Day: June 1, 2007

Speaking of music, here’s my melodious mix for May:

  1. “Know Your Rights” by the Clash
  2. “Diamond Smiles” by the Boomtown Rats
  3. “Rehab” by Amy Winehouse
  4. “Mary Lou” by Ronnie Hawkins
  5. “God’s Comic” by Elvis Costello
  6. “Yesterday Once More” by Redd Kross
  7. “Going to a Town” by Rufus Wainwright
  8. “Modern Love” by the Last Town Chorus
  9. “Billie Jean” by Chris Cornell
  10. “TV to Take it Away” by Emily Maguire
  11. “Harder Than the Fall” by Ruthie Foster
  12. “My Before and After” by Cotton Mather

This self-imposed twelve-song limit is getting a little tougher each month. I think I could easily put together another mix, just as long, just of runners-up. But anyway, that’s a close approximation of what May has been like for me musically. As always, if anyone would like to trade a mix for this one (or one of my now four earlier mixes), please let me know.

How can it be Friday already? It only feels like Wednesday. Oh yeah, I had a four-day weekend this week. Well, since it is Friday…

  1. “I’ve Got My Mind Set On You (Pts. 1 & 2)” by James Ray (covered by George Harrison), guessed by marisa
    It’s gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money
  2. “Bob Roberts Society Band” by Jimmy Buffett, guessed by Betty
    There were people speaking Hindu in the Bar-B-Que line
  3. “Skullcrusher Mountain” by Jonathan Coulton, guessed by Remi
    Isn’t it enough to know that I ruined a pony making a gift for you?
  4. “Six O’Clock” by the Lovin’ Spoonful
    But somehow it just wasn’t the same happy town
  5. “What Do You Do?” by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
    I do what I do, indeed I do
  6. “Burning Down the House” by Talking Heads, guessed by Kim
    I’m an ordinary guy
  7. “A Poem on the Underground Wall” by Simon & Garfunkel
    The underground is closing soon
  8. “11 Moustachioed Daughters” by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
    I don’t remember too well, but I think John Wayne was in it
  9. “Spider Web” by Joan Osborne
    He said, “Honey, I don’t sing no more.”
  10. “Move Over” by Janis Joplin, guessed by Kim
    You expect me to fight like a goddamned mule

Guess the lyric, win no prize. And I’ve finally posted the answers for at least last week. True, Eric only left two lyrics not guessed, but still. Answers do eventually get posted.

As always, good luck!

I stopped watching Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip a couple of weeks before it went on its extended hiatus, and I haven’t even bothered to catch up with it now that it’s back. (Briefly. The show has been cancelled and is just burning off its last episodes.) But I found this discussion of it over at TV Squad amusing:

The West Wing, probably the most famous work by the writer and producer of this show actually exists in this world’s universe (as witnessed by the Allison Janney appearance last week). That means it’s conceivable that Aaron Sorkin himself also exists. Which means that the final episode, a la Breakfast of Champions, could quite possibly be Sorkin and Matt pairing off for one final philosophical showbiz discussion. I’m not saying that this is the way it will end, just that it could.

And for that reason, and because the show definitely won’t be back for another year, I think that’s exactly how it should end. If only to perhaps give the Tommy Westphall universe a run for its money.