Episode XII: The Ones and Twos

I had an hour on the island's AM station last Friday. It's the only station on the island. Every Friday, one of my friends or I (we rotate, there's nine of us) play music and pretend that we know how to speak the local language. Here are the songs I played:
"Sweet Home Chicago" Robert Johnson
"Thunder on the Mountain" Bob Dylan
"Don't Wait Too Long" Madeleine Peyroux
"Daddy Sang Bass" Johnny Cash
"Let It Ride" Ryan Adams
"California Stars" Billy Bragg and Wilco
"One After 909" The Beatles (Let It Be... Naked version)
"Idlewild Blue (Don'tchu Worry 'Bout Me)" Outkast
"Way Over Yonder in the Minor Key" Billy Bragg and Wilco
"At the Beach" The Avett Brothers
"Sweet Virginia" The Rolling Stones
"It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" Bob Dylan
"Excuse Me While I Break My Own Heart" Whiskeytown (Strangers Almanac version)
"2,000 Miles" Coldplay
"Up From Under" The Wallflowers

An hour or so before the show started, I realized the station here is on the internet. I didn't have time to email everone I knew, but I did have enough time to post a message on a board some of my friends and I use. So three of my good friends listened to me do a little radio show on the other side of the world. It was fun.

If you want the link to listen next time I'm minding the ones and twos here (about two or three months from now), email me so I can get it to you. I take requests as long as it's a song or artist I have access to here. It was strange to play "2,000 Miles"--didn't fully hit me until then how far away I am. The song is about how hard it is to miss someone at Christmas time when the two of you are 2,000 miles apart. Excluding the one friend I have also living abroad, I would have to go 5,000 miles to find someone I've known longer than three months.

Here is a picture of me playing Duck Hunt in a good ol' friend's apartment. It is a strange picture to me because I am wearing jeans in it. I think I remember jeans.