Friday Random Ten

At home. No rehearsal today, but plenty of work. We recorded a good deal of the dialogue for the backing tracks of World Gone Wrong last night at The Brick. Today, I'll see if I can do some track constructions and mixing. I may have to spend the time pulling out all the CDs and other sources of the backing music and effects that I need.


But first, Friday Random Ten:


1. "Barnabas" - The Vampire State Building - Dark Shadows —The 30th Anniversary Collection

Unbelievably stupid and awful tie-in novelty song with the Dark Shadows TV show. So bad I have to keep it in here. Yeeesh.


2. "Jerkin' Back and Forth" - DEVO - Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
3. "Boogie Boy" - Iggy Pop - American Caesar

now every mornin i wake up at nine

i'm eating cheerios with red wine

i'm reading that book but it's not too good

cuz my boogie head is made outta wood . . .
. . . i like to eat spaghetti with tomato sauce

i like to eat clams with spanish moss

i like to go down to mash potato town

cuz that's where a boogie boy can get down . . .

(god I love Iggy)


4. "Dirty Beat" - Gert Wilden & Orchestra - Schulmädchen Report
5. "After the Storm" - Stan Ridgway - Holiday in Dirt
6. "Together" - William Shatner - Has Been
7. "Alright Already" - Combustible Edison - mix disk from my dad
8. "Hide If You Want To Hide" - The Cedars - Pebbles Volume 12 - The World
9. "Jerusalem on the Jukebox" - Richard Thompson - Amnesia
10. "I Am the Walrus (basic track, no overdubs)" - The Beatles - Anthology 2


The iPod now stands at 21,086 songs, 72.88 gigs full. I keep whittling it down and adding more stuff. At some point, I'll run out of room and REALLY get serious about cutting things out.

And I'm down to the last two usable cat photos I have put up here yet. Need new pictures. Here's Hooker lurking under my chair, waiting for attention:





And a really old shot of Moni & Hooker curled up, before Hooker got the cauliflower ear:





Back to work.

Oh god I thought I wouldn't say anything about . . .

The whole damned Harry Potter mania.


Okay, I wound up liking the books more and more as they went along. At first, I was a bit impressed with Rowling's world, but I thought it was nothing special in the land of fantasy literature, and that there were plenty of other authors who had created as dense and wondrous worlds, but with more interesting characters and plots, and I was a bit peeved that Potter seemed to be the end-all and be-all as far as many of the readers of the books were concerned.

I still think there's deeper and more interesting fantasy series out there, that like the Potter books are written for children but fun for adults, too (my vote always goes for Susan Cooper's The Dark Is Rising books, which reports say are about to be destroyed on film), but as Potter has gone along, I've been swept up more and more in the world, and especially in the characters, which I think JKR has been getting a better and better handle on writing.

So, I'm looking forward to reading the last one eventually, but not chomping at the bit nor especially avoiding any spoilers.


And I'm enjoying the nasty side of Potterdom that comes out, too. Such as the fake book covers you can find HERE at David Wong's Pointless Waste of Time, which are designed for those adults who are indeed obsessed with Potter, but don't want to admit it in public. You can just print out one of these handy, very adult covers, and no one will know you're reading about a teenage wizard.

There are many on the site, not all as obscene as this, my favorite, but several are more so:





So check the link for more, and at the proper size. Enjoy.