No matter how many new MP3s I add to my various playlists, it seems the same songs keep coming up over and over again. So today, I decided to take all of them, regardless of theme, stick them in a monster playlist and put the whole thing on random shuffle. A kind of feel-good rainy Thursday mix.

Note to self: don’t mix The Offspring, Joe Dassin, Radiohead, Benny Goodman, Claude Dubois and The Bangles on a full stomach.