i’m getting ready to finish up a 2-week break from work here and it occurred to me that not once in that period did i have the slightest desire to update this blog. i guess i still don’t, since all i’ve got is this lazy post with a bunch of songs that remind me of the ways i have been spending my time…. mostly video games. lots of video games…

ratchet and clank future: tools of destruction (ps3)

mp3: kid tiger – future umbrella

mp3: daft punk – robot rock

mp3: david bowie – space oddity [re-recorded single b side, 1979]

little big planet: game of the year edition (ps3)

mp3: talbot tagora – we live in a sack

mp3: the shins – fighting in a sack

mp3: the flaming lips – my own planet

the conduit (wii)

mp3: pavement – conduit for sale (live)

mp3: pet politics – taken away by aliens

the legend of zelda – spirit tracks (ds)

[there are at least a dozen train related songs that this game brings to mind, but here are a few of the most pertinent]

mp3: the kinks – last of the steam powered trains

mp3: the olivia tremor control – a peculiar noise called ‘train director’

mp3: silver jews – trains across the sea (live)

insaneaquarium (pc)

mp3: the idles – bonus pet

wicked (broadway)

mp3: scissor sisters – return to oz

mp3: the flaming lips – if i only had a brain

mp3: the flaming lips – somewhere over the rainbow

touring mansions/manors where people get married

mp3: the microphones – the mansion

mp3: the m’s – mansion in the valley

mp3: the national – mansion on the hill

driving to ny, many other places

mp3: eels – woman driving, man sleeping

mp3: smog – driving

watching stupid movies

mp3: thinking fellers union local #282 – star trek

mp3: harry and the potters – sectumsempra

mp3: the cure – the last day of summer

sleeping

mp3: bonnie “prince” billy – bed is for sleeping

mp3: silver jews – sleeping is the only love (demo)

mp3: harry nilsson – are you sleeping

eating lots of stuff / reading good eats: the early years

mp3: mount eerie – cooking

mp3: malvina reynolds – the new restaurant

mp3: the mountain goats – jam eater blues

mp3: pavement – soul food

Related posts:

1. record store day 2009
2. out of space
3. it’s halloween on the barbary coast again
4. moonlight mile
5. cold swedish winter