ipodshuffle

Gettin Wiggly with it

Thus far it's been relatively easy for our family to resist the Evil Cultural Force that is The Wiggles.  We played a few songs on sampler CD's when The Lad was littler, and he might have watched the show a few times on premium cable at his Grands', but he's remained largely unmoved by the group's relentlessly upbeat wackiness.

That said, a couple of cultural artifacts have come this way which deserve note.  One is a bizarre and in some ways incredible Wiggly cover of "Walk on the Wild Side," which according to the Copy, Right? blog is taken from a (promo-only?) covers collection put together by an Australian DJ.

The Wiggles: Walk On The Wild Side mp3

And in order to avoid having to do two separate posts about the Wiggles, I might as well also put up a pretty hilarious mash-up which made the rounds a bit last fall - of the W's with "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "I Wanna Be Sedated."

King Rocker: 2 Ramones Wiggle in a Room mp3

Whoah, man, it's like it knows me...

Those stories a year ago about people feeling that their iPod knew what they were doing, and programmed songs in the shuffle accordingly, were pretty hilarious. So I'll just present this series of excellent, seemingly GPS-driven,  random musical selections without further comment.   Flying into New Orleans last week, as we were landing the little fella decided it was time for Alan Toussaint's 'Java.' Landing at JFK a few days later we got a little taste of The Strokes.  Then this evening, getting on the subway @ 53rd & Madison,  it was of course time for Metallica's cover of '53rd & 3rd' (close enough for rock & roll, especially for some Cali metalheads, I guess).

Of course, the streak can't hold up - since starting to write this, we've had the Texas Tornadoes and Serge Gainsbourg; perhaps the iPod is pinin' for Austin or Paris, but I don't think that's happening any time soon ...