Music Soothes the Savage Blogger

Music
is an integral part of the life of the well-rounded blogger, and many
of my favorite blogs have found ways to incoprorate that part of their
world. Andrew Grumet has
a super-cool hack on his blog that constantly displays and updates the
titles and cover art of the last 10 songs he
listened to.  Adam Curry has
written an ingenious Applescript that aggregates mp3s from attachments
while he sleeps and loads them onto
his iPod, which is ready to go when he wakes up in the morning.

Not to be left behind, although I couldn’t hack my way out of a paper
bag and can’t afford an iPod, I would like to post the playlist of the
songs I plan to play on my Ukulele tomorrow sitting in the back of the
Green Line "B" train on the way to work.

No, actually I usually burn a cheapo CD before I go to bed with the
music I want to listen to on the train on my cheapo no-brand CD player.  For
better or worse, here is tomorrow’s list:

First a set from Jonathan Richman, who I have had a hankering
to hear lately

1 A Higher Power
2 Abdul And Cleopatra
3 Hey There Little Insect
4 I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar
5 Ice Cream Man.
6 Jonathan Richman-Instrumental
7 Let Her Go Into the Darkness
8 Reno
9 Vincent Van Gogh
10 Una Fuerza Alla

Then some dynamite guitar from Joe Satriani
11 Always With Me, Always With You

Some old reggae from the Heptones
12 Heptones-Storm Clouds

Then some classical guitar
13 Brandenburg Guitar

A little Van the Man from his Cambridge period
14 Sweet Thing

15 Velvets-Sweet Jane (the original)

Marta Gomez, a new voice out of the Berklee School
16 El Hormigueo

And a REAL oldie to wrap it up
17 Curved Air – It Happened Today.