Music

fun with playlists

An anonymous comment was left on this post: 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. How cool is that, that I got someone’s top ten! (Almost.) I like your taste in music, Anonymous. 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. I find it really 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. You probably already are. Damn. I can’t resist. I’ll just list the top ten from that playlist: Sanctum Sanctorum (The Damned), God’s Comic (Elvis Costell0), Alone Again Or (The Damned), The Carnival Is Over (Dead Can Dance), Strength of Strings (This Mortal Coil), Jane Says (Jane’s Addiction), Ziggy Stardust (David Bowie), Somebody (Depeche Mode), The Killing Moon (Echo and the Bunnymen), and Appetite (Prefab Sprout).

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Music and marathon progress

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, […]

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