...my iPod's shuffle setting.
Ok, let me explain my exuberance over this seeming trifle. For the past...week? month?...I've been listening to the same 10-15 songs over, and over, and over, ad nauseam because I just wasn't feeling most other songs that popped up on my computer's iTunes or my iPod (the classic edition, none of those fancy-schmancy touch screen shenanigans here, thank-you-very-much!).
But this morning, I broke tradition and took a gamble that paid off (I thought) very well. Instead of listening to NPR during my morning commuter, I broke out the iPod and the AUX output jack and set it up to shuffle.
Wow. Best 20-minute drive of the week. It's insane how omniscient the shuffle setting is at times, playing just the right songs to capture a prevailing mood or to set the mood for the day.
And so, for all posterity to see and have what-in-the-flying-tarnation-made-that-shuffle-so-good-on-that-particular-morning ruminations about, I present the "Satisfying Friday Shuffle Playlist":
Satisfying Friday Shuffle Playlist
"Cold Eye" - The Cave Singers
"Lucky Man" - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
"Sun in My Mouth" - Bjork
"Where You've Been Hiding" - Architecture in Helsinki
"On Ships of Gold" - Black Heart Procession
"O.K." - Michael Penn
And that's it.