Apparently, I look like a monkey and smell like one too*

[todayiamadaisy]

*blows out candles and offers cake to all*

Happy birthday to Diana Ross, Keira Knightley and Aerosmith's Steve Tyler! Oh, and to me too. Am I being over-sensitive, or is March 26 a dud date as celebrity birthdays go?

I bought the new Augie March album, "Moo, You Bloody Choir", as a present to myself (even if I didn't like the band, I think I would have bought it for the title alone). I'm going to spend my birthday finishing an essay with the album in the background. But I thought, "Why keep the gift of music to myself? Why not offer it to all?" So here are my birthday gifts to you (all mp3s on Megaupload):

• One of my favourites from Augie March's last album, 2002's "Strange Bird": Sunstroke House;


• For no reason other than I like it and have been playing it a lot lately: Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer's Gentle Arms Of Eden;


• Because it always makes me laugh: Tom Lehrer's I Got It From Agnes;
  
• And because I was thinking the other day there's no problem in the world right now that couldn't be solved by the liberal application of more Wham!**: Wake Me Up (Before You Go Go).

** I may be wrong about this.



* I wrote that before I realised not all readers would know that these are the last two lines of "Happy Birthday" for the easily amused.