The response to my lyrics quiz thus far has been better than expected. What I didn't expect was that this blog would still be dead(ish) what with the end of the football league and no basketball league running (or, Gel, did people [and simply not me] join the one you started?) Ah, well, I figured people'll eventually congregate back here to watch me and a few others argue about stuff like this.
Getting back to the lyrics quiz I still have 12 of the 25 that have yet to be hinted at (there were 12 song titles in the original post; generally not hidden very well. There've been more hints since.)
But enough about that, let's talk about other, random things.
[SPOILER ALERT - but not really. The information I am giving about The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson is not all that informative and should not be remotely surprising to anyone the least bit aquainted with his work. What I mean to say is that I'm being rather broad in my sweep and I'm not giving away much more than that they are the main characters of the books and that that, for Stepheson at least, means that they never go away for that long. Incidentally, did anyone else notice how the description for Cyptonomicon starts ("With this extraordinary first volume in what promises to be an epoch-making masterpiece," emphasis added) on his site?]
Though it is now 12 days since I predicted I'd be done with it I've still got 135 pages left in The Confusion (maybe "new" was a typo for "full." I am quite happy and getting more so as I continue. Briefly the cycle follows three main characters in the latter half of the 17th century: Daniel Waterhouse, a friend of Isaac Newton and kind of much overshadowed member of the Royal Society, Eliza, an extremely enterprising former odalisque who meets with kings, philosophers and various other power brokers of the day, and Jack Shaftoe, a Vagabond/pirate/outlaw/king/trader who wanders around the world being hilarious.
Wow, that was a lot of work. My mother has a two-headed boyshaped hat so lay back in the sun in Anderson Mesa because I'm still your fag so don't go get a 32-20 and try to iron that on, it doesn't have the accuracy, Asa.
I could come up with some nonsensical sentence incorporating the the remaining unhinted at unanswered song titles (not including the ones in French and Latin), but why would I post that here for everyone to see?
UPDATE: The above sentence (well, really the one above the one above) was originally in white text - which is why the background of the entire blog was turned to white. Also the direct song title hints - both here and in the previous few posts - were not in bold.
but I gotta issue a top 10 for 2004 anyway. There are several 2004 albums I've just gotten (PJ Harvey, Singapore Sling, the Shemps) and many, many more I've heard either barely or not at all. Oh well. This shall always be the case so I suppose I should accept it.
I'll start with the honorable mentions: Budget Sinatra (local): Either Way I Win; Devendra Banhart: Rejoicing in the Hands; Detachment Kit: Of This Blood; Dios: Dios; The Libertines: The Libertines; Mission of Burma: On/Off/On; DJ Shadow: In Tune and On Time [CD/DVD]; Sons and Daughters: Love the Cup; Squarepusher: Ultravisitor; Tilly & the Wall: Wild Like Children.
10. Mountain Goats: We Shall All Be Healed
9. Earlimart: Treble and Tremble
8. Sonic Youth: Sonic Nurse
7. The Sun: Did Your Mother Tell You? - I liked Love & Death but their second EP is better.
6. Wilco: A Ghost Is Born
5. Clinic: Winchester Cathedral - I wasn't so excited about this after downloading "Vertical Take Off In Egypt" from the website before the album came out... then again an instrumental was an odd choice as an introductory song.
4. Modest Mouse: Good News for People Who Like Bad News - Last year it was the White Stripes that made the list with their 4th best album (out of 4.) Who will it be next year? [The upcoming Decemberists album will only be their 3rd, same for Electrelane... hmmm UPDATE: Tullycraft's upcoming will be their 4th. So they're in the running.]
3. Rilo Kiley: More Adventurous
2. Interpol: Antics - My favorite is "Take You on a Cruise." Usually.
1. Electrelane: The Power Out - I've talked about this album and this band a lot. 11 songs; 2 instrumentals, 1 in French, 1 in Spanish with lyrics taken from Juan Boscan and 1 in German with lyrics taken from Nietzsche... and this is a very reasonable progression from the first album which was almost entirely without vocals.
