stacey ewing

Well, today has already been one of those days and it’s not even noon yet. We saw Jason Marsalis play last night (I’ll post about that later) so we didn’t get home until quite late which made us extra tired this morning. Even worse, I woke up thinking today was Thursday… what a drag it was when I found it it’s actually WEDNESDAY. sigh. : \

Of course, being extra tired, we were moving slower than usual and ran out of time to make lunches before leaving the house. So, around 11:30, I find myself waiting in line to grab a salad at the Starbucks dangerously located in the first floor of our building.

I’m staring at the wall, zoning out, when the music playing overhead slowly pans into focus over the scream of the coffee grinder. My “Back Brain” grabs it, runs a search (I recently installed the Google Brain Search beta app) and a few milliseconds later, it kicks a file to my “Front Brain” entitled, “Hey! That’s a cover of The Cure’s ‘Just Like Heaven!’” Then that sweet little app sends me a bulleted list of several other “files:”

Grounded at home Friday night waiting for Rach to call.
Driving around Palm City with Rach.
Driving to high school with Rach.
Driving home from high school with Rach.
Driving to the beach with Rach.
Driving to IRCC with Rach.
Driving to Ocean Palms with Rach.
Driving to Gainesville with Rach.
Driving to a party at Brent’s house with Rach.
Driving to a party at Fred’s house with Rach.
Driving to a party at Jesse’s house with Rach.
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the omitted results included.

hmmm… I guess we listened to that album quite alot back in the day… heh heh.

Anyway, so now I’m awake again and thinking, “Damn, this song is old enough that it’s being turned into a cover??!” I start to get a little bummed about being old and THEN I start thinking, “Crap, all those bitter middle-aged people used to come into Spec’s Music and bitch to us about their fav songs being turned into covers. I REFUSE be one of THOSE people!” I shake off the funk and get a grip as the line moves forward. This particular cover actually turns out to be quite good.

Humming the tune, I head back up to my office and search the interwebs for that particular version while I eat my lunch. I’m shocked to find a dozen other cover of that song!! geez! But despite all those covers I didn’t find the one that was playing downstairs. weird.

Do you have a favorite? I kinda like the rockabye baby version but maybe that’s because I’m still sleepy.