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april fourteenth (barely)
musical interlude
Sitting here listening to Ben Folds Five because I got email saying that some of my comments in the last postcard were reminiscent of the song "Kate," and as long as I had the CD out anyway ....
Besides, I have temporarily overdosed on Dory Previn and Fatboy Slim, and if I listen to dirty blues songs before bed, my dreams are altogether too interesting.
I have an interesting system - well, "system" dignifies it. Better to say that "my patterns of CD usage are worth noting." Follow along with me now:
1. We have a huge CD player in the living room. It holds 100 CDs at a time.
2. I have a CD player in the office which holds 2 CDs at a time.
3. Neither of us likes to keep the big CD player filled because it's too hard to find a CD in it - the titles (which you must enter by hand) are never up to date with the contents.
4. Nonelvis seldom listens to CDs at home at all. She may take a handful to work now and again. On Saturday mornings she usually turns on the radio for a while as she dresses. I haven't listened to the radio for more than fifteen minutes in many years.
5. I listen to CDs at home, but am seldom in the living room unless I'm reading on the sofa or watching TV, neither of which calls for music. (If I'm absorbed in the book, I don't hear the music; if the book is less than absorbing, the music distracts. This also goes for reading while the TV is on, and since Nonelvis watches TV in the evenings, I seldom read in there.)
6. The only time I use the CD player in the living room, therefore, is when I'm wandering all over the house - which usually means I'm cleaning - which means seldom.
7. If I'm in the kitchen or office and want music, I use the CD player in the office.
8. Ergo, ninety-five percent of the CD playing in this house is done by me, in the office, with the candlestick ... oh, wait, that's Clue.
To this we must add:
9. I hate refiling CDs because we own several hundred and alphabetical order takes work.
So the CDs accumulate on a shelf in the office as I pull them out and listen to them. I tend to listen to the same CDs over and over for several days. When thirty or so have collected in there - a process of some months - I put them all back where they belong and start over with a clean shelf.
I have always felt that one's music choices said something about one's personality. If I wrote down what I had on the shelf every time I cleaned it, would that tell me something about where my personality had been during that cycle? Perhaps not.
At any rate - let's see - I have a lot of CDs here from the mix tape I made Kymm and Jette, so maybe it's not a fair test. On the other hand, I selected those deliberately, and kept listening to them once I'd pulled them out ....
Oh, what the heck. Forgive the self-indulgence. From the top down, therefore most current first:
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Ben Folds Five, Whatever and Ever Amen
Dory Previn, Mary C. Brown/On My Way To Where
Fatboy Slim, You've Come a Long Way, Baby
The Beatles, Anthology 1
Soul Coughing, El Oso
Soundtrack: Hedwig and the Angry Inch
The Copulatin' Blues (collection)
Shonen Knife, The Birds and the B-Sides
Pet Shop Boys, Discography
David Bowie, The Singles 1969-1993
The Monkees, Listen to the Band (disk 1 of 4)
Garbage, Garbage
Raunchy Business: Hot Nuts and Lollypops(collection)
Fountains of Wayne, Fountains of Wayne
Moxy Fruvous, b
Moxy Fruvous, Bargainville
Radiohead, OK Computer
Garbage, Version 2.0
Animaniacs Variety Pack
Mojo Nixon, Gadzooks!
Bette Midler, The Divine Miss M
Moxy Fruvous, You Will Go to the Moon
Shonen Knife, Happy Hour
Imani Coppola, Chupacabra
The Bobs, I Brow Club
The Presidents of the USA, Pure Frosting
The Andrews Sisters (Capitol Collectors Series)
Soundtrack: The X-Files (movie)
Barenaked Ladies, Stunt
Fairport Convention, Unhalfbricking
Louis Prima (Capitol Collectors Series)
Blur, Blur (Aus/NZ tour edition)
The Simpsons Songs in the Key of Springfield
Raymond Scott, Reckless Nights and Turkish Twilights
Pizzicato Five, Happy End of the World
Dropkick Murphys, Do or Die
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Learn anything? If so, for heaven's sake tell me what it is!
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