The making of a great compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You gotta kick off with a killer, to grab attention. Then you got to take it up a notch, but you don't wanna blow your wad, so then you got to cool it off a notch. There are a lot of rules. Anyway...
High Fidelity
Based on the novel by ( Read more... )

I thought I was done with songbook, but then my coworker MSA asked me to arrange the tracks I'd selected in mix tape order. This is a good idea, and will definitely happen, but I've always been lousy at mix tapes and need to spend some more time thinking about this. Next Sunday, hopefully.

Instrumental
Theme From Query For Glory
Mark Siebert

Come a hero from the East
Free the man within the beast
Bring the child from out the band
and drive the curser from the landLike pretty much every other guy I've met my age, I played video games a lot when I was a kid. My grandfather got me an Atari 2600 one year. That was the only video game ( Read more... )

Oh yeah, I tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I Want to Hold Your Hand
The Beatles

Given my general lack of coordination I'm not terribly good at Rock Band. However, when it comes to singing my "not terribly good" approaches legendary proportions. To quote A Chorus Line what I lack in ( Read more... )

From a phone booth in Vegas Jessie calls at five a.m.
To tell me how she's tired of all of them
Jessie
Joshua KadisonNot counting various local bands, once and only once have I bought a new album on cassette. This was, if not quite an accident, not heavily premeditated. At my high school the junior class planned and organized prom. Part of that ( Read more... )

So I chided the old man 'bout the truth that I had heard
but he smiled and said, "Reality is only just a word."
Corey's Coming
Harry Chapin

Back when my family my family only had a turntable, my father asked one of his coworkers to dub some vinyl to cassette so we could listen to them in the car on road trips. Since pretty much everywhere in North ( Read more... )

When I was making my list of songs, I did my best to arrange them in chronological order. As I worked my way through them I inevitably though of a few songs that I forgot. Because they are mostly tied to memories from junior high and high school I didn't want to shove them in at the end of my existing list, so instead I am going to treat these four ( Read more... )

"How 'bout another first kiss?" she said
"How 'bout another first kiss?" I said
I want another first kiss like this
How 'bout another first kiss?
Another First Kiss
They Might Be GiantsOur wedding reception did not have dancing or a DJ. Instead, we hooked an iPod up to the reception hall's sound system and played back a randomized playlist of some ( Read more... )

Oh, my God, I can't believe it
I've never been this far away from home
Oh My God
Originally by Kaiser Chiefs, done best by Mark Ronson with Lily AllenMy ex has pretty good taste in music. In particular, if there was a good new song by any even vaguely mainstream band she almost certainly heard about it before I did. To name just one example, she ( Read more... )

Your Cadillac breathes four hundred horses over blue lines
You are going to Reseda to make love to a model from Ohio whose real name you don't know
You spin like the Cadillac was overturning down a cliff on television
And the radio is on
And the radio man is speaking
And the radio man says women were a curse
Soul Coughing
Screenwriter's BluesI saw ( Read more... )