Something Shiny

Here we are, and it’s Thursday again. I sat in line for 90 minutes this morning to get the Cities 97 Sampler at the downtown Target this morning. With any luck I’ll never have to listen to it. If it hadn’t become an expected gift, it might be a good year to sell them given the length of the line.

Fortunately I had my trusty Zune and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist kept my entertained. Actually not a bad movie, for being PG-13, the most conflicted of all ratings.

Here are the tracks this week:

Superblast! by Lush
Wild Boys by Duran Duran
Where Do They Make Balloons? by They Might Be Giants
You Don’t Send Me by Belle and Sebastian
Black Math by The White Stripes

And those Grooveshark didn’t have:

She Said, She Said by The Black Keys
Love Is Blue by Future Bible Heroes

There’s a new joke email circulating with various humorous observations. As with anything that gets forwarded around, it’s hit or miss. But one of the observations struck me as particularly true as I was listening to my Zune on random:

I like all of the music in my iTunes, except when it’s on shuffle, then I like about one in every fifteen songs in my iTunes.

So, here’s what happens when I leave it play on random for 10 songs, no skipping, songs in gray weren’t available in Grooveshark and therefore not included in the playlist below. In my defense, I have the SXSW sampler tracks loaded so I take no responsibility for some of the tracks (e.g. Colin Gilmore).

1. Faith No More – Crack Hitler
2. The Mood Swings – Generation Y
3. PowerSolo – Pirates of Oblivion
4. Traveling Wilburys – Not Alone Anymore
5. Colin Gilmore – Running Circles in the Yard
6. Duran Duran – The Reflex
7. Pretty Girls Make Graves – Speakers Push the Air
8. Black Box Recorder – The Facts of Life
9. The Doors – Break on Through (To the Other Side) (Live)
10. The Cardigans – Never Recover