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.<\/p>\n
Long day. Long emotional weekend. Tired. Can’t sleep.<\/p>\n
The songs from my traffic-ridden drive on the highway:<\/p>\n
The Crime of the Century – from the musical Ragtime<\/p>\n
Leeds – Indigo Girls<\/p>\n
The Jug of Punch – The Clancy Brothers & Tommy Makem<\/p>\n
Ride – Liz Phair<\/p>\n
All I Really Want – Alanis Morissette<\/p>\n
Bigelow 6-200 – Brenda Lee<\/p>\n
Outrageous – Britney Spears (yes, yes, we get it already, Brit, you’re outrageous)<\/p>\n
Born to Run – Bruce Springsteen<\/p>\n
Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper<\/p>\n
Give Me Your Life – Pat McCurdy<\/p>\n
Perfect Young Ladies – from the Broadway musical “The Boyfriend”<\/p>\n
Calamari – from the musical “A New Brain”<\/p>\n
That’s the Way I Remember It – Garth Brooks as Chris Gaines (I was the only person on the planet who loved this album)<\/p>\n
Incomplete – Alanis Morissette<\/p>\n
Extraordinary Girl – Green Day (this might be my favorite song off the whole amazing album)<\/p>\n
Is There Life Out There? – Reba McEntire<\/p>\n
Mesmerizing – Liz Phair<\/p>\n
Chop Me Up – Justin Timberlake<\/p>\n
My Name is Pat (I Play Guitar) – Pat McCurdy<\/p>\n
Same Ol’ Story – Cyndi Lauper (LOVE IT)<\/p>\n
Crazy Little Thing Called Love – Queen<\/p>\n
Hotel California – Eagles<\/p>\n
Heartache Tonight – Eagles (off the same live album as the song before. Weird.)<\/p>\n
My Baby Only Cares For Me – Brian Setzer & His Orchestra<\/p>\n
Sway – Dean Martin<\/p>\n
I Want You – Elvis Costello<\/p>\n
Let It Be Me – Indigo Girls<\/p>\n
Mountains of Mourne – The Irish Tenors<\/p>\n
Allez-Vous-En – Martha Wainwright<\/p>\n
The World That He Sees – Trans-Siberian Orchestra<\/p>\n
In Your Honor – Foo Fighters<\/p>\n
No One But You – Queen<\/p>\n
Poor Little Pierrette – from the Broadway musical “The Boyfriend”<\/p>\n
Safety In Numbers – you have got to be kidding me. Also from the Broadway musical “The Boyfriend”<\/p>\n
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)<\/p>\n
New Way Home – Foo Fighters<\/p>\n
Tea for the Tillerman – Cat Stevens<\/p>\n
Sparkplug Minuet – Mark Mothersbaugh (from the Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack)<\/p>\n
Before Me – Pat McCurdy<\/p>\n
Take A Look – Liz Phair<\/p>\n
Holding My Breath – Hellogoodbye<\/p>\n
Firedance – from “Riverdance”<\/p>\n
Free Your Mind – En Vogue<\/p>\n
It’s Never Too Late To Fall In Love – from “The Boyfriend”. It’s a conspiracy.<\/p>\n
I Won’t Back Down – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers<\/p>\n
Gonna Leave You – Queens of the Stone Age<\/p>\n
Fare Thee Well – Indigo Girls<\/p>\n
Defying Gravity – from the Broadway musical “Wicked”<\/p>\n
Morning Has Broken – Cat Stevens (the piano!!!)<\/p>\n
Happy Feet – Manhattan Rhythm Kings (from The Aviator soundtrack)<\/p>\n
Little People – from “Les Miz”<\/p>\n
Mr. Bojangles – Nina Simone (brilliant!!)<\/p>\n
Take a Chance On Me – from the movie Mamma Mia<\/p>\n
Meathook – Tracy Bonham<\/p>\n
Mama Said – Metallica (from “Load” – an album I love, much to the chagrin of another brand of Metallica fans)<\/p>\n
Soldier Boy – The Shirelles<\/p>\n
Tears Dry On Their Own – Amy Winehouse<\/p>\n
Finale – End Credits – from the movie “A Star Is Born”<\/p>\n
Justice – from the Broadway musical “Ragtime”<\/p>\n
John Henry – Bruce Springsteen<\/p>\n
Get Out the Map – Indigo Girls<\/p>\n
I Can’t Give You Anything But Love – Rufus Wainwright<\/p>\n
Rock and Roll – Led Zeppelin<\/p>\n
Colonel Fraser – Jerry O’Sullivan<\/p>\n
Three Babies – Sinead O’Connor<\/p>\n
Shitloads of Money – Liz Phair<\/p>\n
Unconscious – Pat McCurdy<\/p>\n
Somebody Else For a While – Pat McCurdy (LEAVE ME ALONE PAT MCCURDY)<\/p>\n
When I Hold You In My Arms – Mike Viola<\/p>\n
Mule Skinner Blues – Dolly Parton<\/p>\n
Angie – Tori Amos<\/p>\n
Baba – Alanis Morissette<\/p>\n
Sharks Can’t Sleep – Tracy Bonham<\/p>\n
My Hero – Foo Fighters<\/p>\n
Johnny Sunshine – Liz Phair<\/p>\n
Seventy-Five Septembers – Cheryl Wheeler<\/p>\n
The Only One – Evanescence<\/p>\n
So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright – Simon & Garfunkel<\/p>\n
