Not All Who Wander Are Lost

The campus is dark and silent, the only disturbance the rustle and streetlight glint of autumn leaves settling on mowlined lawns.

But somewhere out there locals listen, some calling to request their guilty pleasures, most staying silent, ghostlike in their potential existence. People driving nightblind on the highway spin the dial, staying for a song or two. Faculty otherwise holed up in their dorm apartments set their clock radios and then leave them on softly, letting the sweet sounds of the Adult Alternative format lull them to sleep.

The students are still gone. But the radio plays on.

Tributary 10/18/04

Skavoovie and the Epitones -- Fat Soul
B-52s -- Rock Lobster
Willie Nelson w/ Los Lonely Boys -- Cisco Kid
Bob Dylan -- Don't Think Twice It's Alright
Girlyman -- Even If
Dead Or Alive -- You Spin Me Round
Eliza Gilkyson -- Love Minus Zero/ No Limit

Jim White w/ Aimee Mann -- Static On The Radio
David Byrne -- Like Humans Do
Richard Shindell -- So Says The Whipporwill
The Beatles -- I Will
Peter Case -- Let Me Fall
Beolach -- Memories of Father Charlie MacDonald
Crooked Still -- Orphan Girl

B.B. King -- The Thrill Is Gone
Gillian Welch -- Make Me A Pallet On Your Floor
The Seldom Scene -- Sweet Baby James
Lucy Kaplansky -- Cowboy Singer
James Taylor -- Never Die Young

Mindy Smith -- Come To Jesus
Tarbox Ramblers -- Oh Death
Guster -- Rocket Ship(?)
Patty Griffin -- Goodbye
Nick Drake -- Pink Moon
Sarah McLachlan -- Blackbird

And so we come to the end of another edition of Tributary, your ten to midnight Monday night show. Sleep well, kiddies. School on Wednesday, bright and early.

Comments:

Hi there,

I wanted to send you an official congratulations, since Jasmine told me you announced your news! I had to read down in your blog till I knew it wasn't a big secret still ; ). Things are still going strong over here, the beginnings of potty training and many many cute toddler renditions of "twinkle twinkle little star"

**Jamie

# posted by

Anonymous : 8:09 PM, October 19, 2004

Jamie! Great to hear from you! And congrats in return, I hear -- keep us on the mailing list for the announcement when the day comes, so we can send a little something along.

Potty training done on our end, but I hear it's easier for girls. Twinkle Twinkle never sounded better. My love to Felix and Jesse -- hope the West Coast continues to treat you all well, and if you're ever back in town...

(Hope no one else minds the personal exchange -- I don't usually do this, but I couldn't miss the moment)

# posted by

boyhowdy : 11:30 PM, October 19, 2004