I saw 6 of these bands live in 2004; I last saw the Mouse in November 2003 (next time is a month away); Mountain Goats and Wilco were both September 2003 (in seperate, extremely different, shows.) I have not yet seen The Sun [ISTINAH.] I considered the possibility of doing a top 10 shows/sets of 2004... but the competition for that is ridiculous. The Cure, the Pixies, Interpol, Mogwai, Pretty Girls Make Graves... twice... each? The band I saw most in 2004 was Colorstore at 5 times... which was easy enough since they're local.
And that's all. As with last year I offer no movie list as I didn't see near enough to do so.
I can think of at least two things wrong with that description (but they still would've gotten my vote.)
Anyway,
Sons and Daughters opened for Clinic; I didn't know who they were but one of them spoke before they started playing. My response: Oh, they're gonna be good. They're Scottish!
UPDATE/Correction/Addition: ISTINAH. For most of the post, that is. Though there was ample source material from which to choose no Scottish bands made my list. 5 English bands but that's it for the British Isles. At any rate, what I'm saying is that the Scottish bands mentioned and alluded to above are not in the 25.
This shouldn't be happening. But it is. Since Matt (whom I've met once, for either a 49ers-Cardinals game or a Rams-Cardinals game, there is some controversy... amongst myself atleast) and various people whom I have not met (that I know of) are doing it, why can't I? (I swear, that is not a hint [henceforth abbrev'd "ISTINAH"]. But see below. Also, while I'm being parenthetical [and when am I not?] I'll not that there's a lot of local arrogance displayed below... it's not intentional, really... I'm just easily bored.)
What follows after all this prelude are the lyrics to 25 songs I have on my computer, more specifically, ones which came up with shuffle on. Three artists were hit three times each (oddly no artists were hit exactly two times), in each case I kept only the first one. I also cut the instrumental. Two are not in English; I have provided translations and I’ll note that for one of them I only need the type of song it is. There is one cover, either artist will be acceptable; there also is one where there will be exactly 3 correct song/artist pairings. I'll, if it ever happens, do something to acknowledge which ones have been answered correctly. This is the part where most people say no cheating... but I, honestly [ISTINAH, Matt] I don't care... I mean, it would be nice if somebody got something but what fun is there in ruining it for everyone else when you had to look it up? Just say "the line from #3 was bugging me so much I had to look it up and I love that song and am embarassed that I didn't get it without cheating." I use #3 as an example because you can't google those lyrics and get anywhere.
People often say that they delete obscure or deep album cuts... whereas doing that would cause this to disintegrate - it would leave me without a list. I mean that literally, from the 2,380 songs I have on my computer I seriously don't think I could pull 25 "hits" y'all would have a chance of getting. I always knew, well, no, that's not right - I might be wrong [ISTINAH] - there may be more radio material here than I think. Later on someone can comment upon that and I'll listen to what you say.
What I will do is give hints to the artists, songs, etc. represented here. This was planned to be ever only until I get sick of it (or all 25 are answered correctly [and the devil and I know that's not gonna happen]) I'll include discussion of the artists here (not exclusively, of course) and offer inexplicable links (yeah, I know... that's a fine line 'round here [ISTINAH] but it's the best I've got) and other such nonsense. It likely won't help as much as it may seem because they're likely not to be all that direct but I'm doing this to amuse myself anyway and it's not like you'll suffer that much anyway. And be patient, the end is not far away.
Here's the list (also, this is not a part one; it'll be a long, long time before I do this again. There may, however, be a plan b: I may come up with some better method of ending this nonsense) so come into our room and try me out [ISTINAH. Well, not a direct one]: UPDATE: The answers can now be found after the 25 excerpts; scroll appropriately if you want to make your own guesses before seeing the song titles and artists.
So it's all come back round to breaking apart again, Breaking apart like I'm made up of glass again.
I don't need your criticisms, I don't want your idealisms, sick and tired of your empty promises.
