Break-In-The-Work Random Ten

Reminder for those who care and need one -- tomorrow, at 3.00 pm, Marc Spitz's The Hobo Got Too High returns for a free performance at The Brick. Then at 5.00, I'm doing my solo performance of Chekhov's In Moscow (A Moscow Hamlet) - I thought there'd be more stuff going on at The Brick and elsewhere for the WPA Fest in the afternoons the next two days, but apparently not, so I'm out there on my own somewhat. Maybe someone'll show up. (Ah, I just checked the updated WPA site and there are more things going on tomorrow . . . great, I don't feel so alone!)

In the iPod now: 20,560 songs, 72.66 GB. I'm trying to cut down all the fat more and more as I add things. Doing pretty good, eliminating 2 or 3 songs for every one that I add, but at some point I'm going to run out of ones to cut . . . Oh, well, here's ten for the morning:

1. "Sandals in the Sand" - The John Shakespeare Orchestra - Hotel Easy Vol. 4: Saint Tropez—Paco's Poolside Bar

Dopy 60s Brit instrumental. This will go when I get to "S" as I cull out stuff from the iPod (I'm in the middle of "O" currently). If I remember when I get there.
2. "Shut Up" - Eddie Warner - Le Jazzbeat! 2

Non-dopy 60s instrumental, probably English. Now this is the kind I like that I get these compilations for (and end up with a handful of ones like #1 above). Exciting, spy-movie-esque, with a hint of moog. Cool.
3. "Memphis" - The Rolling Stones - Clean Cuts - Vol. 2

Pleasant loping early cover by some cleancut-sounding young men. Mick seems to have almost all the lyrics, with an exception or two ("the phone boy took the message and he wrote it on the wall"?).
4. "Peppermint Twist (Part 1)" - Joey Dee & The Starlighters - Land Of 1000 Dances vol. 1

Hmmmn. Maybe The Brick theatre needs its own dance step and theme song. "The Metropolitan Hop?" "Do the Brick (parts 1 & 2)?" "Lorimer Slide?"
5. "What Is Life" - George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

I miss George. This album can be a mixed bag, with the Spector production doing great by some songs (like this one) and swamping others, but if I had to pick one album by an ex-Beatle for a desert island or something . . . well, this is in the lead, I think.
6. "Empty Heart" - The Mods - So Cold!!! Unearthed 60s Sacramento Garage

A fine slice of spiteful teen-angst trash. Yeah, from the "Mods." From Sacramento, CA.
7. "Monks" - King Missle - Failure

Underscored humorous monologue that gets tiresome quickly then comes back with a twist that makes it all worth it.
8. "Pills" - New York Dolls - New York Dolls

A favorite. If you're going to cover Bo Diddley, you have to be at least this good.
9. "No More Now" - The Smoke - Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, Vol. 4

More teen trash.
10. "Seattle" - Public Enemy Ltd. - Happy?

(aka "Get Out of My World") Ah, yes. Memories of the 80s. John Lydon remains John Lydon, slick production or not.

God, tempus fugits away when you're wasting time online. I have to get over to The Brick to clean up the place for the weekend and work on my lines there, as there's something more effective about working on lines in a theatre itself than at home (luckily, I still seem to have Hobo down and In Moscow is coming back a lot faster than I was afraid it would - I last performed it in 2001). There's a rehearsal in there from 12 - 3, but even sitting in the dressing room or behind the bar is better for doing line work, I've found, then being at home and easily distracted. So, off I go like a hoid of toitles . . .