Another iPod shuffle? Why not. I’m restless.

I had a 4 hour drive today. The shuffle is preserved on the iPod. Hope is happy I am home. She is lying on my pillow, passive-aggressively faced away from me, to show she’s not TOO happy to see me.

Long day. Long emotional weekend. Tired. Can’t sleep.

The songs from my traffic-ridden drive on the highway:

The Crime of the Century – from the musical Ragtime

Leeds – Indigo Girls

The Jug of Punch – The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem

Ride – Liz Phair

All I Really Want – Alanis Morissette

Bigelow 6-200 – Brenda Lee

Outrageous – Britney Spears (yes, yes, we get it already, Brit, you’re outrageous)

Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen

Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper

Give Me Your Life – Pat McCurdy

Perfect Young Ladies – from the Broadway musical “The Boyfriend”

Calamari – from the musical “A New Brain”

That’s the Way I Remember It – Garth Brooks as Chris Gaines (I was the only person on the planet who loved this album)

Incomplete – Alanis Morissette

Extraordinary Girl – Green Day (this might be my favorite song off the whole amazing album)

Is There Life Out There? – Reba McEntire

Mesmerizing – Liz Phair

Chop Me Up – Justin Timberlake

My Name is Pat (I Play Guitar) – Pat McCurdy

Same Ol’ Story – Cyndi Lauper (LOVE IT)

Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen

Hotel California – Eagles

Heartache Tonight – Eagles (off the same live album as the song before. Weird.)

My Baby Only Cares For Me – Brian Setzer & His Orchestra

Sway – Dean Martin

I Want You – Elvis Costello

Let It Be Me – Indigo Girls

Mountains of Mourne – The Irish Tenors

Allez-Vous-En – Martha Wainwright

The World That He Sees – Trans-Siberian Orchestra

In Your Honor – Foo Fighters

No One But You – Queen

Poor Little Pierrette – from the Broadway musical “The Boyfriend”

Safety In Numbers – you have got to be kidding me. Also from the Broadway musical “The Boyfriend”

Red Football – Sinead O’Connor (I don’t know, it’s a tough choice because I love her so much – but this might be my favorite of all of her songs)

New Way Home – Foo Fighters

Tea for the Tillerman – Cat Stevens

Sparkplug Minuet – Mark Mothersbaugh (from the Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack)

Before Me – Pat McCurdy

Take A Look – Liz Phair

Holding My Breath – Hellogoodbye

Firedance – from “Riverdance”

Free Your Mind – En Vogue

It’s Never Too Late To Fall In Love – from “The Boyfriend”. It’s a conspiracy.

I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Gonna Leave You – Queens of the Stone Age

Fare Thee Well – Indigo Girls

Defying Gravity – from the Broadway musical “Wicked”

Morning Has Broken – Cat Stevens (the piano!!!)

Happy Feet – Manhattan Rhythm Kings (from The Aviator soundtrack)

Little People – from “Les Miz”

Mr. Bojangles – Nina Simone (brilliant!!)

Take a Chance On Me – from the movie Mamma Mia

Meathook – Tracy Bonham

Mama Said – Metallica (from “Load” – an album I love, much to the chagrin of another brand of Metallica fans)

Soldier Boy – The Shirelles

Tears Dry On Their Own – Amy Winehouse

Finale – End Credits – from the movie “A Star Is Born”

Justice – from the Broadway musical “Ragtime”

John Henry – Bruce Springsteen

Get Out the Map – Indigo Girls

I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Rufus Wainwright

Rock and Roll – Led Zeppelin

Colonel Fraser – Jerry O’Sullivan

Three Babies – Sinead O’Connor

Shitloads of Money – Liz Phair

Unconscious – Pat McCurdy

Somebody Else For a While – Pat McCurdy (LEAVE ME ALONE PAT MCCURDY)

When I Hold You In My Arms – Mike Viola

Mule Skinner Blues – Dolly Parton

Angie – Tori Amos

Baba – Alanis Morissette

Sharks Can’t Sleep – Tracy Bonham

My Hero – Foo Fighters

Johnny Sunshine – Liz Phair

Seventy-Five Septembers – Cheryl Wheeler

The Only One – Evanescence

So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright – Simon & Garfunkel

Music – Madonna

I’ve Got Life – Nina Simone (thank you Mitchell!!)

