{"id":232,"date":"2006-05-05T11:08:02","date_gmt":"2006-05-05T11:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/05\/songs-to-run-errands-to\/"},"modified":"2006-05-05T11:08:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-05T11:08:02","slug":"songs-to-run-errands-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/05\/songs-to-run-errands-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs to Run Errands To"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be busy nearly all day today with our annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.union.edu\/Academics\/Special\/Steinmetz\/2006\/schedule_presenters.php\">undergraduate research symposium<\/a> on campus. I&#8217;m bribing some of my intro students to attend (five points on next week&#8217;s exam), and chairing a session, and judging the annual student research award, so it&#8217;s a full day.<\/p>\n<p>As a distraction (the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/05\/05\/health\/05dread.html?ex=1304481600&#038;en=2b8a35f8781ddc1c&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">best way to avoid dread<\/a>, as any fule kno, though some fules with brain scanners have now conclusively shown it), here&#8217;s a set of ten songs that my iPod threw out yesterday while I was running errands. With one exception, they were all pretty good songs for driving around on a gorgeous spring day:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Do You Want To,&#8221; Franz Ferdinand. Aggressively stupid, but really catchy.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Vertigo,&#8221; U2. One, two, three, fourteen.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Layla,&#8221; Derek and the Dominos. The famous coda is longer than some songs.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Sodajerk,&#8221; Buffalo Tom. An underrated band.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Things Have Changed,&#8221; Bob Dylan. Didn&#8217;t he win an Oscar for this?<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Elegy for Elisabet,&#8221; the Weakerthans. The one dud&#8211; it&#8217;s not bad, just mopey, like everything on <cite>Left and Leaving<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Life After Lisa,&#8221; Bowling for Soup. From mopey straight to juvenile&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The Lion Sleeps Tonight,&#8221; They Might Be Giants. Hush my darling, be still my darling, the lion&#8217;s on the phone.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;A Kind of Magic,&#8221; Queen. I think this was originally associated with <cite>Highlander<\/cite>.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Some Fantastic,&#8221; Barenaked Ladies. Just like pheremones for flies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a good weekend, everybody.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m going to be busy nearly all day today with our annual undergraduate research symposium on campus. I&#8217;m bribing some of my intro students to attend (five points on next week&#8217;s exam), and chairing a session, and judging the annual student research award, so it&#8217;s a full day. As a distraction (the best way to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/05\/05\/songs-to-run-errands-to\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Songs to Run Errands To<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}