well, it's only a tolstoy novel, haning under a spark-notes tree

we were wiki-ing billie holiday last night. juliet frowned on it altogether.




http://youtube.com/watch?v=gLHCR0OTqhs


when we did strange fruit as a cover for the record last summer, i had never seen her do this, or heard her sing it. i had heard the song title in connection with her name, but not what the song was about. she died at 44, the same age as my grandmother kate.


http://youtube.com/watch?v=3qyxmn0uQxE