Playlist for the Business Trip

Part 1

1. As Tall As Lions - You Can't Take it With You
2. Eddie Vedder - Setting Forth
3. John Denver - Leaving on a Jet Plane
4. Led Zeppelin - Going to California
   
5. Jeff Buckley - The Sky is a Landfill
6. John Denver - Country Roads
7. Regina Spektor - Blue Lips
8. R.E.M. - How The West Was Won And Where It Got Us
9. Walter Wanderley - Summer Samba
   
10. Joni Mitchell - California

Part 2

1. Bob Dylan - The Man in Me
   
2. Ray LaMontagne - Three More Days
3. Little Richard - Money Honey
4. Ani DiFranco - Evolve
   
5. Thrice - The Weight
   
6. Pearl Jam - Love Reign O'er Me
7. N.E.R.D. - Thrasher
   
8. Kiko Loureiro - La Force De L'ame
9. Muse - City of Delusion
10. Daft Punk - Human After All
    

Part 3

1. Queen - It's Late
2. Paul Gilbert - The Jetset Elite (Are Coming Home For Christmas)
3. Joni Mitchell - This Flight Tonight
4. Sirens of Titan - Virginia
   
5. Van Halen - Jump
6. Steve Stevens - Water on Ares
7. The Who - I Can See For Miles
8. Thrice - Silver Wings
   
9. Eddie Vedder - Rise
10. The Beatles - Oh! Darling
    

I either actually listened to these songs while flying or in hotel rooms, not really thinking much about the relevance, or found them while sitting here in my current hotel in Irvine, scrolling around on my iPod for about the past hour. And I gotta say, I'm kind of impressed with the diversity I squeezed into the above lists. Songs that everyone knows, songs that only a few people on the planet know, and all very applicable to my feelings throughout the trip.

BRIAN WILL BE HOME IN ABOUT 16 HOURS OUT.