I only know the Johnny Cash version of "Wichita Lineman" -- it was on an Americana compilation I got a while back. I like that, thiough.

Top 5 TV series:

• Six Feet Under
• Buffy, S2-5
• My So-Called Life
• Northern Exposure
• The Simpsons

(smacks forehead) The Simpsons! D'oh. And it's even on topic because the music is totally the shit and does a great job of making an unreal world at least as real as ours. NE music was always weird, but really appropriate too, and very cool.(In my provincial, not-hip opinion) On The Wire, the music is sort of appropriately inappropriate, but they have played some really great blues and Irish music and like that, but mostly just stuff comes from the radio like it would so cops start stake-outs stuck with "Big Girls Don't Cry" or something stupid like that. There was a sad radio related scene once when one of the teen dealers didn't know about losing radio stations when you travel because he'd never been anywhere, but it was funny because instead of the Jam 107 or whatever in Balmer, he got Garrison Keillor on NPR which he hated and said "Philly radio is whack." Or NY, I forget.

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison.

the music is sort of appropriately inappropriate

C'mon, the use of the Pogues' "Body of an American" was one of the most appropriate uses of music on any tv show I've seen.

C'mon, the use of the Pogues' "Body of an American" was one of the most appropriate uses of music on any tv show I've seen.

I'm partial to "The Beast In Me" on The Sopranos. Northern Exposure had some great, and unusual musical cues too.

Well, duh, Corwood. But that was a wake, right?(And a truly beautiful tribute to one of the creators that died.Sniff.) Not just day to day. And consider this an advance directive...I want that funeral. Complete with Bitches in corsets telling each other I was a giant pain in the ass. My actually being laid out in leather pants on the pool table can be left to bullshit consensus, okay, bunk? I'm sort of the Cole of the Bitches, I think. Comic relief...foil, you know, "Queen of the Dunkers" "The Beast in Me" was perfect, too, Hec.

OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form. Good to know. I'm new around here, sort of. Still, don't skip the bagpipes.

OK, so planning my funeral in Music? Bad form.

No way. I wouldn't mind "Body of An American" played at my funeral, though I've been leaning towards another Pogues song, "If I Should Fall From Grace With God" in recent years.

Then maybe all the different takes of "Loose" off the Stooges box set played end to end.

That was one of the best funeral scenes I've ever seen, and I'm not just being "Baltimore likes carrots!" here, because I'd not seen too much of the show when I watched it the first time and it still got to me. Now that I've got my full dose of "Colesberry's dead, and yet Cheney lives!" from watching all the seasons, I expect to be wrung out like a rag and have my family look at me like I'm having a 'sode again for crying for a fake dead guy. Sort of. But not. Because brilliant producer Robert Colesberry played putz detective Ray Cole, who sort of couldn't find his ass with both hands and a road map. But RC had a real-life sudden heart attack, so they both got a funeral on the show...and sorry for the "blah, blah, Ginger..." nature of this post for non-Wireheads.

Songs about/mentioning NOLA:

No one has mentioned "Mr. Bojangles" at all?

I was drunk the day my mom got out of prison.

It's sad that Steve Goodman is barely remembered nowadays, despite writing this song, "City of New Orleans," and possibly the greatest baseball song ever, "A Dying Cub Fan's Last Request."