Music – Madonna<\/p>\n
I’ve Got Life – Nina Simone (thank you Mitchell!!)<\/p>\n
All Over the World – ELO<\/p>\n
All Because Of You – U2<\/p>\n
Lindbergh Palace Hotel Suite – Mark Mothersbaugh (from The Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack)<\/p>\n
Royalty in Exile – Pat McCurdy (argh!!!)<\/p>\n
Turn to Stone – ELO<\/p>\n
Disenchanted Lullaby – Foo Fighters<\/p>\n
Prologue – ELO (what the hell with the ELO??)<\/p>\n
Lonely Summer Nights – Stray Cats<\/p>\n
Heaven on Earth – Britney Spears (great song)<\/p>\n
You Don’t Have to Believe Me – Eric Hutchinson<\/p>\n
Sexy Back – Justin Timberlake (I mean, come on, does it get any better)<\/p>\n
Empty Sky – Bruce Springsteen<\/p>\n
Zoot Suit Riot – Cherry Poppin’ Daddies<\/p>\n
Completely Blue – Pat McCurdy (the universe is against me)<\/p>\n
Ya Had Me Goin – L.E.O.<\/p>\n
Van Lear Rose – Loretta Lynn (thank you Mitchell!!)<\/p>\n
Another Woman’s Man – Joe Tex<\/p>\n
John Henry – Bob Gibson<\/p>\n
Tonite – The Go-Gos<\/p>\n
Give Me a Sign – Dean Martin<\/p>\n
You Don’t Know What It’s Like – Nina Simone<\/p>\n
Heaven On their Minds – Judas (from the movie “Jesus Christ Superstar” – I looooove this song)<\/p>\n
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy – The Andrews Sisters<\/p>\n
Richard Cory – Simon & Garfunkel<\/p>\n
One Of Those Girls – Avril Lavigne<\/p>\n
The Sky Is Crying – Stevie Ray Vaughan<\/p>\n
Next Time \/ I Wouldn’t Go Back – from the musical “Closer Than Ever” (the 30something of musicals)<\/p>\n
Luck In My Eyes – kd lang<\/p>\n
I’ve Been To a Marvellous Party – The Divine Comedy (love him. Guess who gave me this album? PAT MCCURDY. ARGH! He is omnipresent)<\/p>\n
My Immortal – Evanescence<\/p>\n
Master Crowley’s \/ The Jug of Punch – Joe Burke<\/p>\n
Wish Lizst (Toy Shop Madness) – Trans-Siberian Orchestra<\/p>\n
Magic – Yipes! (Yipes was the first band of a certain gentleman named Pat McCurdy. ARGH!)<\/p>\n
Darlene – The Dreams<\/p>\n
Just You, Just Me – Judy Garland<\/p>\n
Little Cream Soda – The White Stripes (love love love this song)<\/p>\n
Polyester Bride – Liz Phair<\/p>\n
I Want You to Want Me – Cheap Trick<\/p>\n
Tough Life – Pat McCurdy (say no more. Yes, I have about 500 of his songs on my iPod. It makes Shuffle a ridiculous event.)<\/p>\n
Let Me Be There – Olivia Newton-John<\/p>\n
Walk This Way – Aerosmith<\/p>\n
The American and Florence – from the musical “Chess”<\/p>\n
In Pursuit of Happiness – The Divine Comedy<\/p>\n
A Sleepin’ Bee – Barbra Streisand (never gets old)<\/p>\n
That Thing You Do – The Wonders (from the movie “That Thing You Do”)<\/p>\n
Baby Yes It Does – Nina Simone<\/p>\n
Circus – Lenny Kravitz<\/p>\n
Something Beautiful – Tracy Bonham<\/p>\n
Jolene – Dolly Parton<\/p>\n
In the Chapel in the Moonlight – Dean Martin<\/p>\n
NYC – from the movie Annie<\/i> (with Victor Garber and Audra McDonald)<\/p>\n
Bells on a Leper – Mike Viola and the Candybutchers<\/p>\n
Miss Byrd – Sally Mayes (also from “Closer than Ever”)<\/p>\n
The Other Guy – Little River Band<\/p>\n
C*m on Everybody – Eminem<\/p>\n
This Land Is Your Land – Pete Seeger (having Pete Seeger follow Eminem is the #1 joy of shuffle)<\/p>\n
Fall Back Down – Mike Viola and the Candybutchers<\/p>\n
Let the River Run – Alexandra Billings<\/p>\n
Going Through the Big D – Mark Chesnutt<\/p>\n
Damn Girl – Justin Timberlake<\/p>\n
Falling in love (is Hard On the Knees) – by the ever-florid Aerosmith<\/p>\n
The Whole Shebang – Grant Lee Buffalo<\/p>\n
Dumb – Nirvana<\/p>\n
The Main Event – Barbra Streisand<\/p>\n
Wicked Little Town – John Cameron Mitchell from Hedwig and the Angry Inch<\/i><\/p>\n
World Without you – Beth Hart<\/p>\n
Both Sides Now – Dolly Parton with Judy Collins (I like this version better than the original – wonderful!!)<\/p>\n
Stranger In a Strange Town – Pat McCurdy (that’s it. I’m going to throw myself off a cliff. Buh-bye.)<\/p>\n
Finale – from 1776<\/i>, Broadway musical (goosebumps!!)<\/p>\n
Mack the Knife – Bobby Darin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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