Cover your eyes, you don’t want to see love is wrong
Je dis, hélas! que je réponds de moi; mais j'ai beau faire la vaillante, au fond du coeur, je meurs d'effroi! (I say, alas, that I have only myself to depend on; but I have tried in vain to be brave, at heart I'm dying of fright!)
All these times that I thought that I loved you it was just an easy answer, it was make-believe.
I'm succinct about this feeling but confused about remorse, for I loved you like a choir of worms progressing to a corpse.
And say you’re my one and only, I’d wait my whole life for this, so please say you’ll stay tonight.
But I never sat back feelin sorry for myself, If you don't give me heaven I'll raise hell, 'Til it's heaven, back at Wilson High, justify, I had two best friends, my thug, they live down the block, praying, till the school bus came, for you, and took my friends away, my thug. [gotten by ZD]
And he held up two fingers and said "how many fingers?", and I said, "peace man, that's where it's at."
Some times I should sacrifice, some times I don’t feel very nice, waited through your sage advice
Now now the winter glows, Now now the winter glows, It's wonderful, it's wonderful with you.
You are obscene and you know it, I run from me and it shows, That's what you like me for, huh, sister, Crawling now on the floor, do you like it, sister?
Hey honey I feel, So good to be free, I've got a fever inside of my soul, I've got a fire in me.
It's a possibility to live without lips, Kleenex love to fill right up with all the broken kids, I swore I drank your piss that night to see if I could live, But my wrists couldn't stand the light that we missed.
The businessman whose master plan controls the world each day, Is blind to indications of his species' slow decay.
Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua (Heaven and earth are full of your glory)
We got so drunk that night, we got so drunk that night, I hardly remember driving you home, or was I driving you away?
Open up, and let me in – I wondered if I’d ever live, what can I see that makes him violent?
Alone I'm outside, Red sky, I wait there, Snowfall above me, So new yet fading.
And what do we do with ten baby shoes, a kit bag full of marbles and a broken billiard cue?
Never accept it of me, to blend with their dead theory, For a valiant vocabulary, I know there is this need.
Put on Sunday shoes, And dance cross[sic] the room to accordion keys, With the needle that sings in your heart.
If I send for my baby, man, and she don't come, All the doctors in Hot Springs sure can't help her none.
Choice words of correction, Makes no sense to me, No don’t lecture me.
I feel something breathing down my neck, Thought of tomorrow's got me like a nervous wreck, No time for sorrow it's your judgment day.
UPDATE: 03/06/05: Y'all got 1 of 25. I'm so proud. Here are the answers (I'm not putting them right after the lyrics so others can play after the fact):
Disintegration - the Cure
What You Say - Suicide Machines
Plan B - Colorstore (Phoenix local band)
Je Dis Que Rien Ne M'epouvante - Carmen (Bizet)
I Always Knew - Tilly and the Wall
The Devil and I - J Church
Every Only - Bella (Phoenix local band)
Justify Mykel and Carli - Jay-Zeezer (mash of Mykel and Carli by Weezer and Justify My Thug by Jay-Z)
Hat Shaped Hat - Ani DiFranco
Part One - Budget Sinatra (Phoenix local band)
Come Into Our Room - Clinic
Mother - Babes in Toyland
Lay Back in the Sun - Spiritualized
I'm Still Your Fag - Broken Social Scene
Suffer - Bad Religion
Sanctus - Requiem in d (Mozart) though to answer this one you'd merely have had to point out that it was a line from any (fairly standard) Latin Mass.
Iron On - Superchunk
Spider - Detachment Kit
Anderson, Mesa - Jimmy Eat World
Odalisque - the Decemberists
Local Arrogance 1994 - Huggy Bear
Two Headed Boy - Mountain Goats (cover of a Neutral Milk Hotel song)
Pretty Girls Make Graves played LA this last Saturday... which would've been nice to know about that more than 3 hours before showtime but alas it was not to be. Then again, if I did know beforehand I may've tried to drive out directly after paintball... which would've been bad considering how sore I currently am without 11 hours of driving (not to mention several hours of standing/etc. in one place.)
