Monday, July 16, 2001

oh, my.

"Welcome to the Launch Pad for Kick Out the Jammies, also known as KOTJ. This is David Bowie's own Internet Radio Station for kids of all ages, inspired by the birth of his daughter Alexandria last August.
“I was putting together tapes to play while Alex took a bath or had breakfast or... and it occurred to me that it would be a nice thing to put together a station’s worth of stuff for kids,” said David.
Featuring hand picked tracks by David himself along with members of his Internet Community, KOTJ includes a variety of children's music including classical music, sing-a-longs, familiar characters and much more."

I just caught a lovely tune called "Hey Food" by Cookie Monster and the Sesame Street Beetles.
Now we're supposed to be listening to "The Swan" from Saint-Saens' "The Carnival of Animals." It seems to have been introduced by Elmo and Big Bird as some "Tschaikovsky," but I didn't actually hear any music before we moved right on to Carole King for 30 seconds-- I think they must be taking the "Teletubbies" short attention span approach to children's programming-- presenting only very short snippets of things. There's lots and lots of Shel Silverstein , one of my favorites.
Eli, are you reading this?