You’re lucky, America. While we Australians burn under a blazing sun in a shirt-soaking summer, you can slide into some slippers, don a nice sweater and scarf combo, and sit around your logfire drinking neat scotch and listening to wintery music. (That’s what everyone in the US does in winter, right? It’s not just a Connecticut thing, is it?).
So while I sit here in shorts and a t-shirt, drinking an ice-heavy rum and coke, I think of my cold American brothers and sisters — I’m jealous of you all. I wish I had a logfire. At least I’ve got this soundtrack lined up for when the time comes and I’m rugged up on a cold winter night:
1. MP3: Frank Sinatra - “Deep In A Dream” (from In The Wee Small Hours, 1955).
2. MP3: Sufjan Stevens - “The Dress Looks Nice On You” (from Seven Swans, 2004).
3. MP3: Explosions In The Sky - “Your Hand In Mine (Goodbye)” (from Friday Night Lights, 2004).
4. MP3: Ben Harper - “My Father’s House” (from Badlands: A Tribute To Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska, 2000).
5. MP3: Brian Eno - “Variation On The Canon In D Major: French Catalogues” (from Discreet Music, 1975).
6. MP3: The Doors - “Yes, The River Knows” (from Waiting For The Sun, 1968).
7. MP3: Air - “Night Sight” (from Pocket Symphony, 2007).
8. MP3: David Gray - “This Year’s Love” (from White Ladder, 1999).
9. MP3: Booker T & The MGs - “Winter Snow” (b-side to Isaac Hayes’ Mistletoe And Me, 1967).
10. MP3: Karma County - “The Water Moves” (from Last Stop Heavenly Heights, 1997).
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In Canada, it’s corduroy sofas, cashmere throws and lambskin rugs year ’round. I am going to listen to some more winter songs on my hi-fi now, in my A-frame ski chalet.