In Case of Emergency, Your Seat Will Act As a Floatation Device.

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First the snow, the endless, bitter "Insomnia"-like white menace. Now....flooding. Again. Didn't this already happen in November?

Oh, what's that? OHhhh that's right. I apologize -- what I mean was, "Didn't this happen in November...TWICE?"



I'm about to lose my mind, frankly. This is just too much. I have a pug, a 9 year-old, the amoral levity of the internet, Stephen King paperbacks and music to keep me sane.

In fact, I spent an hour today making a playlist which can sufficiently define my current mood. I call it "Weird Nightmare" (a nerdly nod to Charles Mingus, yes, you guessed correctly).

The list has to have that which is surreal, vaudevillian nightmarish, the weird and wonderous. If I'm leaving out something you think would be absolutely essential, drop me a line. I'll at least put up a partial list. Maybe I'll inspire other Sultanites to not succumb to cabin fever! ;) One can only hope.

"Weird Nightmare" Playlist, take one.

1) Kronos Quartet -- "Pannonia Boundless, for string quartet"
2) Azam Ali -- "Aj Ondas"
3) Rebekah Del Río -- "Llorando (Crying)"
4) The Pixies -- "Wave of Mutilation [U.K. Surf]"
5) Angelo Badalamenti - "Red Bats With Teeth"
6) Marilyn Manson -- "Apple of Sodom"
7) Rammstein -- "Rammstein"
8) The Doors -- "People Are Strange"
9) Dr. John -- "Right Place, Wrong Time"
10) Beach Boys -- "Good Vibrations"
11) The Beatles -- "Helter Skelter"
12) Beck -- cover of "Diamond Dogs"
13) A Perfect Circle -- "Passive"
14) Billy Idol -- "Eyes Without A Face"
15) David Lynch & John Neff -- "Mountains Falling"
16) Bobby Darin -- "Mack the Knife"
17) The Coasters -- "Down in Mexico"
18) The Rolling Stones -- "Sympathy for the Devil"
19) Creedence Clearwater Revival -- "Bad Moon Rising"
20) Frank Zappa -- "The Torture Never Stops"
21) Jefferson Airplane -- "White Rabbit"
22) Black Sabbath -- "Iron Man"
23) Samuel L. Jackson -- "Black Snake Moan"
24) King Crimson -- "The Court of the Crimson King"
25) The Pixies -- "Where Is My Mind?"
26) Leonard Cohen -- "Closing Time"
27) MC 900 Ft. Jesus -- "The City Sleeps"
28) Nancy Sinatra -- "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)"
29) Nina Simone -- cover of "I Put A Spell On You"
30) Tom Waits -- "We're All Mad Here"
31) Nine Inch Nails -- "Sanctified"
32) A Perfect Circle -- "Magdalena"
33) The Police -- "Wrapped Around Your Finger"
34) Revolting Cocks -- cover of "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?"
35) Santana -- "Black Magic Woman"
36) Sonic Youth -- "Washing Machine"
37) Warren Zevon -- "Werewolves of London"
38) Tom Waits -- "Everything You Can Think"
39) U2 -- "Numb"
40 ) 'Whispering' Jack Smith -- "Me and My Shadow"

That's the playlist so far. I cannot for the life of me find my copy of "All The Things You Could Be By Now If Sigmund Freud's Wife Was Your Mother" by Charles Mingus, which is lame. Besides being a completely epic title for a song, it's actually a really good Mingus tune.

I bet it is on the other computer. Stay dry and warm, everyone. :)

Current Reads: Stephen King's "The Langoliers" and Mario Puzo's "Omerta".