Interests 3

Don’t need no shorts for this one:  It’s pretty shallow.

The third group of interests is as yet incomplete.  There are a fair number of singers who are drop dead gorgeous too.  And ya know, even more who ain’t drop-dead gorgeous, but are fine lookin’ women nonetheless.

There are three singers on my list currently:

Natalie Merchant.  A really good singer/songwriter.  I heard her song "Carnival" on the radio and had to buy the CD in 1996, when I moved back to the states.  I remember distinctly, hearing it on the cheapo stereo AM/FM unit that was in the Ford LTD wagon I bought, and Drove.  I was tooling along I-10, in the desert somewhere outside of Las Vegas but still in Nevada, headed towards California and Big Bear Lake, on my way to see my friend.  That song came on and I upped the volumn as far as it would let me and rocked out to "Carnrival".  Natalie has a really fine voice.

Sade.  I was living in Japan the first time.  It was like 1986.  I’d been living there for more than a year, and we had settled into a routine.  The state TV channel, NHK, had some really good movies on – classic American stuff like "The Grapes Of Wrath".  Some nights they’d play the movie commercal-free, and have an intermission, like in theaters, between the two halves of the movie.  One night, the theme or background music of the break was something I just had to know about- and lucky me, NHK always has attibutes – who’s the singer and what their lable is- that kind of thing.  I found out that this woman’s name was Sade, that she had an album out, and that her voice was a joy to hear.  K* agreed, so I bought the album and made cassette copies of it.  (Really, Really good copies, on the best metal tape I could buy, there in techno-heaven, Japan.  They sound as good now, 20 years later as they did then, cuz I made really, Really good tapes)

We went on to collect all her albums – she’s a really good singer/songwriter.

Shirley Manson.  Lead singer for the band "Garbage".  I first heard ’em on the alternative rock station here in ’96, and that one song, "You stupid girl", really appealed to me.  I bought the CD it’s on, and found it’s like their third album.  One of my road trip companions in 04 gave me copies of their first two CD’s and I love ’em.  Really good driving music – hard stuff.  I’ve seen pics of her, typically in something long and clingy, and she’s tall, slim, and oh so my type.  Her band makes good music too.

There’s one actress on the list:

Scarlett Johanson.   She was in a really good movie with Bill Murrey, "Lost in traslation", set in Japan, that felt so right on, it was, and she was, a joy to watch.  It was, interestingly, made bySophia Coppela, the daughter of the director, Francis Ford Coppela.  You might have seen her in "Godfather 3" – she isn’t drop-dead gorgeous, but she ain’t bad lookin’ niether, and, well, what a mind and vision she has!  Scarlett is good lookin’ too, but the package makes the difference, I think.

Splashing through the shallows.

I’ll be adding some chics  singers to my list.  You know, as I find ’em and as I feel like it

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