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I've had a very trying and exhausting week, so I've poured me a hot bubble bath and put on some of the greatest restorative music ever composed: J. S. Bach's 6 solo Cello Suites. Like most classical fans, I have many interpretations of these classics of the repertory...Pablo Casals; Pierre Fournier; Anner Bylsma; Yo Yo Ma; Janos Starker; and probably my all-around favourite, Rostropovich.

Recently, someone tipped me to a Dutch cellist, Pieter Wispelwey, who recorded the Suites on a period-instrument, the baroque cello. It is his 1998 recording on the Channel Classics Records that I am listening to now, whilst soaking in the tub.

Wonderful tone on his cello...some interesting tempos...his performance of the Suite #2 in D minor really shines. I just finished the first disc and am now on to disc 2...I highly recommend it, especially if you lack a period-instrument performance of the Suites and are looking for a well-played and good-sounding rendition. Score one for the Dutch!

Here's a live clip of Pieter playing the Sarabande from Suite #2 in D minor:

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It's morning and I feel chipper...Bach, a bath and a good night's sleep will do that. I'm on my way to the Go Gos Hollywood Walk of Fame Induction ceremony, so I am listening to the new 30th Anniversary edition of "Beauty and the Beat", which includes a 2nd disc with a concert from the Metro Club in Boston, August 20, 1981.

The Go Gos Star will be unveiled in front of the Betty Page Store, which is above where the Masque used to be...where the Go Gos played their first gig. Alas, the Pussycat Theatre that used to be next door, lending the corner a seedy air, is no longer around.

The Go Gos, I believe, are the first band from that initial wave of LA punk and new wave bands of 1977-78 to get a star on the Boulevard. X, the Weirdos, the Germs, and the rest have yet to, and probably never will, get so acknowledged.

It will be interesting to see how many of the old scene rouse themselves out

of bed for this.

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There are some times when only an Aimee Mann song will do...or make it two:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbFQa4SeY48

"Save Me" lyrics:

You look like

A perfect fit

For a girl in need

Of a tourniquet

But can you, save me

Come on and, save me

If you could, save me

From the ranks of the freaks

Who suspect they could never love anyone

'Cause I can tell

You know what it's like

The long farewell

Of the hunger strike

But can you, save me

Come on and, save me

If you could, save me

From the ranks of the freaks

Who suspect they could never love anyone

You struck me down

Like Radium

Like Peter Pan or Superman

You will come to save me

C'mon and save me

If you could, save me

From the ranks of the freaks

Who suspect they could never love anyone

'Cept the freaks

Who suspect they could never love anyone

But the freaks

Who suspect they could never love anyone

C'mon and save me

Why don't you save me

If you could save me

From the ranks of the freaks

Who suspect they could never love anyone

'Cept the freaks

Except the freaks

Who suspect they could never love anyone

Except the freaks who could never love anyone

"Deathly" lyrics:

Now that I've met you

Would you object to

Never seeing each other again

Cause I can't afford to

Climb aboard you

No one's got that much ego to spend

So don't work your stuff

Because I've got troubles enough

No, don't pick on me

When one act of kindness could be

Deathly

Deathly

Definitely

Cause I'm just a problem

For you to solve and

Watch dissolve in the heat of your charm

But what will you do when

You run it through and

You can't get me back on the farm

So don't work your stuff

Because I've got troubles enough

No, don't pick on me

When one act of kindness could be

Deathly

Deathly

Definitely

You're on your honor

Cause I'm a goner

And you haven't even begun

So do me a favor

If I should waver

Be my savior

And get out the gun

Just don't work your stuff

Because I've got troubles enough

No, don't pick on me

When one act of kindness could be

Deathly

Deathly

Definitely

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