jstrizzy tagged me with this, which might be the saddest meme for me to do, ever.
1. Total amount of music files on your computer
One. I am so not kidding. Etta James, "At Last," which was our wedding song, and the only reason it’s on here is because I needed it for a grad school project.
2. The last CD you bought
1200 Curfews by the Indigo Girls, and it was the first time I’d purchased a CD in YEARS. Seriously.
3. The last song you listened to before reading this message
That Nickelback song about the blow job. It was on the radio, and led to Dave ranting about the lack of good American metal music, about how In Flames won a Swedish Grammy for best albums because "the Swedes know where it’s at" and how "New Metal is just a bunch of punks whining about how their parents don’t love them or their girlfriend broke up with them. Waaaahhh." Heh.
4. Name 5 songs you listen to often or that mean a lot to you
"At Last," Etta James — wedding song, you know.
"Dead Man’s Hill" — Indigo Girls, makes me cry every time I listen to it, because it reminds me of my dead friend JT for so many reasons.
"Perfect Day" — Lou Reed, makes me cry because it was played at Aton’s funeral, and I wrote that whole essay around the lyrics.
"Wild World" — Cat Stevens, & "Wish You Were Here" — Pink Floyd, both equally meaningful in the "Screw you, Death" tour of ’99-’00. Again, can make me cry if I really listen to the lyrics.
"Epic" — Faith No More, an anthem of adolescence, that when I hear it randomly on the radio now, I hear it as a sign of ‘everything will be okay.’ I cannot hear it and not remember walking around the old mill town with Amy, barefoot, in the middle of the night, just wishing desperately that we were grown up, or at least old enough to drive.
5. Who will you pass this stick to (3 people) and why?
AgentLulu, because she is a Rawk Goddess
jnstarla, because she needs to be distracted from package tracking
molly, because I want to force an entry out of her.
Amy made me two CDs, and in taking Dave’s car to work, I’ve been able to listen to them and enjoy them. But I really don’t listen to much music beyond the college radion station. I don’t have an mp3 player, I don’t have an internal CD burner, I don’t have much need to listen to music, I guess. I used to work in the music department, for YEARS, I did, and I was always hearing new stuff and loving it. I have tons of CDs from those years, most of them promos, but I just don’t get much new music exposure these days.