A huge HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Sub-Evil Boy, who today turns a mighty 12. We had a nice party at the RFC yesterday with a group of his friends swimming, playing games, and consuming loads of pizza grease and corn syrup.
Today’s the actual birthday and is mostly family time, including our year end radio show on KUMM (their site is currently a mess due to repeated hacking, but you can still listen on-line). We couldn’t do our normal 2-4pm slot because of the way they’ve organized the slots for finals week, so we’re doing a noon-3pm show today. The first hour was entirely music chosen by Sub-Evil boy and is a pretty excellent sample of what he’s been listening to this year. The entire list is below, and it’s full of fine stuff worthy of a spin. I really love the diversity of his taste in music; I know I’m biased, but he’s just such an interesting guy.
Before getting to his playlist, though, I should apologize for the near silence here. It’s the whole end of the semester, look at all that grading, oh there are research submission deadlines looming, we need to make a Christmas card, what faucets are we going to use when we remodel the bathrooms, and I need to personally prop up the Multinational Economy through my holiday purchases thing. I do plan on replacing the annoying CAPTCHA implementation with the much nicer on that’s currently being used on WeatherGirl’s Station, and follow-up on Jane’s request for more photos from the local embroidery show. Not to mention finish up and post a few of the zillion half-formed things queued up here.
| Artist | Album | Song |
| Pinkeye d’Gekko | Rhythm and western | Possibly |
| Antibalas | Who is this America? | Indictment |
| Lady Sovereign | Vertically Challenged | Ch Ching |
| Charming Hostess | Punch | Lady Gay |
| The Kills | Fried My Little Brains EP | Fried My Little Brains |
| Bettye LaVette | I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise | Sleep To Dream |
| Gogol Bordello | Gypsy Punks | Mishto! |
| Balkan Beat Box | Balkan Beat Box | Cha Cha |
| Atmosphere | You can’t imagine how much fun we’re having | Musical Chairs |
| Ken Bruce | Guide Cats For The Blind | Across The Plains Of Africa |
| Velvet Underground | Morvern Collar Soundtrack | I’m Sticking to you |
| White Stripes | De Stijl | Hello Operator |
| John Cale | Por Vida | She Doesn’t Live Here Any More |
