Blog From The Bench

I'm completely obsessed with my iPod shuffle because I have made it my car stereo - fits right in to the VW decor. The thing about the shuffle is it doesn't have much memory and only lets you load up 120 songs or roughly eight and a half hours of music. So I end up every Saturday reconfiguring it for the week. For some reason today I ended up with tons of Cheap Trick. Why is it that Summer means I want to tool around listening to "Surrender", "The Dream Police", and "I Want You to Want Me"? I've seen the guys live many times (lately opening for acts they should be headlining over), and they are way too much fun. Also ended up watching a movie about The Runaways on Showtime - remember them? I don't either because I wasn't really into jailbait rock when I was in preschool, but it was the formative group for people like Joan Jett and Lita Ford. Grab the Greatest Hits somehow, and marvel at how far ahead they were of their time. Little more recent in music history I also find myself actually missing the 90s. Concrete Blonde, Mazzy Starr, and Local H have all ended up in the current playlist. I never thought back in the alt-rock heyday that I would miss the music, but it seems to have disappeared after ruling a decade. New stuff I actually bought recently include Leela James who actually puts the blues back in to "R&B". Seems like urban music (for lack of a better moniker) is the only thing interesting out now. Whoops! I forgot about the Hives and the Killers who are constantly rocking the VW whenever I'm not listening to "She's Tight" by Cheap Trick.