I cheated on the blog today, and let my iPod shuffle up what it wanted instead of letting the radio scan. This meant I got some gems.

First was “Old-Fashioned Wedding” from Annie Get Your Gun, a song which I’m pretty sure I sang daily during the years MK and I lived together. It is fun and funny and basically of an attitude I like to think I share even if I really don’t. But: hearing the song lets me pretend for a few minutes that I am sassy and adorable.

The following is a medley, with “Old-Fashioned Wedding” starting at 1:49, but I had to use this clip because it’s Bernadette Peters and Tom Wopat — whose version of AGYG MK and I saw together on Broadway in … um … I think 1999.

Bernadette Peters! WOPAT!

Also I got “Henrietta” from The Fratellis — who I LOVE but have not listened to in ages. I know I’ve raved about their album Costello Music before, but I was reminded today what a great nice weather, windows down album it is. Just clangy and groovy and so much fun. I spent at least one summer listening to nothing else.

It’s possible I’ll spend this summer doing the same. Unless someone recommends something equally awesome, and quick.

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