Heard That Song Before

The "really really oldies" station in the Bay Area is about 8th on my presets. Sunday, I happened to page through and catch a song that I loved from the first notes to the last. Thanks to Google and WinMX, now it is mine... Harry James and Hellen Forest, "I've Heard That Song Before."

I collected two versions, and listening to one I could hear the speckle of the LP, or even phonograph record... And it came to me that this was just the sort of song to twist up the volume on to pretend not hear something unpleasant going on in the next room. A la "Hellboy"...

Reminds me of last night's dream. Why is it, I've been wondering all day, that I have the real kinetic memory of how it is to catch and silently lower a still-warm body?

It's time again for Fashion!

Ok, guys, another fashion question for you. What goes with dark brown?

I've happened into two pairs of brown slacks; a color I might poetically call "tobacco", but which is actually to my mind a shade or two darker than that. Alas, suddenly my shirt choices are greatly restricted, which pains a heart grown fat on denim and khaki. It seems to me that the only colors that go are the warm colors and white... All of you black backers take note, Black and Dark Brown do not a match make. (Or do they? I admit, I do it sometimes when I run low on laundry.)

But dark brown and red? I dunno, it seems like it needs something else to break it up a bit. Dark brown and pink? Now we get onto worrying territory. And what about some shades of blue? I mean, any of the dark rich colors seem out, like crimson, or forest green (of the warm yellow half of the green spectrum). But the light colors... I was lucky enough to get an opinion on dark brown and lavender at last years' ACNW from someone too tipsy to pull her punches, and have avoided that since... (The color combination. Punchy advice, I court; qv.)