Ozzy with a nip-hangover.

Sajada Al Ubaid - Ala Honak (Take It Easy): From the Choubi Choubi! Folk and Pop Sounds from Iraq release from a few years ago, this is a Middle Eastern folk-sounding tune from a fairly interesting collection of songs.

Amon Tobin - Remix By AFX - (with AFX): From the Recorded Live: Solid Steel Presents CD, this is Tobin at his finest.

Cheer Accident - Track 29: The crazy experimental / progressive band puts out a nice, chaotic release from Introducing Lemon.

Cerberus Shoal - Falling to Pieces, Pt. 2: In a way, this is very fitting as I discovered Cerberus Shoal and Cheer Accident on the same day years ago. From And Farewell to Hightide, this is an arty collection of songs that works very well as a package. I can't say I've ever found a Shoal release that I liked as much as Hightide.

Amon Tobin - Searchers: An eerie track that exemplifies that, while you'll always get a fun beat out of Tobin, you also always get a wide variety of styles depending on the album you are listening to.

Stewart Copeland - Liberto: A track from Copeland's fun African music collection, adding to the uniqueness of today's random eight.

Everly Brothers - Not Fade Away: A tad bit psychedelic from the duo who were much more than the generic pop stars some of their songs would lead you to believe they were.

Frequencies - Untitled: An electronic collaboration with Mick Harris (Napalm-Death) and Eraldo Bernocchi, this is a dark ambient release from the man who strayed from the extreme metal sound.

It looks like we are going to have an infestation of woolly-bear caterpillars this year. I went out for a walk last evening and saw hundreds of them climbing to the tops of thick stalks of weeds. I put on the macro lens and tried getting some shots of them.

I couldn't tell if they were grumpy that I was so close, or if they were just in the process of climbing and were trashing about wildly as a result. But the macro lens showed some fairly nasty looking pincers pointing my way in the process. While I doubt they could have done much harm to me, it was interesting to see the sharper side of the little fuzzy creatures.

The dB's - Black and White: The opening track from my favorite dB's release, Stands for Decibels. I just noticed Chris Stamey and Peter Holsapple are touring which is very exciting for us ancient music fans.

Jeff Buckley - Satisfied Mind: From the posthumous Sketches release, this is one of a number of tracks that really provides insight into Jeff's great musicianship and love of music.

Tool - Parabola: I'm typically kinda luke-warm on Tool, but the Lateralus release is a fun fall back when I'm looking for something loud but not just crazy metal.

Pigalle - La Patate: Very Pogue-like, in a French sorta way.

Siamese Temple Ball - Untitled: As mentioned a few weeks ago, this is another traditional Thai track that is rather chaotic and entertaining.

Cabaret Voltaire - Is That Me (Finding Someone At The Door Again): Droning, noisy, goofy stuff.

Hella - Woman of the 90's: Speaking of chaotic and entertaining, Hella is one of the most crazed punkish bands on the iPod these days, which is really saying something.

Blind Willie McTell - Talking to Myself: And yet here I am listening to him.

We walked to see our duck friends at a nearby pond this weekend and were fortunate to see not only the five white quackers, but a Canadian Geese family.

The parents weren't terribly excited about me sneaking around taking pictures, but after settling on a pleasant hillside with them for a half hour or so, they calmed down and seemed to accept us as a low-risk threat.

Eventually they napped the sleepy afternoon away.

It appears one of our cats got to a poor spider today. They left it proudly on a small seat I made for them to sit beside me when I'm on the computer which, in addition to apparently being a resting place for dead spiders, they actually sit on sometime.

Butthole Surfers - I Saw an X-Ray of a Girl Passing Gas: As I said before, I wonder if this is scientifically possible.

Tom Waits - Metropolitan Glide: From the great Real Gone release, this mixes Tom's uniqueness with a upbeat, catchy tune.

Enduser - My Ak: Noisy electronic / techno-ish music with a piano. I just like pianos in songs like this.

Butthole Surfers - Lou Reed: So this is the type of day it is going to be. Funny thing about this song, sometimes I find myself growling the words "Lou Reed" like they are blurted on this track from the rare Double Live release (which is a lot less rare now that it can be downloaded for free of the BhS website). Lou Reed has a very growlable name if you really put your throat into it.

Archers of Loaf - Might: I think it is safe to say that I will never tire of this band. There are few bands that capture the raw energy of playing the way the Archers do (or, did, I guess).

Paul Westerberg - Bored of Edukation: Purchased as an MP3 with an Amazon promotion that gave me 5 free downloads. This is a pretty typical Westerberg song based on what he has been doing for the past 10-15 years now.

Gearwhore - Vector Tribe: An older techno album that mixes electronic noises and rhythmic beats. This is a bit nondescript of a release, but I enjoy listening to it from time to time.

Butthole Surfers - Gary Floyd: Yep, this is the type of day it is going to be.

Atari Teenage Riot - Not Your Business: Never short on mania, this is a typical hardcore noise and scream fest ATR is famous for.

Rush - Distant Early Warning: I guess with hockey playoff season in full swing, it is hard to not go a day without hearing a Rush song as Tom Sawyer is likely to be aired during play-stoppages in the arenas. That said, I think I've heard a Rush song every day this week, all without specific intention, from said Hockey games to a random remote control landing on VH1 showing the R30 concert to this random shuffle track. Weird.

Siamese Temple Ball - Untitled: All tracks on the release are untitled, actually. This is a mysterious collection of traditional Thai music with no indication of the musicians performing the songs or the dates recorded. It is very enjoyable percussion-led music and worth exploring if there is any interest in Asian-cultural musicians.

Cabaret Voltaire - Walls of Jericho: From a period of strange music from the band, this is a somewhat upbeat song with lots of electronic random noise bursts.

Sonic Youth - James Run Free: The Rather Ripped release has a way of just skirting the edge of my memory, so every time I hear a song from it, it is kinda like I never heard it before. That said, if I were playing Name That Tune, it would have taken me two notes to recognize this as a SY song, so I guess there is something to be said for consistency.

The Byrds - Eight Miles High: At some point I'll just get these songs off my iPod. That said, I'll probably leave this 16 minutes of stoner hippy diatribe as it is comical to me.

Alpha - First Day: From the recent The Sky Is Mine release, this is a synth-driven mellow track, albeit a bit faster than many Alpha songs. In their calmness, Alpha has been an exceptional band for years.

The Books - If Not Now, Whenever: A typical Books song with quiet beats and many random samples fitting into the flow.