Still going after all these years.
I have my new 30 GB iPod loaded up with a bunch of my favorite mix tapes cum playlists in addition to the purely random playlists that I used to keep on the old model. So this week’s playlist will be random samplings from songs I like a lot as well as stuff that I … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: No longer random edition”
Not really, but wouldn’t that be nice? As Henry Thomas (and apparently Taj Mahal) would say, “Big fish bites if you got good bait.” I don’t know what the hell it means but it sounds profound. Cat Power, “Wild is the Wind” (The Covers Record) New Dominions, “Burning Down the House” (Bon Time) David Byrne, … Continue reading “Friday Random 10 – Going Fishing”
After the travel this week, I feel like catching a breath, so I’m going to let the music speak for me. See you on Monday Smithsonian Chamber Players (Marin Marais, composer), “Suite d-moll – Menuet” (Pièces à deux violes) Shu-De, “Shyngyr-Shyngyr” (Voices from the Distant Steppe) The Velvet Underground, “Train Round the Bend” (Peel Slowly … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: sigh-ning off”
A few tunes on today’s mix speak to my feeling of total disillusionment with the Senate, particularly the Johnny Cash, the Monk, and the Golden Gate Jubilee Quartet. Johnny Cash, “I Hung My Head” (American IV: The Man Comes Around) U2, “Spanish Eyes” (B-Sides 1980-1990) Thelonious Monk, “Nutty” (Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane) Ed Harcourt, … Continue reading “Friday Random 10:”
After a week on the road and some fun medical procedures (all diagnostic, nothing serious going on, except getting poked and prodded in places I’ve never been poked and prodded before), I’m feeling downright ornery. My iPod and its semi-random shuffle feature appears to be reflecting that in this playlist, both taunting me with some … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: Slightly inappropriate”
I’m happy it’s Friday; so happy that I’m about to fall asleep sitting up. This week’s Random 10, drawn using iTunes 7 from my full library, has a lot of good time tunes, for whatever reason, but I’m not complaining: Daniel Lanois, “The Deadly Nightshade” (Belladona) G Love and Special Sauce, “Milk & Cereal” (Rappin’ … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: So happy that I can’t stop crying”
My iPod is getting increasingly flaky. In addition to spontaneous reboots it also occasionally refuses to sync, indicating that the disc couldn’t be read to or written from. The middle of a kitchen renovation is a bad time for any small electronics purchase that doesn’t also crush ice, so I’ll have to live with it … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: iPod blues redux”
It’s a slow Friday before a holiday weekend. Tomorrow will bring Elvis Costello with Marian McPartland at Tanglewood; Sunday and Monday some more kitchen demolition; Tuesday is back to the working week. So I’ve been catching my breath and organizing a few things. For instance: my Flickr photos are now geotagged, allowing you to find … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: On the map”
With the rules of the Random 10, the odds of any mariachi music coming into this list are probably pretty slim. But it should be there anyway: I have a three day business trip to Mexico City next week and will be experiencing that fair country for the first time. Should be a heck of … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: South of the Border (Down Mexico Way)”
Musical discovery of the week: Sufjan Stevens’ delicate masterpiece Greetings From Michigan: The Great Lakes State takes on additional resonance as you’re driving through the industrial outskirts of Lansing. But it still doesn’t cleanse the chorus of “Snakes on a Plane (Bring It)” from your brain. We are in town for a morning sales call … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: Bring it!”
As a cartoon once wrote, “What good is sick leave if you have to spend it being sick?” I’m home today with a random thing that fortunately is showing signs of clearing up, but it’s maddening thinking about all the work I have to do both at the office and here at home and not … Continue reading “Friday random 10 – low art for highbrows edition”
So here I am, actually on vacation, no calls to take later for work, in Lenox, Massachusetts, between days of my residency at Tanglewood for the Mahler 2nd. “Oh that magic feeling…nowhere to go.” And of course it’s pouring. Er, has poured, is currently spitting, but looks like it might pour again any second. What’s … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: At-least-it’s-not-a-drought edition”
Or, more precisely, Power Back On. I’m in my office now, but was working from home this morning because of a power failure that took down our entire building. (Apparently an air conditioner overloaded.) But they fixed it and it’s back to business. So without further ado, this Random 10, in which the first two … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: Power Out”
Today’s Random 10 is brought to you by the letters C and B, where C stands for Carver Middle School and B stands for bus. Carver was the middle school next to ours—immediately adjacent, oddly enough—where a lot of the kids from my neighborhood went, some of the nice ones and some of the troublemakers. … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: CB edition”
I knew that my residency in the Berkshires was no vacation, but between rehearsals, calls for work, the concert tonight, and driving home afterwards (ETA: 1:30 am), I’m gonna be dead tired. So here’s to the Friday Random 10, which is hopefully going to do its job and take my mind off the next twelve … Continue reading “Friday Random 10: Is it Saturday yet?”