Things you don't want to hear at the house during the first couple of days of the post-move phase:

"I thought you brought the toilet paper!"

"Hey, there's water running out of that radiator valve"

"What's that smell?"

"Do you know what box my underwear is in?"

...and on it goes.

The CD's, all fifteen boxes or so (schlepped all the way up to the third floor...thanks guys!), are still sitting in the hallway. They're waiting until I can figure out how to bring the rack of doom back to life.

So I figured that this morning it'd be a somewhat fitting maneuver to just randomly pick a CD out of a random box. The selected box was labelled "Geils -> Cake" (yes, I nerdishly packed everything in reverse order to ease the unpacking process). After cutting the tape off the boxtop I stuck my hand in there and came up with Cheap Trick's Woke Up With A Monster.

I couldn't have asked for a better way to kick off the weekend. All those seuthing late-70's nostalgia juices (even though this particular album came out in 1994) to calm my rattled nerves. There's a pile of great songs on this one. It's a little perplexing that it disappeared without notice. Heck, they even brought in Ted Templeman as producer. Who knows...maybe a big slab of powerish pop made no sense in 1994. All I know is that it made perfect sense for the drive away from the forest of packing boxes and through the country, passing the horse farms, pumpkin stands and dew-laden fields.

(First posted on Mark Is Cranky)