We decided what we’re doing for Thanksgiving and it does not involve me driving up to fetch my mom, nor frantically cleaning my house to have it mom ready. I had been feeling a little guilty about it but now that the weekend is here, I am so glad I am not giving up both days to sit in my car.
I also got some good news on the work front and both kids are doing well at the moment, *knock-knock* so things are looking up. Oh! And the Christmas cactus I was sure I had killed has one flower and three buds on it! The world is a shit show but the things I can control are positive and I think that’s worth celebrating.
Some of my fellow Still in Rotation contributors have started up a new site called Raised on the Radio and they invited me to put together a playlist for the Twisted Mix-tape Tuesday feature. Just to make it more fun, every week there’s a new theme. This week the theme is anything goes so I got to choose my own theme.
I can be a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to creating a playlist (or a CD or tape, back in the day), so half a dozen ideas that popped into my head were rejected after I was unable to settle on five songs. I decided on songs in foreign languages partly because that limited the number of songs I knew and made it easier to keep it to five.
The name of the site and the idea behind it reminded me of this Velvet Underground song. Such a classic, and so true.
Then one fine morning she puts on a New York station
You know she don’t believe what she heard at all
She started shaking to that fine, fine music
You know her life was saved by rock & roll.
I grew up outside of New York City and the station we listened to was WLIR. I didn’t realize how lucky we were to have that station until we moved up to Maine half-way through my high school years. There were some pretty glaring gaps in our classmates’ musical knowledge, at least to our way of thinking, though they seemed happy enough.