More albums

The other day my dad went to a garage sale and got me some old LPs:

• The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland
• Jerry Murad's Harmonicats - Harmonicats' Selected Favorites
• Paul McCartney - McCartney
• Johnny Rivers - And I Know You Wanna Dance
• The Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed
• The Who - Live at Leeds

Most of them are in pretty rough shape. One side of McCartney is badly scratched and probably unplayable. A previous owner of the Harmonicats LP put their name and address on a sticker or label that obliterates part of the last track. The Johnny Rivers album has a crack that extends to the first few songs on each side, but it still plays, albeit with a rather loud pop every 1.8 seconds. That doesn't bother me, though. I know what "Secret Agent Man" sounds like anyway.

I haven't really had the time to play the records much. I'll probably have to give them a good cleaning before I really play them. They're not really dusty, as I'd think a lot of old records would be, but they're dirty.

In my last post I said that I somehow got all the multiple choice questions right on the test I had last week in my World History class. I thought that was a shocker until today, when I took this week's test, and, as usual, made some guesses. Later in the day I ran into an acquaintance who has the same teacher (Mrs. "Griffin") for a different class. She said that during her class, Mrs. Griffin was grading papers and said that I had gotten all of the questions on this test right and that she should make the tests harder. (I told you she had a sense of humor!) But this wasn't some baseless allegation, because on my way out of school, another person I knew flagged me down and told me how I did on the test.

I guess I'm doing something right. I found out today (during the class, no less) that I have a pretty good grade, but she hasn't graded a lot of hard, important assignments yet.

If my posts are sounding like a broken record (har har), at least there's a different link in each one.

When it comes to weird lists, trust Wikipedia. First we have the list of songs whose title appears more than twenty times in the lyrics. The current champion of the list is "Weird Al" Yankovic (a favorite of mine), with 21 songs. Next we have the list of songs whose title does not appear in the lyrics. That oughta even things out.