First some miscellany. I've joined the ranks of my sister by having hit a pigeon with my car yesterday. While I'm no big fan of pigeons (rats with wings, I think is the best description), I'm saddened by death, especially death that comes as a result of my actions. It kinda left me in a funk all day.

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And with that I move on to a whenever-I-feel-like-it feature of some of my favorite music. Someone used to complain frequently that I had too many favorite songs and albums and bands and the like. So I thought I'd start running down the (very detailed) list. Maybe you'll find something you might want to try. Anyway ...

• Favorite rock song: Molodiye L'vi (Young Lions)- Boris Grebenshikov. Literally the only song I've ever heard that I absolutely cannot listen to only once at a time. Coming from someone who thinks he's overplaying something if he listens to a CD more than twice in a month, that's saying something.
  
• Favorite rock album: Radio Silence- Boris Grebenshikov. Piss-poor sales. Awful reviews. His fans in Russia revile it. I absolutely love it. Straight-ahead rock and roll produced by Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, with BG's scotch-soaked voice and impressionist poetry for lyrics.
  
• Favorite English traditional song: Matty Groves as performed by Fairport Convention
  
• Favorite Scottish traditional song: Cruel Sister as performed by Old Blind Dogs
  
• Favorite Irish traditional song: tie: Arthur MacBride and Lord Franklin
  
• Favorite Canadian Celtic rock album: Weights and Measures- Spirit of the West
  
• Favorite U.S. Celtic rock album: Nothing good enough, although Black Stone Tramp by Brother fills this niche. They're an Australian band that lives, records and performs mostly in the US, so they almost count.
  
• Favorite Scottish folk rock album: The Half Tail- Wolfstone
  
• Favorite progressive rock song: The Brave album in its entirety by Marillion, except "Paper Lies". Masquerade/Lift Me Up by Yes gets an honorable mention (two separate songs, but they run into each other and I always listen to them as a unit)
  
• Favorite concert ever: Silly Wizard Tucson, Arizona, 1988
  
• Favorite new wave song: Major Tom- Peter Schilling
  
• Favorite new wave album: Systems of Romance- Ultravox
  
• Favorite New Romantic album: Journeys to Glory or Diamond- Spandau Ballet
  
• Favorite Afropop album: tie: Joko- Youssou N'Dour and Wakafrika- Manu Dibango
  

Okay, that's enough for now. More later when I feel like it.