I made it through a day of Ireland and already I may have peaked my trip.

The most important part of today is obviously the music. For lunch we wandered into a pub a few blocks from Dublin’s tourist center, and while yes, the Guinness stew was excellent, the highlight was clearly the jukebox.

Over my dinner I was treated to “Bittersweet Symphony” by The Verve, “Don’t Go Away” by Oasis, U2, Stereophonics, and two tracks from The Killers. When Kelly went to the bathroom, I snuck towards the jukebox to find the last three Oasis albums, two albums from Coldplay, two from The Killers, and even The Street’s A Grand Don’t Come for Free.

Why don’t I live here again?

Even on my flight in, on Ireland’s Aer Lingus, I was overwhelmed by the radio. I wanted to sleep, but plugging in my earphones to listen to the plane’s audio countered my goal.

All heard in one half hour segment:
“Digsy’s Diner” by Oasis
The Strokes
Stereophonics
Silverchair
Stone Temple Pilots
“Weezer’s Island” in the Sun
Arctic Monkeys
Chris Cornell

I’m not even going to touch on the T-Shirts or posters that the record stores have in town. Maybe I just won’t return. Z100 is so American and passé.