thursday random eleven – “get your ass to mars” edition
Once again, since I’ll be busy packing and traveling for the regional nerd social event of the year tomorrow, here’s the playlist a day early.
It’s been a weird week; started out covered by seven inches of snow, but with temperatures in the 60s the last two days, it’s all gone. The kids go back to school today, and almost all of my meetings for this week have been cancelled without explanation. My schedule’s been kind of hosed because the kids being off of school for snow, for values of “yes, absolutely” and “WTF??!?” depending on the day, the early release scheduled for Friday has been axed in favor of a full day, so we won’t be getting on the road as early as we’d like.
Otherwise, we’re getting stuff done at work despite the weird scheduling, I’ve managed to get some serious rehearsal in at home for this weekend (I wanna be tight for the “hometown crowd”), my son has, in the last 24 hours, put down the video game controller in favor of…a book! (Asimov’s I, Robot) without complaint, and in the best news I got all week, my child’s future home for higher education has decided my eldest spawn is worthy of a pretty hefty endowment scholarship that’ll knock the not-inconsequential tuition down by probably more than half, before we even start dealing with things like state and federal grants and loans and other merit based sort of things.
That’s worth celebrating.
Otherwise, that’s what I got. I’m hoping for lots of fun, shenanigans, and tomfoolery this weekend.
For today’s playlist, it’s kind of typical for what I get out of Pandora these days; I should probably shake up the mix again. Highly listenable, though:
- “Wig Wam Bam” – The Donnas
- “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” – Simple Minds
- “Every Breath You Take” – The Police
- “Eternal Flame” – The Bangles
- “San Ber’dino” – Frank Zappa
- “Water” – Ra Ra Riot
- “Water Under The Bridge” – Adele
- “Joke” – Chastity Belt
- “One Headlight” – The Wallflowers
- “Look Into The Sun” – Jethro Tull
- “Crazy for You” – Madonna
Oh, and I haven’t done a Stranger Things reference in a bit (other than having adopted eleven as the usual number), so here are the most important thirty seconds of the Golden Globe awards from the other night. Yeah, Glenn Close got the news, but…
