Remember your shoes if you're hitchhiking! tracks in honour of the publication of the Hitchhiker's Guide; and the Khruschev outburst and shoebanging; and birthdays of Carlos the Jackal, Linval Thompson, and Jane Siberry....
| In 1979 on this date, Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe was first published...a few tracks about hitchhikers, in honour of Arthur Dent and the Magrathean Heavy Friends out there... |
| Heavy Heavy Heavy Geraldo Pino and Heartbeats - Afro Rock - Kona 02009 |
| Hitchiker Neil Young - Le Noise - Reprise 02010 
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| African Hitchiker Lee Scratch Perry - From the Secret Laboratory - Island 01990 |
| turning from the search for the answer to everything, to a questionable and shadowy figure, we mark the birthday of Carlos the Jackal (aka Ilich Ramirez Sanchez), on this date in 1949 |
| What's Up, Jackal Oneida - Rated O - Jagjaguwar/Brah 02009 |
| Jackal Mandingo - Savage Rite - EMI 01977 |
| Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted - Matador 01992 |
| Year of the Jackal Damned - Anything - Island 01986 |
| and from a controversial, prolific agitator and killer, to a uncontroversially acclaimed great and prolific producer, Linval Thompson, born on this date in 1954 |
| Freedom Version LInval Thompson - Whip them, King Tubby - Auralux 02004 |
| Peace and Love Dubmatix with LInval Thompson - Renegade Rocker - Echo Beach 02009
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| Whip them King Tubby Linval Thompson - Whip them King Tubby - Auralux 02004 |
| and from the streets of Kingston to the streets of Toronto, for the birthday of Jane Siberry, born on this date in 1955 and playing at Shenkman Center this Thursday October 17th. https://www.songkick.com/concerts/17669884-jane-siberry-at-shenkman-arts-centre |
| Follow Me Jane Siberry - No Borders Here - Duke Street 01984
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| Everything Reminds Me of My Dog Jane Siberry - Bound by the Beauty - Duke Street 01989
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| Calling all Angel Jane Siberry - When I Was A Boy - Reprise 01993
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| One More Colour Rheostatics - Introducing Happiness - Sire 01994
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| On this date, or maybe on tomorrow's date, in 1960 at the UN, Khruschev allegedly engaged in shoe-banging in response to allegations of denial of civil and political rights in Eastern Europe...what colour shoe, we ask? |
| Old Brown Shoe Beatles - Jey Jude - EMI 01970 |
| Stranger in blue Suede Shoes Kevin Ayers - Whatevershebringswesing - BGO 01988 |
| Paper Shoes Yoko Ono - Plastic Ono Band - Apple 01970 |
| Red Shoes Tom Waits - Blue Valentine - Asylum 01978 |
| Have Shoes, Will Walk Pere Ubu - New Picnic Time - Chrysalis 01979 |
| Steel Shoe High on Fire - Art of Self Defence - Tee Pee 02001 |
| Big Black Baby Shoes Captain Beefheart - Safe as Milk - Buddah 01960 |
| These Boots Nancy Sinatra - Boots - Reprise 01966 |
| Dirty Boots Sonic Youth - Goo - DGC 01990 |
| Bata Motel Crass - Penis Envy - Crass Records 01980 |
| Pruda's Shoes Bayete Umbra Zindiko - Seeking other Beauty - Prestige 01972 |
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In the end, it was the Sunday afternoons he couldn't cope with, and that terrible listlessness that starts to set in about 2:55, when you know you’ve taken all the baths that you can usefully take that day, that however hard you stare at any given paragraph in the newspaper you will never actually read it, or use the revolutionary new pruning technique it describes, and that as you stare at the clock the hands will move relentlessly on to four o’clock, and you will enter the long dark teatime of the soul.
8:28 PM, October 12th, 2013