lah dee dah

last friday at my new joint i heard some of the goddamned kookiest music i've ever heard in a kitchen.  don't get me wrong, i didn't hate any of it at all, it was just, well...wierd.  there was indian sitar-techno, youtube star wars raps, and something called major laser that everybody was way into.  it was all super cool but not what i'd call motivational.  the kitchens i'm used to working in tend to steer toward the metal (or maybe it's just me having control of the music), but metal pumps people up.  whether it's good ol metallica and slayer, or 80s metal like van halen, ratt, and skid row, metal is motivation.  i worked in a kitchen where the manager would play endless phish tapes and it was a nightmare.  don't get me wrong, phish is all good for taking bongs and rubbing mud on your nasty bits, but it doesn't make me want to crank out a dinner rush.

i have about six hundred songs on my blackberry that i put on random and rock out to...it's quite a diverse playlist, but it's mostly upbeat power stuff.  the shuffle play on it has a mind of it's own but lately it's been awesome, and here's what i've been rocking lately...early van halen (always), the darkness, the cult, copious amounts of the mad caddies and the toasters, cage the elephant, the fratellis, the strokes, the dance hall crashers, green day (early green day), and as always lots and lots of metallica.  occasionally it'll toss in a super random song like tears from a clown by smokey robinson or machinegun by the commodores, or some men at work.

basically as long as it's not hippie crap i'm good with it.  what's playin in your kitchen everybody?