Charleston Chew Chocolatey Nougat Hot Cocoa K-cups
Klondike Mint Chocolate Chip—The Candy!
Ben & Jerry’s Candy Bar Pie Ice Cream
UV Candy Bar Vodka
3 Musketeers Marshmallow with Milk Chocolate (Whipped Up, Fluffy Chocolate with Marshmallow Taste)
Crunchy PB Max Snickers Flavor
Cadbury Caramello Ice Cream Bars
Jolly Rancher Popsicles
50gr Hydro Herbal Hookah Shisha Dr. Pepper Flavor Molasses Sheesha. That’s how it’s described on Amazon, but it’s actually a faux-Pepper soda flavor called “Dr. 23.” Fake Dr. Peppers are legion—there’s an excellent list of them at https://fakedrpepper.wordpress.com/?s=Dr.+23, though it misses Dr. 23 and one of my favorites: the Soda Club syrup Dr. Pete.
Angie’s Holidrizzle Candy Corn Kettle Corn

I’ve tried several of these. The Klondike Mint candy is an abomination, a rare example of turning an ice cream treat into a candy bar rather than vice versa. The Charleston Chew cocoa is more flavor than substance, and by nature of it being cocoa must change the candy bar’s ratio of nougat to chocolate. Cadbury ice cream bars of any kind are a superior product; within that rarefied plane, I prefer the regular milk chocolate kind to Caramello. Jolly Rancher Popsicles have the readymade tang of popsicles that have been in the freezer too long and picked up flavors of other foods. Candy Corn Kettle Corn is as ghastly as it sounds.

It’s snowing again, for the third Monday in a row. Many lists of “Snow” songs exist in the world. Here’s the other image of the day. For a while, it looked like this list would be overwhelmed with metal songs about digging shallow graves, but happily the shovel-pop genre turns out to be broader than that.

Shovels & Ropes (band name, Charleston South Carolina)
“I Gently Shovel Snow,” The Walkmen
“Shovel,” Aesop Rock
“Heel on the Shovel,” 16 Horsepower
“The Days of Sand and Shovels,” Bobby Vinton.
“Mudshovel,” Staind. It’s a crass sexual term.
“The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel,” Gravediggaz
“Shovel Headed Kill Machine,” album by the metal band Exodus.
“Shovel Knockout,” Children of Bodom.
“Bitter Shovel,” Outspoken.
“The Man With the Shovel,” traditional folk song included in the book Songs and Romances of Buffalo by John Charles Shea.
“The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker and the Tongs,” Edward Lear nonsense verse.
“Shovel Knight,” theme from the free-software video game of the same name.
“The Shovel Vs. The Howling Bones,” album by Lincoln Durham, who records eccentric folk/blues tunes on antiquated sound equipment.
“One Woman and a Shovel,” empowerment ditty from folksinger Carrie Newcomer
Midnight Shovel Routine, metal band from Kentucky.

I’ve just gotten back into Netflix for its DVDs, not just its handy On Demand service. With so much snow on the ground at our new home in Bethany, casual trips to Best Video aren’t so casual just now. And there are still quite a few titles that I can’t get on the iPad.

I’ve been a Netflix customer since the service first began in 1999, and was struck, looking over my queue, by how many things on it are unavailable. Some have never been available. This is what’s currently on my “Saved Titles” list, the disks that Netflix can not currently provide. All list an availability date as “Unknown.”

• Children’s Cartoon Classics

• All the King’s Men (the Sean Penn one, from 2006)

• Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder, 1971)

• Big Town After Dark (1947 journalism thriller)

• Cause Celebre (Helen Mirren and David Suchet, 1987)

• Chicago Filmmakers on the Chicago River (doc featuring Jon Landis, Haskell Wexler and others, 2004)

• Coming Through (Kenneth Branagh and Helen Mirren TV movie, 1985
• Cracker (the popular Robbie Coltrane crime series)
• Hollywood Rivals Collection (2005 collection of film clips and other documents illustrating great film-star grudges)
• House Arrest (divorcing couple Kevin Pollak and Jamie Lee Curtis are held captive by their own children in hopes that they will reconsider)

