It’s a Beautiful Night Out There

The sun has charred the other side of the world and come back to us and painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violet.

You are listening.

Palmyra Is in the Room

Random fact about something I care about but you may neither know nor care about: The Soul Coughing album Ruby Vroom is named after Ruby Froom, the daughter of singer Susan Vega, who consented to the honor only if album title was slightly modified from her daughter’s actual name.

Given that the girl is now old enough to Google herself and may not want to sort through page after page of Mike Doughty fanpages, I’d say Vega made a good call. Of course, now that I posted this, it will show up whenever this girl Googles herself. If so: Hi Ruby! Your mom is cool!

Adolphus Zantziger

While trying in vain to Google the correct spelling of Soul Coughing's "Adolpha Zantziger," I was redirected to the personal blog of Venture Bros. creator and god-among-men Jackson Publick. In a January 2006 post in which Publick showed off some background and character art for the then-upcoming second season of Venture, he listed the song he was currently listening to as "Adolphus Zantziger." These means one of three things: (1) Publick has a mislabeled Soul Coughing track, which, given the song's relative obscurity seems likely; (2) Soul Coughing did a special take off on my beloved "Adolpha Zantziger" and signified it with a slightly different name; or (3) the late Mrs. Adolpha Zantziger had a brother.

Either way, the intersection of Soul Coughing with Jackson Publick is utterly delightful.

[ go team zantziger! ]