The Friday Shuffle: The Tonight's-Sex-Dwarf Edition

You know the rules: put the old digitial music player on shuffle. Report back the first ten songs it spits out. No skipping, apologizing or rationalizing.

Here goes...

1. Sit Down (James) -- James
2. Manifest Destiny/Sorority Tears (Ganging Up on the Sun) -- Guster
3. Change Your Mind (Hot Fuss) -- The Killers
4. Close to Me (Staring at the Sea) -- The Cure
5. We Are Nowhere and it's Now (I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning) -- Bright Eyes
6. Such Great Heights (Give Up) -- The Postal Service
7. And She Was (Little Creatures) -- Talking Heads
8. The Day I Let Glory Steer (This Town is Wrong) -- The Nields
9. Rockin' the Suburbs (Rockin' the Suburbs) -- Ben Folds
10. Same Old City (Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts) -- Velocity Girl

General Thoughts: Not as Sex Dwarf-y as last week's set, but oh well. We did get the Cure in there, at least... Oh, and finally a Nields song! And, lastly, I should mention here that I would ordinarily be getting pretty psyched for the forthcoming Guster album, but given the above recent download from it, I'm not quite sure what to expect...

Seen Live: Guster, The Nields, Velocity Girl (the latter was one of the most fun shows ever: VG's farewell gig at the 9:30 Club in DC around '97...)

Favorite Song: A toss-up between "Sit Down," "Glory" and "Same Old City" depending on mood and circumstance.

Least Favorite Song: "Rockin' the Suburbs"

Favorite Album(s): Give Up and Gilded Stars and Zealous Hearts

Memory Trigger: Whenever I hear "Sit Down" I think of going to Sorted (a britpop dance party) at the Troc with MS in the late 90s. What fun...

For more Random Friday, head on over to Apartment 2024 where Marisa always plays and compiles a Master Link List...

I'm off for now, Kids. Happy Friday.