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Happy birthday to me.

I’m spending it at Yearly Kos. If you’re around, I’ll be speaking on a panel at 1pm, and you should come.

1. Modest Mouse - Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset
2. Tom Waits - Hang Down Your Head
3. Death Cab for Cutie - Company Calls
4. Yo La Tengo - Deeper Into Movies
5. Lyle Lovett - My Baby Don’t Tolerate
6. Maxwell - For Lovers Only
7. John Coltrane - They Say It’s Wonderful
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Girl at the Bottom of My Glass
9. The Kinks - Starstruck
10. Bright Eyes - It’s Cool, We Can Still Be Friends

And a Friday Birthday Meme:

If you could go back and talk to your 24-year-old self, what would you tell her/him? And if you’re even more of a baby than I am, what would you want your future 24-year-old self to keep in sight and remember?

And, because I’m asking all of you for your deep life advice, I will reciprocate with the Ask Me Anything game — ask whatever you want, and I’ll answer by Sunday evening. It’ll also give me something to do at the airport.

The 25th is my most unluckiest day of the month. So I’m glad it’s the 26th — and that somewhere, it’s Friday the 27th.

Anyone else have unlucky days?

1. Beck - I Get Lonesome
2. Tom Waits - How’s It Gonna End
3. Timbaland and Magoo - Luv 2 Luv U
4. The Rolling Stones - Not Fade Away
5. The Bad Plus - Frog and Toad
6. Art Brut - Rusted Guns of Milan
7. Modest Mouse - Talking Shit About a Pretty Sunset
8. The Cramps - Garbageman
9. Death Cab for Cutie - The Employment Pages
10. MC Solaar - Caroline

Friday Random Video: My absolute favorite Yeah Yeah Yeahs song of all time. However, it is a very creepy video.

1. Voxtrot - Kid Gloves
2. Tom Waits - Clap Hands
3. Justin Timberlake & Timberland - Summer Love / Set The Mood Prelude
4. Mudhoney - Endless Yesterday
5. Ryan Adams - Thank You Louise
6. Beth Orton - Don’t Need a Reason
7. The Avett Brothers - Signs
8. Bill Evans Trio - Solar
9. Bound Stems - Excellent News, Colonel
10. Sonic Youth - Drunken Butterfly

Friday video: the Pipettes. Because Ms. Lauren told me to check them out.

It’s Friday somewhere, so even though it’s technically still Thursday for me, I think it’s kosher to call it FRT time.

Friday video: Juvenile, “Ha.” In my humble opinion, one of the better music videos ever.

1. Aphex Twin - Grass
2. Spoon - Me and the Bean
3. Mogwai - 2 Rights Make 1 Wrong
4. Mark Lanegan - Wedding Dress
5. The Pogues - White City
6. Girl Talk - Friday Night
7. Ben Lee - Gamble Everything for Love
8. Aimee Mann - High on Sunday 51
9. Tom Waits - Drunk on the Moon
10. Franz Ferdinand - Jacqueline

Happy Friday the 13th. I hope you are all curse-free.

1. Girl Talk - Once Again
2. The Pogues - The Sick Bed Of Cuchulainn
3. Tom Waits - Johnsburg, Illinois [Live]
4. Kenny Lattimore - Can’t Get Enough
5. MC Solaar - Caroline
6. Des Ark - Yes Sir, Yes Way
7. Band of Horses - The Great Salt Lake
8. Chick Corea - Where Are You Now
9. Bob Dylan - I Want You
10. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wanted Man

The “Worst Court EVA” edition.

1. Nina Simone - Ooh Child
2. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Breathless
3. John Coltrane - Soul Eyes
4. Tom Waits - Lost in the Harbour
5. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex / LoveSound
6. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Over and Over Again
7. Franz Ferdinand - Tell Her Tonight
8. Charles Mingus - Body and Soul
9. Marcus Miller & Me’shell Ndegeocello - Rush Over
10. Black Star - Brown Skinned Lady

1. Miles Davis - Autumn Leaves
2. The Mountain Goats - Love Love Love
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Crow Jane
4. Spoon - I Could Be Underground
5. Bright Eyes - When the President Talks to God
6. Bill Evans Trio - All of You (Take 3)
7. Benjy Ferree - The Desert
8. Ray Lamontagne - Trouble
9. The Pogues - A Pair of Brown Eyes
10. Guided by Voices - Back to the Lake

This week’s video: Diana Krall does Joni Mitchell.

