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An old music buddy of mine, Steve Salkin, challenged me with "What's on you iPod." Here's the deal. Get your iPod, iPhone, Blackberry, iTunes or whatever you use to play your music digitally. Turn on the Shuffle and play. Put down the first song that comes up. Skip ahead 5 songs, write down that song. Skip ahead 5 songs, write down that song. And so on, and so on, until you reach 10, 15, 20 or 25 songs (whenever you want to stop).

Steve noted, "No cheating. The song that comes up is the song that gets listed -- no shaking your head "Nah" and skipping ahead because what came up isn't "cool." One caveat: I think you should allowed to skip a song if you've already listed one from the same album/show."

Fair enough, Steve. Here's my list:

1. Inner Meet Me - Beta Band (The Three E.P.'s)
   
2. Empty Space, Pt 1 (demo) - Pink Floyd (The Wall: Under Construction)
   
3. Lilywhite Lilith - Genesis (Lamb Lies Down on Broadway)
   
4. Family Tree - Loretta Lynn (Van Lear Rose)
   
5. Don't You Evah - Spoon (Tallahassee 11-8-2007)
   
6. Sho is Funky Down Here - The 8th Wonder of the World, James Brown
   
7. Magic Bus - THE WHO (The Kingdome, Seattle, 1982)
   
8. Kerry - Hall & Oates (Bigger Than the Both of Us) NOTE: Everyone should listen to this album.
   
9. Printemps Qui Commence - Maria Callas (Samson et Dalila, opera in 3 acts, Op. 47: Act 1: ) NOTE: If you never heard this then you've never lived. Beautiful, simply beautiful.
   
10. Unknown Caller - U2 (No Line on the Horizon)
    
11. Ram On - Paul McCartney (Ram [mono])
    
12. Morning Dew - Greateful Dead (Dick's Picks Vol. 7 - London, 1974)
    
13. Stornelli Fiorentini - Carlo Buti (Quando L'autore Canta)
    
14. Master Blaster - Stevie Wonder (Hotter Than July)
    
15. Lonesome Home Blues - Buddy Guy (Blues Singer)
    
16. Singin' Call - Stephen Stills (Stephen Stills 2)
    
17. Sunday Sun - Beck (Sea Change)
    
18. Do the Evolution - Pearl Jam (Camden 07/05/2003)
    
19. Cigarette and Chocolate Mike - Rufus Wainwright (Poses)
    
20. If You Love Me Baby - Little Milton (Sun Records: The Blues Years)
    
21. Down by the River - Neil Young (Everybody Knows this is Nowhere)
    
22. I'm a One Woman Man - George Jones
    
23. Under a Blanket of Blue - Ella and Louie (The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong)
    
24. Dreams - Black Crowes (Sheperd's Bush, 03/20/2006)
    
25. Bad, Bad Women - Shuflers (The OKeh Rhythm & Blues Story)

CHERRY HILL, NJ -- Paul Altobelli's iPod, iPaul,  was only two years old when it vanished July 4th weekend, 2009.

Last weekend, iPaul's owner returned to the garage and to the scene of the disappearance. He came to remember iPaul and to rededicate the almost one month mission to find him.

Even with the passage of time, his faith has not wavered.

"I've never doubted that it's ... out there," Paul Altobelli said. "Until its proven otherwise, I hope one day we will be reunited."

His hope has been bolstered by investigators with the FBI and the Camden County Sheriff's Office, which reopened the case yesterday after hearing of a recent conversation.

"A lead was sparked when Mamata Sahoo and Winona Wyatt were talking about what happened while at work," FBI spokesman Matt Henry wrote in an e-mail to the media.

As cold case cops know, a wisp of a lead can turn into a big break, a fact FBI Special Agent Tim Weaver believes can solve the iPaul mystery.

"Even if [people] think it's insignificant, it's probably not," Weaver said. "Each little piece of the puzzle may not mean something, but when you put it all together, you get the big picture."

"iPaul was a fifth generation, 80 gig, black iPod," Altobelli said proudly. "It rocked."

"iPaul was a great iPod that never seemed to need power," Andi Height tweeted July 20, 2009. "Paul took iPaul along with him when he came to England earlier this year.  He loved that iPod and I can understand why he would miss it so much."

"I strongly believe that someone out there knows what happened to iPod," an optimistic Altobelli said. "I hope to find it safe and sound soon."

The FBI is also seeking information on iPaul. It has published two photographs of it on its Web site. One shows the iPod, taken in the days before its was abducted. The other picture is age-progressed, depicting what iPod would look like today almost 4 weeks later.

If you have any information on the iPaul case, email Paul Altobelli or contact the FBI, your local police or the Camden County Sheriff's Office in New Jersey.

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I know the year isn't finished but I'm nominating Gomez's "Airstream Driver" as single of the year. It's a simple song yet intricately layered.  It's bouncy yet soothing and something you can tap your foot to.