My show Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews? opens tonight at the magnificent Actors Theatre of Phoenix (through March 20). Tix and info here.
Arizona is … different. The doors to the theater have placards that say, “No Weapons. No Smoking.” I think my usual audience members will take this as a sign to leave their crossbows at home.
I like to make a mix CD for my crew on opening night. Here (because I haven’t figured out yet how to print stuff at my hotel) is tonight’s mix:
- Janelle Monáe, “Tightrope”
- Big Star, “Thirteen”
- Josh Rouse, “Valencia”
- Prince (covering Joni Mitchell), “A Case of You”
- The Waterboys, “Fisherman’s Blues”
- Spoon, “Written in Reverse”
- Sufjan Stevens, “To Be Alone with You”
- Black Kids, “I’m Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance with You”
- Lizz Wright (covering Neil Young), “Old Man”
- The Mountain Goats, “Dance Music”
- Little Jackie, “LOL”
- Ida Maria, “I Like You So Much Better When You’re Naked”
- Destroyer, “My Favorite Year”
- Steve Earle, “The Galway Girl”
- The Decemberists, “Of Angels and Angles”
- Benji Hughes, “I Went with Some Friends To See the Flaming Lips”
- Buke and Gass, “Your Face Left Before You”
- Danielson, “Did I Step on Your Trumpet?”
- Abigail Washburn, “Bring Me My Queen”
- David Byrne, “In the Future”
And yes, Apple Corporation, I am well aware that these CD’s are for my personal use! Thanks for caring.
P.S.: Here are the pre-show and post-show mixes that I put together for our audiences (with help, as always, from my pal Scott Rosenberg, along with tips from my Twitter and Facebook friends):
Pre-show:
- Dion, “The Wanderer”
- The Kinks, “Strangers”
- M.I.A., “Paper Planes”
- The Doors, “People are Strange”
- The Clash, “Lost in the Supermarket”
- John Cale & Lou Reed, “Smalltown”
- David Bowie, “Andy Warhol”
- R.E.M. (covering a Wire song), “Strange”
- Pete Townshend, “Let My Love Open the Door”
- The Submarines, “You, Me and the Bourgeoisie”
- Nirvana (covering David Bowie), “The Man Who Sold the World”
- Public Image Ltd., “Public Image”
- Johnny Cash & U2, “The Wanderer”
- Bryan Ferry (covering Bob Dylan), “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door”
- The Rolling Stones (covering The Temptations), “Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)”
- They Might Be Giants, “The Statue Got Me High”
- The Mountain Goats, “Jaipur”
- Ida Maria, “Oh My God”
- Amy Rigby, “Knapsack”
Post-show:
- Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong (covering a song by George & Ira Gershwin), “It Ain’t Necessarily So”
- The Velvet Underground & Nico, “I’ll Be Your Mirror”
- The Slip, “Suffocation Keep”
- Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter, “Your Side Now”
- Martha Wainwright (covering a song by Ralph Vaughan Williams & Robert Louis Stevenson), “Whither Must I Wander?”
- T-Bone Burnett, “I’m Coming Home”
- Cantor Jordan S. Franzel, “Torah Blessing”
- Jill Sobule (covering Warren Zevon), “Don’t Let Us Get Sick”