I’m bushed. Hard week. Just the latest in a bunch of hard work weeks, with two really hard weeks coming up. Glad I have my music to help keep me sane. Here are the songs currently rolling around in my head, in no uncertain order. Taken together they don’t make much sense, but I can guarantee you there’s no Steely Dan.

Tikiyaki Orchestra – “Aloha, Baby!” and “Bachelor #1”

Bruce Springsteen – “Girls In Their Summer Clothes” (Channeling Phil Spector!)

Meg Myers – “Numb”. The lyrics are so good I’m putting them here, besides it accurately describes what work is like for me these days:

When all is said and done
Tell me how to write this
Tell me how to fight this war
I’ll keep marching on
Like a broken robot
Money back guarantee

I’m in your custody
But I am not a criminal
I can be your next big thing
Look at what I’ve become
Silly little monster, should have just held my tongue

I hate the feeling like this
Weight up on my shoulders
Pushing the pressure down on me
You think you want the best for me
But nothing really matters
If you force it, it won’t come

I guess I’m feeling numb
I guess I’m feeling numb

Sometimes I wish I could fly
Through a secret trapped door
Into another life (life)
Bury my head in the sand
I don’t want to grow up
La la la la la la

I hate the feeling like this
Weight up on my shoulders
Pushing the pressure down on me
You think you want the best for me
But nothing really matters
If you force it, it won’t come

I guess I’m feeling numb
I guess I’m feeling numb

I’ll play the game
I’ll do everything you tell me
All the losers win in the end

I’ll play the game
I’ll do everything you tell me
All the losers win in the end

I hate the feeling like this
Weight up on my shoulders
Pushing the pressure down on me
You think you want the best for me
But nothing really matters
If you force it, it won’t come

I guess I’m feeling numb
I guess I’m feeling numb

Also, Meg’s version of “Running Up That Hill”

Kate Bush – “Wuthering Heights” and “Running Up That Hill”

Raymond LeFebvre – “Soul Coaxing” “It seems to me, that after having lived all these years, that only thing that matters, are the memories.”

Donna Summer – “I Feel Love”

Blondie – “Happy Dog” (dedicated to my ol’ pal in Louisville, Jerome!)

REM – “Find The River”

The Sandals – “Wingnut’s Theme” (in my view the best surf song ever recorded!) and “Tradewinds”

Fleetwood Mac “Bleed To Love Her” (can’t tell you how much I love this song!)

The Ronettes – “Baby, I Love You”

Taylor Swift – “Delicate”

The Beach Boys – “Let Us Go On This Way” and “Baby Blue”

Jimmy Buffett – “Floridays” and “A Pirate Looks At Forty” (Both timeless in my mind’s rotation)

George Harrison “Marwa Blues” and “Cheer Down”

Katy Perry – “Roar”

Bob Marley – “Redemption Song”

Anything by Pink Floyd.

It’s the music that keeps me sane.

True quote today from sister-in-law Tam: “Just wanted to let you know I’m alive. I think it was the water.”
What a great opening for a novel.