The 2007 Honda Fit - the car I'm currently driving, which replaced a 1996 Dodge full-size van - turned over 50,000 miles today. It's a silver Sport model, though I don't think of it as a sporty car, to be honest. It's all of three cylinders and five forward gears in the automatic transmission, four small tires and an iPod jack.
That's my car - it's Chicago, and the Blues Brothers, and old jazz, Louie Armstrong, Dave McKenna, Kristen Chenoweth, Broadway musicals, Dr. Demento, The Beatles, Deep Purple, Cheap Trick and Steely Dan; it's Rich Mullins, Sierra and, not the least, eight sets of Carolyn Arends, she of relative minor fame who deserves relative major fame.
And, truth be told, it's also 23 sets of Frank Zappa and three of Black Sabbath; podcasts of NPR's Fresh Air, Car Talk, Science Friday and A Prairie Home Companion, Old Time Radio Comedies and Old Time Radio Thrillers (138 and 143 of the latter two, respectively). And it's Bill Cosby, Larry the Cable Guy, Woody Allen, the 2000 Year Old Man, Allan Sherman, Eric Idle/Monty Python and 19 other comedians.
All told, it's 5,764 songs and 535 podcasts.
Here's a sample of what I heard at lunch time:
- A segment of Dean Martin's Las Vegas show from 1966 or '67
- Bye Bye, Love - Simon and Garfunkel
- Not Alone - Carolyn Arends
- Truck Drivin' Song - Weird Al Yankovic
- Drive My Car - The Beatles
- American Woman - The Guess Who
- Dancing Days - Led Zepplin
- Ain't Misbehavin' - Leon Redbone
- Mighty River - Louis Armstrong
- A segment from Larry the Cable Guy
- Sweet Thing - Van Morrison
- All is Well - Carolyn Arends
- Loves Me Like a Brother - The Guess Who
- Love Was New - Chicago
- Oye Como Va - Santana
- Oh, What a Beautiful Morning - Oklahoma Cast Album
- The Boston Rag - Steely Dan
- In My Life - Bette Midler
- If Love Is Trouble - Dizzy Gillespie
- I Need You - The Beatles
- The Andy Griffith Show Theme
- Love From a Heart of Gold - How to Succeed in Business Cast Album
- Soap Theme (TV Show)
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