1) Vampire Weekend – Mansard Roof
2) Kate Nash – Dickhead
3) Regina Spektor – Hero
4) Radiohead – Hunting Bears
5) Coldplay – Lovers In Japan
6) Ryan Adams – Starting To Hurt
7) Editors – Smoking Outside The Hospital Door
8) Death Cab For Cutie – Technicolor Girls
9) The Postal Service – The District Sleeps Alone
10) Mates of State – Punchlines

+1) Bloc Party – On

1. Poco de Amor – Shakira
2. Don’t Worry Baby – The Beach Boys
3. People Every Day – Arrested Development
4. Here it Goes Again – Ok Go
5. Home – Cowboy Mouth
6. Bennie & The Jets (live) – Elton John
7. All Shook Up – Elvis
8. Nothing Better to Do – LeAnn Rimes
9. Bunny Hop – Da Entourage
10. Question – Old 97s

Since I close the office at Noon on fridays from Aug till Jan for Football season and its payday im in a GREAT mood. So some upbeat party tunes to get us through the next 2 hours…..

1. Dave Matthews-Tripping Billies
2. Jimmy Buffett- Bama Breeze
3. Counting Crowes- Meet Virginia
4. Sunset Ave- Alabama Gulf Coast
5. Sister Hazel- All for you
6. OAR- About an Hour ago
7. Mike Doughty- Madeline and Nine
8. Kenny- Summertime
9. John Butler Trio- Better Than
10. Goo Goo Dolls- Slide

One more for the Road Outta Here Steve Azar- I dont have to be me till Monday

Can’t believe my iPod didn’t slap down some “hardcore” this morning????

1. Charles Mingus – “Duke’s Choice”
2. Easy Star All-Stars – “Subterranean Home Sick Alien”
3. Ian Pooley – “Venasque”
4. Chemical Brothers featuring Spank Rock – “Keeping My Composure”
5. Sly and The Family Stone – “Do You Know What?”
6. Little Junior Walker – “Feelin’ Good”
7. Seun Kuti – “Many Things”
8. Herbie Hancock – “Watermelon Man”
9. Fleet Foxes – “Blue Ridge Mountains”
10. Groove Theory – “Tell Me”

Mingus, Sly, Herbie, and Little Junior told me a thing or two this morning though. It’s all good!

but still friday in AL…so here goes:

1. Pete Rock – We Good feat. Kardinal Offishall
2. OC – Brothers Keeper
3. DJ Funk – Pop That Pussy
4. Lil Wayne – Lisa Marie
5. Wu-Tang – Hellz Wind Staff
6. John Mayer – Bigger Than My Body
7. DJ Funk – Every Freakin Day
8. Wu-Tang – Duck Seazon
9. Mos Def – Sun, Moon, Stars
10. The Roots – Slip Into The Realm

not very creative Mr. iPod…but still hits…it’s almost heeerrreee!!! ROLL TIDE!

. . in downtown LA while I was in Romania in July. I’ve only seen Femi play live. You ever heard of Afel Bocoum of “Alkibar” fame (funny word, no. a Bukowski hang out or somethin’?).

—— tangent of the day —A friend of mine sent me this insane homecooked CD get this—> he put Afel, Baaba Maal, Mansour Seck, The Mad Professor, Marcelinho Da Lua, Lo Borges, Soul Salaam, Vijayshree Subramaniam, DJ Rupture, Tom Waits, Brian Eno, and weirdass blurbs from a scratchy William S. Burroughs ranting. It was bananas! $50. . . .it’s yours! – - – totally just playin’ wicha. . .want a copy? . . . . GET IN LINE! . . . .no, really seriously- it’ll be no problem sending you out a copy- we’ll split the cost of the ever-changing stamps! Lemme know. (wouldn’t that be incredibly weird if YOU ROYALLY hated every single one of those World Beat badasses?)

1. The Fiery Furnaces – “Clear Signal From Cairo”
2. Low – “Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me”
3. The Dirtbombs – “If You Can Want”
4. Son Volt – “The Picture”
5. Joanna Newsom – “Sprout and the Bean”
6. Gainer – “A Loss That Feels Like Winning”
7. Leadbelly – “John Henry”
8. Dengue Fever - “One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula”
9. Crystal Castles – “Through the Hosiery”
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Babe I’m On Fire”

Damn, that’s probably the best Random 10 I’ve ever turned in. Obviously I like everything I have, but still, some are stronger than others and as my dad would say, “This one is stronger and madder than a wet goat.”

aka the ‘driving back to montgomery 10’

1 Radiohead – Stand Up Sit Down
2 Neutral Milk Hotel – Communist Daughter
3 The Hollies – Bus Stop
4 Beatles – Honey Pie
5 State Radio – Camilo
6 Crazy World of Arthur Brown – Fire
7 Bright Eyes – When the President talks to God
8 Moonlight Towers – I sleep alone
9 Pixies – Debaser
10 White Stripes – Im finding it harder to be a gentleman