collisionwork | Friday Relaxed Random Ten

Well, the first part of our "rest in Maine" time is just about up. We have things to do in NYC from tomorrow to Tuesday, so we schlep back for a while. Don't know how long yet. Depends on what I have to do over at the theatre -- The Brick has a few things coming up that we may be needed for: our week in the 365 Days/365 Plays event, the WPA Free Fest (that's the Williamsburg Performance . . . Alliance? Association? I dunno . . .), and the Clown Theatre Festival.

Meanwhile, I've been slicing away at the dross on the iPod, and it's now at 20,474 songs, 71.57 gigs. I'm making some space on the thing. Of course, I've added around 500 songs to it while dropping 1,200, but that ratio is okay. I just heard they're coming out with a 160 GB iPod, too . . . no, that would be madness. Here's what comes up random this morning:

1. "California" - The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations: Thirty Years Of The Beach Boys
2. "Your Quimby Dollars at Work" - Mike Keneally - Hat
3. "Rockin' Shoppin' Center" - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
4. "Third World Man" - Steely Dan - Showbiz Kids: The Steely Dan Story
5. "Waiting for Mary" - Pere Ubu - Cloudland
6. "The Will of God" - Keith Bradford - MSR Madness 4: I'm Just The Other Woman
7. "You Me" - Procession - Oceanic Odyssey Volume 12
8. "It's Gotta Be a False Alarm" - The Volcanos - Northern Soul: The Cream of 60's Soul

Okay, this is from a comp I've never listened to in its entirety, and it's beautiful and weird -- it's an uptempo R&B/Soul song, with some orchestration, but prominently featured are a trombone (maybe a tuba?) that sounds like it should be in a oom-pah band and a clarinet that sounds like it should be in a klezmer band. Very odd in an R&B song . . .

9. "Mr. Tenor Man" - Lou Christie - Spazzy Answer Songs
10. "Please Hurt Me" - The Crystals - The Best of The Crystals

This may be the single most cheery, lighthearted and smile-inducing random ten I've ever had (with a slight drop on #10). How nice.

Ah, well, one more day of vegetating and watching TV - we don't have TV at home in Brooklyn so our time up here always involves vast amounts of "surfing the zeitgeist" as Berit calls it (though that winds up being primarily the watching of shows on Animal Planet and Discovery and reruns of C.S.I.). Yes, our idea of a vacation is hunkering down in a dim, cave-like room and not dealing with anything. {sigh} Sounds great to me a lot of the time . . .