I love fluffy (aka cumulus) clouds and the New York sky is filled with them this summer. Today as I was walking up Avenue B, I remembered The Orb song Little Fluffy clouds that I used to listen to over and over when I lived in SF.

"Little Fluffy Clouds is a single released by the ambient house group The Orb. It was originally released in 1990 on the record label Big Life and peaked at #87 on the UK Singles Chart. Little Fluffy Clouds is centered around clips from an interview with Rickie Lee Jones in which she recalls picturesque images of her childhood."

Read the full Wikipedia entry here. Who knew one semi obscure ambient techno song had so much written about it! The Ricki Lee Jones vocal is so sexy and so addictive.

Interviewer: "What were the skies like when you were young?"

Jones: "They went on forever – They - When I w- We lived in Arizona, and the skies always had little fluffy clouds in 'em, and, uh... they were long... and clear and... there were lots of stars at night. And, uh, when it would rain, it would all turn - it- They were beautiful, the most beautiful skies as a matter of fact. Um, the sunsets were purple and red and yellow and on fire, and the clouds would catch the colors everywhere. That's uh, neat cause I used to look at them all the time, when I was little. You don't see that. You might still see them in the desert."