March and what has so far passed for April have been ridiculous. My social calendar (listen to me, talking like a civilized lady!) has been full pretty much all this time, and while I finally feel engaged with other human beings for a change, I will take any opportunity to go to bed. Not actually sleeping is not a concern; I’ve been borrowing books and the ever-growing size of the Netflix Watch Instantly queue gets me all hot and bothered.
(Watched No Impact Man on a recent Saturday afternoon. It was okay. The original NYT article was more interesting, and the guy’s wife looks so eerily like Graham’s ex-girlfriend that I got a little weirded out watching her walk around her apartment.)
But lying around in bed feels wrong when the weather’s been so beautiful for days, so I made an If I Owned A Used Bookstore on a Sunny Day playlist. This follows up on my rainy day playlist, which I wrote for my East Coast friends during their hundredth snowstorm of the year.
(Ahem…pretty much all of my playlists are determined based on the fantasy of me owning a used bookstore, which, like all of my business ownership fantasies, is predicated entirely upon me winning a $200+ million lottery someday (yes, I have considered the gift tax). I should mention that I am aware that I am unlikely to own a bookstore someday, and I agree with some blogger I can’t remember let alone link, in that being a bookstore owner is one of those make-believe jobs that people only have in movies, similar to being a wedding planner or a “PR executive.”)
But anyway, here’s the If I Owned a Used Bookstore During a Sunny Day playlist:
Road To Joy – Bright Eyes
Modern Girl – Sleater-Kinney
Shores of California – Dresden Dolls
The Return of Jackie and Judy – Tom Waits
KFD – Left Lane Cruiser
Woe Is You and Me – The Strange Boys
Punk Rock Girl – Dead Milkmen
Hoosier Love – MU330
Lights Out – Santigold
Bruises – Chairlift (this might be on a commercial, but who cares it’s great?)
Silver Lining – Rilo Kiley
I Like Giants – Kimya Dawson
English Girls Approximately – Ryan Adams
Dylan’s Hard Rain – Ryan Bingham
Sweet Black Angel – Rolling Stones
Untitled – Neutral Milk Hotel (from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea)
Just Like Honey – The Jesus and Mary Chain
Comeback Kid – Silversun Pickups
Love My Way – The Psychedelic Furs
Wave of Mutilation – The Pixies
Stand Up – Al Green
Barefootin’ – Wilson Pickett
Summertime – Janis Joplin
Suffragette City – David Bowie
Johnny Ryall – Beastie Boys
Rhinestone Eyes – Gorillaz
Bones – Radiohead
Sealegs – The Shins
Mistaken For Strangers – The National
Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe – Okkervil River
Gardenia – Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
You’re No Rock N’ Roll Fun – Sleater-Kinney
Summer Babe (Winter Version) – Pavement
I’m a Man – Pulp
Jeepster – T. Rex
(Aint That) Good News – Sam Cooke
Cool – West Side Story
Academia – Sia
Piano Song – Heartless Bastards
Concierto de Aranjuez – Miles Davis
When the Night Comes – Dan Auerbach
God Gave Rock n’ Roll To You – KISS
California Dreams theme song – duh.
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(thanks, Robin!)
