The Last Hurrah

With my last day growing ever-closer, I find my mind turning time and again to what I'll do by way of a send off. While I'm going to skip any crass stuff, like bitching out a lame customer or bitch-slapping the next aggressively friendly forty-something guy trying to hit on me, I do feel the need to commemorate my last night somehow.

Primarily, my mind is turning to the jukebox. From time to time, there have been songs which I've wanted to play, but I've restrained myself, wanting to keep things appropriate, etc. But, once it's my last night, what've I got to lose? Thus, I'm planning to set aside $10 or so for late in my last shift to monopolize the jukebox. I'm still fleshing out what'll be on my playlist, but a few that I think I need to play are the following:
Telegraph Road by Dire Straits (a solid 14 min. long, which is awesome and obnoxiously epic)
Screw You by Elton John
Katmandu by Bob Seger
Something incredibly steel-guitar, hard core country sounding
That one song by the Pogues about the worms eating the decomposing body
Free and Easy by Dierks Bentley
A Lot of Leaving Left to Do by Dierks Bentley
One of the lyrically strange ones by The Church
Bubba Shot the Jukebox by Mark Chestnutt
(maybe) You're so Vain by Carly Simon

In general, an overall "adios" theme with overtones of "so long, suckers!" A silly gesture, perhaps, but I'll find satisfaction in it and I think it'll be worth a few bucks.

iGlee

Today I got an iPod. I am filled with much happiness. Technology is cool.

Even cooler - the free iTunes that came with it. This meant that today I got the Big Kenny album I've been trying so hard to find anywhere in town. It's wonderful and so I'm going to plug it. Check out Live a Little, go on, just try it.

Some Music/Road Trip Supplies

I'm getting ready to head off on a brief out-of-town adventure and, among other things, I'm planning what I need to bring along by way of music. I'm on a music kick lately, stocking up on some of my favorites, and thought I'd share a little.

I've filled in my Flogging Molly collection and now am up to date on all their albums (save the live one because I'm not much of a live album fan). No particular favorites here, I'm really partial to all of them.

I've got two Dropkick Murphy albums now (would've been three without the robbery) and between them, I find myself liking The Warrior's Code best.

As part of a trial for one of those music subscription-y things, I've acquired Reckless Kelly's The Day which brings my count for them up to two albums. I love their sound and their lead singer's voice. I need to work on developing my Reckless Kelly presence in my CD collection.

Also as part of the trial, I nabbed Cowboy Mouth's Voodoo Shoppe, Uh-Oh, and It Means Escape. They're a beautiful, crazy band who I had never even known existed until a friend lent me one of their albums. I have been listening to these CDs in my car for four days solid.

I still need to get Big Kenny's Live a Little and I'm hoping I can find a copy in time at the music store in town. The guy's a little odd, but in a beautiful way.

There's all this talk about the impact of things like internet radio on CD sales and I've got to say that for me at least, Pandora has been a big influence on my recent CD shopping spree. I have these bands I like, but hearing them on Pandora reminds me of how much I like them and how much I'd like to have them in my music collection.

Anyhow, if any of those bands I mentioned are completely foreign to you, click on the link and listen to some of the Amazon sample clips and/or check them out on one of the various internet radio sites. They're cool, you'll like 'em :)