This thing that we do (Eclectic Playlist Series, 3.07)

Let's start as unfashionably as possible--say, a nuanced, thoughtful, beautiful Jackson Browne song from the mid-'70s. I wasn't sure where it would all go from there but I can see that the West Coast kept reasserting itself, in various guises. In the end, a distinct if unconscious dialogue emerged between Britain and the U.S., between idealism and resignation, between joy and melancholy, all the back and forth we internalize and externalize every day, invisibly. Do I cast my fate to the wind? Do I learn to let go? Do I stay a little longer? Do I review the situation? (And how's *that* for a cover, by the way, "Oliver" going all swinging London?; too bad the single got canned before release when the record company went out of business.) Underneath it all I think most of us just want to be Kate, too.

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