The un-, sub-, or super- natural forces shuffle

Mr. Malleable has popped around for his weekly visit, though he only brought half the moon with him this time.  A fuzzy pale-blue half-moon sat just over the horizon early this morning, looking colder than the ambient temperature felt.  The sky was noticeably lighter (though still far from daylight) when I got up and when I drove in, so the days are incrementally lengthening. The forecasters are still calling for a few hours of midday sunshine today, but the overall forecast still looks gray and wet.

Today's soundtrack rather defies the odds of random.  Or maybe it's more like the opening scene of Gildenstern and Rosencrantz are Dead when, after flipping a coin 92 times and always having it come down heads, one says to the other, "Consider: One, probability is a facter which operates within natural forces. Two, probability is not operating as a factor. Three, we are now held within un-, sub- or super-natural forces. Discuss."  At any rate, of three tunes the iPod shuffled up for today's playlist, two were the same track off the same album.  If, as Tim Roth's character in G&R suggests, though, there is a 50% chance that any individual coin will land heads up each individual time it is tossed, we should not be surprised when each individual time we toss it the coin does end up heads up.  Therefore I should be equally unsurprised if every time the iPod's shuffle algorithm reaches into the bag of shaken tunes it pulls up the same tune.  

Almost anything by Pat Metheny is likely to be a good tune to suggest for a dark and lightly foggy morning drive, though, so no complaints.

 - Pat Metheny: Inori (Live)

 - Chicago: Beginnings

 - Pat Metheny: Inori (Live)

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