FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

Yes, indeedy - it’s Friday. The weekend, with its Sundry and Manifold Joys - which for me will include Fun with Mr. TurboTax - approacheth. Time for yet another installment of “What’s Playing on Elisson’s Little White Choon Box?”

Let’s just take a look, shall we? Here we go:

1. I’m Going Straight to Heaven - MC 900 Foot Jesus
   
2. The More You Ruv Someone - Avenue Q, Original Broadway Cast
   
   Kate Monster:
   Why can’t people get along and love each other, Christmas Eve?
   
   Christmas Eve:
   You think getting along same as loving?
   Sometimes love right where you hating most, Kate Monster.
   
   Kate Monster:
   Huh?
   
   Christmas Eve:
   The more you love someone,
   The more you want to kill ’im.
   The more you love someone,
   The more he make you cry
   
   Though you are try
   For making peace
   With them and loving,
   That’s why you love so strong
   You like to make him die!
   
   The more you love someone,
   The more he make you crazy.
   The more you love someone,
   The more you wishing him dead!
   
   Sometime you look at him
   And only see fat and lazy,
   And wanting baseball bat
   For hitting him on his head!
   
   Love
   
   Kate Monster:
   Love
   
   Christmas Eve:
   And hate
   
   Kate Monster:
   And hate
   
   Christmas Eve:
   They like two brothers
   
   Kate Monster:
   Brothers
   
   Christmas Eve:
   Who go on a date
   
   Kate Monster:
   Who...what?
   
   Christmas Eve:
   Where one of them goes,
   Other one follows
   You inviting love
   He also bringing sorrows
   
   Kate Monster:
   Ah, yes.
   
   Christmas Eve:
   The more you love someone,
   The more you want to kill ’im.
   Loving and killing
   Fit like hand in glove!
   
   Kate Monster:
   Hand in glove.
   
   Christmas Eve:
   So if there someone
   You are wanting so
   To kill ’im.
   You go and find him.
   And you get him.
   And you no kill him.
   ’Cause chances good
   
   Both:
   He is your love.
   
   
3. Golden Shower of Hits - Circle Jerks
   
4. Gently Tender - The Incredible String Band
   
5. Chances Are - Johnny Mathis
   
6. You’re Drivin’ Me Crazy - Squirrel Nut Zippers
   
7. Harlem Swing - Django Reinhardt
   
8. Stompin’ with Fess - Professor Longhair
   
9. Muffin Man - Frank Zappa
   
   (spoken)
   The Muffin Man is seated at the table in the laboratory of the Utility Muffin Research Kitchen. Reaching for an oversized chrome spoon, he gathers an intimate quantity of dried muffin remnants. And brushing his scapular aside, proceeds to dump these inside of his shirt...
   
   He turns to us and speaks:
   “Some people like cupcakes better. I, for one, care less for them!”
   
   Arrogantly twisting the sterile canvas snoot of a fully charged icing anointment utensil, he poots forth a quarter-ounce green rosette (oh, ah, yuk yuk. Let’s try that again...!) He poots forth a quarter-ounce green rosette near the summit of a dense but radiant muffin of his own design.
   
   Later he says:
   “Some people...some people like cupcakes exclusively, while I, myself, say there is naught, nor ought there be, nothing so exalted on the face of God’s grey earth as that prince of foods...The Muffin!”
   
   (sung)
   Girl you thought he was a man
   But he was a muffin
   He hung around ’til you found
   That he didn't know nuthin’
   Girl you thought he was a man
   But he only was a-puffin’
   No cries is heard in the night
   As a result of him stuffin’
   
   [This song is dedicated to the lovely Boudicca.]
   
   
10. Ladykillers - Lush
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?