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Song of the day

“Proud Mary” by Creedence Clearwater Revival

I’m not sure, but this may mark the first time in the three years that I’ve been (semi-regularly) posting a song a day that I’ve repeated myself. I posted the Ike and Tina Turner version of this song last February. I pick these things largely at random; sometimes it’s a song I’ve heard during the day, sometimes it’s a song that has something to do with the day itself, but just as often it’s whatever comes up in a random shuffle and seems like a good pick. I like a lot of music, but after a while it’s tough not repeating yourself.

The idea that I might very nearly have done so almost certainly matters to no one but myself.

Random 10 7-5-13

Last week. This week:

  1. “Cold Turkey” by John Lennon
    I wish I was a baby
  2. “Are We the Waiting” by Green Day
    Forget me nots and second thoughts
  3. “Sleeping on the Roof” by the Flaming Lips
    But life without death is just impossible
  4. “Godzilla Genealogy Bop” from MST3K
    Oh, like baby alligators and other nasty beasts?
  5. “Brick” by Ben Folds Five
    I pace around the parking lot
  6. “These Days” by Nico
    I’ve stopped my rambling
  7. “Dreamer” by K’naan
    You gotta be like Bush and take pre-emptive strikes
  8. “Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard” by Julie Doiron (orig. Paul Simon), guessed by Betty
    I’m gonna stick him in the house of detention
  9. “Just Like Heaven” by the Cure
    Why won’t you ever know that I’m in love with you
  10. “Ghost Train” by Counting Crows
    She buys a ticket ’cause it’s cold where she comes from

Good luck!

Wednesday

It feels like Friday. I know it’s not, but I also know I’m off for the next four days (and don’t return to the office for the next five). So I’m going to let the Friday feeling last for as long as it can.

Some big and unexpected news at work today notwithstanding, it was a pretty ordinary day and a pretty unexciting work week. In lieu of real content, I direct you again to Kaleidotrope, where you’ll find stories of magical cats, fairy tales, and the music that accompanies the end of the world. And I’ll share my musical mix for June, though it’s not much of one this month, I’m afraid:

  1. “Rose Tattoo” by Dropkick Murphys (feat. Bruce Springsteen)
  2. “M79” by Vampire Weekend
  3. “Man” by Neko Case
  4. “Better” by Cat and the Menagerie
  5. “I See Trouble” by Rich Hope

Is it really already July? How’d that happen, anyway?

Tuesday

I can’t really claim to be having the most productive of weeks. It seems like just about everything I need to do needs something else to be done first, frequently by someone other than me.

Then again, this is an exceptionally short work week for me. I worked from home yesterday, and today and tomorrow are the only two days I’ll be in the office this week at all. Thursday we’re closed for the 4th of July, and I’m taking the Friday after that off as well. We’re not even on summer hours this week, thanks to the holiday.

I did manage to finish putting up the newest issue of Kaleidotrope over the weekend. There’s a lot of great fiction and poetry this issue, and I had a great time writing the fake advice column. Check it out, won’t you?

Meanwhile, I finally got around to checking out the first episode of the Under the Dome miniseries, and I’ll just say what I said over Twitter: as an adaptation of the novel, it’s a complete (albeit curious) failure. Though it’s obviously not trying — at all — to be a faithful adaptation. So it has to be judged more for what it is. Which is a kind of okay, mostly, but not very remarkable TV series that shares the same starting point and some character names as the book. There’s a part of me that wants to continue watching it just because it’s like a strange parallel-universe version of the novel. Alas, there aren’t a lot of other parts of me that want to continue watching.