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."

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

Can we play "Leaving on a Jet Plane?" Also: "Highway to Hell," "Stairway to Heaven" (just to balance things out), and "Please Don't Talk About Me When I'm Gone."

well, I'm planning to play a couple of TISM songs at my funeral--unless I die before my folks, in which case NSM. Not sure how they'd react to, "I'm On The Drug That Killed River Phoenix" but I know they wouldn't be happy to hear, "I Might Be A Cunt But At Least I'm Not A Fucking Cunt".

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

My grandmother always wanted me to sing her favorite hymn ("Just As I Am") at her funeral. She died when I was 17.

Didn't sing. I was too broken up. Wanted to, but my parents put their feet down.

Fats Domino alive and OK and airlifted out of NO.

More NOLA: "St. James Infirmary" was mentioned on a friend's blog today.

The only song I know I want at my funeral is the Lomax recording of "Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah" as done by Ike Caudill and choir. It's my favorite hymn, only this version is African call-and-response Southern Gospel choir and is utterly, totally haunting. It's on iTunes if anyone wants to sample.

Otherwise... I don't know. I just know there will be a lot of music. And alcohol.

Here's an update on some NOLA musicians.

New Orleans musician Charmaine Neville, since Monday, he tried "not to think the worst." His mother and some friends had planned to wait out the storm, then make a run for a school if conditions worsened. "I know my mom," he said yesterday afternoon. "She's a strong woman." Neville's father, Charles, is a member of the Neville Brothers, whose hits include "Fly Like an Eagle," "A Change Is Gonna Come" and "Ain't No Sunshine."

I'm glad to see that Charmaine's okay - I saw her at Snug Harbor. But I'm sure Steve Miller, Sam Cooke and Bill Withers would be surprised to see their hits attributed to the Neville Brothers.