Here is my advice to you

1. The Wake - Crush the Flowers

2. Action Painting! - These Things Happen

3. The Orchids - How Does That Feel?

4. Gentle Despite - Shadow of a Girl

5. The Orchids - Something for the Longing

6. Ivy - Wish You Would

7. Even As We Speak - Straight as an Arrow

8. The Orchids - Farewell, Dear Bonnie

9. The Field Mice - When Morning Comes To Town

10. Heavenly - So Little Deserve

11. Gentle Despite - Bittersweet Kiss

12. The Sweetest Ache - If I Could Shine

13. 14 Iced Bears - Sure To See

14. The Orchids - Tropical

15. Gentle Despite - Torment to Me

16. Gentle Despite - Summer in Me

17. Even As We Speak - Bizarre Love Triangle

18. Tramway - Boathouse

19. The Harvest Ministers - Six o'clock is Rosary

20. St Christopher - Say Yes To Everything

Pop Life (part II)

1. Strawberry Fair - I Can't Do Anything

2. White Shoes & The Couples Company - Tentang Cita

3. Watoo Watoo - Tuesday's Secrets

4. Eleanor Rigby - I Want To Sleep With You

5. The Blanche Hudson Weekend - Noise and Fury

6. The Tidy Ups - Dizzy Heights

7. Diana Ross & The Supremes - When The Lovelight Starts

Shining Through Your Eyes

8. Jacqueline Taieb - 7 Heures du Matin

9. Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings - I Learned The Hard Way

the real weepy and right tragic part of the story beginning

10. Friday Club - Window Shopping

11. God Help The Girl - Come Monday Night

Pop Life (part I)

1. The Ballistic Brothers - Peckings

Alex feels a bit shagged, fagged, and fashed...

2. Belle & Sebastian - Legal Man

3. Tiny Yong - Le Sauvage

4. The Shop Assistants - Train From Kansas City

5. The Pepper Pots - Take A Chance

6. Camera Obscura - French Navy (live on BBC 6)

7. The Jesus & Mary Chain - Sometimes Always

8. Blondie - The Tide is High

9. Stereolab - Margerine Melodie

10. The Cat's Miaow - I Fall To Pieces

Streets of Klezmer

1. God is my Co-Pilot - Hora

2. Yiddish Swingtette - Oriental Hora

3. Lhasa - El Parajo

4. Joseph Moskowitz - Doina

5. New Klezmer Trio - Feedback Doina

6. DNA - Not Moving

7. God is my Co-Pilot - Sex is for Making Babies

8. John Zorn's Naked City - Den of Sins

9. Abe Elenkrig & Orchestra - Nit Ba Mitin

10. FAROFF - House of Klezmer

11. God is my Co-Pilot - Little Red Moon

12. James Chance & The Distortions - I Can't Stand Myself

13. New Klezmer Trio - Distiller

14. Dave Tarras - Pas D'Espan

15. Eminem vs Dukes of Dixieland - Down by the Riverside

16. Audio Two - Top Jeebin' (Magick Moar Remix)

17. John Zorn's Naked City - A Shot in the Dark

18. God is my Co-Pilot - Tantsukolena Yid

19. Naftule Brandwein - Firn di Mekhutonim Aheym

20. David Krakauer's Klezmer Madness - The Streets of Klezmer, NY

Strange Interlude

1. The Orb - A Huge, Evergrowing, Pulsating Brain That Rules From The Center Of The Ultraworld

2. Kraftwerk - Radioaktivitaet (William Orbit Remix)

3. Orbital - Are We Here?

4. Matmos - Steam and Sequins for Larry Levan

5. New Order - Touched By The Hand of God

6. Alexander Robotnick - The Dark Side of the Spoon

7. The Glove - Like an Animal (12" Club Mix)

8. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (1995 Arthur Baker Remix)

9. Black Science Orchestra - New Jersey Deep

10. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Cities in Dust

11. Antena - Spiral Staircase

12. Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me

13. The Reegs - These Days

14. 808 State - Pacific State 707

15. Donovan - Wear Your Love Like Heaven

John Mitchell's Folly, Eureka Springs, AR

Uncharacteristically, I'm going to provide a little context for this one. John Mitchell's Folly is an antique store/art gallery housed in a skinny, tall Second Empire townhouse off the proverbial beaten path, far up in the hills of the Ozarks. Mr Mitchell specializes in early Ozark Primitive painting, such as Ernest "By Golly" Schilling. Almost everything in the store is priceless, battered, and inspires in me a mixture of wonder and terror.

I hope that this mix does justice to spooky eclecticism of this national treasure of a junk store. The above picture of the storefront is borrowed, but below are some of my wife's pictures of Mr. Mitchell's stock.

1. Boyd Rice & Frank Tovey - Easy Listening for the Hard of Hearing (Extraction 4)

2. Scott Joplin - A Real Slow Drag

3. The Bassies - River Jordan

4. Zez Confrey - Kinda Careless

5. Björk - Öll Birtan

6. JS Bach - Viola de Gamba Sonata #1, BWV 1027, III. Andante

7. Philip Glass - Women in White

8. Wagner - Tannhäuser, Dich, teure Halle

9. Aphex Twin - Icct Hedral (Philip Glass Orchestration)

10. Duke Ellington - Shout 'em, Aunt Tillie

11. Javier Navarrete - A Book of Blood

12. The Tiger Lillies - The Struwwelpeter Overture

13. Salut de la veille des O let les 7 O suivant le romain

14. Edith Piaf - Correqu' et Reguyer

15. WC Handy - Farewell Blues

16. Marlene Dietrich - Assez

17. Frank Sinatra - You Forgot All the Words

Paul Bowles' 100th Birthday Party

1. Paul Bowles - Points in Time XI

(nighttime recording of Tangiers streets)

2. Paul Bowles - Night Waltz

3. Hafiz Kani Karaca - Holy Qur'an, Baqara Surah II, 1-5

4. Cheikh Ayyad ou Haddou - Oukha Dial Kheir

5. Claude Debussy - Pour L'Egyptienne

6. Charles Trenet - Je Chante

7. Perihan Altındag-Sözeri - Haydar Haydar

8. Youbati

9. Youssou N'Dour - Tijaniyya

10. Lucienne Boyer - Parlez-moi D'Amour

11. Ryuchi Sakamoto - The Sheltering Sky (piano version)

12. Paul Bowles - Points in Time IV