Friday Random Ten

And for a Friday evening, a playlist:

Myriad Harbour - The New Pornographers
Down On The River By The Sugar Plant - Mike Doughty
Dance Till the Morning - Brazilian Girls
Sol (Batucada) - Kinky
(I Don't Want To Go To) Chelsea - Elvis Costello & The Attractions
How My Heart Behaves - Feist
Sweet Caroline - Neil Diamond
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - The Band
Make-Up - Elefant
Star Witness - Neko Case

All right, point of personal privilege on the "Sweet Caroline" nonsense. I am a big Neil Diamond fan, and like all Neil Diamond fans, I detest that song. It's probably in there because it was on some compilation album. Every time I hear it I have this vision of white people in party hats singing that song directly to each other and jumping around in the bar like assholes. In fact, I saw EXACTLY that last weekend in Washington at some Irish bar.

It may be time to update the ol' iPod.