All Over the World – ELO

All Because Of You – U2

Lindbergh Palace Hotel Suite – Mark Mothersbaugh (from The Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack)

Royalty in Exile – Pat McCurdy (argh!!!)

Turn to Stone – ELO

Disenchanted Lullaby – Foo Fighters

Prologue – ELO (what the hell with the ELO??)

Lonely Summer Nights – Stray Cats

Heaven on Earth – Britney Spears (great song)

You Don’t Have to Believe Me – Eric Hutchinson

Sexy Back – Justin Timberlake (I mean, come on, does it get any better)

Empty Sky – Bruce Springsteen

Zoot Suit Riot – Cherry Poppin’ Daddies

Completely Blue – Pat McCurdy (the universe is against me)

Ya Had Me Goin – L.E.O.

Van Lear Rose – Loretta Lynn (thank you Mitchell!!)

Another Woman’s Man – Joe Tex

John Henry – Bob Gibson

Tonite – The Go-Gos

Give Me a Sign – Dean Martin

You Don’t Know What It’s Like – Nina Simone

Heaven On their Minds – Judas (from the movie “Jesus Christ Superstar” – I looooove this song)

Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – The Andrews Sisters

Richard Cory – Simon & Garfunkel

One Of Those Girls – Avril Lavigne

The Sky Is Crying – Stevie Ray Vaughan

Next Time / I Wouldn’t Go Back – from the musical “Closer Than Ever” (the 30something of musicals)

Luck In My Eyes – kd lang

I’ve Been To a Marvellous Party – The Divine Comedy (love him. Guess who gave me this album? PAT MCCURDY. ARGH! He is omnipresent)

My Immortal – Evanescence

Master Crowley’s / The Jug of Punch – Joe Burke

Wish Lizst (Toy Shop Madness) – Trans-Siberian Orchestra

Magic – Yipes! (Yipes was the first band of a certain gentleman named Pat McCurdy. ARGH!)

Darlene – The Dreams

Just You, Just Me – Judy Garland

Little Cream Soda – The White Stripes (love love love this song)

Polyester Bride – Liz Phair

I Want You to Want Me – Cheap Trick

Tough Life – Pat McCurdy (say no more. Yes, I have about 500 of his songs on my iPod. It makes Shuffle a ridiculous event.)

Let Me Be There – Olivia Newton-John

Walk This Way – Aerosmith

The American and Florence – from the musical “Chess”

In Pursuit of Happiness – The Divine Comedy

A Sleepin’ Bee – Barbra Streisand (never gets old)

That Thing You Do – The Wonders (from the movie “That Thing You Do”)

Baby Yes It Does – Nina Simone

Circus – Lenny Kravitz

Something Beautiful – Tracy Bonham

Jolene – Dolly Parton

In the Chapel in the Moonlight – Dean Martin

NYC – from the movie Annie (with Victor Garber and Audra McDonald)

Bells on a Leper – Mike Viola and the Candybutchers

Miss Byrd – Sally Mayes (also from “Closer than Ever”)

The Other Guy – Little River Band

C*m on Everybody – Eminem

This Land Is Your Land – Pete Seeger (having Pete Seeger follow Eminem is the #1 joy of shuffle)

Fall Back Down – Mike Viola and the Candybutchers

Let the River Run – Alexandra Billings

Going Through the Big D – Mark Chesnutt

Damn Girl – Justin Timberlake

Falling in love (is Hard On the Knees) – by the ever-florid Aerosmith

The Whole Shebang – Grant Lee Buffalo

Dumb – Nirvana

The Main Event – Barbra Streisand

Wicked Little Town – John Cameron Mitchell from Hedwig and the Angry Inch

World Without you – Beth Hart

Both Sides Now – Dolly Parton with Judy Collins (I like this version better than the original – wonderful!!)

Stranger In a Strange Town – Pat McCurdy (that’s it. I’m going to throw myself off a cliff. Buh-bye.)

Finale – from 1776, Broadway musical (goosebumps!!)

Mack the Knife – Bobby Darin