I prefer the iPod One playlist from whitehouse.org

Aimee, I don't know that one. But, looking at the lyrics, sounds like a possibility, although a little impersonal for my taste. I'm not buying a lot of new music at the moment, but someday I'll hit iTunes with money and a mission.

btw, I'm about halfway through Wicked. I don't have the soundtrack yet, but the musical diverges pretty seriously for the book, no?

My dad used to wake us up by playing Bruce Springsteen really loud.

I also assumed U2's One.

Now that I have Tivo, my shows list has expanded. It used to be just Lost and Alias. But now I've added Project Greenlight and I'm totally loving Grey's Anatomy so far. I think it's mainly due to Patrick Dempsey.

Writing in the London Times, Caitlin Moran noted: "No black artists, no gay artists, no world music, only one woman, no genre less than 25 years old, and no Beatles."

I demand affirmative action for the Presidential iPod!

(Seriously, I think it's sadder that the thing only has 250 songs on it. All that lovely wasted storage space.)

A particularly funny story on my friend's parody site. [link]

I plan on singing my children murder ballads during their formative years. "Poor Ellen Smith, how was she found?/ Shot through the heart, lying full on the ground."

Great, now I'm earwormed with "Richard Corey." Richard Corey went home last night / And put a bullet through his head. It'd help if I can actually remember more than just the one verse and chorus.

I totally intend to sing this song to any potential Zmayhem spawn. It actually has a very jolly, rollicking tune and you can do different voices for the different characters and such. We sing it often at Faire, usually while dandling babies on our knees; parents draw back in horror, but little children giggle and clap. They love stories about sad babies and wicked mommies who are horribly punished for their wickedness.

Oh, and then you can sing them Tom Lehrer's "Irish Ballad":

About a girl I'll sing a song
Sing rickety-tickety-tin
About a girl I'll sing a song
Who did not have her family long
Not only did she do them wrong
She did every one of them in

Richard Corey went home last night / And put a bullet through his head.

Oh, who does this song? I know I've heard it.

Simon and Garfunkel, based on a poem by...Edward Arlington Robinson.

They say that Richard Corey owns one half of this whole town
With political connections to spread himself around...

Paul Simon.

But I, I work in his factory
And I hate the life I'm living
And I curse my poverty
And I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be
Oh, I wish that I could be
Richard Corey.