Music for a Waterlogged Los Angeles

Mud slides, runaway boulders crashing into apartment buildings, 40 foot sink holes swallowing entire roadways. Trees have begun to take their revenge and the DSL is spotty. To top it off, there's a 600 lb. African lion roaming the north suburbs.

Hey, how about we just stay inside today? Good idea. Here's the music you'll need:

• Talking Heads, The Name of This Band is Talking Heads (“I'm Not In Love”). I'm so glad my favorite live album ever finally came out on CD.
• Anything by Lou Reed. Well, you know, almost anything.
• The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night (“I Should Have Known Better”).
• Neutral Milk Hotel, On Avery Island or In The Aeroplane Over The Sea (but always make sure to play “My Dreamgirl Don't Exist”).
• Nick Cave's great new double album Abattoir Blues/Lyre of Orpheus (“There She Goes, My Beautiful World”).

Lori has turned me into a Beatles fan (actually, a bunch of the above suggestions are hers; I'll take good ideas where I can get them).

Posted by jjwiseman at February 21, 2005 03:57 PM