Karmic coincidence came with the popular dude

Three cheers for the popular dude; we've nearly made it through another hectic week!  It has been an odd week, in that it has been somewhat out-of-schedule for me. This morning was an extra-early-alarm day so I could drive to the Everett Navy Station to pick up the son of good friends and get him to the airport in time to catch a 7:00 AM departure, flying home to see his folks and family. Driving to Everett at o-dark-hundred the rain was slamming down.  Even on the side streets getting to the freeway the rain drops were large enough and landing hard enough to sound like small pebbles hitting the canvas top, and at freeway speeds it was all wave and wash.  By the time I met the referenced sailor at the pick-up lot just outside the base, the rain had slackened and wasn't bad for the rest of the commute south and then back north. Thanks given for that.

Because of the extra-long commute this morning there is a correspondingly long play list.  Since most of the trip was given over to catching up on said sailor's latest deployment, I only picked the soundtrack up when I left the airport for the drive back north to campus.  So today's playlist represents the length of a more typical commute than is my normal.  Lots of good music, covering pretty much every genre, and not a bad egg in the whole bunch.

Paring the very-different keyboard stylings of Supertramp and Cannonball Adderley made for a fun start to the trip, The Bad Plus got feet and fingers tapping as they laid "...a strip for the higher-state line," and the Spamalot soundtrack soared with well orchestrated silliness.  The soundtrack for the Russian film Brother, 2 offered up a beautiful minor-key folk tune sung by a children's choir.

Then, in one of those supreme cosmic, karmic, divine coincidences, the last tune to pop up in this morning's random shuffle was from the BMW Band, the living-room "band" two buddies and I had many years ago. The digitally remastered tracks, taken from old dusty cassette tapes recorded on cheap equipment in various living rooms, were a Christmas gift from the daughter of one of my band-mates. And the sailor I shuttled to the airport this morning? The son of one of my two BMW band-mates, and the brother of the daughter who had those old recording remastered. Here's hoping he remembers to give his folks a hug from us when he gets home later this morning!

The full playlist:

 - Supertramp: Bloody Well Right
 - Cannonball Adderley:  Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
 - Bruce Cockburn: Kit Carson
 - Joel Frahm & Brad Mehldau: Smile
 - Bruce Cockburn: Pacing the Cage (Live)
 - The Bad Plus:  Layin' A Strip For The Higher-State Line
 - Philip Glass: Mvt. IV - Concerto for Saxophone Quartet
 - Great Northern:  Winter
 - Weezer: Say It Ain't So
 - Spamalot, Broadway Cast: Find Your Grail
 - Nautilus Pompilius and Children's Choir (Брат 2 Soundtrack): Прощальное письмо
 - BMW Band: Gentle Man