Sunday morning iPod shuffle

I am busy:

1. actually being okay with being a bit of a headcase … it’s so relaxing … God … because why? because I am also
2. feeling taken care of … someone is taking care … wow.
3. cooking
4. making lists
5. listening to ye olde Shuffle
6. working on something that is my own version of Thomas Jefferson’s famous “head vs. heart” letter to Maria Cosway (speaking of being a head case) … having a hard time getting in there (with myself I mean), but I’m working on it.

“Sk8r Boi” – Avril Lavigne

“Johnson’s Motorcar” – The Clancy Brothers (at Carnegie Hall)

“Dreamboat Annie” – Heart

“My Love Is True” – Hellogoodbye

“Beautiful Child” – Rufus Wainwright

“Canary” – Liz Phair

“Something Beautiful” – Sinead O’Connor

“Friel’s Kitchen” – The Chieftains

“Elevation” – U2 (sexy)

(but enough with the Irish. Oh well. That’s what my iPod shuffle always does. It can’t help itself.)

“Finale” – Les Miserables

“Drink With Me” – “Grantaire”, Les Miserables (you have got to be kidding me)

“Where Do the Children Play” – Dolly Parton with Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) – looooove it. Love the whole album.

“Two Ladies” – Emcee (Alan Cumming) Cabaret – you know you really have to be in the mood to hear this.

“It’s My Life” – Bon Jovi (now that’s more like it.)

“Mr. Pinstripe Suit” – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

“Finale” – 1776 – I mean, seriously, it’s just the clock bonging, and a list of names and states – but I get goosebumps every time I hear it. Eeeeekkkk!!!

“In My Other Life” – Tracy Bonham

“Only Our Rivers Run Free” – The Irish Tenors. Shut up.

“Thank God It’s Christmas” – Queen

“Welcome To the Black Parade” – My Chemical Romance. Tone it down a notch, boys. Everything is going to be okay. Relax.

“Gonna See Her Again Today” – Pat McCurdy – rock on with that electric guitar, McCurdy!

“Nothing else Matters” – Metallica

“Drum Boogie” – Gene Krupa and his Orchestra

“Rocky Raccoon” – The Beatles

“Southern Song” – Pat McCurdy

“Real Man” – Bonnie Raitt (speak it, sister)

“Pump It Up” – Elvis Costello & The Attractions

“Walking After You” – Foo Fighters

“For Good” – Idina Menzel & Kristin Chenoweth, Wicked

“The Bard of Armagh” – Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem (see what I mean?)

“Crater Lake” – Liz Phair

“I Sing the Body Electric” – the cast of Fame – YEAH! Go Leroy with your cornrows and your illiteracy!!

“Day and Night” – Nina Simone

“Modern Day Miracle” – Pat McCurdy

“Crying For You” – Pat McCurdy. Stop bothering me, McCurdy. Man I love this song though.

“Where the Streets Have No Name” – U2 (goosebumps)

“Sign ‘O the Times” – Prince. Oh, Prince. You are the best and I feel so LUCKY that you “hit” when I was in high school and got to experience the pandemonium as it was happening.

“She’s Got A Way” – Billy Joel (I’m sure she does, Billy)

“Arrival in Benares” – Ustad Vilayat Khun

“Don’a Wan’a” – Wanda Jackson

“Free Fallin'” – Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers. (I can never hear this song enough.)

“Wizards in Winter” – Trans-Siberian Orchestra

“White America” – Eminem (That’s how you lead off your album? Brilliant.)

“Porte En Arraire” – Emmylou Harris, Kate & Anna McGarrigle

“Nhimutimu” – Kumusha

“Heartburn” – Rufus Wainwright

“Thumbelina” – Tracy Bonham

“Rock & Roll” – Eric Hutchinson

“Miracle” – Foo Fighters

“It’s Sweet” – Liz Phair

“Sinful Heart” – Wanda Jackson

“Future Sex / Love Sound” – Justin Timberlake. Hitachi break!

“Around the World” – Christine Ebersole, Grey Gardens – heartwrenching

“On Horseback” – Eileen Ivers.

(sigh. Overkill Irish. That’s what I get for having the music collection I do!)

“Don’t Miss That Train” – Wynona Carr (looooove her – so so glad I made the discovery. Check her OUT if you’re not familiar!)

“Lose Yourself” – Eminem (definitely a high water mark in music in the last decade or so … maybe more. This is one of “those” songs.)

“One” – Metallica

“We Two Are One” – Eurhythmics