave is this Doris Day version. So light, but smooth.

And it’s another one of those records that just makes me think….

“I speak louder when I’m silent”

love is a funny thing.

I always thought the transition from that interlude to this record was perfection.

listening to the rain… and Songs In A Minor (which is still an amazing album)….

“What’ll I do with just a photograph to tell my troubles to?”

I’ve been hopelessly addicted to Mad Men for months now. I’ll have sporadic urges to binge watch, and will literally sit there for maybe 5 hours at a time totally captivated by Don, Betty, Peggy and that asshole Pete Campbell. I think my favorite aspect of it is the shifting dynamic of these advertising power players as they try to navigate their lives in a time of such unsettling social change: the civil war, JFK, the passing of Marilyn Monroe, etc. It’s fascinating. Really. I just finished the episode where Paul is on a bus to Mississippi for a civil rights march with his black girlfriend, Sheila and I am soooo tempted to watch the next one, but I’m calling it quits since I have to be up and out in roughly 6 hours.

That episode ended with Johnny Mathis’ cover of Irving Berlin’s classic “What’ll I Do,” a song I first heard years ago when Bea Arthur (Dorothy) sang it in an episode of The Golden Girls (Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra also did some beautiful renditions). I realized tonight that I find out about a lot of great music from tv and movies. One of my dreams is to be a music supervisor. It’s amazing the way the right song can completely set the mood and tone of a scene. Oftentimes, the highlight of Entourage for me was waiting to see what record Scott Vener chose to close out the episode (he’s a kind of a hero of mine).

Anyway, I’m not sure what I’m rambling out exactly. It’s late, but hearing this record just made me think, ya know?

getting drunk. a surefire way to resurface any emotions you were trying to bury. ugh.

we’re all guilty of this though, aren’t we?