LPs I BOUGHT AT GOODWILL YESTERDAY (6 for $4.99)

1. Dominique: The Singing Nun's Song - Le Choeur des Enfants de Montmartre (the Montmartre children's choir)
2. Sister Adele - Madeliaine
3. The World Vision - Korean Orphan Choir
4. Guss Jansen's Happy Hammond - Guus Jansen
5. Folk Songs of the Alps - The Swiss Band Organ
6. A Trust in your Future (How to create and maintain a regular savings plan) - Elba Corporation.

BONUS: Sounds of a Mission - The Church of the Bretheren.In the Korean Orphan Choir record sleve was a 7-inch 33&1/3 record called.

NOTES: I got the Dominique and Sister Adle records because I love the music of Sister Luc Gabriel, aka The Singing Nun. She was also known as Souer Sourire (the Smiling Sister.) She left the monastary, but Philips records still owned the name "Singing Nun" so she started going by Luc Dominic. Unfortunately, these two records, while nice to listen to, are almost identicle to her music.

Guus Jansen's record - I love Hammond Organs and the way they sound and the album has a song called "Portuguese Washer Woman." How could I not buy a record with a song such as that on it??? It is currently available on eBay for $26.98. Really. You don't believe me, do you?
http://cgi.ebay.com/JANSEN-GUUS-Happy-Hammond-1960s-organ-LP-M_W0QQitemZ350224212316QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item518afd615c&_trksid=p3286.m20.l1116

I got the Folk Songs of the Alps by the Swiss Band Organ because, as I mentioned previously, I like organ music. HOWEVER, when I put this on the turntable, it turned out to be Merry-go-round music. An organ that plays all the instruments. That kind of organ. Not the kind in a gigantic 1000-year old cathedral with a 80-year old woman playing the music of her childhood which is kind of what I was hoping to get. Instead, I immediately felt like I was spinning around at Knoebel's trying to get the brass ring. (I got the brass ring once in my life at Knoebels.)

The Korean Orphans record - just too odd to pass up.

And the A trust in your future - know when the beastie boys say "I like digging down deep in the record bin" and you hear samples on their records of stuff like some dorky motivation speaker guy saying "I wish there was some way i could be outside playing basketball in the rain and not get wet. Now wouldn't that be great?" I imagine they sit around listening to records like Elba records' A Trust in your Future and mine it for clips.

Anyway, if you want any of these records converted to magnetic tape, i will be happy to do so. Subsequesntly if you want to borrow a magnetic tape player, you can feel free to come to my house and listen or borrow my Subaru.

Desert Island Songs

WXPN is compiling a list of 885 Desert Island Songs.
Here is my list:
1. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
2. Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm
3. David Bowie - Width of a Circle
4. They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng
5. Beck - Jackass
6. Nirvana - Pennyroyal Tea
7. Bruce Springsteen - Atlantic City
8. Led Zeppelin - Gallows Pole
9. Bruce Springsteen - She's The One.
10. James McMurtry - Rachel's Song

NOTE: I would replace Rachel's Song with Beethoven's Ninth if XPN would allow.

I Want to know yours
I am talking to you, Amy, Aunt Louise, Uncle Jim, Connor, Jason Z, Christo, Maureen, Mom, Dritsy, Laura.

SOME IDEAS I HAVE
1. A collection of daily comics about random little things in my life kinda like the Jim comics I love.
2. Repititious silk screen of a picture Fiona drew of herself running away from a monster. I was thinking like a hundred of those images with a gigantic monster in the back.

BRUCE DID NOT PLAY DNC, BUT STEVIE WONDER DID
1. Bruce opened for Stevie Wonder at Kutztown University on March 29, 1973 as a part of Kutztown University's "Black Cultures Weekend."
2. Bruce and Stevie Wonder sing together on We Are The World.

