Friday, February 23, 2007

At your funeral? Really?

Another great night on the airwaves. The most absolutely ridiculous thing happened. I was about to play "Hallelujah" sung by Rufus Wainwright, and right before I pressed play, the phone rang. I started the track and picked up the phone. The guy on the line was silent for a second or two and then said "Brother, your amazing. You just read my mind. I was calling to request Hallelujah, because I just put it in my will that I want that song played at my funeral." I was speechless. What? How does that happen? How, out of millions of possible songs, do I chose the one song this guy wants to hear, one that has special significance, and isn't even the original version of the song? Of course, it's a little odd to want to hear the song that's going to be playing at your funeral, but hey, I'm not one to judge. Whats more, I asked him if there was anything else he wanted to hear, and he asked for some low key melodic Tom Waits. Of course, as fate would have it, I already had some Tom Waits in the lineup for the night. What the heck, two songs in a night, spot on. I was completely flabbergasted, and Fuller can vouch for that.


  1. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Lyon 6.6.06
  2. Muse - Feelin' good
  3. Cake - when you sleep
  4. Radiohead - Idioteque
  5. NIN - Only
  6. Foo Fighters - Break Out
  7. Jet - Cold Hard Bitch
  8. Ratatat - Tacobel canon
  9. Of Montreal - Faberge falls for shuggie
  10. Cloud Cult - Living on the outside of your skin
  11. Keller Williams - Kidney in a cooler
  12. Pseudopod - Shrinks
  13. John Frusciante - Carvel
  14. Amateur Love - I Need you now
  15. No Doubt - Hey you(acoustic)
  16. Brazilian Girls - Don't stop
  17. Hot Hot Heat - Goodnight goodnight
  18. Gnarles Barkley - Smiley faces
  19. Grateful Dead - St. Stephen
  20. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Bicycle song
  21. The Beatles - I've just seen a face
  22. Rufus Wainwright - Hallelujah
  23. Tom Waits - Tom traubert's blues
  24. Elliot Smith - Needle in the hay
  25. Rufus Wainwright - Across the universe
  26. DeVotchKa - How it ends
I'm aware I played Wainwright twice in rapid succession. Deal with it.

Thanks for listening. Questions? Hit me up if you want to hear any of them again. I'd love to hear what you thought. To the cities, bitches.

4 comments:

samma said...

i'm really sad i fell asleep. the lineup looks amazing.

anniemosity said...

there's no better way to open a show than to have john frusciante masturbate to eric clapton on his guitar.

that's the goddamn truth.

Alex said...

I feel asleep to Rufus heh, good show though once again!

Alex said...

oh yeah . . . where's my pony?