I don't know how to "write" that long wailing note at the start of Rhapsody In Blue but if I could, that would be the subject of this post.

I need to add Gershwin's Rhapsody In Blue to the list of Jer's Super-Favs. This piece of music, all 17 minutes of it, drives me to fits of real pleasure whenever I hear it. And listening to it on the way home from work on Monday night, after a very long, long, long day, I could hardly believe how completely it relaxed me; All the kinks came out of the joints. My neck loosened up. My body felt light. I felt really, really great.

That demands a spot on the list of Super-Favs, without debate.

Confession.

I may or may not been seen snapping my fingers to Wake Me Up Before You Go Go on the George and Friends CD.

I say maybe not because I often catch myself doing this, during the 80's Collection or otherwise before that upsetting image of George Michael in the big white t-shirt with the white, white, supernaturally-white teeth comes to mind and I panic. And realize what I'm doing. And I stop.

It's pretty embarrassing.

Should You Wonder...

My car was sidelined this week with an impotent windshield wiper. (When the windshield wipers stop working, it translates to an astonishing $500 and 3-days in the garage...incredible but true!)

And so goes the progress of my Blitzeroo (I'm still hanging on Genesis.) I should be back at it tomorrow albeit with another abbreviated week as I'm only tripping into the office two days this week.

Now don't tell anybody...

Of all the songs to do it, Illegal Alien puts a big fat grin on my lid every time. There's something about that poppy beat and the absolutely dopey lyrics that jams me straight back to 1984. It's also a wonderful song to christen the first day back to work after a lengthy vacation.

More than any other Genesis song, this is the song that I associate almost entirely with the music video - in fact, I don't really remember hearing this song on the radio. I definitely didn't own the album or single. But the confession is this: it took me almost 15 years to realize that Phil Collins was the one fronting the band in the video. As far as I believed, Phil Collins was a solo artist (Against All Odds) and the lead singer of Genesis was a short Mexican man with a big handle-bar mustache. Later in life, it became one of those giant head-slappers!

And it's in honour of this distant memory that we post the first image to the Ol' Blitzeroo...