FRIDAY FIRST O’ FERIEN RANDOM TEN

The iPod d’Elisson, AKA the Little White Choon Box.

Ferien is a delightful German word for “vacation.” I call it delightful because it is, deep down, not German at all - it’s borrowed from the French term faire rien - to do nothing. It’s the perfect vacation activity!

Today being the first day of SWMBO’s summer vacation, what better time to post a Friday First o’ Ferien Random Ten?  So let’s see what the Little White Choon Box has queued up for us today.  Hint: there ain’t a whole lot of Beach Music, vacation or no...

1. Philosophy - Ben Folds Five
   


2. Goin’ Away to Sea - The Klezmatics
   
   
3. My Shit’s Fucked Up - Warren Zevon
   
   Well, I went to the doctor
   I said, “I’m feeling kind of rough”
   “Let me break it to you, son
   Your shit’s fucked up”
   
   I said, “My shit’s fucked up?
   Well I don’t see how”
   He said, “The shit that used to work
   It won’t work now”
   
   I, I had a dream
   Ah shucks, oh well
   Now it’s all fucked up
   It's shot to hell
   
   Yeah, yeah, my shit’s fucked up
   It has to happen to the best of us
   The rich folks suffer like the rest of us
   It’ll happen to you
   
   That Amazing Grace
   Sort of passed you by
   You wake up every day
   And you start to cry
   
   You want to die
   But you just can’t quit
   Let me break it on down
   It’s the fucked up shit
   
   Yeah my shit’s fucked up
   Fucked up
   
   
4. One Way Out - The Allman Brothers
   
   
5. Improvisation No. 2 - Django Reinhardt
   
   
6. Star Trek Rhapsody - Weird Al Yankovic
   
   
7. Act II, Scene 1: Look Down at the Earth - John Adams, Nixon in China
   
   
8. Cold Duck Time - Les McCann & Eddie Harris
   
   From the brilliant “Swiss Movement” album, recorded live at the Montreux Jazz Festival in June 1969.
   
   
9. Aalafiya/Shir LaShalom - The Afro-Semitic Experience
   
   
10. How to be Dumb - Elvis Costello
    
    

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?