Lesson #100 - Re-reading

Three notes today:

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First, your mom says to do your homework.  Get going.  Ask your classmates for help if you really need to.

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Secondly, the series on the Freshmen Fifteen will return tomorrow.  We wanted to break away from that narrative briefly to recognize the 100th lesson with a special comic and follow-up.

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Finally, because the final idea in today’s comic is too tempting to pass up, enjoy the Surviving the World soundtrack for the first 100 lessons and 3 recitations!

L1) Wheatus - “Teenage Dirtbag”

L2) Queen - “Fat Bottomed Girls”

L3) Phish - “Chalkdust Torture” (Live version)

L4) No Fi Soul Rebellion - “Let’s Pretend”

L5) Dexter Freebish - “Prozac (Be Like Me)”

L6) Tonic - “Lemon Parade”

L7) R.E.M. - “Don’t Go Back to Rockville”

L8) Gisli - “Straight to Hell”

L9) The Cloud Room - “Hey Now Now”

L10) Josh Joplin Group - “Wonderful Ones”

L11) Survivor - “Eye of the Tiger”

L12) Billy Ward and the Dominoes - “Sixty Minute Man”

L13) Rocky Votolato - “Uppers Aren’t Necessary”

L14) Better Than Ezra - “Misunderstood”

L15) Clint Mansell - “Summer Overture”

L16) The Arrogant Worms - “Carrot Juice is Murder”

L17) The Cranberries - “Zombie”

L18) Sister Hazel - “Champagne High”

L19) Buffalo Tom - “Summer”

L20) Green Day - “Minority”

L21) Something Corporate - “I Don’t Want a Job”

L22) Ima Robot - “Creeps Me Out”

L23) LCD Soundsystem - “All My Friends”

L24) Alanis Morissette - “Ironic”

L25) Ella Fitzgerald - “It’s a Lovely Day Today”

L26) Oingo Boingo - “Weird Science”

L27) Oasis - “Morning Glory”

R1) Poe - “Walk the Walk”

L28) Paul Simon - “Me and Julio Down By the Schoolyard”

L29) Pela - “Tenement Teeth”

L30) Gov’t Mule - “Mr. High and Mighty”

L31) Control Freq - “Lost in Space”

L32) Negro Spiritual - “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”

L33) Sleep Station - “Silver Hills”

L34) Tchaikovsky - “1812 Overture”

L35) Spin Doctors - “Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong”

L36) Matt Nathanson - “Pretty the World”

L37) The Thermals - “Pillar of Salt”

L38) Lemon Demon - “The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny”

L39) The Baseball Project - “Gratitude (For Curt Flood)”

L40) Willie Nile - “Game of Fools”

R2) World Party - “What Does It Mean Now?”

L41) Guns and Roses - “Patience”

L42) Nirvana - “Lithium”

L43) Todd Snyder - “Lookin’ For a Job”

L44) Weezer - “In the Garage”

L45) Okkervil River - “Our Life Is Not a Movie or Maybe”

L46) The Dutchess and the Duke - “Reservoir Park”

L47) Sister Hazel - “Superman”

L48) O.A.R. - “Hey Girl”

L49) JibJab - “That’s What We Call the News”

L50) Say Hi To Mom - “Laundry”

L51) Butthole Surfers - “Summer in the City”

L52) Jackie O.D. - “I’m Not Gonna Lie”

L53) Nada Surf - “See These Bones”

L54) The Who - “Who Are You?”

L55) The Hippos - “Wasting My Life”

L56) The New Pornographers - “My Rights Versus Yours”

L57) John Lennon - “Working Class Hero”

L58) Josh Joplin Group - “Trampoline”

L59) Man Plus - “My Kind Of People”

L60) The Go! Team - “Junior Kickstart”

L61) Semisonic - “Brand New Baby”

L62) They Might Be Giants - “Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought We Had a Deal”

L63) Radiohead - “Airbag”

L64) Voxtrot - “Long Haul”

L65) Leona Ness - “Anything”

L66) The Presidents of the United States of America - “More Bad Times”

L67) Eve 6 - “Open Road Song”

L68) Actual Tigers - “Halfway House”

L69) SR-71 - “Politically Correct”

L70) Lisa Hall - “Comatose”

L71) Gogol Bordello - “Wanderlust King”

L72) Pete Yorn - “For Nancy”

L73) Atomic Fireballs - “Man With the Hex”

L74) Guster - “Airport Song”

R3) The Animals - “We’ve Got to Get Out of This Place”

L75) The Arrogant Worms - “TV Weather Guy”

L76) Aimee Mann - “You Could Make a Killing”

L77) The Polyphonic Spree - “Light and Day”

L78) Gershwin - “Rhapsody in Blue”

L79) Pavement - “Shady Lane”

L80) Ben Folds - “Rockin’ the Suburbs”

L81) The Weakerthans - “Civil Twilight”

L82) Cake - “The Distance”

L83) The Pogues - “In Heaven There Is No Beer”

L84) Murder By Death - “Dead Men and Sinners”

L85) Jason Mraz - “Wordplay”

L86) John Linnell - “South Carolina”

L87) Spacehog - “Mungo City”

L88) Enter the Haggis - “One Last Drink”

L89) Burt Bacharach - “Beware of the Blob”

L90) Sugarcult - “Do It Alone”

L91) The Shys - “Call In the Calvary”

L92) Athlete - “El Salvador”

L93) Sondre Lerche - “To Be Surprised”

L94) Modest Mouse - “I Came As a Rat”

L95) Dar Williams - “Party Generation”

L96) Tom Lehrer - “The Professor’s Song”

L97) Poe - “Trigger Happy Jack (Drive By a Go-Go)”

L98) Getaway People - “Six Packs”

L99) Marcy’s Playground - “Sex and Candy”

L100) And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - “Will You Smile Again”

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Thanks to friends who unknowingly offered suggestions.

(We’re not anywhere near the end of the comic, like today’s might suggest, but it’s a lot easier to put out these lists every 100 comics or so.  Thanks to everyone who’s helped make us feel like the comic’s been a success so far.  Also, if you catch why each song was chosen to be appropriate for each individual lesson and recitation, give yourself a cookie.  Enjoy.)