Listen-at-Work Music, WAH-style

One of the good things about working at home is that I get to listen to whatever I want while working, instead of someone else's radio (or worse, Your Favorite Soft-Rock Hits! on KOIT...*shudder*). I've been catching up on some albums I haven't listened to in quite some time, as well as sampling some of the newer albums that have come out.

So oddly enough I had a hankering to listen to Around the World in a Day by Prince & the Revolution the other day, so I put that in this morning. Sandwiched between the brilliant Purple Rain and the not-so-brilliant Parade, this is a very...er...odd mix of an album, going from faux-world music to Beatlesque pop to funk, but never quite finding where it really wants to be. Of course, everybody knows the hit single from it, "Raspberry Beret", but there are some other great songs on it too. I still think he really went out on a limb to record "Paisley Park" and make it sound deliberately unkempt, but dammit, it's catchy! And of course my favorite track, "Pop Life," holds up surprisingly well. Then of course, there's the two album fillers (and I do mean fillers--they're both over six minutes long and have a "suite" composition to them), "Condition of the Heart" and "Temptation", which could go either way, and the 'Purple Rain Part 2' song "The Ladder."

All in all, a filler album, and not one of his greatest, but dang it, it's a fun one to listen to. :)

Ongoing To-Do List!

Planned to Do Today and Finished
--laundry (despite the shortage of working machines--but that's another post)
--MANY bags of clothes to drop off at Goodwill
--Because it was in the same neighborhood, got the car washed (@#$*ing pigeons...)
--brought down the recycling (forgot to bring down the shredding though)
--did some quick grocery shopping

Plan to Do Over the Course of the Long Weekend
--put away Roomba (we rarely use it anymore and it may need a good cleaning)
--take pictures of emmalyon's yarn to put on eBay for quick cash
--file paid bills/receipts/whatnot in file box
--work some more on LLB revision--may need to fix stuff on Chapter 10, not too happy with some of it
--get out and do some walking!

More later...