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I finished in the pool on Friday, started my classwork yesterday, and start school on Wednesday. The calendar says summer lasts for another month plus, but it is quickly coming to an end mentally. I'm gearing up to make this a great school year - my 9th at Central. I'll be student teaching starting in March, which will be here before I know it, I'm sure. I'm going to do my best to balance between school and school and swimming lessons and life, to try to not get bogged down in the work and stress about it. I know I won't be able to engage in pop culture as much as I'd like, but that's okay. I'll appreciate every book I do get to read or TV show I'm able to keep up with. The one good thing is that music is always able to be a constant. Don't know what I'd do without it. Anyway, I got a little rambly this morning and I apologize if I bored you. Just a little State of the Justin for the 2016-2017 school year. Let's get on with today's te...

I'm not quite ready to start my new feature, which I think will be on Saturdays. I'm also not ready to give up the shuffle, or put it on hiatus. So, let's get to today's ten... 1. New Zion/The Mountain Goats (2) - last played on 4/12/15 2. Rococo/Arcade Fire (21) - last played on 1/24/16 3. Looking Through/Nada Surf (16) - last played on 5/28/14 4. Flowering/Tweedy (5) - last played on 2/8/16 5. Love Is All I Am/Dawes (14) - last played on 8/26/12 6. Magnolia Mountain/Ryan Adams (10) - last played on 12/28/15 7. Oh My Sweet Carolina/Portastatic (10) - last played on 11/5/14 8. Like A Train/Paul Burch (5) - last played on 10/22/10 9. The First Part/Superchunk (18) - last played on 3/22/15 10. Click, Click, Click, Click/Bishop Allen (6) - last played on 8/11/14

For the first time in a few months (at least), I've added some albums to my iTunes this week. Will any of those songs show up in today's ten? Only one way to find out... 1. Broken Links/The Ladybug Transistor (4) - last played on 4/7/13 2. Where Are The Prawns/The Soft Boys (2) - last played on 4/14/13 3. Promenade/U2 (5) - last played on 1/2/13 4. Gold Star for Robot Boy/Guided By Voices (7) - last played on 7/31/12 5. No Backbone/The Lemonheads (7) - last played on 11/4/12 6. Is Love Forever?/Spoon (15) - last played on 8/3/14 7. No Reason/Nick Lowe (6) - last played on 10/27/13 8. Gimmeakiss/The Avett Brothers (6) - last played on 10/24/12 9. City With No Children/Arcade Fire (21) - last played on 9/11/13 10. Slow Jabroni/Surfer Blood (8) - last played on 12/16/12

I'd meant to get one or two other posts up this week but it obviously didn't happen. Maybe this week... 1. Little Caney/Glossary (3) - last played on 7/6/11 2. Do It Better/Imperial Teen (5) - last played on 10/23/11 3. How Long/Charles Bradley (9) - last played on 9/6/12 4. Night Falls/Cracker (3) - last played on 3/27/11 5. Sweetheart/M. Ward (10) - last played on 10/3/12 6. Empty Room/Arcade Fire (16) - last played on 9/11/12 7. Golden Dunes/The Budos Band (9) - last played on 8/5/12 8. Under the Westway/Blur (6) - last played on 9/18/12 9. Chips and Dip/Spoon (5) - last played on 7/8/11 10. A Sentence Of Sorts In Kongsvinger/Of Montreal (3) - last played on 8/10/11

This is our spring break week, which makes me happy. I do have things to do, the most important of which is continuing to work on my giant paper for college, but I also have the luxury of time. This morning we are going to see The Hunger Games , so I should get to today's ten... 1. Caucasian Blues/Jarvis Cocker (4) - last played on 8/29/10 2. Belvedere/Patterson Hood (3) - last played on 11/12/11 3. Call Me/Reigning Sound (5) - last played on 2/5/12 4. Like a Pearl/Portastatic (5) - last played on 3/11/11 5. Rococo/Arcade Fire (15) - last played on 3/11/12 6. Have You Ever Seen the Rain?/Creedence Clearwater Revival (3) - last played on 8/5/10 7. G Turns To D/Sloan (5) - last played on 2/5/12 8. 7/4 (Shoreline)/Broken Social Scene (5) - last played on 1/22/12 9. Sleep Tonight/Stars (2) - last played on 3/4/12 10. (Quicksilver Dreams of) Maria/Steve Earle (3) - last played on 3/4/12

