essential mix

Sort of as a tangent to the describing oneself with five books thing that I expanded into music, I was pondering the tracklisting of the tape I am currently playing in my car.

The Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes
Deke Dickerson & the Ecco-Fonics - Peroxide Blonde (from which comes the phrase "a technicolour head" that I used on a post last weekend)
Huey Lewis & the News - Hip to be Square
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
Erasure - Take a Chance on Me
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Black 47 - Funky Ceili
Evan Olson - So Much Better
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round
Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me
Smashmouth - All Star
Moxy Frvous - Green Eggs and Ham
R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Electroset - How Does it Feel

Now, besides many of them being overplayed "radio hits", they also share (in large part) another quality: they are lively, upbeat, energetic songs. (I once misspoke this as saying I liked "high energy" music, not knowing at the time that "hi NRG" was an electronic music genre, which, it turns out, I do not like.) They are songs which are not just favourites, but songs that actually make me tend to go "woo!" after singing along with them. Weird Al and the Cure are conspicuous in their absence, but I have entire mix tapes just of each of them, so that fills that need.

I guess I just find it interesting that this sort of stuff is my "woo!" music, and wonder what it says about me. (Besides that I have cliche tastes which can stand listening to the same thing over and over again. :p)

essential mix

Sort of as a tangent to the describing oneself with five books thing that I expanded into music, I was pondering the tracklisting of the tape I am currently playing in my car.

The Moody Blues - The Story in Your Eyes
Deke Dickerson & the Ecco-Fonics - Peroxide Blonde (from which comes the phrase "a technicolour head" that I used on a post last weekend)
Huey Lewis & the News - Hip to be Square
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
Erasure - Take a Chance on Me
Jane's Addiction - Been Caught Stealing
Black 47 - Funky Ceili
Evan Olson - So Much Better
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round
Genesis - Jesus He Knows Me
Smashmouth - All Star
Moxy Frvous - Green Eggs and Ham
R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
Electroset - How Does it Feel

Now, besides many of them being overplayed "radio hits", they also share (in large part) another quality: they are lively, upbeat, energetic songs. (I once misspoke this as saying I liked "high energy" music, not knowing at the time that "hi NRG" was an electronic music genre, which, it turns out, I do not like.) They are songs which are not just favourites, but songs that actually make me tend to go "woo!" after singing along with them. Weird Al and the Cure are conspicuous in their absence, but I have entire mix tapes just of each of them, so that fills that need.

I guess I just find it interesting that this sort of stuff is my "woo!" music, and wonder what it says about me. (Besides that I have cliche tastes which can stand listening to the same thing over and over again. :p)

last night's dream

Part of my dreaming last night (this morning, really) took place at a place that was ostensibly work, but looked different... smaller, darker, in some frames I remember, almost mood-lit like a restaurant. Another part was in a garden somewhere. ( Read more... )

last night's dream

Part of my dreaming last night (this morning, really) took place at a place that was ostensibly work, but looked different... smaller, darker, in some frames I remember, almost mood-lit like a restaurant. Another part was in a garden somewhere. ( Read more... )