Your request for songs to add to an NRO soundtrack is the perfect Friday afternoon diversion. So here are a few tunes that popped into my mind, leading off with my strongest candidate. “My Little Corner of the World”-Yo La Tengo (This great song really ought to be the theme for The Corner. Sample lyrics: “And if you care to stay in my little corner of the world/We could hide away in my little corner of the world/I always knew that I’d find someone like you/So welcome to my little corner of the world.” You can view the entire lyric here.) “Where It’s At”-Beck (I mean, really, is there a cooler place to hang out than The Corner? It truly is “where it’s at.”) “Englishman in New York”-Sting (This is for Derb, Andrew, and Iain—the trio who bring a dash of Old Brittania to The Corner. It barely edged out “London Calling.”) “Belly of the Whale”-Burning Sensations (A great new wave ditty from the ‘80s with a catchy chorus: “I feel like Jonah in the belly of the whale.” Seems like a natural for Mr. Goldberg.) “Teen Angst (What the World Needs Now)”-Cracker (This one’s inspired partially by Jonah’s post yesterday about the U-Penn students who protested against protests and partially by my disgust with the recent student spectacle at Columbia. This song brilliantly pokes a finger in the eye (at least, in my opinion) of the self-righteous posturing and insipid sloganeering of so-called social activists of the left. Example: “What the world needs now/Is a new kind of tension/’Cause the old one just bores me to death/What the world needs now/Is another folk singer/Like I need a hole in my head.”) “Too Much Information”-Police (“Too much information/Running through my brain/Too much information/Driving me insane.” Of course, one can never get too much of The Corner. But keeping up with everything that’s being posted, that can occasionally be a chore.) “Everyday I Write the Book”-Elvis Costello (Substitute “Edit” for “Write” and “Blog” for “Book,” and this would be tailor-made for you. Maybe I’m beginning to stretch too far with this one …)