Things my iPod wants

1. "Hello Voyager" by Evangelista. Mentioned by Franny below. Some songs have been showing up online. "The Blue Room" is one of those songs that I tend to drown in after attaching my own meaning to it. Carla Bozulich has been playing this song live for years... with Nels in Scarnella, with the band who would become The Night Porter and with Evangelista. I'm glad it's found a home. "Truth Is Dark Like Outer Space"... and I quote (I think) "cat tails tied around our waist/ perfect for jumping into space / voyagers all right / we're shoving off tonight..." the loopiest Carla lyric since "Dandelions." I'm thinking fun and darkness and light.
2. "Borrowed Arms" by 2 Foot Yard. Another album I think I pre-like. Carla Kihlstedt, Marika Hughes and Shahzad Ismaily equal just about my favorite band to see live. For years they've been playing this material in places like the currently homeless Tonic and Joe's Pub and the songs have been rotating on their MySpace page. Heaven!
3. "Volume 1" by She and Him. See Franny's praise for the single online and my equal praise and all of the Zooey worship below. I've been listening to M Ward's "Transfiguration of Vincent" quite a lot lately on the morning commute so I'd be happy hearing of a new album from him even if Zooey wasn't involved. But she is!!!! Here's M Ward with Bright Eyes on PBS doing a song I like about the unabashed unhip love of music.
4. "Accelerate" by R.E.M. I feel like R.E.M. has been two bands... the songs had been by Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe. You have to give the drummer credit. Buck/Mills/Stipe has always felt different in terms of song structure and beat, but I've still loved the band. I tend to think of them as two different bands that I happen to like a lot. It still isn't the "old" R.E.M. but the single "Supernatural Superserious" is a time-warp back to Monster with the added weirdness that it's about teenage shyness. Which I suffered from badly. Each time I hear it, I like it more.

Anyway, I'd very much like to have these albums now and not wait even though the waits are short. I can listen endlessly to Jukebox and that's more than enough to entertain me and carry me away but I've really been dealing with some endless headaches in my day-to-day life and I'd love to fully experience this music NOW rather than a video on YouTube here, a streaming song there...