I can’t come up with a better title for this post, which will have nothing to do with party crashing in the least. I’ve just been listening to The B-52s almost exclusively for days. For the most part, everything else just makes me want to crawl out of my skin or simply desire no audio stimulation at all. Yes, even I need a break from KaTe every once in a while, although this last run was probably one of the longest on record.

At any rate, I’ve been thinking about wonderfully timed unemployment situation and comparing it to the last one back in 2004. If 2008 will be known as the Summer of My Cybertent, 2004 should be called the Summer of My Wanna-Be Subversive-tent.

I’ve even created a mix CD in honor of this summer, although it’s technically not summer just yet. I don’t think I’ve ever done that, created a CD to memorialize the music I played over and over in a given season. Nope. I can guarantee I’ve never done this. But it’s a good mix and hopefully the sister will be of a mind to listen to it at least once while I’m visiting. The track listing has been uploaded to artofthemix.com.

No, it hasn’t. AOTM has been down for two days and instead of waiting for them to get their act together, I proudly present The Summer of My Cybertent 2008:

Games People Play - The Alan Parsons Project

Give Him A Great Big Kiss (remix) - The Shangri-las

Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair) - Sheena Easton

Deadbeat Club - The B-52s

Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project

It’s Too Late - Bob Mould

Want You - The Bangles

Modern Girl - Sheena Easton

Out In The Streets - The Shangri-Las

You Want Alchemy - KaTe Bush

Loch Lomond - The Real McKenzies

Don’t Answer Me - The Alan Parsons Project

Leader of the pack (remix) - The Shangri-Las

Aquarius/Let The Sun Shine In (The Flesh Failures) - The Fifth Dimension

Eyes Wide Open - The B52s

As I was listing the songs, I realized making a mix CD without at least one KaTe song seems an impossibility for me. There’s obviously little, if any rhyme or reason for any particular song’s inclusion (if you discount the whole KaTe factor), except it’s a snapshot of the bands/singers I’ve been playing over and over. I’ve even left behind Pink Striped Sox and A Sonic Lipstick in favor of this for listening in the 40-ouncer. That mix CD is a story unto itself; I don’t even know what version I’m up to.

If you’d like a copy of either - or both, let me know and I’ll get one to you.