FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

This week seems to have flown by. It’s Friday again!

Tomorrow morning, the Missus and I, along with our friends Gary and JoAnn, will hit the road at the Butt Crack of Dawn and head down to Savannah, which this weekend hosts the SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival. Students and alumni from the Savannah College of Art and Design will, weather permitting, fill the sidewalks of Forsyth Park with their hand-drawn creations. Last time we attended the Festival, we were amazed at some of the Impromptu Masterpieces we saw...


The Mistress of Sarcasm defaces decorates Forsyth Park with her Fine Artwork, April 2003.


A prize-winning creation from 2003, complete with Sunday Funnies hat.

But enough of this. It’s time once again for the Weekly List o’ Random Selections from the Little White Choon-Box. What’s on tap today? Lessee:

1. Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
   
2. So Fucking Stupid - Bickley
   
   Bickley was a Houston-based punk band in the 1990’s, of interest because of their demented songs (“Pink Power Ranger,” “Piss Fetish,” “Arkansas Death Ride,” “This Song Sucks,” et al.), as well as for the fact that one of their members was a fellow employee at the Great Corporate Salt Mine (!)
   
   
3. Longer Boats - Cat Stevens
   
4. What If? - Klaus Badelt, The Time Machine (2002)
   
5. Little Wing - Jimi Hendrix
   
6. Trapped In The Future - Russell Garcia, The Time Machine (1960)
   
7. Rypistynyt profeetta - Tuomari Nurmio & Alamaailman Vasarat
   
   No, I don’t know what the fuck it means, either.
   
   
8. Good Morning Good Morning - The Beatles
   
9. Little Light Of Love - R.X.R.A.
   
10. Reggae fi Radni - Linton Kwesi Johnson
    
    You nuh see how de clou’ them jus’ came sit upon me dream
    Came sit upon me dream like a dark silk screen
    A dark silk screen over de vision I had seen
    Vision I had seen, the vision I had seen
    
    So me say that Walter Radni was a victim of hate
    Someone say that him gone thru heaven’s gate
    Someone that Walter Radni shouldn’t tek up his true weight
    An’ go carry ’pon ’im back like ’im de weary man a rock
    
    But look how de clou’ dem jus’ came sat upon me dream
    Came sit upon me dream like a shout or a scream
    A shout or a scream or a really ugly scene
    That awake me from the dream an’ alert me to the scheme
    
    So me say that Walter Radni was a prisoner of fate
    Someone say that him gone thru de hero’s gate
    Someone say that Walter Radni couldn’t tek his true weight
    So ’im tek it off ’im back an’ go pick it ’pon ’im lap
    An’ go fall in a trap, an’ Sam Burnham get it drop
    
    But look how me dream come jus’ get blown to smithereen
    Came blown to smithereen ina de miggle of the dream
    Miggle of the dream before de peeple dem come in
    Peeple dem come in, the peeple dem come in
    
    So me say that Walter Radni was no shark fi de sea
    An’ all that him did wan’ was fi set ’im peeple free
    Wi’ de workers an’ de peasan’s him should a corporate
    But like a fish to de hook, ’im go bite ’pon Burnham bait
    
    You nuh see how me dream come jus’ get blown to smithereen
    An’ blown to smithereen ina de miggle of the dream
    Miggle of the dream before de really crucial scene
    De really crucial scene when de peeple dem come in
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?