Monday, April 23, 2007

Soundtrack for Cleaning Party

Saturday was a gargantuan cleaning party: boy, did we clean. And dance. In our house cleaning and dancing go together.

Picture Noah and Aviva rushing about, plucking toys and books from the floor and darting to dump them in their proper containers, then pausing to run in circles shouting and then leap onto me for a series of complicated jitterbug-like maneuvers in which their slippers almost touch the ceiling.

Aviva and Noah designed the soundtrack on Real Rhapsody (I know, I know, as a good copyleftist I shouldn't be using a DRM'd service, I feel the EFF frowning at me as I type, but I like the interface, and the convenience of listening to what I want and knowing that the artists are getting paid). It's a good representation of their musical eclecticism:

• Rosenshontz: Family Vacation
• They Might Be Giants: Youth Culture Killed My Dog
• They Might Be Giants: Hide Away Folk Family
• Tori Amos: Mr. Zebra
• Kool & The Gang: Celebration
• Woody Guthrie: Union Maid
• Barry Louis Polisar: The Skatter Brak Flath Who Lives in my Bath
• Black Eyed Peas: Hey Mama
• They Might Be Giants: No!
• Britney Spears: Stronger
• Lamb: Stronger
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Warm warm warm warm! (a.ka. Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 - Allegro con brio)

• The Queers: I Can't Stop Farting
• They Might Be Giants: No!
• Sinead O'Connor: I Am Stretched On Your Grave
• Pete Seeger/Sapp/Kahn: Union Maid
• Mariah Carey: Fly Like A Bird
• The Cure: Lovecats
• They Might Be Giants: Why Does the Sun Shine?
• They Might Be Giants: Robot Parade
• Black Eyed Peas: Shut Up
• Rosenshontz: Family Vacation
• The Who: Pinball Wizard
• Sesame Street Gangsters: Poop

(Note that this latter "Union Maid" was actually played several times in succession to allow time for an improvisational interpretive dance in which Aviva was the Union Maid, Noah was the Company Goons, and I was the Owning Classes.)