Pick the Playlist

"PLAY GLEEMER!!" (only a handful will get that)

I think Pitchfork Fest did something like this a few years ago. This will probably only interest the GBV loving folk out there, so apologies in advance to those who have no idea (but feel free to chime in anyway).  Anyways...Andy from The Textbook Committee forwarded me the following list of tunes the other day, all of which are within their repertoire.

So here's your chance.  Many of you are traveling from quite a distance, so feel free to pick the tunes you want to hear!  Or, for the Cheap Trick lovers...see the last track :)

14 Cheerleader Coldfront

A Crick Uphill

A Salty Salute

Alone, Stinking, and Unafraid

Beg For A WheelBarrow

Big Boring Wedding

Bull Spears

Chief Barrell Belly

Cut-Out Witch

Dayton, OH, 19 Something & 5

Do the Earth

Don't Stop Now

Drag Days

Dragons Awake

Drinker's Peace

Echos Myron

Ester's Day

Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking)

Exit Flagger

Expecting Brainchild

Fair Touching

Finks

Flat Beauty

Fly Into Ashes

Game of Pricks

Get Under It

Girls of Wild Strawberries

Glad Girls

Goldheart Moutaintop Queen Directory

Goldstar For Robot Boy

He's The Uncle

Hot Freaks

Huffman Prairie Flying Field

I Am a Scientist

I'm a Widow

I've Owned You for Centuries

Key Losers

Let It Rest For A Little While

Lethargy

Little Lines

Maggie Turns To Flies

Man Called Aerodynamics

Motor Away

Much Better Mr. Buckles

Mute Superstar

My Impression Now

My Son Cool

My Valuable Hunting Knife

Navigating Flood Regions

Not Behind The Fighter Jet

Over the Neptune / Mesh Gear Fox

Pantherz

Paradise Is Not So Bad

Peep-hole

Pimple Zoo

Portable Men's Society

Postal Blowfish

Psych-Threat

Queen of Cans and Jars

Red Ink Superman

Redmen and Their Wives

Sad If I Lost It

Sensational Gravity Boy

Shocker In Gloomtown

Sister I Need Wine

Skills Like This

Smothered In Hugs

Squirmish Frontal Room

Stiff Me

Stifled Man Casino

Stingy Queens

Storm Vibrations

Striped White Jets

Subspace Biographies

Surgical Focus

Teenage FBI

The Best of Jill Hives

The Brides Have Hit Glass

The Closets of Henry

The Wheel Hits the Path (Quite Soon)

Time Machines

Tractor Rape Chain

Underground Initiations

Underwater Explosions

Unleashed! The Large Hearted Boy

Useless Inventions

Watch Me Jumpstart

When She Turns 50

White Whale

Wished I Was a Giant

Wormhole

Wrecking Now

Auf Wiedersehen*

Had to post this Cheap Trick video for "Auf Wiedersehen." First off, it rocks. But it also reminds me of the first records I had as a kid, thanks to my cousins Joe and Tony.  I remember removing a few of my mom's favorites from the turntable, like some Carly Simon or Melissa Manchester record, and dropping the needle on Cheap Trick at Budokan.  Of course, "Auf Wiedersehen" wasn't released until some years later on Budokan II, but you get the point.  Enjoy...

Emily, Matron of Honor

 My mom told me one day that I had to give up my blankie…but I didn’t just have to give it up, I had to give it to some little creep who would flaunt it in front of my face every day…thus Emily Cooper (Radaker) would make her way into my life, when I was just four years old. It wasn’t like I had a choice—I had to live with this little twerp. So, I made the best of it.

JUST KIDDING, SIS. :P

Emily Radaker is my best friend and she is my only sister. And sometimes, I don’t know what the hell I would do without her. There were times, in high school and college, she told me I was ruining her life (I student-taught at Butler High School while she was a senior there), but I think she forgave me--right, Em? LOL.

Most times we keep one another sane. I do really think we would be lost without one another other. But, she’d probably have a less stressful life if I weren't always bothering her—LOL. I do have to say that the thirteen-hour drive to Brunswick, Maine does stink…but "I gots the iPhone 4, baby." LOL. Nah…if Skyping and traveling to Brunswick is what I have to do to see her and talk to her, then so be it. I need her in my life. She is always there for me when I am talking myself in and out of things, working through the trials of life, or when I need to talk about just about anything you can think of. I sometimes wish I could do the same for her.

Emily's perspective always seems to be something I can completely relate to, yet I never would have conceived of in my own bouncy-ball-esque brain.

I never met someone who I was so much like, but also so different from. It is good that way, though—that’s why it works.

My sister is cooler than yours. ;)