Friday Random Ten

The “my brain is so full of bar exam information that I can’t even think of a title for this FRT” edition.

1. The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry
2. Redman – Smoke Buddah
3. Erykah Badu – Tyrone
4. Can-U – The Fire
5. The Pogues – Fairytale of New York
6. Beck – Atmospheric Conditions
7. The Capstan Shafts – Low Cielings for Bedhoppers
8. The Kinks – Picture Book
9. Tom Waits – That’s the Way
10. Spoon – The Fitted Shirt

Friday videos: Good study music.

Friday Random Ten – the Friday Nights Are So Much Less Fun In The Library edition

Although in other news, I have taken up boxing as my new way of relieving the Bar-studying stress. Yoga was the original plan, but sadly none of the classes fit into my schedule, so boxing it is. Everyone else in the class is really good. I am inept, but learning. I have never sweated (sweat? swat?) so much in my life. And it’s lots of fun.

Did you do anything interesting this week?

Now, the FRT — done this week my new iPod that I got for graduation from a very lovely friend. (Am I the last person ever to own an iPod? Even my mom has one).

1. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Little Ghost Song
2. Roots – You Don’t See Us
3. Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
4. The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra – Jelly, Jelly
5. Janis Joplin – Try
6. Hi-Tek Feat. Big D and Piakhan – No One Knows Her Name
7. Radiohead – Backdrifts
8. Guided by Voices – Things I Will Keep
9. The Capstan Shafts – Oil Over Greenland! (Morsels of Fortitude)
10. Ryan Adams – I See Monsters

Friday video: The song I’ve had stuck in my head all week long.

Friday Random Ten – the I Thought Law School Was Supposed To Be Over edition

First, a video, because I’ve been playing this song on repeat while I study and it’s stuck in my head:

1. Voxtrot – Your Biggest Fan
2. Bonnie Rate – I Can’t Make You Love Me
3. Cat Stevens – Oh Very Young
4. The War On Drugs – Buenos Aires Beach
5. Tom Waits – Lost in the Harbour
6. Franz Ferdinand – Come On Home
7. The Cure – More Than This
8. Bright Eyes – Spent on Rainy Days
9. The Gossip – Yr Mangled Heart
10. Ryan Adams – World War 24

And a Friday video, dedicated to David Brooks:

Friday Random Ten – the Juris Doctor edition

I took off the stupid hat and the hood. More cheesing for the camera here.

Yeah, I finally graduated from law school. Yeehaw. Now it’s bedtime since I have Bar class tomorrow,* and then hanging out with Moms all day.** But since it is certainly Friday somewhere, here is an FRT:

1. Tom Waits – Heartattack and Vine
2. The Bad Plus – Layin’ A Strip For The Higher-Self State Line
3. Cat Stevens – Father and Son
4. Les Savy Fav – Knowing How the World Works
5. The Kinks – Do You Remember Walter
6. Bonny Billy – A Dream Of The Sea (The Renderers)
7. Guided by Voices – The Best Of Jill Hives
8. Benjy Ferree – The Desert
9. The Mountain Goats – Palmcorder Yajna
10. Voxtrot – Ghost

*It started the day after graduation. Can you believe that?
**She already cleaned my entire apartment, and tomorrow she is bleaching my bathroom and making me dinner(!). Moms are the best.

Friday Random Ten

First it was Roxanne’s, and then when she gave it up, it was Lauren’s, and it only seems right that there should be one up here. So:

1) Offspring: Pretty Fly
2) Pink Floyd: When You’re In
3) Wicked Tinkers: Gaelic Aire
4) Jimi Hendrix: Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
5) Spinners: Rubberband Man
6) Commitments: Mustang Sally
7) Enter The Haggis: Twirling Towards Freedom
8) Southern Culture On The Skids: Sweet Spot
9) Green Day: When I Come Around
10) Slayer: Aggressive Perfector

Friday Random Ten – the “Holy God it’s 77 degrees, so I’m spending the day in Central Park” edition

1. Rufus Wainwright – The Consort
2. Art Blakely, Cannonball Adderley, Hank Jones, Miles Davis & Sam Jones – Love for Sale
3. Tom Waits – The Earth Died Screaming
4. Miles Davis – Somethin’ Else
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Where the Wild Roses Grow
6. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane – Crepuscule With Nellie
7. Ryan Adams – Avalanche
8. Cat Power – You May Know Him
9. The Avett Brothers – Hard Worker
9. Girl Talk – Give and Go
10. Bound Stems – Excellent News, Colonel

Friday video: Some Britpop is always good for a sunny Friday.

Friday Random Ten – the Still on a WAM! High edition

1. Voxtrot – Raised by Wolves
2. Rufus Wainwright – Evil Angel
3. Cat Power – Living Proof
4. Janis Joplin – Piece of My Heart
5. Bill Withers – Ain’t No Sunshine
6. Tom Waits – Gospel Train / Orchestra
7. Les Savy Fav – Hello Halo, Goodbye Glands
8. Amr Diab – We Hikaytek Aih
9. Iggy and the Stooges – Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
10. Death Cab for Cutie – The Employment Pages

Friday video: A song I’ve had stuck in my head for two weeks straight:

And the lovely lady who sings that song gets a mention in Amanda’s fantastic book, which I finished this week and will review soon.

Friday Random Ten

1. A.C. Newman – On the Table
2. Interpol – C’mere
3. Silver Jews – Time Will Break the World
4. Darren Hanlon – Ends of the City
5. The Shins – Gone for Good
6. Minmae – Cold Steel Minders
7. Death Cab for Cutie – Someday You Will Be Loved
8. Mellowmen – Sunshine Shell
9. Andrew Bird – Fiery Crash
10. A-Sides – Through the Ocean

Only one video this week since I’m running out the door to Boston, but it was filmed in Seattle and I like that:

See some of you at WAM!

Friday Random Ten – the Spring Break Countdown edition

I’m heading off to Puerto Rico on Monday, then heading to Ann Arbor after that (apparently weather extremes are in the cards for the next week and a half). Anyone have any PR advice? I’ll be staying near San Juan, not at any of the big resorts. I’d love to hear any suggestions.

I’ll still be blogging while I’m gone, and there will be a fantastic guest-blogger showing up to keep content coming while I’m gone.

Now, the FRT:

1. Beck – Hollow Log
2. Common – Come Close to Me
3. Radiohead – Sail to the Moon
4. Capstan Shafts – Elected Head of Her Anarchist Group
5. Guided by Voices – Twilight Campfighter
6. The Clash – Janie Jones
7. The Notwist – Off the Rails
8. Timbaland and Magoo – Up Jumps Da Boogie
9. The Pogues – Streams of Whiskey
10. Neko Case – At Last

And Friday videos – one of my favorite love songs ever (aww):

And my favorite I-hate-love song (I like Elvis’s solo version better, but I do have a secret thing for Fiona — and she’s so good at being pissed — so this works too):

Friday Random Ten – the Too Much Snow in New York edition

This basically been my life lately.

1. Radiohead – All I Need
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – One Good Son
3. Death Cab for Cutie – Company Calls Epilogue
4. Les Savy Fav – Fading Vibes
5. Yo La Tengo – Georgia vs. Yo La Tengo
6. Tom Waits – Ruby’s Arms [live]
7. Guided by Voices – Motor Away
8. MC Solaar – Solaar Pleure
9. The Pogues – The Sunny Side of the Street
10. Miles Davis – So What

Today I’m on a crazy apartment-cleaning and errand-running spree, and I’m listening to Girl Talk while I do it: