This is weird…
…it’s 1.26am and I need to go to bed… but I’m finding it hard to leave the ‘business centre’. Because, I realise, I’ve become addicted to using my Macbook last thing at night. In my jimjams. Emailing/blogging/whaddever, then turning it off, and getting into bed.
But right now I can’t do that. I’ve got to leave the ‘business centre’, walk to the lift, get in the lift, go up five floors, get out of the lift, walk along a corridor, put my key in the door… oh, you get the idea.
Must. Log. Off.
Very hard. To leave. Computer.
Maybe a “one last thought of the day” post will do it.
One last thought of the day: The Grammys.
I’m delighted for Amy Wino. I know she can over-egg the musical pudding, but she’s hugely talented, and it’s nice to see that talent rewarded.
Sadly, Kurt Elling didn’t win in the Jazz Vocal category. Sadly, Freddy Cole didn’t win, either. Now Freddy: if only you’d recorded a follow-up to Waiter, Ask The Man To Play The Blues: Freddie Cole Sings And Plays Some Lonely Ballads - perhaps Waiter, Ask The Man To Play Agadoo: Freddy Cole Sings And Plays Your Party Favourites While Mysteriously Changing The Spelling Of His Name - then you could have been in with a chance.
But the final factoid of the night: you know who did win a Grammy?
That’s riiiight!
Your favourite and mine - or possibly just yours - Mickey Bubble. His album Call Me Irresponsible scooped the prize for, believe it or not, ‘Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album’. I had no idea such a category existed, but if it puts Michael’s (I think I can call him “Michael”) win into any sort of context, in the same category he was up against:
Cool Yule - Bette Midler
Trav’lin’ Light - Queen Latifah
Live In Concert 2006 - Barbra Streisand
James Taylor At Christmas - James Taylor
No, that doesn’t make it any clearer, does it? Still, it could have been worse. He could have won the Jazz Vocal category. Nice to know the Grammy judges are on my side.
February 12th, 2008 at 9.27pm
A more difficult question who be “Who Didn’t win a Grammy”? It seems to me you have to be sigularly untalented to not win at least one Grammy. I mean, how many catergories are there, like 572?
Even I got a nomination last year and I’m as musical as a lump of sod.
February 13th, 2008 at 1.18am
and what category was that in, Jack?
I only just found out today that a jazz album (Herbie Hancock’s) won the Record Of The Year award, which is unprecedented. Well, apparently precedented by Stan Getz in 1964 or something, and by Norah Jones with ‘Come Away With Me’. But apart from that, unprecedented.
February 13th, 2008 at 11.11pm
“Best Traditional Nu-Lounge Album by Lumpen Sod”
February 14th, 2008 at 1.37am
brilliant. and who won that category?
February 14th, 2008 at 7.29am
I did
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