A Nice Pair

Sitarswami! His name is whispered by windchimes, heard in the beat of a butterfly's wings, grunted into a motel pillow by a five-dollar whore! Yes, wherever afficionados of the outré, the exquisite, and the recondite gather - be it steaming slop-house or cloud-girt lamasery - you'll hear his name uttered like a mantra! Sitarswami! Who knows what he knows? Not I, pally. But the FMF© HQ here in leafy downtown Las Vegas is occasionally blessed by his visits, as it was last night.

Cody interrupted my internet research session (agrarian reform in the Low Countries - something of a passion of mine) with an urgent cry of "Pull yer pants up, doofus! Sitarswami's here!"

Moments later we were relaxing in Th' Conversation Pit O' Sound©. Sitarswami hovered inches above the Fun-Fur upholstery while Cody served her signature Cheez Wiz n' Spearmint Gum cocktails in vintage Huckleberry Hound© beakers.

Sitarswami, yesterday

S: Om shanti, dude. You look flushed.
FMF©: [coughs] Sunlamp.
S: I humbly offer you my latest collection of rare pop-psych that I curated.
FMF©: Compiled. The word is compiled. Fuck's sake.
S: You want it or not?
FMF©: Yeah, yeah. What is it awready?
S: Remember the four-disc fan-made Curt Boettcher singles collection? Trouble is I rarely want to listen to four discs to hear my favorites, so I thought, why not condense those down to one disc and add in a bunch of tracks written by one of Curt's early collaborators, Tandyn Almer?
FMF©: [playing paddle-ball] I give up - why not?
S: I've only included one example of each song - although Shadows & Reflections has a number of fine versions - plus one of the demos from the Almer Sundazed collection. Tracks 1-17 are Boettcher only. I've resisted any impulse to include Ballroom, Sagittarius or Millennium-related material, while #18 is Almer & Boettcher's perfect meeting of the minds. Tracks 18-27 are the Almer-written songs. The only excuse for track 28 being included is it's an Our Productions release that was missed on the Boettcher four-disc comp. That one's for Don Adams fans only. 
FMF©: Let me guess, your Mysticalness - the tracks need tagging and you want me to do some artwork for like, nothing. Again.
S: It will be good karma for you, little grasshopper.
FMF©: I gots karma out th' ass, pally.