Musical Baton
Filed in: music, personal, Wed, May 18 2005 16:06 PT
I have been passed the musical baton from Mike Davidson, D. Keith Robinson, and Molly Holzschlag. (Jeezus, people.)
- Total volume
- My MP3 share on my home network contains 60.8GB of music. (Yes, it’s legal.) I have an additional 4GB of music that has been played or approved for play on Staccato.
- Last CD bought
- A tie: Mike Doughty’s Haughty Melodic and Ani DiFranco’s Knuckle Down.
- Song playing right now
- Mike Doughty, “Unsingable Name”
FiveSeventeen songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me-
- Dar Williams, “The Ocean”
- “you are a welcoming back from the ocean/it’s where we came from you know/sometimes, I just want to go back”
- Belle and Sebastian, “There’s Too Much Love”
- “you say I’ve got another face/that’s not a fault of mine these days/I’m brutal, honest and afraid of you”
- Dan Bern, “Jerusalem”
- “if you must put me in a box make sure it’s a big box/with lots of windows/and a door to walk through”
- Ani DiFranco, “Buildings and Bridges”
- “we are made to bleed/and scab, and heal, and bleed again/and turn every scar into a joke”
- Liz Phair, “6’1″”
- “I bet you fall in bed too easily/with the beautiful girls who are shyly brave/and you sell yourself as a man to save”
- Alison Moyet, “Ode to Boy”
- “from a shadow by a stair/I watch as he weeps, unaware/that I’m in awe of his despair”
- Aphex Twin, “Cornish Acid”
- (instrumental)
- Bomb the Bass f/Justin Warfield, “Bug Powder Dust”
- “shocking your ass like a faulty vibrator/hear me now, but you’ll probably get the vibe later”
- Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, “Television, the Drug of a Nation”
- “where straight teeth in your mouth are more important/than the words that come out of it”
- Francis Cabrel, “je t’aimais, je t’aime, je t’aimerais”
- “quoi que tu fasses, l’amour est partout où tu regardes/dans les moindres recoins de l’espace/dans le moindre rêve où tu t’attardes”
- “whatever you do, love is wherever you look/in the tiniest corners of space/in the tiniest dream you linger over”
- Zero 7, “Somersault” (DJ Danger Mouse remix)
- “you give love to all/and give love to me”
- Indigo Girls, “Hammer and a Nail”
- “learn how to use my hands/not just my head/I’d think my self into jail”
- Lamb, “Little Things”
- “we’re so sure we know so much that/we forget to listen”
- Röyksopp, “Eple”
- (instrumental)
- Rufus Wainwright, “Foolish Love”
- So the day Noah’s ark floats down Park/my eyes will be simply glazed over/or better yet/I’ll wear shades on sunless days/and when the sun’s out I’ll stay in and slumber”
- Soul Coughing, “Screenwriter’s Blues”
- “it is 5am/and the sun has charred the other side of the world and come back to us/and painted the smoke over our heads an imperial violet”
- Michael Hedges, “Ready or Not”
- “fear can always frighten up a few disciples/but nothing can convert true identity”
- Five People to Whom I’m Passing the Baton
Just following the baton. Still having found someone with the same musical taste.
But 60 Gigs. I think you win man.