Just for anyone who might want something to tide him or her over until Monday, here’s a playlist consisting of the ten most recently played songs from my iTunes library. I’m not entirely sure how some of these songs got in there, but that’s the way it goes sometimes.
Ten Most Recent Plays
Bonus!
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Friday Fill-in Playlist
Thursday Playlist: My latest enthusiasms
Two songs by Pantha du Prince, a book by Carl Wilson, and an Italian you tube video.
Follow this link to a site where you can stream the whole album. But for the purpose of this post, just play track #1 “Lay in a Shimmer” and track #9 “Welt am Draht.”
I had never heard of [...]
Just like a MoMo
Many readers of this site may be familiar with my deep antipathy towards the Mormon church ever since its meddling into California’s Proposition 8. Getting to know several ex-Mormons through this very venue and hearing myriad stories of their experiences in the church has only increased my troubled resentment for the religion that I [...]
Best use of Jew’s harp, 2010
And the award goes to: Bez Chempionlar, the Tatar folk version of “We Are the Champions.” What’s amazing about this is, if you didn’t know the original song, you would totally believe this is a Tatar folk song:
Of course, judging from other Tatar folk music online, it’s a little more polka-esque than one might have [...]
Popular Songs (Yo La Tengo, Barrymore Theater, Madison, 1/23/10)
My car has a cassette deck but no CD player, so unless I plug the iPod adapter into the cigarette lighter, it’s college mix tapes all the way. Little time capsules that transport me back to the 1990s faster than clove cigarettes or sandalwood oil. They’re full of the usual suspects: Nirvana, [...]
Guest playlist: Fado
By The Modesto Kid
I come not to share my own playlist but to link to another man’s. I would not be able to put a good playlist of fado together anyway, since I know hardly anything of the music; but luckily there is one pre-existing. I recommend it! It’s Carlos Saura’s 2007 movie “Fado” — [...]
The ionosphere comes to the rescue
The Earth is constantly bombarded by solar radiation. When some wavelengths of this radiation encounter the thinnest, outermost reaches of the atmosphere, they knock electrons off of otherwise perfectly fine atoms, creating charged particles (ions). Because the atmosphere is so thin, the ions are fairly widely distributed and hang around for a while as charged [...]
This Year’s Gonna Be Ours – Mix 09
Time files, doesn’t it? Sure it flies, but it also files. It files the past away for the future. It files down the present until the future emerges.
It seems like I just made last year’s mix, so I felt a little unprepared when other contributors started posting theirs.
Here’s mine.
Many of you know my [...]
It’s coming on Christmas
Here’s a little Christmas music to tide you over until we can get a 2009 mix together.
1. John Fahey – Joy to the World
2. Joan Baez – I Wonder as I Wander
3. Joni Mitchell – River
4. Vashti Bunyan – Winter is Blue
5. Odetta – What Month Was Jesus Born In?
6. Leroy Carr – Christmas in [...]
Bonus playlist Wednesday: Best of 2009 edition
All 72 counties in Wisconsin are officially in a state of emergency. The National Guard is helping people off the highways. A blizzard warning is in effect until midnight tomorrow. We’re getting over a foot of the white stuff. Gusting winds, up to 50 MPH, are expected to cause some crazy-dangerous [...]
