Does it have to be a whole month away?

(I know...2 posts in one day.  Just go ahead and give me the overachiever ribbon)

I read about this idea awhile back and was excited, got busy with something, and forgot about it.  Then my favorite radio station WRNR played a song off the upcoming album and I remembered why I was so excited in the first place.  My wife and I were pulling into a parking spot somewhere and sat there in the summer heat because we couldn't tear ourselves out of the car before "From Above" finished.

The album I'm referring to is a collaboration between Ben Folds and Nick Hornby (two people high up on the "If you could sit down and have a few drinks with..." list, especially Hornby) called "Lonely Avenue" that Ben Folds provided the music and melody for Nick Hornby's lyrics.  From the snippets included in the video below, I'm ready to buy it already, but it won't be out for another month.  "Picture Window" sounds like pure awesome carried in a bag made of fantastic (Stop making that face...of course that made sense).

Comes and Goes Like Fitz and Dizzyspells

I see a time in the near future when work will calm down (I'm trying to do 2+ jobs worth of stuff in 1 job's worth of time...but aren't we all) and the myriad of projects at home will be completed, or at least most of the big ones.  When that happens, there will be a flood of musical sharing and caring here at Seabass Says.  Or maybe if a friend or two with good taste (I promise I have more than two friends, and most of them have excellent taste...the rest have excellently bad taste...or maybe that's just my guilty pleasure CD stack or the Lionel Ritchie vinyl speaking out from the corners of my living room) offers a guest post every now and again.  Until then, we'll all just have to deal with infrequent updates whenever I find the time and motivation.  Actually, the motivation is easy to find, its the time that seems to be a bit too evasive.

Anyway, on to the music.  As you may be able to guess by the post title, I'd like to let Andrew Bird expand on the theme of fits of productivity.  I think Andrew Bird may be a crazy person, but I say that with admiration.  I think it just takes someone who's wired a bit differently to be a champion whistler, violinist, and lyrical thesaurus to do what he does.  See for yourself:

Andrew Bird - Fitz & the Dizzyspells