The Audacity of Boring Fridays

Still cheery, for the most part, about this week's events. Disillusionment to come, of course, but that's well expected.

Berit's teaching me to run Lord Oxford for a couple shows next week while she has to go away on family stuff - which means I also have to do Penny Dreadful on my own. Busy next week. Currently ambling - cleaning the apartment, thinking about next year's shows, catching up on paperwork to deal with for the company, now that it's a real company.

Still trying to cut things from the iPod today, while adding more at the same time. Now there are 26,020 tracks on there. Here's today's Random Ten:

1. "Lifetime" - The Bliss - Fading Yellow volume 1

Oh, man is this a piece of nauseating wimpy hippie trash. Ick. I told Berit this was an immediate DROP and she said I might want to keep it to use if I needed to build up the will to slap someone sometime. Okay.

2. "Brief Candles" - The Zombies - Odessey & Oracle

Okay, here's how you do wimpy hippie trash properly. This STAYS

3. "Mica" - Mission Of Burma - Vs.

I came to MOB late and want to spend more time with all of their sides before culling the lesser ones (which I have a feeling this one is . . . maybe not). STAYS.

4. "It's a Good Thing" - That Petrol Emotion - Children of Nuggets: Original ARTyfacts from the Second Psychedelic Era - 1976-1996

Hmmn. Kinda the same thing as the MOB - I want to know this better before dumping. What the hell AM I gonna dump at this rate?

5. "Nervous" - Victims - S/T 7" EP

Nope, not this. Great cheap punk single.

6. "See My Friends" - The Reegs - Shangri-La: A Tribute To The Kinks

Nice, but unnecessary, especially if I have the Kinks' original. If I do, it's a DROP.

7. "The Little March (live)" - Frank Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Volume 5

Late-60s Mothers of Invention live? STAYS.

8. "Indian Feeling" - CAM Library - Feeling

Very short charming cheesy library track. STAYS.

9. "Voodoo Plan" - The Headliners - Wavy Gravy - Four Hairy Policemen…

Preceded by a radio spot for The Astro-Zombies, which is enough to keep this.

10. "I Know" - The Illusions - Pebbles Volume 11

Pretty good garage rock, but not a sure thing. DROP.

Hey, cat photos again!

Moni at the window, this morning:

Three stages of falling to sleep from Hooker, as Moni gets jealous of the attention he's getting and sneaks into the shots:

And the two together - a detente:

Out to run some household errands now. Maybe something else new soon . . .