iTunes Randomizer? We need to talk.

[moragmacpherson]

Hey there, iTunes Randomizer - we've gotten along so well recently.  Honestly, your choices while I was grading were apt and fun and helped make that entire process slightly less painful.

Thing is: right now, I'm supposed to be adding a chapter to "A Girl and Her Time Lord" - you know, that slightly crack-y, emphasis on the humor and increasingly absurd and dire situations handled with quips and the Doctor's customary aplomb?  The least angst-y fic in my entire repertoire?  Yeah, that one.

So, please to explain the fact that for the last hour you have played the following:

Put Out the Light - James Booker
Something to Look Forward To - Spoon
Leave the Light On - Chris Smither
Thank You For Sending Me an Angel [live] - Talking Heads
Miles From Nowhere - Cat Stevens
Watch Me Fall - Uncle Tupelo
A Life of Arctic Sounds - Modest Mouse
Something I Can Never Have - Nine Inch Nails
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Float On - Modest Mouse
Manic Depression - Jimi Hendrix

I mean, okay, the James Booker isn't on its face depressing, unless you hear it as a elegiac (which you know I do), but from there on we have the introspective, bitter, and wrist-slittingly depressive - you put Modest Mouse next to Nine Inch Nails.  I cannot write humor on a steady diet of bitter existentialism.  The only thing it's missing is Radiohead - and ye gads, you're going to start playing Pyramid Song now, aren't you?  Yeah, that's right. 

I know for a fact that there are no fewer than 12 They Might Be Giants albums to choose from in my library.  Could you please work with me a little here?