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It's a brave new world...

  1. Rolling Stones - I'm Alright
  2. Blue Sky Boys - Picture From Life's Other Side
  3. Adrian Belew - Young Lions (acoustic)
  4. Broken Social Scene - Texico Bitches
  5. Vetiver - Strictly Blue
  6. LCD Soundsystem - Pow Wow. Sounds a lot like one of the outtakes from the Talking Heads' "Remain In Light".
  7. Tortoise - Spiderwebbed
  8. Neil Young - On The Way Home (live @ Massey)
  9. The Beatles - Dr Robert
  10. The Feelies - The High Road

"Dr Robert" was based on a character in one Huxley novel, and The Feelies were named after the full-sense movies in another Huxley novel. And now you know.

Hillary approves.

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95 degrees with 80% humidity? Tres miserable!

  1. Robyn Hitchcock - Superman
  2. The Cure - Close To Me
  3. Vampire Weekend - Holiday
  4. Tonya Donelly - So Much Song
  5. Swirlies - Bell. one of the great noise-pop bands of the 90s.
  6. Robyn Hitchcock - Shimmering Distant Love
  7. Jim Kweskin & His Jug Band - You Should Never Swat A Fly
  8. The Kinks - Two Sisters
  9. The Kinks - David Watts
  10. The Kinks - Situation Vacant

Three songs in a row from the same Kinks album ?

If my math is right (well, if I chose an accurate hypergeometric distribution calculator, and the hypergeo dist was the right way to calculate it), the probability of getting three songs from that album in a random ten is: 0.000001425. (5225 songs on my iPod, 13 songs on that album, choosing 10, looking for 3 from that album)

I have no idea how to calculate the odds of those three coming up in a row, though.

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Tuesday's as good as a Monday, after a four day weekend.

  1. Monk & Coltrane - Crepuscule For Nellie
  2. Beck - Walls
  3. Rolling Stones - You Can't Catch Me
  4. Breeders - Flipside
  5. Talking Heads - Fela's Riff
  6. Robyn H & the E's - The Living Years
  7. Matt Pond PA - Sunlight. love this.
  8. Wilco - Wilco
  9. Bob Marley - Kinky Reggae
  10. Miles Davis - Trane's Blues
  11. Liz Phair - Only Son
  12. The Cure - In Between Days

Not quite ready for work, yet. Can't even count to ten.

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Rain! Haven't seen rain in a month. Love the rain.

  1. Led Zeppelin - Going To California
  2. Department Of Eagles - Phantom Other
  3. Modest Mouse - Heart Cooks Brain
  4. Big Star - O, Dana
  5. Replacements - Shootin Dirty Pool
  6. Robyn Hitchcock - My Favorite Buildings
  7. Cowboy Junkies - Hold On To Me
  8. The Smiths - Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want This Time
  9. Sonic Youth - Sacred Trickster
  10. Talking Heads - Houses In Motion

I kick myself every time I remember that I missed David Byrne when he came around here last year.

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When the still sea conspires an armor
And her sullen and aborted currents breed tiny monsters
True sailing is dead.

  1. Big Star - Mod Lang
  2. King Crimson - The ConstrucKtion Of Light
  3. De La Soul - Skit 1
  4. Robyn Hitchcock & The Venus 3 - Evolove
  5. Gillian Welch - Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
  6. Adrian Belew - Troubles
  7. John Pizzarelli - I Like The Recognize The Tune
  8. Alison Krauss & Union Station - Little Liza Jane
  9. White Stripes - You've Got Her In Your Pocket
  10. Paul Simon - One Man's Ceiling Is Another Man's Floor

What say you?

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A screaming comes across my earbuds...

  1. Robyn Hitchcock - Hanging Out With Dad
  2. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You
  3. Labradford - WR
  4. Robyn Hitchcock - Linctus House
  5. Cassandra Wilson - Red River Valley
  6. Pavement - Easily Fooled
  7. Sunny Day Real Estate - Waffle
  8. Leon Redbone - Nobody's Sweetheart Now
  9. Marah - The Catfisherman
  10. The Clash - Train In Vain

It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.