SUNDAY SHUFFLE #132

I'm on my college spring break this week, so maybe I'll get to other posts. Maybe. This past week was one where I was in more of a reading mode than a watching mode...I really don't have time to be in both at once. I'm always in a listening mode, though, so let's get to the songs...

1. Red Dust/Iron And Wine/Calexico (11)
2. Apple/Saturday Looks Good To Me (9)
3. Jornada Del Muerto #20/South San Gabriel (5)
4. A Cunning Latch/Portastatic (4)
5. No Backbone/The Lemonheads (14)
6. Fisher of Men/M. Ward (6)
7. Marie Provost/Nick Lowe (5)
8. Elijah/The Mountain Goats (9)
9. Jimmy the Exploder/The White Stripes (10)
10. If It Works/Tokyo Police Club (12)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #130

Lots of college work this week wiped out any chance of posting. I may get one or two up today but I've got a pretty bad cold, so my head isn't that sharp. We'll see. It doesn't take any brainpower to bring you today's ten, however, so without further rambling...

1. Half Dead/The Mountain Goats (9)
2. Nineteen Seventy Nine/Lucero (4)
3. California Stopover/The Ladybug Transistor (7)
4. Shooting Rockets (From the Desk of Night's Ape)/Destroyer (8)
5. The Next Messiah/Jenny Lewis (8)
6. Don't Buy the Realistic/Spoon (3)
7. Black Hole/The Rosebuds (8)
8. Little Brother/Elk City (10)
9. Black Rain, Black Rain/A.A. Bondy (13)
10. Suzy Lee/The White Stripes (11)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #121

Christmas break is finally here at the Steiner household; my wife was supposed to be in school the next two days but they were just called off due to the bitter cold (-2 right now) and the chance of a bunch of snow on Tuesday. My brother is flying in on Tuesday and I hope his flight can come in on time and that it doesn't take hours and hours to get him picked up. Other than that, there is a bunch of reading and watching and listening in my immediate future. Oh, and a lot of eating. I do plan on doing some year-end wrap-up posts and then hope to start fresh in 2009. Of course, there is still one more Sunday Shuffle left in 2008 after today. Speaking of today, here's the music...

1. Valerie/Crooked Fingers (2)
2. Poke/Frightened Rabbit (11)
3. Letter From Belgium/The Mountain Goats (18)
4. Open The Door/British Sea Power (4)
5. Spaghetti Western/Hoodoo Gurus (3)
6. Remnants/My Morning Jacket (5)
7. Acid Tongue/Jenny Lewis (6)
8. You Are Free/Mates of State (4)
9. Sugar Never Tasted So Good/The White Stripes (13)
10. Aly, Walk With Me/The Raveonettes (6)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #111

Happy 67th birthday to my dad, who doesn't read this blog and wouldn't like any of the music anyway. Still, I love him a lot and hope to have him around for a long long time to come.

1. Thirteen/Elliott Smith (10)
2. Sinking Ships/Sloan (9)
3. Hold On to This Coat/The Rosebuds (8)
4. Almost Ready/Dinosaur Jr. (10)
5. Fire Island, AK/The Long Winters (7)
6. pleasure is mine/Matthew Sweet (5)
7. Crimson/Apples In Stereo (11)
8. Carnival on 7th Street/The Clientele (8)
9. Catch Them All/Headlights (4)
10. Sugar Never Tasted So Good/The White Stripes (10)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #110

I'd planned on doing some more posts this week but I got distracted by the vice-presidential debate, baseball, and life in general. Maybe this week. In the meantime, here are 10 more songs from my iTunes...

1. Stay Positive/The Hold Steady (13)
2. Mess Inside/The Mountain Goats (9)
3. Stolen Earrings/Two Hours Traffic (14)
4. Grace Cathedral Hill/The Decemberists (2)
5. Funny Little Frog/Belle and Sebastian (16)
6. Do/The White Stripes (10)
7. My Love Is True/The Broken West (16)
8. The Desert/Verbena (3)
9. 1,000 Wives/The Whigs (12)
10. Tremoloa Debut/Broken Social Scene (1)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #100

I can't believe I've done 100 of these things already. What's scarier is that this is my 518th post, which means Sunday Shuffle makes up 19.3% of my total blog posts. I guess that shouldn't be too big of a shock, especially since I've been posting very sparsely of late. I had been toying with stopping this feature once I got to 100 or even stopping the blog for a while, but I'm going to keep going and let whatever happens happen. It's one of my Sunday rituals (along with Sports Reporters and Baseball Tonight half of the year) and I enjoy it too much to let it go. You know what, let's make today's a double too...

1. The Windows on the World/American Music Club (8)
2. Black Buttons/Portastatic (15)
3. the sun fell on you (ps 119:82)/The Prayers and Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers (26)
4. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down (live)/Jeff Tweedy (3)
5. Elvis, I Don't Love You Anymore/Harvey Danger (8)
6. Psalm/M. Ward (7)
7. Pretty Girl from San Diego/The Avett Brothers (4)
8. Meat Is Murder/Shout Out Louds (6)
9. Ella's Arms/Warren Zanes (11)
10. I Fought Piranhas/The White Stripes (10)
11. All My Banks/The Whigs (11)
12. Fakey Fake/Earlimart (11)
13. Slow Show (Daytrotter session)/The National (5)
14. Metal School/Spoon (5)
15. Quito/The Mountain Goats (16)
16. London Bridges/Josh Rouse (7)
17. First Few Desparate Hours/The Mountain Goats (13)
18. Stop Breathin/Pavement (6)
19. It's Now/Imperial Teen (6)
20. Last Year's Rain Didn't Fall Quite So Hard/The Twilight Sad (5)

SUNDAY SHUFFLE #92

Welcome to June! Looks like summer might be here to stay - I took the storm windows off yesterday, so it had better be.

1. Trouble/Voxtrot (6)
2. Introduction/Voxtrot (5)
3. Arms & Hearts/The Hold Steady (15)
4. Astro/The White Stripes (7)
5. Kicking TV/Wilco (13)
6. Honey, I Never Had You/The Raveonettes (3)
7. New Year's Day/The Broken West (18)
8. Stop Breaking Down/The White Stripes (7)
9. Summertime/Josh Rouse (9) - A perfect song to pop up today!
10. Ella's Arms/Warren Zanes (10)