For about fifteen years, I’ve been renting cars. For most of that time, they’ve had CD players. For all of that time, I’ve mixed and burned my own CD’s when I was travelling, and most of the time, left them in the rental car.

None of them has had any value, of course, other than the cost of the CD, so I never thought anything of leaving them there.

Most of the time, they’ve been pretty schizophrenic. Last one I left had Burt Bacharach’s “Casino royale”. “Ass like that” from Eminem. “Hilbilly Hula Gal” by Junior Brown. ” “ode to joy”. “eine keine nachtmusik” “Lake Shore Drive” by Aleota, Haynes, and Jeremiah. You get the picture. Whatever appeals to me at the time, that’s what I listen to. Ioften wonder what the next famioy thinks who rents that pickup, or minivan.

Anyway, there’s a radio station that does the schizophrenic dance mix now, and it’s apparently all over north America: Jack FM. Like your ipod on shuffle.

They’re probably in your town, check ’em out. The juxtaposition of songs is often amazing.