• Maid to Order (1987 Ally Sheedy/Beverly D’Angelo menial comedy)

• Millay at Steepletop (doc about where Edna St. Vincent Millay lived and wrote)
• Norm MacDonald: Me Doing Stand-Up (the highly touted 2011 comeback special, directed by David Steinberg)

• Notes from Underground (contemporary take on the dark Dostoevsky story, starring Henry Czerny, Sheryl Lee, Jon Favreau and Seth Green. 1995, directed by Gary Walkow)

• Popi (1969 Alan Arkin/Rita Moreno comedy. They both play Puerto Ricans.)

• Radioland Murders (1994 mystery comedy starring Brian Benben of Dream On, directed by actor Charles Martin Smith and co-writted and co-produced by George Lucas of Star Wars)

• Sonic Underground: Vol. 1. Sonic the Hedgehog has a rock band.

• Spring Forward (drama with Ned Beatty, Liev Shreiber, Campbell Scott and Bill Raymond)

• Super Duper Alice Cooper (the recent Alice Cooper documentary, available for $10 on Amazon but not rentable via Netflix?)

• Big Comfy Couch: Comfy & Joy/Jump for Joy (this demonstrates how long I’ve been a Netflix member. My kids are now 10 and 12, and were into this show—and the live stage versions of it that would visit the Shubert in New Haven—when they were like 2).

• The Fox and the Hound (the Disney film can be watched on demand on Netflix, but not on DVD)

• The Stupids (1996 Jon Landis adaptation of the incredible James Allard children’s book series, starring Tom Arnold. I’ve never seen this film, though I do own the tie-in novel)

• Very Best of America’s Funniest Comedians (2003, with early-career snippets of Chris Rock, Adam Sandler, Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano, Norm MacDonald, Kelsey Grammer, Jim Carrey, Rosie O’Donnell, Tim Allen, Richard Belzer, Cheech Marin, Richard Lewis, Jason Alexander, Carrot Top, Paul Rodriguez, Jeff Foxworthy, Janeane Garofalo, Ellen DeGeneres and Drew Carey)

• Times Square (the film that made Allan Moyle lose his hair, battling for integrity and style when producer Robert Stigwood merely wanted a Saturday Night Fever for punks)
• Where the Rivers Flow North (1993 stubborn backwoods logger Rip Torn drama. Anything with Bill Raymond in a supporting role instantly goes on my queue.)
• Xala (1975 social satire by one of my favorite filmmakers Ousmene Sembene)

I’m sure there are all sorts of reasons why these films can’t be gotten: copyrights, song clearances, repackaging, forgetfulness. Some are viewable elsewhere (Cracker, for instance, is on the Acorn TV subscription channel). Maybe I’m the only person on earth who wants to see some of these. But it’s as broad and varied a list as my active Netflix queue, a list that has formed and grown organically, screaming “You can’t see us!”

Interestingly, a number of these ARE on the shelves at my local video store, Best Video. I continue to rely on both Netflix and Best.

These is the random stack of CDs cluttering the downstairs bathroom this month. I have a handy Sony 5-disk player in there for showertime.

