FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

Friday.

Not just Friday, but an amazingly cold, nasty Friday here in Atlanta, the beating heart of the Deep Souf. I’ve spent the entire morning running errands, driving around in a cold, soaking rain, the drops pelting down in great wind-driven sheets.

I suppose it could be worse. A few degrees colder, and we’d be having an ice storm instead.

But now I’m in my nice, warm house, listening to this week’s Randomly Assembled List of Tunage, selected stochastically by the iPod d’Elisson. Let’s take a look and see what’s playing:

1. O’Reilly At The Bar - Dan Hicks & His Hot Licks
   
   
2. Skylark - Don Julin
   
   Gotta love Don Julin. Who else plays Frank Zappa tunes on the mandolin?
   
   
3. The Mikado, Act II: Here’s a How-De-Do! If I Marry You - d’Oyly Carte Opera Company
   
   
4. Zanset Nou Yo - Boukman Eksperyans
   
   
5. Ani Shelach - Neshama Carlebach
   
   
6. The Eyes of Fate - The Incredible String Band
   
   
7. Meet Me Tomorrow Night - Professor Longhair
   
   
8. Spanish Ladies - Robert Shaw
   
   Perfectly apropos, considering that we will be having yet another Aubrey-Maturin Dinner tomorrow evening.
   
   
9. Barnyard Story - Procol Harum
   
   Chicken in the farmyard
   There’s an oven in your bin
   You’re growing old with sorrow
   You’re growing fat with sin
   I was living in the graveyard
   I was hanging from the wall
   I was living in the desert
   I was trying not to fall
   
   Once I stood upon Olympus
   Then the heavens opened wide
   I beheld that flaming chariot
   And I saw the sacred bride
   Now and then my life seems truer
   Now and then my life seems pure
   All in all, my thoughts are fewer
   Maybe death will be my cure
   
   
10. Oh No - Frank Zappa
    
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?