iTunes Shuffle 9/6/13

1. Foals - "Olympic Airways"
2. Pajama Club - "From A Friend To A Friend"
3. Admiral Radley - "I Heart California"
4. Dr. John & The Lower 911 - "Dream Warrior"
5. String Cheese Incident - "How Mountain Girls Can Love" (The Stanley Brothers cover)
6. Sufjan Stevens - "Happy Karma Christmas"
7. The Libertines - "Don't Look Back Into The Sun"
8. Beirut - "Scenic World"
9. Dr. Dog - "I Can't Fly"
10. Cale Parks - "Age Of Reform"

Well, this mix sure is odd. "Happy Karma Christmas" is a really good kind of break-up song, if you need that. Also, it's beautiful. Beirut's always great. The Dr. John song is stirring. Cale Parks is really pretty, and he makes pretty music. And other stuff.

Let's disappear till tomorrow...

the savior, is coming
the future, anonymous
the present, arriving
gift wrapped, from a friend to a friend...

This is just a song about hearting California.

"The dark, bluesy 'Dream Warrior' is a brilliantly-penned song with a deceptively understated soundtrack and pointed Dylanesque lyrics. John delivers his words with more venom than any half-dozen gangsta rappers, never getting angry but rather portraying a quiet rage against the injustices heaped upon New Orleans in the wake of Katrina. In his dreams, the singer fights against the hypocrisy that has left the city in ruins nearly three years after the storm."

Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
KKK is all back in action
So you tell your Miss Billie Holiday
Strange fruit good today...

Old bluegrass love song rendered well by the String Cheese Incident:

Would it have been best to forget you
Would it have been better for me
And if I could write off your intentions
Would you pretend you don't love me

And I wish you a happy karma Christmas
And I miss you my happy karma girl...

Don't look back into the sun
Now you know that the time has come
And they said it would never come for you...

The lights go on
The lights go off
When things don't feel right
I lie down like a tired dog
Licking his wounds in the shade

When I feel alive
I try to imagine a careless life
A scenic world where the sunsets are all
Breathtaking

I can't fly
Just look at me
It ain't even a goddamn possibility

Oh and I know that Saturdays, they are a bust
They're over when you wake up
And immediately you're drunk...

Pretty song, pretty man.