( continues...) anything but Zen.

13. A song that does not feature a guitar or a piano as the main instrument - This is the Dream of Win and Regine - Final Fantasy

A song featuring violin. Final Fantasy is mostly, Owen Pallett, a Toronto guy obsessed with video games, who has played with The Arcade Fire and The Hidden Cameras. Strangely, he's toured with the Vinyl Cafe, which is the Canadian equivalent of a Prairie Home Companion.

15. An upbeat song about a sad thing. - Jolie Louis - Daniel Lanois

Unemployment, despair, domestic violence, in Franglais, all to a Cajun inspired ditty. I don't know whether to pity Jean Guy or not.

16. Midnight driving in the rain music. - Climb On (A Back that's Strong) - Shawn Colvin

I like to sing along when I drive. (Or when I'm in the passenger seat.) This album has always been a road trip favourite for me and my BFFs.

17. More cowbell: A song containing that essential instrument - Bye Bye Mon Cowboy - Mitsou

One of the few Quebec pop songs that crossed over into English language charts. After years of being a pop princess, she's now also a journalist and an actress.

18. A song that reminds you of your first love & 19. A song that references some kind of technology - Cloudbusting - Kate Bush

A strange combination, I know. I realized that Cloudbusting doesn't really mention outright the weather machine that's in the video, but I'm sticking with it. And all Kate Bush reminds me of my first love.

22. A song that relates to science - Bachelor of Science - Buck 65

Buck 65 was from Mt Uniacke, NS, but now he lives in Paris. Having a science degree is related enough, eh?

23. A song you sing (or would sing) to your pet and/or child & 10. A song from a tribute or charity album - Biko - Peter Gabriel

Most of my songs for my pets are original works, thank you very much. But since there's no recording of "Mr. Handsomepants" we'll have to settle for Biko. One of my cats is named Pico, so he would often have the chorus of this song sung to him with his name and different lyrics.

24. A song that haunts you - Powerful Lights - The Joel Plaskett Emergency. (with Al Tuck)

You might argue that it's a worse band name than Everything But the Girl and you wouldn't get much disagreement from me. I don't know why this song haunts me, but it does. If it comes up on my iPod, I don't just listen to it once, but 3 or 4 times in a row.

25. A song that you would sing to yourself if you were ever in a dire situation and needed it to keep going - The Theme to Indiana Jones.

It's crazy but true. Whenever I'm under the gun to get something done, I find myself singing this. Whenever, I'm sleep deprived and stressed out, show tunes pop in my head, and I hate that.

27. A song that when you know it's time to LEAVE the BAR someone can put on the jukebox to make you stay - The Best of You - The Foo Fighters.

I am having a little love affair with this song. A month from now, I might look at this mix and say, "What was I thinking?" It's very of the moment.

I bought the "Ramblin' Man" ep by Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan on itunes a while back and really enjoy it. So, I plan on getting the album.

I'm loving that we're getting some NS and other 'regional' songs/artists. This will make me think extra-hard about including some Boston-music.

Sue, I think it is evident from your mix that we both watched a lot of MuchMusic around the same time. I'm laughing and loving being reminded of that era by some of your choices. I have to say I hadn't thought of Mitsou in a long time.

I love that Cloudbusting video and always will.

I swear, Mitsou is everywhere!

I am slooooooow, but I'll have mine up by tomorrow night...

Is there a max size of file that you can send through gmail? I'm on attempt #3 to send one file that almost 6Mb.

Gmail's max is 10mb. If you keep having trouble, though, you may just be better off using YouSendIt. It's what I do.

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In events which once seemed only slightly less unlikely than Mike Bloomfield, who died in 1981, reuniting with Paul Butterfield, it was reported over the weekend that the legendary Roxy Music have been recording with the legendary Brian Eno for the first time in more than 30 years.

Here's one for David (Donald Fagen on Henry Mancini, esp. Peter Gunn. And one for Corwood. I really like this part of the latter piece:

Fagen: But isn't it true that the Leone films, with their elevation of mythic structures, their comic book visual style and extreme irony, are now perceived as signaling an aesthetic transmutation by a generation of artists and filmmakers? And isn't it also true that your music for those films reflected and abetted Leone's vision by drawing on the same eerie catalog of genres—Hollywood western, Japanese samurai, American pop, and Italian Opera? That your scores functioned both "inside" the film as a narrative voice and "outside" the film as the commentary of a winking jester? Put it all together and doesn't it spell "postmodern", in the sense that there has been a grotesque encroachment of the devices of art and, in fact, an establishment of a new narrative plane founded on the devices themselves? Isn't that what's attracting lower Manhattan?

Morricone: [ shrugs ]

Understatement and people getting whacked in the head are my favorite comic devices.

And speaking of comedy, Mr. Smay, I finally got the Tick DVDs. It confirmed my mantra that Patrick Warburton should be in everything. Liz Vassey, too. (That picture is my wallpaper at work; gets some strange looks.) The whole cast is great, and one great guest star after another! Dave Foley, of course, but also his predecessor at WNYX, Kurt "Destroyo" Fuller (Dave - the character - replaced him as news director in the Newsradio pilot); Armin "Snyder" Shimerman, unrecognizable, or at least unrecognized on first watch, under a crapload of makeup as The Terror; Kari Coleman, the bitchy, thieving health teacher Mrs. Hauser on Veronica Mars (and IRL Mrs. Kyle "Jake Kane but he'll always be Tim Bayliss to me" Secor as the Tick's "wife" in "The License"; Sam "The Immortal" McMurray, who's well-known to any Tracy Ullman Show fan; and my favorite, Peter Bergman as Metcalf, the guy who needs a machine to poop. Who he? Who HE? Peter Bergman? Betty Jo Bialoski? Melanie Haber? Oh, you mean Nancy! Yep, Peter Mudhead Bergman in the flesh. That Captain Liberty's got a balcony you could do Shakespeare from! And I want some Tick antennae! I'd pay good money for those! Somebody get me away from this damn exclamation point! It's like I just reread The Dog of the South! That may be the most arcane joke I've made in this thread!

Okay. I'm done. Sorry about that.