~Tuesday~ Today at the gym, before starting my workout, I wanted to hear a song on my iPod that I recently downloaded, and for some inexplicable reason it was not in the “Purchased” playlist, so I selected the “By Song” sort and found it.
Once it started, I decided to just let it move to the next song in the list when it was done, so essentially what I heard was a slew of songs, all of whose titles began with the letter K, which actually turned out to be interesting intellectually for a couple of reasons:
- Due to the funny way the—or perhaps my—brain works I found myself a little startled when the first word of the song didn’t start with a K, having to consciously think, “Oh yeah, it’s the title that starts with a K.” Eventually, that sunk in to the point that I no longer expected it.
- The second interesting thing that happened was when I couldn’t immediately think of the title. I’d go through a process of trying to remember it before the song got to the refrain, which is where, in a majority of the cases, the title was mentioned.
In the end, this is what the playlist looked like:
| Song | Artist |
| Keep the Customer Satisfied | Simon & Garfunkel |
| Keg in the Closet | Kenny Chesney |
| Kentucky Gambler | Dolly Parton |
| Kicks | The Monkees |
| Kids Say the Darnest Things | Tammy Wynette |
| Kid Charlemagne | Steely Dan |
| Killing Me Softly With His Song | Roberta Flack |
| The Kind of Man a Woman Needs | Barbra Streisand |
| King of the Road | Rufus Wainwright & Teddy Thompson |
| Kiss and Say Goodbye | The Manhattans |
| Kiss of Life | Sade |
| Kiss On My List | Hall & Oates |
This was so much fun—as it played such a variety of songs, many of which I haven’t listened to in forever—that I may go back to the top of the alphabet, and pick a random song to start with in that group for that day, and then move down the alphabet over my next 25 workouts.