Double Helping of Beef Jerky Time: 11/22/06

I just had a traumatic experience with a brownie from Seattle's Best Coffee. I innocently requested the "smaller of the two" Chocolate Butterfinger brownies on display. I thought the guy ("Ian," according to his nametag) would just throw it in a bag and hand it over. But instead he microwaved it, and then he slathered it with chocolate and caramel syrups, and then he topped it with a tiny butterfinger bar. Then he put it in a fancy folding box (like a Chinese takeout box, but wider and with no little wire handle) and then he put the whole thing in a fancy handled paper bag. After seeing this I decided I'd need a fork and a napkin to eat it, and I took it out to the car to see what I could salvage. It just looked so... American. It was gooey, and chocolatey, and super-sweet, and warm, and kinda nasty, and did not at all resemble the brownies I know. And of course I ate the whole thing. Oopsie. It was just HWAY more than I expected.

And maybe that was listeners' reaction to last week's show. Because, like, it was TWO SOLID HOURS of BJT. The dj's of the show that usually follows ("Peel Slowly and See") were both on holiday (as the next day was Thanksgiving).... so they graciously let Beef Jerky Time take over their regular time slot from 8-9pm. Here's the playlist.

• Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous theme
  
• Mirror in the Bathroom: The English Beat
  
• I Go Crazy: Flesh for Lulu
  
• Mandinka: Sinead O'Connor
  
• You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want): Joe Jackson
  
• Fancy Dancer: Commodores
  
• You: Embellish
  
• Games without Frontiers: Peter Gabriel
  
• Valerie: Steve Winwood
  
• Shout: Tears for Fears
  
• Open Sesame: Saturday Night Fever s/t
  
• The Space Between: Roxy Music
  
• He Loves Anna: Waltz for Debbie
  
• Nobody Told Me: John Lennon & Yoko Ono
  
• Rocky Top (live): Dolly Parton
  
• Electric Avenue: Eddy Grant
  
• Way Down the Old Plank Road: The Mammals
  
• Keeping Track of Time: Club 8
  
• Method of Modern Love: Hall & Oates
  
• Golden Years: David Bowie
  
• Buana Juju: Love Whip
  
• Destination Unknown: Missing Persons
  
• Mercury: Tomita does Holst
  
• The Phone Call: Memphis
  
• 10 Commandments of Love: Bob Marley
  
• Runaways: The Photon Band
  
• The Lakes of Canada: Innocence Mission
  
• Misery'n: Janis Joplin
  
• Armistice Day: Paul Simon
  
• Sleeping Pills: her space holiday