FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

It’s once again time for the Friday Random Ten, a randomly-selected list of Musical Adventures from the iPod d’Elisson. Here we go:

1. My Name is Death - The Incredible String Band
   
2. Sunset Road (live version) - Béla Fleck & The Flecktones
   
3. Treebeard - Howard Shore, The Two Towers soundtrack
   
4. Nokh Eyn Tantz - The Klezmer Conservatory Band
   
5. Don’t Look Away - Brian Auger’s Oblivion Express
   
6. Diva’s Lament (Whatever Happened To My Part?) - Monty Python’s Spamalot
   
7. Theme From New York, New York - Skanatra
   
8. Minimum Wage - They Might Be Giants
   
9. A Taste Of Honey - The Beatles
   
10. Cold Water - Tom Waits
    
    Well I woke up this morning
    With the cold water
    With the cold water
    With the cold water
    Woke up this morning
    With the cold water
    With the cold water
    With the cold
    
    Police at the station
    And they don’t look friendly
    Well they don’t look friendly
    Well they don’t look friendly
    Police at the station
    And they don’t look friendly
    They don’t look friendly well
    They don’t
    
    Blind or crippled
    Sharp or dull
    I’m reading the Bible
    By a 40 watt bulb
    What price freedom
    Dirt is my rug
    Well I sleep like a baby
    With the snakes and the bugs
    
    Well the stores are open
    But I ain’t got no money
    I ain’t got no money
    Stores are open but I
    Ain’t got no money
    Ain’t got no money
    Well I ain’t
    
    Found an old dog
    And he seems to like me
    Seems to like me
    Well he seems to like me
    Found an old dog and he
    Seems to like me
    Seems to like me
    Well he seems
    
    Seen them fellows
    with the card board signs
    Scrapin up a little $
    To buy a bottle of wine
    Pregnant women and
    The Vietnam vets I say
    Beggin on the freeway
    Bout as hard as it gets
    
    Well I slept in the graveyard
    It was cool and still
    Cool and still
    It was cool and still
    Slept in the graveyard
    It was cool and still
    Cool and still and it
    Was cool
    
    Slept all night in the Cedar grove
    I was born to ramble
    Born to rove
    Some men are searchin for the
    Holy Grail
    But there ain’t nothin sweeter
    Than ridin the rails
    
    I love 47 but I’m 24
    Well they shooed me away
    From here the time before
    Turned there their backs
    And they locked their doors
    I’m watching T.V. in
    The window of a furniture store
    
    Well I woke up this morning
    With the cold water
    With the cold water
    With the cold water
    Woke up this morning
    With the cold water
    With the cold water
    With the cold

I myself have certain...ahhh, associations with the idea of waking up with the cold water. It’s Novi, Michigan, January 2003, at the Courtyard Hotel:

Woke up that morning
With the cold water
With the cold water
With the cold water
Woke up that morning
With the cold water
With the cold water
With the cold

Took me a shower
In the cold water
In the cold water
In the cold water
Took me a shower
In the cold water
In the cold water
In the cold

Went to the office
In the frickin’ snowstorm
In the frickin’ snowstorm
In the frickin’ snowstorm
Went to the office
In the frickin’ snowstorm
In the frickin’ snowstorm
In the snow

Got up to give
A presentation
A presentation
A presentation
Got up to give
A presentation
A presentation
(PowerPoint)

Couldn’t continue, ’cause I
Had a kidney stone
Had a kidney stone
Had a kidney stone
Couldn’t continue, ’cause I
Had a kidney stone
Had a kidney stone
Had a stone

And so they had to schlep me to the farookin’ hospital and pump me full of drugs so I could finish making the presentation, get to the airport, and go home without screaming blue murder. Holy Crap!

So, fie upon your Cold Water. Fie, I say!

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?