I gave you my picks in today's Go section. So what are your favorite egotistical anthems?

Mims is hot. Not only does he tell you, he also breaks down the reasons for his nuclear hotness in his club hit "This Is Why I'm Hot." It's an audio user's manual on achieving hotness yourself, if you will.

And ol' Mims got me thinking. In the days leading up to his performance at the Tacoma Dome, where on May 12 he'll be part of KUBE's Global Import's Car Show, I figured I could come up with a pretty good mixtape of egomanical songs alone. Hell, rapping about how great you are is to hip-hop as party anthems and power ballads are to butt rock.

Then again, I don't want to just pick on rappers. That would be too easy. I want to include ridiculously narcissistic songs from all genres. (I little ditty by Rod Stewart comes to maind, for starters.) And that's where you guys come in. Leave a few of your picks in the comments section below and I'll include the best in my column next week. Which, of course, will be hot.

See, I'm starting to catch on.

I started the Halloween mixtape discussion a few days back. So thought I'd circle back with a few suggestions for adding a bit of a Northwest flavor to your compilation. Try these on for size:

"The Witch," "Psycho," "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" The Sonics
"Blood Witch," "If I Had an Exorcism" The Melvins
"Dawn of the Dead," "Curse of the Werewolf," "Serial Killers Really Know How to Party" Schoolyard Heroes
"Sleepy Vampire," "Creepy Jackalope Eye" The Supersuckers
"It's Catching Up" Nomeansno ("Have you heard the news? The dead walk ...")
"The Phantom of the Crimson Cloak" 3 Inches of Blood
"My Favorite Nightmare" Metal Church
"Ghost," "Halloween" Mudhoney
"Let It Bleed (Teen Wolf)," "RVDGSF" (which stands for "Real Vampires Don't Get ...faced") Mon Frere
"Simona Checks Betty's Corpse" Kane Hodder
"Awake the Creature," "Monsters Delight" Grayskul
"Sinister (Psycho's Realm)," "Killing Spree" Swollen Members
"This Devil's Workday" Modest Mouse
"Bleed the Freak," "Them Bones," "Iron Man" Alice in Chains
"Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle" Nirvana (See, her ghost is going to come back and ... OK, I'm officially out of ideas and reaching at this point.)

The theme from "Halloween," with Jamie Lee Curtis, is a good mood setter.
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I love, love, love Halloween. (Hey, when else can a grown man show up at the club dressed like Pinhead?) And I'm working on my annual Halloween megamix.

It would be easy to just tell everyone to play Fantomas' "Delirium Cordia" to give their house party the right ambiance; it's one 75-minute track, and easily the creepiest album I've ever heard. Or I could just rehash the same playlist from last year. But that would be boring. I'm trying to come up with a mix that's fresh and new.

So what are your picks? What's are some of the scariest songs you've ever heard?

Sweet sassy molassy! Eddie Vedder was right last Saturday at the Gorge. It is getting harder and harder to feel all right, what with the news filled with talk of global warming, war escalating in the Middle East and maniacal dictators firing of test missiles – and that's not to mention the occasional close call with a passing asteroid.

Yikes! We ... are ... all ... gonna ... die. Like, next month.

So what am I gonna do about all this besides gripe, you ask? Come up with the perfect apocalypic playlist, that’s what. Hey, it’s a start. And feel free to kick in your suggestions:

“It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” REM (a no brainer)
“Countdown to Extinction” Megadeth
“Extinction Level Event (The Song of Salvation)” Busta Rhymes
“Blackened” Metallica (“blackened is the end …”)
“How U Feelin’?” Peeping Tom (for the chorus-ending line “apocalypse is nearin’/won’t you tell me how you’re feelin’?”)
“Apocalypse Please,” “Time Is Running Out” Muse
“1999” Prince (you know, even if Prince’s apocalyptic prediction was a bit premature)
“Judgement Day” Method Man (the rap equivalent of a “Mad Max” movie)
“Bomb the World” Michael Franti & Spearhead
“Endless Apocalypse” GWAR
“The End of the World” The Cure
“Welcome to the Apocalypse” God Forbid
“Global Warming” Sonny Rollins
“Hot in Herre” Nelly

Things I learned yesterday:

* With rising gas prices, tow truck operators are passing the cost along to you with rates that are now up from $3 to $4 per mile. Add the hookup fee, and this will cost about 200 bones to get your car from Boeing Field back to T-town.

* Compared to that, the $90 I neglected to spend on Triple-A dues is quite a bargain.

* Having your alternator belt snap while driving on I-5 is what, in mechanics jargon, is considered "bad." And it costs about another 200 grips to fix.

* It's often a good idea to follow your intuition, i.e. when you think maybe it's time to trade in your car for a newer, more reliable model – say, a month before what you're driving breaks down.

In case you haven't guessed, my @#%@%#@ car broke down. Agh! And there is actually a marginally good reason to waste a blog entry complaining about it. Much the same way ridiculous gas prices inspired my "high octane" play list a few weeks ago, this state of affairs has inspired me to throw together a car play list. You know, something to inspire me as I go shopping.

Feel free to respond with your own adds. Cheers, and buckle up:

“Car Trouble” Adam Ant
“I Can’t Drive 55” Sammy Hagar
“My Hooptie” Sir Mix-A-Lot
“Muscle Cars” E-40
“@#%@#% My Car” Too Short (Though I might put the emphasis on a different syllable than Mr. Short does at this point.)
“Drive My Car” The Beatles (I’m learning people don't often make these kinds of offers when you really need them to.)
“Fast Car” Tracy Chapman
“Rental Car” Beck (Something I'll be using to get to the Gorge on Saturday.)
“I Love My Car” Belle & Sebastian
"Trust Your Mechnic" Dead Kennedys
“Car Wash” Rose Royce (now, just thinking of that song puts me back in a good mood.)
“Gimme the Car” Violent Femmes
"Precision Auto" Superchunk
“Brand New Car” The Rolling Stones
"The Mechanic" Sly & Robbie
“Drive” The Cars (Yeah, I was definitely wondering who was gonna drive me home right around 4 p.m. yesterday. Blast you, Rick Ocasek! Why must you taunt me so?)

While I’m a (mostly) recovered comic book nerd, I’m still a sucker for just about any superhero movie this side of "Daredevil." (God! That suuuuuucked! But not quite as bad as the sequel, "Elektra.") So I thought I’d come up with a good iPod mix for all the other dorks who are excited about the opening of "Superman Returns" today:

“I Am Superman” R.E.M.
“Superman” Eminem
“Superman” Bush
“Superman” Jucifer (If you haven’t caught on, a lot of people have written songs called “Superman.” I'll leave it at those three.)
“The Man of Metropolis Steals Our Hearts Tonight” Sufjan Stevens (He even passed out little, inflated Superman toys when he performed it at Sasquatch a few weeks back.)
“Man of Steel” Hank Williams Jr.
“(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman” The Kinks
“Jimmy Olsen’s Blues” Spin Doctors
“You Don’t Mess Around With Jim” Jim Croce (“… you don’t tug on Superman’s cape,” later lifted by horrorcore outfit, the Gravediggaz)
“Kryptonite” 3 Doors Down

I just made that mix up on the fly, so feel free to chime in with all the tunes I forgot. See you at the cineplex.

The above image comes from DCComics.com.