ARE ALL THOSE YOUR GUITARS?: So I had one of those days. Here’s my soundtrack. You can take this as a same-sex marriage post if you like, since the whole self-dramatizing (hey, if I don’t dramatize myself who will?) angstfest was sparked by that “issue.” (I hate that word. So antiseptic.) This is just a passing phase, one of my bad days…. Anyway, better now, but I thought this list was funny in its intensity of sturm und drang, so figured I’d share. I feel like this more days than not. Fortunately, I’m pretty skeptical of “feelings.”

Vestpocket Psalm, “Sonic Reducer”

Elvis Costello, “I’m Not Angry” (Spending all my time at the vanity factory, wondering when they’re gonna come and take it all back…)

Avengers, “Paint It Black” (I see the girls walk by, dressed in their Sunday clothes…)

Elvis Costello, “Battered Old Bird” (He said, “One day I’ll put away all of my cares.”)

Avengers, “Thin White Line” (Don’t ask me how I feel/’Cause I feel fine)

The Baltimore Consort and the Merry Companions, “Cold and Raw” (Well I myself did disappoint, for she did leave me fairly…)

Ani Difranco, “Adam and Eve,” except for the lame condescending part

Cat Power, “Faces”

Nina Simone, “I Shall Be Released.”