Friday Cat Blogging

Here are our duo again, seperately and together. Not some of the best photos we have, but I'm still digging to find where all of our shots are (on various CDs and hard drives throughout the house).


First, Hooker gives Berit's head a hug -- this is nice, but it can't end well . . .





Now, Moni rolls about, demanding a belly rub:





And then the two of them do their "thoughtful at the window" bit:





Back in a few with the Random 10 . . .

Friday Lame Random Ten

Shoot -- wireless out again, so I wrote this hours ago and only now just ponged it over to the dial-up-compatible old PC we keep around.


Okay, so now we have 16,988 songs on the iTunes. I've thrown on a lot of albums that I intended to chop tracks off of later. I also included lots of tracks that I wouldn't normally think of as anything I really liked, but that I thought would be a nice change-up when they came up randomly amongst everything else.


This morning's Random 10 is what happens when iTunes decides to give you nothing but a bunch of these tracks. Ugh. If there had just been a couple tracks with loud guitars in here, or a real BEAT, it would have made the rest okay, but as it stood?


1. "Damnation's Cellar" - Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet - The Juliet Letters
2. "El Tonto de la Colina" - Robertha - Rato's Nostalgia Collection 21
3. "(All I Can Do Is) Dream You" - Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
4. "Gonna Give Her All the Love I've Got" - Benny Gordon - Soulin' vol. 4
5. "Taxman" - The Music Machine - Turn On
6. "Everything Right Is Wrong Again" - They Might Be Giants - Then: The Earlier Years
7. "Africa Bamba" - Santana - Supernatural
8. "Prove My Love" - Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
9. "Delicate Cutters" - Throwing Muses - In a Doghouse
10. "There Have Been Bad Moments" - Mike Keneally - Boil That Dust Speck


Again, ugh. I mean, the Music Machine and Violent Femmes tracks kinda rock, but not hard enough to raise the overall lugubriocity level of the run. And when I skipped forward after this to get to something . . . PEPPY . . . the first thing I got was Glenn Miller's "Stardust." Jeez! It took about 20 skips to finally get to something that might help wake me up -- a nice run of The Cramps, Dick Dale, and Southern Culture on the Skids (doing a Link Wray tune).


We're coming up on 60 gigs in the iTunes. When it hits, I start culling. Now I have some good ideas where to start.