That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an airplane...

But I have been playing on YouTube tonight, and found some good stuff, like...

• 2 rather good live performances by Fiona Apple (from the Today show, last year) of Extraordinary Machine and Paper Bag (they also have the original video/version of the latter);
• REM's Pop Song '89 (censored apparently--which I didn't realize at the time: I thought the black bars were meant to be there--well, in some ways they are...) and their Unplugged version of It's the End of the World As We Know It--which is rather good (i.e. check it out! it's today's song, btw--which I'm not exactly sure I should link to lyrics of, since--given the amount of words in the song--most transcriptions of it are probably wrong...);
• a jazzy (& long) version of Papa Was A Rolling Stone, sung by Lee Ritenour, and with trumpeter Chris Botti and guitarist Dave Grusin (Botti was how I stumbled upon that); and
• Gwen Stefani's Wind It Up, which samples The Lonely Goatherd from The Sound of Music (which this goat sings apparently too).

A terribly exciting night, I know, but then again, work has been rather hectic--but we should be back to full staffing by the end of the month :)--so I'm needing some winding down time at night this week.

Hasta... (but check out the REM Unplugged version)

That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an airplane
Lenny Bruce is not afraid.
Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn
World serves its own needs--dummy serve your own needs
Feed it off an aux speak, grunt, no, strength,
The ladder starts to clatter with fear, fight down height.
Wire in a fire, representing seven games,
A government for hire and a combat site
Left of west and coming in a hurry
With the furies breathing down your neck.