I was poking around the interwebs for Christmas related songs, but turns out I hate Christmas music even if it is filtered through some sort of indie-flavored synthesizer.  Instead I found Reading Rainbow, a band I like for these reasons:

1.  Their name reminds me of the magical moments I spent with one Lavar Burton taking looks inside books. Later Lavar would done the lazer shades of Geordie Laforge and Reading Rainbow would become a distant memory.   But those afternoons with Lavar were some of my favorites.

2.  The cover features a drawn image of a bear and a tiger horfing out what appear to be rainbows.  Any cover that has wild animals horfing on things instantaneously gets shot to the top of things I like.  Take note of that publicists - Noah enjoys barfing animals.

3.  There’s a mixing of beauty and grime on this song, “Sun Is Out” and every other song on this album, Mystical Participation that makes me think of a taking a relaxing dip in three week old bath water.  There might be a layer of grease hanging out on the surface, but damn if that tepid water doesn’t make my back feel better.

Reading Rainbow - Sun Is Out