Ethan has been begging me all week to make him some muffins for breakfast, so I am. Go, muffins. However, I’ve been basically laid up all day trying not to move after having subjected myself to an all-greens-all-the-time diet spurned by the availability of fresh local greens. My intestines can’t handle it. So, as for the muffins and livin’ on the edge. Can I make them? Will I hurl in the mixing bowl?
Making Muffins for Nigel:
Load your music collection into your mp3 player of choice, set to random, hit the first ten that play.
1) Iggy Pop and the Stooges - Search and Destroy
2) Dale Hawkins - Number Nine Train
3) Cat Power - Moonshiner
4) Tuxedomoon - In a Manner of Speaking
5) Flying Lizards - Money
6) Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
7) The Weirdos - We Got the Neutron Bomb
8) PJ Harvey - Dry
9) Crass - Hurry Up Gary
10) Sufjan Stevens - In the Devil’s Territory
The “Time to start applying for government jobs/Here’s hoping Lauren doesn’t hurl in the organic muffin mix” edition: Elvis Costello & The Imposters, “Button My Lip;” Elvis Costello & The Attraction, “Pidgin English;” Bob Dylan, “Ragged and Diry;” Issa Boulos, “Maqam ‘Ajam;” Blind Willie McTell, “Kind Mama;” Marvin Gaye, “Right On;” Bob Dylan, “Million Miles;” Roger Miller, “Atta Boy Girl;” Bob Dylan, “Lone Pilgrim;” Mississippi John Hurt, “Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight.”
I was surprised that Primus once covered your title song, and actually made it slightly better. In celebration of my new portable player, which neither emits blue sparks nor eliminates by favorite Judas Priest songs:
1. Final Hour by Lauryn Hill
2. Children of the Revolution by The Violent Femmes
3. Black Steel by Tricky
4. Nature Springs by The Good, The Bad and The Queen
5. What Is This Thing Called Love? by Tito Puente
6. Hateful Notebook by The Descendents
7. Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) by Styx
8. Just Another Victim by Helmet/House of Pain
9. Lots of Drops of Brandy by The Chieftains
10. I’ve Been a Long Time Leavin’ by Roger Miller
I got nothin’
Artist — “Song”
Chris Thomas King with Colin Linden — “John Law Burned Down the Liquor Sto’”
John Coltrane — “Naima”
Ozzy Osbourne — “Diary of a Madman”
Trivium — “Drowned and Torn Asunder”
Jars of Clay — “Unforgetful You”
Ben Taylor Band — “Surround Me”
White Zombie — “More Human Than Human”
Dave Matthews Band — “#41″
Thelonious Monk — “Straight, No Chaser”
Metallica — “Don’t Tread on Me”
Best random ten i’ve had in a good long while.