A little Prince is always good for Friday:

And some Erik B and Rakim should cheer things right up:

The happily ever after edition.

A little Friday David Blaine humor. Thanks to Chris for the video.

1. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - The Witness Song
2. Spoon - Believing is Art
3. Tom Waits - San Diego Serenade
4. Chick Corea - Fragments
5. John Coltrane - Psalm
6. Rhett Miller - This Is What I Do
7. Common - Come Close to Me
8. Nina Simone - Ooh Child
9. The Mountain Goats - This Year
10. Groove Theory - Never Enough

Months and months ago, I noticed the friday random ten from here or Pandagon (I forget where I noticed it first). I thought it was a fun idea, so I adopted it and added other random lists to create Friday List Day at 79 Soul. I figured I’d share here, too.

Random Ten

1. Death in Vegas - “Dirge”
2. Kid Koala - “Fender Bender”
3. L7 - “Shit List”
4. KMFDM - “Terror”
5. The Animals - “Bring it on Home to Me”
6. Alice in Chains - “Grind”
7. Cibo Matto - “King of Silence (Dan the Automator Remix)”
8. The Strokes - “Is This It?”
9. Camera Obscura - “Let’s Get Out of This Country”
10. Blur - “On Your Own”

The Last Six Video Games I Played

1. Worms (Dreamcast)
2. Toy Commander (Dreamcast)
3. Super Bust-a-Move (Dreamcast)
4. You Don’t Know Jack (PC)
5. Soldat (PC)
6. Mario Party 5 (Gamecube)

By all means, share your random ten- or whatever other list you feel like sharing- in the comments. Happy Friday everyone!

I got my first real paycheck in a very, very long time this week. Having a checking account balance that has more than two digits to the left of the decimal point feels fabulous.

What does not feel fabulous is the fact that my room mate and I got our lease re-signing info today, and they’re raising our rent pretty significantly, to just under $3,000 a month. For a sixth-floor walk-up apartment in a very old tenement building. Without a living room (just a large kitchen — and when I say “large” I mean that it comfortably fits a four-person table). And where one of the bedrooms (mine) fits my bed and literally nothing else — the door, a foot of space, the bed. And where our water works intermittently. And where our oven has been broken for about a month now, and our super — who, though very nice, is either perpetually stoned or a complete moron or both — has been “ordering one” for weeks. Kind of how he’s been “fixing the pipes” since we moved in.

$3,000 a month for an apartment that is no more than 400 square feet, without a living room, and where we have to walk up six flights of very steep stairs.

Needless to say, we are moving. And I hate New York sometimes. Now, a video that cheers me up:

Pushy broads and crazy-talented kids are always pleasing.

1. Ryan Adams - Afraid Not Scared
2. Yo La Tengo - Winter A Go-G0
3. Jay-Z - Public Service Announcement
4. The Cure - Pictures of You
5. Tom Waits - The Part You Throw Away
6. Amr Diab - Habibi Ya Nour El Ein
7. Cat Stevens - Moonshadow
8. Timbaland and Magoo - Luv 2 Luv U
9. Neko Case - At Last
10. Trina Broussard - Inside My Love

Below the fold: Song I secretly love, but am too embarrassed to put on the front page. I know I’ve discussed my adoration of Beyonce and Shakira, but this is a whole new level of bad. Apologies in advance to Ms. Lauren.

Yes, that is Carrie Underwood. I know, I know. I hate the video. I really cringe when she uses certain terms (”tramp,” “white trash”). I also really, really hate whoever her stylist is, because that person does her no justice (bra straps showing? Capri jeans?).

But I love the song. And I do think she is too cute.