I hope everyone remembered to set their clocks ahead last night. It looks like we're in for some real spring-like temperatures this week, doesn't it? Spring break is only two weeks away. Anyway, I do have a lot I want to accomplish today, so let's go ahead and start today's ten... 1. Blue Day/Heartless Bastards (3) - last played on 8/1/10 2. Viennese Hangover/The Smithereens (9) - last played on 12/19/11 3. Beautiful Car/M. Ward (3) - last played on 2/26/12 4. Will You Return?/The Avett Brothers (4) - last played on 8/9/11 5. Rococo/Arcade Fire (14) - last played on 1/27/12 6. Remedy/The Black Crowes (7) - last played on 10/22/10 7. Rollin' Back/My Morning Jacket (4) - last played on 2/24/11 8. Black, Blue/The Avett Brothers (4) - last played on 10/16/11 9. 3000 Flowers/Destroyer (5) - last played on 11/20/11 10. Change My Life/Spoon (3) - last played on 8/20/11

Let's just get right to today's ten... 1. Water In Hell/Broken Social Scene (5) - last played on 12/27/10 2. Ransom Man/Delta Spirit (12) - last played on 7/10/11 3. The Suburbs (continued)/Arcade Fire (15) - last played on 1/28/12 4. Faberge Falls For Shuggie/Of Montreal (3) - last played on 8/6/10 5. Magazines/The Hold Steady (4) - last played on 9/11/11 6. I Swallowed a Dragonfly/Heartless Bastards (4) - last played on 8/7/11 7. I Can't Sleep/Sloan (13) - last played on 11/20/11 8. Half Right/Elliott Smith (3) - last played on 1/8/12 9. Took My Lady To Dinner/King Khan and The Shrines (2) - last played on 5/2/10 10. Farewell To the Pressure Kids/Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew (3) - last played on 11/12/10

It's time once again for the annual Sunday before Thanksgiving double issue. We will be on the road for a good portion of next Sunday, so there won't be a chance to post a new one. I'm also getting down to crunch time in my semester but it will all be over in less than four weeks. Since I have plenty to do, let's get to today's twenty... 1. Ready To Start/Arcade Fire (14) 2. A Certain Guy/Mary Weiss (4) 3. 3000 Flowers/Destroyer (4) 4. Sun Is King/Laura Veirs (5) 5. Carpetbaggers/Jenny Lewis (3) 6. These Days Nothing But Sunshine/The Clientele (3) 7. Still Your Man/Paul Burch (3) 8. Unison Falling Into Harmony/Great Lake Swimmers (3) 9. Wrecking Ball/Crooked Fingers (3) 10. Streetlights/Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (8) 11. I am Morris Townsend (No-Fi Transmission)/The Prayers & Tears of Arthur Digby Sellers (4) 12. Coconut/Harry Nilsson (2) 13. A Glow/Okkervil River (2) 14. Counting the Scars/Centro-Matic (2) 15. Dizzy Miss Lizzy/The Beatles (6)...

This is the last Sunday Shuffle of my 30s, as my 40th birthday is on Tuesday. I'm also on spring break from the day job but I have a paper due today and one tomorrow for college, plus some final papers looming. So, I'll stop rambling and we can get to the music... 1. Blue Beard/Band of Horses (13) 2. Time Will Tell/The Black Crowes (3) 3. Leftovers/Jarvis Cocker (2) 4. Rainy Days and Mondays/Cracker (1) 5. Agony of Lafitte/Spoon (7) 6. Good/Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit (2) 7. Wasted Hours/Arcade Fire (11) 8. I Keep Coming Back/The Afghan Whigs (9) 9. Wedding Day/Alejandro Escovedo (3) 10. Living In Debt/The Henry Clay People (6)