1. If I Am a Stranger – Ryan Adams & the Cardinals (Cold Roses)
2. Blue Sky – Allman Brothers Band (A Decade of Hits 1969-1979)
3. Peaceful Easy Feeling – Eagles (Their Greatest Hits)
4. Anything at All – Over the Rhine (Ohio)
5. Rent Day Blues – The Frames (Dance the Devil)
6. Interstate – The Refreshments (Fizzy Fuzzy Big and Buzzy)
7. Something So Right – Paul Simon (The Paul Simon Anthology)
8. Stronger than Mine – Tonic (Sugar)
9. DND – Semisonic (Feeling Strangely Fine)
10. Marigolds – Glen Phillips (Mr. Lemons)

Anyone else?

• A Rubber Door

Last night in bed,
staring into the darkness,
seeing my life flash before me -
a barrage of color, sound, sensation
I hardly recognize today -
the squandered moments rushed back,
markers of each intersection
where my course was set
Then there were others with no signs,
just subtle warnings
of what lay ahead.

And I was the driver,
listening to the music
and tapping rhythm on your thigh,
cresting a hill on the expressway,
seeing the disabled car
half an instant too late.

How is it we so easily
dismiss the peculiarity of the moment,
as if any other
could have taken its place?

Perhaps it’s because
we want to believe,
(as you often said)
every moment,
each opportunity,
is self-orchestrated;
like the universe
is a willing mistress
waiting for our call.

But just before the break of day
as you lay with me,
resting peacefully,
silk hair on my arm,
soft breath on my neck,
I was someplace else,
wondering what I’d done
to have found myself
in a moment like that one.

we stumbled and fell
like ants drunk on pesticide
we unleashed ourselves.

Seriously, where have all the old random ten people gone?

1. All Because of You – U2 (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb)
2. For You – Barenaked Ladies (Everything to Everyone)
3. My Iron Lung – Radiohead (The Bends)
4. Jerusalem – Steve Earle (Austin City Limits Music Festival: 2003 Collection)
5. Fitzcarraldo – The Frames (Breadcrumb Trail)
6. Etcetera Whatever – Over the Rhine (Live from Nowhere, Volume One)
7. Pay for What You Get – Dave Matthews Band (Under the Table and Dreaming)
8. Memphis Time – Gin Blossoms (Congratulations I’m Sorry)
9. Thick – Tonic (Lemon Parade)
10. Atoms for Peace – Thom Yorke (The Eraser)

The second track is one of my favorites, and thank God there’s a bathroom session version of it.

Other lists:

• A Modest Construct

some things never change,
like the way she smiled that day
- dare not let it fade.

Still re-building my music collection on the new computer. Oh, and in case you’re looking for some good spoon-playing, check out the Marah track.

Love Comes – The Posies (Every Kind of Light)
Neenah Menasha – Sponge (Rotting Piñata)
Joy to the World – Sufjan Stevens (Songs for Christmas)
Memory Lane – Elliott Smith (From a Basement on a Hill)
All I Need – Radiohead (In Rainbows)
Sooner or Later – Marah (If You Didn’t Laugh You’d Cry)
Everything’s Ruined – Fountains of Wayne (Fountains of Wayne)
Have You Seen My Love? – Barenaked Ladies (Everything to Everyone)
Bridges and Balloons – Decemberists (Picaresquesties)
I Belong – Stargazer Lily (Young Professionals)

Other lists:

A Modest Construct

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