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Ten songs I’m listening to right now:
- Mining for Gold (Cowboy Junkies) :: recorded in a church, you can hear the echo
- Whistling For His Love (Danielle Dax) :: i had a dream about giant skiing chickens and this song was the soundtrack
- Alison (Elvis Costello) :: makes me want to play spades, and i wonder what david nathan is doing these days
- Something I Can Never Have (Nine Inch Nails) :: why the hell is this one not available on the iTunes music store?
- Life’s What You Make It (Talk Talk) :: life is what you make it
- Silent All These Years (Tori Amos) :: i’ve got twenty-five bucks and a cracker, do you think it’s enough to get us there?
- October (U2) :: yes, but the music and the lyrics are really more november in my head, somehow
- The Unforgettable Fire (U2) :: carnival, the wheels fly and colors spin through alcohol, red wine that punctures the skin
- Tryin’ To Throw Your Arms Around The World (U2) :: a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle
- Plenty (Sarah McLachlan) :: i thought i’d be with you until my dying day
Kathryn has finished up her classes and is now interning at the massage school. This equals cheap massage for me! I’ve scheduled with her for next Wednesday night. I can’t wait!
It is fairly easy for me now to run 3.5 miles at a stretch. My last three runs have been 3.5, 3, and 3.5 miles each. So I think that the 4-mile I’m gearing up for this Saturday will not be too difficult. The hardest part is getting into that “zone” thing, where I’ve passed the point where my body’s yelling at me to stop, and everything kind of evens out — the breathing, the heart rate, the muscle fatigue.
Yvonne tells me about this mythical “runner’s high” where the endorphins kick in and, as she describes it, you get this sense of overall well-being. I don’t think I’ve experienced that yet, because the “balancing point” that I find after about 2 miles doesn’t really feel like that. I bet I’ll feel it when my mileage increases some more.
The treadmill gets here tomorrow, so I imagine I’ll test it out in the evening and again on Saturday for my four-mile jog. It’s too hot to run at the lake anymore, even early in the morning. The night-time low temperatures have been in the mid-80s for the past week (and well into the triple digits for highs all week — try 107). 85 degree lows + stifling humidity + red-ozone alerts = breathing problems and overheating. I feel bad for the athletes training for the Beijing Olympics.
Runner’s high? I say it is a myth, a lie, that runners tell other people to get them to run with them so they can have company while they’re in the miserable 19th mile of a marathon. LIES!!! Or else maybe it’s a genetic or body chemistry thing that some of us (ME) will never, ever know, no matter how long or how well we run. Ever. Thank goodness for iPods.
Let’s see you nailed the top 10 for me. Almost. ‘In your eyes’ by guess who. ‘New Year’s Day’ by guess again. ‘Headhunter’ and ‘Diamonds on the soles of her shoes’ by people not on your list.
Molly – you may be right!! “Come on, just a few more miles, that runner’s high is right around the next bend!!” LIES! However, I will keep you posted as to my quest to locate this possibly mythical experience.
Anon – Ooh, those are good ones too (except I don’t know that I know “Headhunter.”) As an experiment, I’ve started making playlists that correspond to specific people or time periods in my life. Sometimes that’s easy, sometimes it’s not so easy.
In that vein, I did a playlist for each of my old mix tapes, which is kind of fun. (I can’t listen to the actual tapes anymore since I no longer own a cassette player, not to mention some of them are 15-20 years old and probably would disintegrate.) It’s interesting that something as esoteric as a specific set of songs can evoke memories, when the individual songs by themselves don’t necessarily do that.
I want to post my “Songs That Remind Me Of Doc” playlist, but it’s 43 songs long so far and I’m not done. Y’all’d get sick of reading my playlists if I started to do that, I think.