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Lots to do and I want to be able to do some reading and watching for me as well, so let's get right to today's ten... 1. Sleep Tonight/Stars (9) - last played on 5/1/16 2. Wet Cement/The Morning Benders (8) - last played on 12/22/10 3. Sweet Tooth/King Khan And The Shrines (5) - last played on 12/16/12 4. Neglekted/The Afghan Whigs (29) - last played on 8/15/14 5. The Next Messiah/Jenny Lewis (7) - last played on 10/27/13 6. The Hill/Ty Segall (13) - last played on 11/1/15 7. Got It Bad/The Broken West (10) - last played on 9/2/12 8. The Meat Of Life/Clem Snide (18) - last played on 3/11/15 9. Apocalypse Dreams/Tame Impala (4) - last played on 11/3/14 10. 15 Step/Radiohead (18) - last played on 3/13/16

Last Sunday in September already... 1. No Time For Dreaming/Charles Bradley (14) - last played on 9/6/14 2. The Laws Have Changed/The New Pornographers (2) - last played on 11/1/14 3. Nuclear Daydream/Joseph Arthur (5) - last played on 1/11/15 4. I Will Be There When You Die/My Morning Jacket (8) - last played on 6/9/13 5. Hospital Beds/Cold War Kids (5) - last played on 2/24/13 6. You Are A Light/Pavement (15) - last played on 1/2/14 7. Denise/Clem Snide (18) - last played on 12/2/12 8. Ballad of Vitaly/Delta Spirit (17) - last played on 6/23/13 9. Castanets/Alejandro Escovedo (4) - last played on 10/27/14 10. Young Men Dead/The Black Angels (7) - last played on 1/4/15

It's a good thing the Super Bowl party I'm going to is next door because today's snowstorm means traveling much farther than that is a no go. My parents were supposed to come as well but they are snowed in and even had church cancelled this morning. As for the game itself, I'm more rooting against the Patriots than rooting for the Seahawks but I do hope it's at least competitive. I'm going to do something quite different today. Every Sunday I do this shuffle, I let the music run long after the first 10. Some days I might listen to 100 songs this way or more. So, in honor of Super Bowl XLIX I'm going to list the first 49 songs that pop up today. Crazy, yes, but why not... 1. Bartomelo And The Buzzing Of Bees/Ted Leo & The Pharmacists (16) - last played on 9/15/13 2. Let's Love/Matthew Sweet (7) - last played on 4/15/12 3. Karen/The National (1) - loaded onto iTunes some time in Dec. 2014 4. Black Hole/She & Him (9) - last played on 6/23/1...

I'd had thoughts of taking a break, what with 325 being a decent number to stop on, but I feel like doing one this morning, so here we go... 1. Yeah It's Beautiful Here Too/Superchunk (9) - last played on 2/24/13 2. The Mystery Zone/Spoon (12) - last played on 4/16/12 3. A Rose for Emily/The Zombies (13) - last played on 4/14/13 4. Guide Down Denied/Grandaddy (7) - last played on 3/31/13 5. Come Undone/Isobell Campbell & Mark Lanegan (10) - last played on 12/5/12 6. The Crooked Spine/M. Ward (4) - last played on 1/1/12 7. Your Apocalypse/Crooked Fingers (9) - last played on 1/19/13 8. With Nothing To Show For It/Clem Snide (15) - last played on 3/21/12 9. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid/The Decemberists (4) - last played on 2/20/12 10. She Was No Good/Elvis Costello (5) - last played on 2/21/13

I watched all 12 innings of the ALCS last night and was able to get quite a bit of Telegraph Avenue read during commercials, enough so that I can finish it today. Thinking about going for a run before the rain comes in this morning too. So, let's get to today's ten... 1. La Costa Brava/Ted Leo & Pharmacists (4) - last played on 7/11/12 2. By My Car/My Morning Jacket (4) - last played on 8/13/11 3. Grace/U2 (3) - last played on 3/25/12 4. Dignity And Shame/Crooked Fingers (6) - last played on 7/8/11 5. Waves/The Twilight Singers (8) - last played on 9/16/12 6. Last Train/Mavis Staples (6) - last played on 5/8/11 7. Almsgiver/Glossary (3) - last played on 3/4/12 8. Anita/Clem Snide (15) - last played on 3/21/12 9. Susie Q/Creedence Clearwater Revival (4) - last played on 5/7/12 10. I Want to Love You in My Room/Irving (3) - last played on 1/22/12

Summer has arrived but school is not out yet - my son and I have four days to go this week, though my wife is already done. I also will be back in the water teaching swimming at the Y as of tomorrow. Endings and beginnings, as usual. Anyway, let's get to today's ten... 1. Chester the Molester/Sloan (7) 2. Walmart Parking Lot/Clem Snide (16) 3. Someone You'd Admire/Fleet Foxes (6) 4. Brinx Job/Pavement (1) 5. Worst Trip/Dr. Dog (3) 6. Wings/Josh Ritter (5) 7. We Were Wealth/Wye Oak (7) 8. Color of Water/M. Ward (2) 9. Fire & Fast Bullets/Blitzen Trapper (2) 10. See America Right/The Mountain Goats (2)

Here's what I've been listening to the last two weeks or so... Clem Snide/The Meat of Life - This album made was in a Heavy Rotation just over a year ago, after it first came out. A recommendation of one of their earlier albums by Stephen Thompson on Pop Culture Happy Hour sent me back to this one. These songs are literate folk pop explorations of sublime despair...or something like that. Highlights include "Walmart Parking Lot," "I Got High," and "The Great Barrier Reef." Middle Brother/Middle Brother - This is a group featuring the leads in the bands Dawes, Delta Spirit, and Deer Tick. They each bring a set of songs to the table but collaborate on them with beautiful harmonies and great guitars. I'll have more to say when I get around to reviewing the whole album in my 2011 run-through, which I still plan to do. The Shins/Wincing the Night Away - This is an album that makes me think of spring, in part because I think it came out in the spr...