As Ugly As I Seem - The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan - 2005

It had been our plan to wake up around 9ish and get on the road by 1030. We knew that it would take us about an hour and half to get out to Heathrow to pick up the rental car and then 7 hours to get to Glasgow, so we wanted to try to get there with enough time to have some of the evening left.

I was woken up by the sound of the cleaning people coming in at 1120 and realized that our plan was going to be a little off. We finally got ourselves up and packed and checked out by about 1230. We hustled our way to the subway station drinking the useless warm brown water that Londoners claim to be coffee and eating greasy and heavy sausage and cheese rolls from a kiosk.

It was nearly 3 by the time we got to Heathrow and we were already way behind schedule when we discovered that we had hit another hitch in our plan. Apparently, renting a car from the airport in London is not quite the same as here in the states. In the states (and in Mexico for that matter) they have a centralized area for all of the car rental shops. You land, you take the train to your car rental and you go. At Heathrow, all the car rental places were attatched to the airport hotels...this meant waiting for and taking yet another bus.

By the time we got to the hotel/rental car place and had filled out all of the paper work it was nearly 4 and we were all accepting that Sunday was pretty much going to be a wash...

The rare slow and gentle song from Jack White, though with his usual self depricating lyrical bent. Not bad.

Aluminum - The White Stripes - White Blood Cells - 2001

A fairly pedistrian White Stripes instrumental.

On one hand it does sort of pre-figure some of the later developments to the band's sound, on the other the developments to the bands sound have been relatively minimal.

The Air Near My Fingers - The White Stripes - Elephant - 2003

Despite it's billing as a WS song, this actually sounds a lot more like White's work with The Raconteurs, which honestly I'm more of a fan of than his bluesier work. I probably barely noticed this song when Elephant was released, but now I'd say it's probably one of the WS songs I enjoy the most.