I thought this was novel. It’s a play on the Lord’s Prayer designed for beer drinkers. It’s posted on the wall in Fido’s (fee-doz), one of the more touristy bars that Miss K and I visited on our recent Belize trip. Cheers.

The Beer Prayer

Our lager,
which art in barrels,
hallowed be thy drink.
Thy will be drunk,
at home, as in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
and forgive us our spillages,
as we forgive those who spill
against us.
And lead us not into incarceration,
but deliver us from hangovers.
For thine is the beer,
the bitter and the lager,
for ever and ever,
Barmen.

I used to call it a mixed tape. I’d spend hours with a two-deck casette boom box getting just the right tracks in just the right order. Then, I’d play the hell out it until that blessed Memorex magnetic tape pulled out of shape and warped.

But enough “back in my day” bullshit. Here are 10 tracks in high rotation on my iPods.

• “Comatose” by Pearl Jam. A rocker that can actually follow “World Wide Suicide” on the band’s new LP Pearl Jam.
• “There for You” by Damien Marley, from the release Welcome to Jamrock. Haunting. Thanks Miss K.
• “Desecration Smile,” which leads the Mars side on the Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Stadium Arcadium.It reminds me a lot of their big 90s hit “Breaking the Girl.”
• “Mary-Christ” from Sonic Youth’s 1990 album Goo. If this song doesn’t rock you, it ain’t the song that’s wrong.
• “Let’s Push Things Forward” from the Streets’ Original Pirate Material. “Let’s put on the classics and we’ll have a little dance, shall we?” Thanks BT-Killah.
• “The Number of the Beast” from Iron Maiden’s 1982 LP of the same name. Could that song really be almost 25 years old? Rocks like new.
• “Pump Up the Volume” by M.A.R.R.S. I provides the answer to the eternal question, what happens when you launch a club track into orbit.
• “Truth is Out of Style” by MC 900 Ft. Jesus. It’s both dated and prescient.
• “Makiballilia” by Aceyalone, from his limited release Grand Imperial. It’s live and large, and puts the beat from “Billy Jean” to work.
• “From the Ritz to the Rubble” from Arctic Monkey’s debut Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not. Again, a catchy rocker, even though the cockney’s dense as fog.