• Elf Power, Sunlight on the Moon. Oft-overlooked, pretty darn prolific (15 albums) Elephant Six collective member. This is their most recent album, from 2013.
• The Best of Antoinio Carlos Jobim. One of those “20th Century Masters” budget CDs. Judging from this, Jobim liked to swim: “Agua de Beber,” “Aguas de Marco,” “Wave,” “Tide” and the ultimate jazz beach song “The Girl from Ipanema.”
• The Shazam, Tomorrow the World. One of their most audacious power pop efforts, as suggested by lead track “Rockin’ and Rollin’ With My Rock and Roll Rock and Roller.”
• Elvis Costello Live With the Metropole Orkest, My Flame Burns Blue. The bonus disk is the shorter version of the “Il Sogno” Suite which Costello composed for a ballet based on A Midsummer Night’s Dream (performed in 2000 by the Italian Aterballeto Dance Company).
• Christiane Noll, The Ira Gershwin Album. There was a time in the ‘90s and ‘00s when Noll was not only making a name for herself on Broadway, she was visiting Connecticut frequently—with Jekyll & Hyde, the Urinetown tour, at the Goodspeed in Mack & Mabel and Lizzie Borden, and in concert appearances at the Bushnell and elsewhere. I love the unexpected selections on this Gershwin set: “Tchaikovsky,” “I Was Doing All Right,” “In Our United State,” “There Is No Music”…
• The Funky 16 Corners. Amazing funk comp of groundbreaking regional hits of the early 1970s. Does for funk what Nuggets did for garage rock.
• The Essential Adam Ant.
• Adam Ant, B-Side Babies. This guy deserves a reappreciation, and it’s nice to see him get taken seriously in some of the newer New Wave history books.
• 10cc, 10cc. Those first albums captivated me as a teenager, and still think that the blend of the hyper-creative risk-takers Lol Creme and Kevin Godley and the mainstream pop craftsmen Graham Gouldman and Eric Stewart had genius to it. Now I’m older, I think they often too self-consciously precocious and clever, but in the ‘70s there was nothing as smart out there.
• Teenage Fanclub, Shadows. I don’t think they did one perfect album, but each one has several perfect songs.
• Randy Newman, Harps and Angels. Proof that, over a winding and unpredictable half-century career, he’s never lost his sardonic touch.
• MOJO presents DavidHeroesBowie. The free disk that came with the latest issue of MOJO, of “the artists that influenced David Bowie.” Anthony Newley and Jacques Brel and Vince Taylor and The Pretty Things, of course, but also Bobby Bland, Billy Fury, Ronnie Ross Quintet and The Flares (“Foot Stomping,” a taste Bowie has in common with John Waters, who put the song in the original Hairspray film).

John Lennon, “#9 Dream”

The Beatles, “Revolution #9”

Shazam, “Revolution #9” (the only cover of that song we’ve ever come across)

Nine, original Broadway soundtrack. (The music raised its inspiration, Fellini’s film 8 1/2, by 1/2.

The Temptations, “Cloud Nine”

Patti Smith, “Nine”

Jimi Hendrix Experience, “If Six Was Nine”

Aerosmith, “Nine Lives”

The Robins, “Riot in Cell Block #9”

“Bang Bang,” Cher (covered by Frank Sinatra)
“Mr. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang,” proposed James Bond movie theme song
“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” Dick Van Dyke. Second Ian Fleming reference on this list.
“Bang Bang!,” Hrithik Roshan & Katrina Kaif (from the Bang Bang! movie soundtrack)

“Big Bang Theory Theme,” Barenaked Ladies

“Bang It (Jerkin Song),” KP featuring Lost Generation
“Bang the Drum All Day,” Todd Rundgren
“Banging the Headboard,” R. Kelly
“Suzy is a Headbanger,” The Ramones
“Bang-Shang-a-Lang,” The Archies. Their first hit. For years, this has been the ringtone music on my iPhone.

“I Wrote a Simple Song,” Billy Preston
“This is My Song,” Petula Clark
“Your Song,” Elton John
“Killing Me Softly With His Song,” Roberta Flack
“Song Sung Blue,” Neil Diamond
“Sing a Song,” The Carpenters
“Sing a Simple Song,” Sly and the Family Stone
“Sing a Simple Song,” Hampton and the Hamsters
“Simple Song of Freedom,” Bobby Darin
“Song of Songs,” Old Testament

