Today is Bill Hicks’ birthday.

I miss the sound of my mother’s cuckoo clock ticking me to sleep.

I’m a little disappointed that Shelby Lynne’s “Squat (The Christmas Blues)” (which came out last year as a very limited promotional single) hasn’t shown up on iTunes.

Save for 2 packages en route, my presents are wrapped and under the tree.

Two unreleased songs by John Lennon will be used in a forthcoming Broadway musical about his life: “India, India,” written during the Beatles’ 1968 visit to India, and “I Don’t Want to Lose You” which, according to the BBC, was the remaining song offered by Yoko Ono to complete The Beatles Anthology in 1990, but left uncompleted due to an electronic glitch—a well-known story, apart from the song’s title.