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It's nearly 2 am and it's raining. It hasn't rained for the last couple of days -- not very much anyway, just enough to smear the dust around on my car windshield. Bits of white fluff have been drifting all over the countryside -- cottonwood I think. It's almost like snow in some places down in Auburn where I work; it's all over the place, drifting across the road, flying into the windshield as I drive.

Friday the 13th is over. Stephanie at work was actually kind of freaked out when she realized that Friday the 13th was coming, because her son was at camp. ^_^ But nothing much happened... well actually, the Mariners seemed to break out of their long streak of bad luck and clobbered the Red Sox for 14 runs. Maybe too much bad luck on a Friday the 13th actually reversed their fortunes somehow.

I stopped at QFC on the way home. I still want to call it Art's. Anyway I grabbed one of their canvas bags on the way in, thinking that it would be a good idea to buy one and use it to keep from collecting so many plastic or paper bags. The sign said they were $4.89 or something like that. Of course, they wound up at the bottom of my basket so I unloaded it for the clerk... but he still asked me if plastic was okay, and I said yes without thinking. Then he saw the canvas bag and set it aside, and asked if it was okay to put the beer in it. I said yes, and then he apologized for saying beer because of course I don't drink beer, I had two six-packs of bottled Thomas Kemper root beer and grape soda. Anyway, I ran around the register to put my basket back in the stack behind him, and I was busy writing out my check and remembering to have my QFC savings card scanned, and it didn't even occur to me until after I left that he had not charged me for the canvas bag. And in fact, it doesn't actually have a price tag on it... how are they supposed to know that I'm purchasing it now, instead of it being something I already own? But I guess I should tell them to charge me for it next time. ^_^

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I have all sorts of wonderful plans for things to do on the weekend, and I usually do something else instead. So along with my list of cleaning up around the house and getting some writing accomplished and errands like washing the car... I've decided, on the spur of the moment, to assemble a Tori Amos CD from all of the extra songs I have on all of the extra CD singles that I own. And of course this means I should head out to Half Price Books and Silver Platters and see what other CD singles I can pick up that I don't have already.

Currently I have many more CD singles than actual Tori full-length cds. CD singles that I have: 1. Crucify 2. Winter 3. Taluala 4. God (US version) 5. God (dance remixes version) 5. Cornflake Girl 6. China 7. Caught A Light Sneeze 8. Silent All These Years v.1 9. Past The Mission 10. Pretty Good Year 11. BT Blue Skies Remixes. And there are probably a dozen more that I could buy if I wanted to... at least a few of which I do intend to buy.

All of these CD singles contain either A) Songs not found on any of her full-length cds, B) Dance remixes of her songs, or C) Covers of song such as Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit, Steely Dan's Do It Again, and Somewhere Over The Rainbow from the Wizard of Oz. I can assemble a nice "extra" Tori cd from all of the extras on these singles... I could probably assemble two or three cds of music to be honest. ^_^

I've done something like this once before... I really liked the two CDs that the Travelling Wilburys put out, and since they will never do any more (and since their two cds were labelled "volume 1" and "volume 3"), I took it upon myself to make another Travelling Wilburys cd, "volume 2", by picking songs from the solo work of the five members -- Roy Orbison, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne. And this was made easier by the fact that, around the time they were collaborating on the Travelling Wilburys cds, these guys were also collaborating on each other's solo cds... so you can find a lot of songs that sound like Wilbury tunes because they almost are. ^_^ This is most true of two of Tom Petty's best solo cds from that time period, and from George Harrison's cd and Jeff Lynne's cd from around that time period. Bob Dylan had a few "Wilbury-esque" tunes on one of his cds too. Roy Orbison's songs on Mystery Girl don't sound as Wilbury-esque, but "You Got It" and "California Blue" were co-written with Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty (about half the songs on the cd are produced by Jeff Lynne), and Petty and Lynne play/sing on those two songs, and another song, "A Love So Beautiful" is co-written with Lynne and features George Harrison on guitar.

So it's pretty easy to assemble your own "Travelling Wilburys vol. 2" if you have the following cds:

Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
Jeff Lynne - Armchair Theater (really his only actual solo cd)
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever and/or Into The Great Wide Open
George Harrison - Cloud Nine (and possibly others of his)
Bob Dylan - Under The Red Sky (and possibly others of his)