“Walk,” Pantera
“Walk,” Kwabs
“Walk With Me,” Lecrae featuring Novel. Apparently a favorite of Red Sox outfielder Daniel Nava.
“Walk a Mile in My Shoes,” Joe South
“(Remember) Walkin’ in the Sand,” The Shangri-Las
“I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles),” The Proclaimers
“These Boots were made for Walking,” Nancy Sinatra
“Walk of Life,” Dire Straits
“Fire Walk With Me,” Angelo Badalamenti
“I Walk the Line,” Johnny Cash
“Walking on Thin Ice,” Yoko Ono
“Walk On By,” Dionne Warwick
“I’m Walkin’,” Fats Domino
“Tennessee Bird Walk,” Jack Blanchard and Misty Morgan
“Party Song (Walk of Shame),” All Time Low
“Walk Like A Man,” The Four Seasons
“Walk Like An Egyptian,” The Bangles
“Walk Right In,” Rooftop Singers
“Walk This Way,” Aerosmith (with and without Run-D.M.C.)
“Winter Wonderland,”
Walking in Rhythm,” The Blackbyrds
“You’ll Never Walk Alone,” Jerry Lewis
“Do the Walk,” Digney Fingus
“The Walk,” Dr. Feelgood
“The Walk,” Meyer Hawthorne
“Walk Hard,” Dewey Cox
“Theme from Walker, Texas Ranger (Eyes of the Ranger),” Chuck Norris
“Baby Elephant Walk,” Henry Mancini
“Camel Walk,” Southern Culture on the Skids
“Walk Away Rene,” The Left Banke
“Don’t Walk Away,” ELO
“Walking on Sunshine,” Katrina & the Waves
“Walking on the Moon,” The Police
“Moonwalk,” Earth Wind & Fire
“In Walks the Night,” Heart
“Desire Walks On,” Heart
“Just Keep Walking,” INXS
“Keep On Walkin’,” CeCe Peniston
“Walk the Walk,” N3GUS featuring Jakes
“Walk the Walk,” Jordin Sparks
“Walk the Walk,” Poe
“Walk the Walk,” Deuce
“Love Walked In,” Thunder
“Love Walks In,” Van Halen
“Walk the Dog,” Rufus Thomas
“Walk the Dinosaur,” Was (Not Was)
“Walk Right Now,” The Jacksons
“The Walker,” Fitz & the Tantrums
“Do the Walk,” The Inmates. Saw them do this live at the Orpheum in Boston in 1980 (I think), opening for Joe Jackson. They walked rather awkwardly around the stage while doing the song.

Had some workers on the roof the other day—no leaks, but a need for patches of reshingling. Here’s the soundtrack:

“Up on the Roof,” The Drifters.
“Rooftops,” Lost Prophets.
“The Roof is Leaking,” Phil Collins.
“Rain on the Roof,” Lovin’ Spoonful.
“The Roof is On Fire,” Bloodhound Gang.
“The Roof is On Fire,” Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three
Fiddler on the Roof.
“Rooftop Singing,” New World
“We’re Really Gonna Raise the Roof,” Slade
“Mansard Roof,” Vampire Weekend
“Tear the Roof Up,” Alesso
“Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker),” Parliament
“The Roof is Leaking,” Rolling Stones
“There’s a Creeper on the Roof,” Minecraft parody of Boney M’s “Brown Girl in the Ring”
“All Under One Roof,” Jamie xx
“Happy,” Pharrell Williams. “Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof.”
“Your Song,” Elton John. “I sat on the roof and kicked off the moss.”
“Step in Time,” Mary Poppins soundtrack
“On the Roof—Chori Chori Chora Chori,” Masti (Indian pop star)
“Don’t Jump Off the Roof, Dad,” Homer & Jethro

Fans of James Taylor (“Up on the Roof”) and the Grateful Dead (“Tin Roof Shack”) are not allowed on my roof.

The ten albums currently hovering around the CD player in the downstairs bathroom.

• Cheap Trick, Cheap Trick

• Final Fantasy, He Poos Clouds

• Brian Wilson, That Lucky Old Sun

• American Graffiti Revisited (surf band cover comp)

• Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra: Grieg’s Holberg Suite, Dvorak’s Serenade in E, Tchaikovsky’s Serenade in C

• Ramones, Acid Eaters

• Oasis, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?

• The Outlets, 18 Songs

• Kansas City Blues 1944-49 (Julie Lee & Her Boyfriends, Bus Moten & His Men, Tommy Douglas, Tiny Kennedy, and various Jay McShann bands)

• Glee, The Music, Season One. For its amusing take on Kanye West’s “Gold Digger. ” Don’t know why I feel I have to explain and justify this one, when I didn’t the others.