RANDOM LISTS

RECENT NETFLIX RENTALS
1. The L Word Season 1
2. Dexter Season 1
3. No Country for Old Men
4. Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
5. Bee Movie
6. Eagle vs. Shark
7. Jonestown

CD'S I BORROWED FROM THE LIBRARY
1. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (Not to my liking... connor likes wilco. i care not for wilco, but i do love Uncle Tupelo and Sun Volt... go figure.)
2. REM - Accelerate (okay)
3. Le blues est né en Afrique (Africa, mother of the blues) (okay)
4. Silk, spirits & song: music from north Thailand (not very good)
5. Mike Seeger - Early Southern Guitar Sounds (AWESOME - like really really good)
6. Lucy Kaplansky - The Tide (This album was produced by Shawn Colvin and Charles Giordano, the new organ player for the E Street Band is on this album) (okay)
7. The Bills - Let 'em Run (not to my liking)
8. Laura Viers - Saltbreaker (pretty good... not as good as her Carbon Glacier, though)
9. Lucinda Williams - West (pretty good... abotu what you'd expect from Lucinda Williams)
10. The Wailing Jenny's - Firecracker (okay... great name for a band, though, wouldn't you agree?)
11. Blind Willie Johnson - Praise God I'm Satisfied (Really really good)
12. Coldplay - Parachutes (okay - coldplay is sooooo overhyped)
13. Lullaby for the Moon - Japanese Music for koto and sakuhachi - (Really really great set of music)
14. Beth Orton - Daybreaker (okay... Fiona wanted to get this one)
15. Bright Eyes - I'm wide awake... It's Morning (good... but too much with the off-color language)
16. The Clash - London Calling (Great... How did I live this long with out this album?)
17. The Music of Cambodia: 9 Gong Gamelan/Royal Court Music/Solo Instrumental Music (really really good)
18. Gaelic Storm - Special Reserve - (eh... okay, i guess)
19. Paul Robeson - On My Journey - (okay... i really appreciate everything Paul Robeson went through i.e. the blacklisting and the McCarthy hearings and what not, but I just can not get into his music and/or singing voice.)
20. Mahalia Jackson - The Best of Mahalia Jackson - (Awesome... if you don't like Mahalia Jackson, they you ought to get your ears checked. On this album she sings Just a Closer walk with thee.)
21. Ramblin' Jack Elliott - I Stand Alone (really good. 1.) traditional folk songs. 2.) Flea plays on it)
22. National Dance Compay of Cambodia - Homrong (really good)
23. Dervish - Dervish Decade (really good - real celtic music - which is why i like this and do not like gaelic storm)

JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE
1. Just a Closer Walk with Thee is played in Cool Hand Luke when Luke is in the box for 3 days after his mother dies.
2. The lady who used to play organ at church would play Just a Closer Walk with Thee every sunday during the communion procession. The day before she moved to Florida there was a reception for her after mass and I thanked her for playing that song because I love it. She said she played it for her husband who also loved the song. I thought that was nice.

BETH ORTON
1. I saw her open up for Beck a few years back.

WANT TO READ A REALLY SAD BOOK?
1. The Chris Farley Show

TOP 4 REASONS WHY THE VERSION OF LONDON CALLING AT THE 2003 GRAMMIES WAS THE BEST
1. Bruce Springsteen
2. Steve VanVandt
3. Dave Grohl
4. Elvis Costello

Seriously, do yourself a favor and watch it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiSQIbNxjcU

REAL NAMES OF SOME MUSICIANS
1. Elvis Costello - Declan Patrick McManus
2. Alice Coober - Vincent Furnier

BRUCE LISTS

SONGS FIONA WANTED TO HEAR BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN PLAY
1. Out in the Street
2. Born in the USA
3. Radio Nowhere
4. Candy's Room
5. Bishop Danced

SONGS FIONA WANTE TO HEAR BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN PLAY THAT HE DID PLAY
1. Radion Nowhere

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE BRUCE SHOW FOR ME
1. Taking my kid to see the Boss
2. Being there with Aunt Louise
3. Taking Amy to her 5th Springsteen concert
4. Atlantic City
5. Tunnel of Love
6. Radio Nowhere
7. Working on the Highway
8. Brilliant Disguise
9. Youngstown
10. Murder Incorporated
11. No Surrender

STUFF I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO WATCHING NOW THAT WE ARE GETTING CABLE

1. The Phillies
2. Star Trek Next Generation
3. MacGyver
4. The Daily Show
5. Colbert Report
6. That Show About Those Guys Who Drive Trucks Across The Arctice Circle

this is a list I wrote a long time ago:

PEOPLE/THINGS WITH THE INITIALS "AI"

1. Allen Iverson
2. Andre Igudala
3. Amnesty International
4. Artificial Intelligence
5. Art Institute

WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE THAT HAVE THE WORD "ASS" IN THEM TWICE

1. Assassination
2. Assassinated
3. Assassinative
4. Assassinator
5. Assassination
6. Assassin
7. Sassafrass

I left off Sassafrass the last time i made this list. Amy brought it to my attention. She's a good woman.