Meme Obedience

[mrissa]

dragonsden specifically handed this meme off to me, so I guess I'd better do what the lady says.

1). Total volume of music files on my computer?

I'm not the one whose computer has the music on it. That's timprov. We share an office, so if I want to play music in here, I either put a CD in or use his playlist. He's in the process of ripping everything we own to his computer a bit at a time. He's up through G, I think. He also had a special Sampo playlist for me, and if I come up with a playlist for my next thing, he'll do that, too, I'm sure. But for now he has a big "everything" playlist, so there'll be a bit of Ian Anderson's post-flute patter leading into a Louis Armstrong/Bing Crosby duet leading into one of the songs from "Evita."

2). The last CD I bought was...

The Flash Girls, "Maurice and I," at Minicon.

3). Song playing right now:

Gin Blossoms, "Alison Road." I often forget that I like the Gin Blossoms, because...why would it come up any more? And they're not particularly special to me. But the songs are fun enough, and also I got the story about how Sammy Davis Jr. saved western civilization from mishearing them.

4). Five songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me:

That mean a lot to me, oof. Let's leave that one, shall we? Because it's a lot more than five, and it's a lot more complicated than I'm in the mood to discuss right now. So let's go with what I've been listening to a lot.

I've been on a "Lovers in a Dangerous Time" kick. I prefer the Oyster Band version dd_b gave me, but my Barenaked Ladies are always allowed. (We only have their version on video, though.) I also keep singing BNL's "Aluminum" and Flash Girls' "November Song" lately, and Blues Traveler's "Girl Inside My Head," and the Indigo Girls' "Power of Two."

As dragonsden says, there really are way more than 5. Especially if we get into "meaningful" and not merely "earwormed."

5). Which 5 people are you passing this baton to, & why?

Oh...scottjames, greykev, the_overqual, greatestofnates, and timprov. The first three to hear from them and how things have changed since I was around them more, Yore because I've never had a very good sense of where his musical tastes extend (although this isn't the best meme for that), and T because I'm interested to know how much we have etc. But any of them who don't feel like it will not offend me if they say no.

Comments

[timprov.livejournal.com]

1). Total volume of music files on my computer?

Currently 17%. I don't entirely remember the rationale for that, but I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with Dragaera. I'm sure it was in relation to the volume of some other noisemaking thing when I was still using that computer for other things.

I refuse to have the meme foisted upon me.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Oh, you like the Oyster Band! I knew there were many reasons to like you, but that's yet another! :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

All dd_b's fault. I'd never heard them much before -- bits and pieces, generally positive -- and then he stuck a bunch of songs on a mix CD for me, and I went, "Oooooooohh." So now maybe I'll get some from my Amazon list when my birthday rolls around, or something like that.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I am especially fond of the album they did with June Tabor, Freedom and Rain and their greatest hits album, Trawler.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

He put a couple of songs from the June Tabor collab album on the mix CD, yep. So now I know that hell is dark, hell is deep, hell is full of mice.

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

I love that part of that song. It makes me laugh every time. :)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It actually got me through a plot point once in "Swimming Back from Hell by Moonlight." I sat there going, "What do I know about hell?" And the magpie brain said, "Mice."

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

Does "Swimming Back from Hell by Moonlight" involve Hero and Leander? I always think of Marlowe when I hear that title.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, it is an Orpheus and Eurydice story. With a bit of Tam Lin. And mice. And Orpheus is female and a picture book illustrator.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

Ah, that's right -- that's why I never asked you before, 'cause you'd indicated that it was an Orpheus and Eurydice story, and I figured you had A Right to name your own stories, regardless of what they reminded me.

Still. I *like* Hero and Leander.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I do have a right to name my own stories, although sometimes I'd dearly love to abdicate that right.

And you have the right to continue comment threads wherever you please. Still. It amuses me.

If you want me to write you a Hero and Leander story someday, I will. Just not today.