Good afternoon,

This week I was reminded, by the following article, of the lovely song that is Suzanne Vega’s “Tom’s Diner”. This also brought to my attention that there is a Britney Spears/Giorgio Moroder version of “Tom’s Diner”, which I have already listened to many times:

Britney stands in the eye of the storm as Moroder's production rages around her, observing both the diner’s patrons and his garish arrangement. Like Vega before her, she understands that "Tom’s Diner" isn’t a lonely song, nor is it sad. It just asks you to watch, digest, and react.

http://www.theverge.com/2015/10/18/9014373/toms-diner-history-suzanne-vega-timeline

In case you didn’t see it earlier this year, here’s another re-read of “Tom’s Diner”, this time made entirely of the things you miss by compressing it to MP3. I love this so much because it makes you feel like you are actually in a café, catching sometimes more and sometimes less of other conversations and little sounds:

The accompanying video here is fittingly made from Vega’s music video for “Tom’s Diner,” rebuilt out of the data lost between the uncompressed video and a compressed MP4 file, adding another layer of reclaimed data to the project.

http://www.avclub.com/article/ghoulish-toms-diner-emerges-lost-mp3-compression-d-215549

Happy listening,

Alex.