Another quick iTunes question

Okay, I'm working on making the transition (or at least exploring and deciding if I'm going to make that transition) and bumping into things that were automatic on the old software but don't seem to work in the new.
iTunes users: Is there a way to look at either a playlist or a CD in-drive and the library of saved files at the same time, to compare?

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Wow. Okay, I just found Die Hard for $8 and Transporter for $10. Anybody who is getting these for me for my birthday needs to tell me now. Or sooner.

On a dusty road

Crossposted from my Audiography group, where the theme this week is MoTown.

Sam and Dave were technically Staxx artist, but it's much of a muchness--two Soul Men making amazing music and being ripped off by the man. It just didn't happen in Detroit. (:
If you've ever seen 'Tapeheads' with John Cusak and Tim Robbins then you've met half of Sam and Dave, and the Brothers Diamond/Swanky Modes were based on Sam and Dave.
Everybody's heard 'Soul Man' and 'Wrap It Up' and 'I Thank You' and so instead I'm going to give you Hold It Baby, which is a rockin' number with horns and guitars, and I'm With You, which is a slower, sexier number.
I've had to spend a long time listening to Soul Men on vinyl (or not listening at all for the past few years when my turntable has lived in a different state) but their albums are being re-released on CD now by Rhino Records, who are my personal heroes for lots of reasons.

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EDIT
Adding more news in a music vein. Angie? With the housemate's help last night I finished off your CD and will present it to you when appropriate. I have three Talking Heads CDs on loan from the library, and have come to a realization. While I admire the artistic integrity of early TH (Fear of Music, Sp eak in gin to ngu es, Buildings and Food) I much more enjoy their later work (Little Creatures, Naked, True Stories).

Why not ask for more?

I want to communicate. I want to write a post that will talk about how I'm feeling. I am unable to communicate about any topic that's important to me at this time. I want to connect to people. I want to tell a story that's worth the telling. I want to lose myself in a story somebody else tells that's more real than the one I'm in. I want to go back to school, to improve myself. I want to accomplish something I can point to and say "I did that." and actually care. I'm surrounded by the various requirements of merely surviving. And they're smothering me. Opportunities fade, options disappear, and I don't feel like they're being replaced. Or perhaps they are, but not with anything as bright.
My old job at AltaVista had an office building in San Mateo right under the flight path for SFO. I used to sit in my office and look out the window as planes took off and landed and I sat there going nowhere. With this job, the feeling is less intense because I physically go places on occasion.
I'm thinking of taking up Jeremy's "Ask Me Anything Friday" if I can remember to do so, because I want the attention. But for now, tell me something good. About me, about you, about baby duckies and fluffy kittens, about whatever.