tomorrow is my dad's birthday!

hooray for my dad.  great guy.  if we hadn't had his celebration today, there are some things i could've gotten him, because it's also tuesday tomorrow!

music:

*al green - lay it down.  my top release of this week for sure.  i haven't listened to much of his recent gospel stuff and haven't been really interested, but i've heard a little bit of THIS album, and it sounds just great.  ?uestlove produced the thing and it's got john legend and corinne bailey rae.  i know lots of new albums by old artists feature new talent and all that, but this one really seems special to me.

*cyndi lauper - bring ya to the brink.  ow ow!

video:

*cassandra's dream.  very curious about this one.  i missed it when it was in theaters (for the whole one week it was here!).  it seemed to get very little hype.  but i enjoy even recent woody allen works (especially match point), and i have to at least see this one.  netflix here it comes!

*absolutely fabulous - absolutely everything.  it's EVERYTHING!

*the thief of baghdad. criterion.

the big one is al green.  the rest are filler.  unless cassandra's dream turns out to have been an overlooked gem.