Doesn’t take much to make me happy. The other day, my publisher and I were leaving a Thai restaurant in Nyack, NY, where we had pretty tasty lunch. We passed a little indy record store. My publisher stopped and looked in the window. “Hey! Hootie & the Blowfish Greatest Hits!” he said.
“Ooh!” I replied. “A new Zero 7 record!”
I hurried in to buy it. My publisher looked over the Hootie record and was disappointed to find that, of the 14 tracks, 8 of them came from the first album.
I, meanwhile, beamed over the prospect of hearing new music from Zero 7. Their first album is one of my faves of recent years, with a song that has muscled its way onto the non-permanent roster of my favorite songs ever (like the UN Security Council, 5 songs have a permanent membership, while another 10 songs get a temporary place on the list).
So pardon me if I chill out for a while.