Happy 60th birthday to one of the funniest and most literate singer-songwriters ever: Mr. Donald Fagen! There will be much more about him in the future on this blog. For now, since I'm in a bit of a rush to compose this actually on his birthday, all you need to know is he wrote and co-wrote many, many great songs, including the one I lifted my blog's subtitle from above.Now to more important matters. If you were a bookish American teenager in the early 1960s, as Donald was, would your biggest concern be whether you could survive a nuclear war with the Soviet Union or whether you could use your dad's fallout shelter to get laid?
Because it's his birthday, I have arranged for this unknown pixaleen to favor the Donald (and you lucky readers) with a spare reading of a Steely Dan classic:
The Dan's own version in concert:
2 comments:
So....the Dan is going on tour this summer, and there aren't ANY dates listed yet for D.C., but for some unknown reason, they feel the need to play 37 consecutive dates in NYC? WTF?!?!
http://www.steelydan.com/tour08.html
They've done a multiple night stand at the Beacon for the past few tours. They sold out Wolf Trap last year, though, so they'll be back down here somewhere.
I forgot you're a big Dan fan, Katrina. I'll let you watch my Steely Dan DVD when you're up here and want a break from studying for the bar.
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