I'll Sleep When I'm Dead

I could NOT sleep a wink last night. What the Bast-forsaken-fuck was that all about?! 

I suspect my inability to surrender to Hypnos had much to do with the fact that I had an absolutely fabulous, foofy coffee drink (okay, I had two of them WITH whipped cream!) at breakfast yesterday. Yes, these were caffeinated beverages. I don’t do the jitter juice anymore and, apparently, my system is now quite the delicate little flower when it comes to even the faintest of these demonic coffee elixirs.

Rats!

So then, what did I do all night besides fuss about my taxes? (which I’ve neglected to do for the past couple of years. HEY, I’ve been busy with surgeries and shit! Life’s been a bit overwhelming. Cut me some motherfucking slack!)

Well, I thought about this…what IF…. just WHAT IF I could get my hearing back for a day, what would I listen to? Okay, let’s make it a few days…maybe more.

On the classical front I’d start with:
Liszt – Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C-sharp minor, Totentanz 
Handel – Messiah 
Vivaldi – The Four Seasons 
Orff – O Fortuna (Carmina Burana) 
Stravinsky – The Rite of Spring 
Steve Reich – Different Trains 
David Byrne – The Forest 

I’ve never been a Jazzhead but I’d really love to hear these again:
Dave Brubeck – Time Out 
Ornette Coleman – Tone Dialing
Miles Davis – Kind of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Bitches Brew

And then we move on to a bunch of other favorites:
Dylan – Blood on the Tracks, Desire, Bringing It All Back Home, Hard Rain
Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years, Graceland, The Rhythm of the Saints
Beatles – B side of Abbey Road
Stones – Let It Bleed
The Who – Who’s Next
Led Zeppelin – Led Zeppelin III, Led Zeppelin IV (EXCEPT for Stairway to Heaven – I honestly never need to hear that one ever again.)

Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station to Station, Heroes
King Crimson – a few cuts off the albums Discipline and Beat
Brian Eno – Here Come the Warm Jets 
Robert Fripp – Exposure 

Linda Thompson and Richard Thompson – Shoot Out the Lights
Richard Thompson – Hand of Kindness, Rumor and Sigh
Leo Kotke – That's What 
Tracy Chapman 
Talking Heads – Stop Making Sense 
Los Lobos – La Pistola y El Corazón
Morphine – Good, Cure for Pain

Belly – King (or Star or both!)
Concrete Blonde – Mexican Moon
Concussion Ensemble – Tragically, I don’t think there are any extant, decent recordings of this MOST awesome band. They were composed of three standing drummers (each kit distinct), one standing percussionist with a rack of random metal objects and other bits plus two guitarists and a bass player. No singer. They were spectacular!
Pearl Jam – Ten
Nine Inch Nails (NIN) – The Downward Spiral 

And I’d love to watch the Beastie Boys video Awesome, I Fuckin’ Shot That! and be able to actually hear it.

This is, of course, just off the top of my head as I watched the digital clock flip later and later to earlier and earlier while the sky got lighter and lighter.

*sigh* no more coffee for Donna.