It's a Monday Random Twenty-Five™

This week's Monday Random Twenty-Five™ is all omni and stuff.

1. Machine • Regina Spektor; Far
2. Five • Electralane; No Shouts No Calls
3. Sister Sadie • Jimmy Smith; Damn!
4. The Door I Came Through Has Been Closed (But I Keep Trying) • Old Time Relijun; Lost Light
5. Eureka • Jim O'Rourke; Eureka
6. Maria • Wu Tang Clan; Wu Tang Forever
7. Direction • Jay Farrar; Sebastopol
8. Mispar • John Zorn
9. Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor Op. 66 - Scherzo, Molto Allegro Quasi Presto • Felix Mendelssohn
10. Introduction • Chicago; Chicago: The Box
11. Hot For Teacher • Van Halen; 1984
12. Start A War • The National; Boxer
13. Blow Wind Blow • Tom Waits; Frank's Wild Years
14. Uncle John's Band (Live) • The Grateful Dead; Workingman's Dead
15. I Told Ya I Love Ya, Now Get Out! • Mose Allison; Creek Bank
16. Gambling Bar Room Blues • Jimmie Rodgers; The Singing Brakeman
17. For Beginners • M. Ward; Hold Time
18. Time Vs. Length • The Minders; Cul de Sacs & Dead Ends
19. A Remark You Made • Joe Zawinul; Brown Street
20. Any Time At All • The Beatles; A Hard Day's Night
21. Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1 No. 10 in E minor • Fridrich Gulda
22. Canto De Ossanha • Jurassic 5; Feedback
23. No Sympathy • Bob Marley & The Wailers
24. Frankenstein • The Edgar Winter Group; They Only Come Out at Night
25. Home Again • Carole King; Tapestry

Digging deeper

From Wikipedia:

Henning shifted from performance art to the study of the Transcendental Meditation and TM-Sidhi programs which, he claimed, could enable one to levitate.^{[citation needed]} In 1992 he was the NLP candidate in England’s general election, representing a residential section of Lancashire.^[5] He was Senior Vice President of the Natural Law Party of Canada ("NLPC"), and ran as the party's candidate for the former Toronto riding of Rosedale in the 1993 federal election, finishing sixth out of ten candidates.^[5][6][7] The NLPC proposed yogic flying as a solution to the problems of the nation.^[5]

Anything's Possible (in the world of magic)

From Wikipedia:

The band's concerts during this time were loaded with pyrotechnics, magic, laser lights, flying pyramids, levitating guitarists and elaborate production tricks, that included the entire group ascending in a pyramid and a disappearing act, which saw EWF literally vanishing from sight. Magician Doug Henning directed many of their tours throughout the 1970s with his young assistant, David Copperfield.

Monday Random Twenty-Five™ • Five Minute Edition

Today's Random Twenty-Five™ consists of songs that are exactly five minutes in length. Or, at least the files are.

1. Tomorrow Night • Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings; Groovin'
2. I'd Rather Be With You • Bootsy Collins; Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band
3. Ore • Tom Verlaine; Warm and Cool
4. Rain • Ed Hardcourt; Revolver Reloaded
5. Power House • Mose Allison; Wild Man on the Loose
6. Ramble Jungle • The Band; High on the Hog
7. Preachin' Blues • The Derek Trucks Band; Out of the Madness
8. Cakes • Kool G Rap [featuring The RZA]; Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
9. Wuthering Heights • Cuban Cigar Crisis; Cover Up
10. The Need to Make Lists • The Umbrella Sequence; Events
11. Since I Had You • Marvin Gaye; Live at the London Palladium
12. Sodom, South Georgia • Iron And Wine; Our Endless Numbered Days
13. Save Yourself • Aesop Rock; Labor Days
14. Uina • Hermeto Pascoal; Mundo Verde Esperança
15. Little Omie • Hammons Family; The Hammons Family: The Traditions of a West Virginia Family and Their Friends
16. Things You Can Do • Deltron 3030; Deltron 3030
17. Final Solution • Pere Ubu; No Thanks! The '7os Punk Rebellion (Comp.)
18. A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left • Andrew Bird; Andrew Bird & the Mysterious Production of Eggs
19. Wicked Wisdom • Of Montreal; Skeletal Lamping
20. Run Runaway • Slade; The Amazing Kamikaze Syndrome
21. The Duke of Prunes Suite • Frank Zappa & The Mothers; Mothermania
22. Do Something • Macy Gray; On How Life Is
23. Give Me the Flowers While I'm Livin' • Champion Jack Dupree; A Portrait of Champion Jack Dupree
24. Time Is Tight • Booker T. & The MG's; The Best of Booker T. & The MG's
25. Anna Stesia • Prince; Lovesexy

Janus, come to me....

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Special Monday Random Twenty-Five™

Today's Random Twenty-Five™ consists of songs not exceeding three minutes in length. That's how come there's twenty-five!

1. Pig Snoots, Pt. 1 • The Natural Bridge Bunch (this song is awesome)
2. Groove Holmes • The Beastie Boys
3. America Drinks & Goes Home • Frank Zappa & The Mothers
4. Broadway On Fire • Buster Brown
5. In My Time of Dyin' • Bob Dylan
6. Got To Move • Sonny Boy Williamson
7. You Won't Be Satisfied (Until You Break My Heart) • Louis Armstrong
8. Woman Across the River • Freddie King
9. Music to Call the Spirits • Karo Batak
10. Bach: Goldberg Variations, BWV 988 - Variatio 28. A 2 Clav. • Trevor Pinnock
11. Mary Anne With the Shaky Hand • The Who
12. Milk Cow Blues • Roscoe Holcomb
13. All Night Long • Homer & Jethro
14. Swiss Woodpecker • Les Paul & Mary Ford
15. 842-3089 (Call My Name) • Etta James
16. Break My Body • Pixies
17. Don't Ever Let Me Go • Eddie Cochrane
18. Miss Amanda Jones • The Rolling Stones
19. Twenty-Eight • Why?
20. Take it There • The Roots, featuring Wadud Amahd
21. The Grain • Ghostface Killah
22. Like or Like Like • Miniature Tigers
23. She's My Shoo-Shoo (A Minha Menina) • Os Mutantes
24. Break-A-Way • Irma Thomas
25. El Viktor • Sun Ra & His Arkestra

There's always time in the day to take off your shirt and convince some of your more gullible disciples to join you in the water for a flute song.

Sunday night art

Salvador Dali, from the Dirty Thirties. They were pretty dirty in Spain, too...