And anyway, all I have to do is wait until March and PGMG will come to the Mason Jar in Phoenix. Then again, that's where they were supposed to play last time (the show was cancelled.) Thus far I've seen them twice... but not yet in Phoenix.
Until then I have the Thermals, PSO playing Beethoven and Schumann, Modest Mouse, PSO playing Mozart and Brahms and then Bettie Serveert. And maybe a few local shows with Budget or Colorstore. And then, maybe, comes SXSW and maybe Low. And then it's almost Coachella time.
Also, Z, if you're interested PGMG are playing LaunchPad the day after they're at the Jar, March 16... after that they move on to South By Southwest. Bettie Serveert are also playing Launchpad the day after Phoenix (02/28)... no Thermals or Mouse. Or Phoenix Symphony Orchestra (surprising, that... though you, of course, have the NMSO.)
Also, that bit about finishing that book by tomorrow... not going to happen. I'm, like, a quarter of the way through. It's good, but, umm, I've been lazy.
And yes, it is silly to link to the song by the Smiths but I can't find anything with more than a line or two ("I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feelings that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel." "Pretty girls make graves" was my saying) of the quote from the Dharma Bums and they used it first. Also their (PGMG's) website is pretty bare-bones right about now.
The morning game we got on FOX was Minnesota at Washington, there was no afternoon game on FOX. We didn't get a morning game on CBS, the afternoon game was Indianapolis at Denver. And, by the way, yes, I can say "morning" and "afternoon" as for me the games start near 11am and 2pm.
Interestingly, though, at 2pm our CBS coverage started with "bonus coverage" of New Orleans at Carolina. FOX meanwhile gave us bonus New York Jets at St. Louis coverage, so we actually did have a half an hour or so of a choice of two games.
I barely watched any of these games, partially because I was footballed-out on New Year's Eve and partially because ASU at UofA men's hoops trumps pro football any day.
I did, however, notice that as the Saints- Panthers game was ending the Panther had, well, at least a shot at winning, a 60-yard shot from the foot of the lone remaining original Panther, John Kasay. The field goal came up short, something that likely had nothing to do with the Saints' attempt to ice Kasay with a time-out before his kick - partially because I mean, seriously, how effective is that sort of thing anyway, much less on a long-time veteran like Kasay, and partially because that would've been the longest field goal of the season and thus we can figure it didn't have much of a chance anyway. What the Saints didn't try to do was double ice Kasay - they only called one time out. What I'm not sure about, actually, is if it is possible, in the NFL, to call two straight time-outs. Anyone?
This, of course, reminded me of what I was thinking when Michigan called two straight icing time-outs a day earlier.
I mean, imagine you're Dusty Mangum. Your Longhorns are down 37-35 in your their first Rose Bowl ever. You've kicked the 5 extra points but haven't tried a field goal yet and now you've got a 37-yarder to worry about. You set up, get ready, and Michigan calls a time-out to make you think about it. OK, fine, you line-up again and... Michigan calls another time-out. At first you're pissed but then you realize that they don't have any more. Yes, this is Michigan so they may try anyway but, basically, this is it, which means you can steel yourself and get down to the business of kicking.
I'm not saying that he would've missed if Michigan had only called one time-out and I'm not trying to take anything away from either Dusty Mangum or Texas... I'm just asking if we're to the point where icing is common enough that non-icing (or at the least, not double-icing and thus making it certain that you can't ice anymore) would have as much success? Or is the effectiveness of icing not that related to the surprise/apprehension factor?
And yes, I appologize to all Michigan fans (myself included) for bringing it up, but, well, yeah.
Now Playing: Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing; this being the first, and thus far only, CD I've ever bought, sold back because I didn't like, and then rebought (the time period for which I most recently did not own this CD was approximately 5 years.)
UPDATE: 4046 44 books are currently in the queue and 1446 pages of finished books. (02/19/05) Also, yes, I understand that "pages" sucks as a counter - for example Pattern Recognition was about 75 pages longer than F/32 but the latter had more words and took longer. Oh well, I'm not going back to estimating words in a book, I don't care that much. Yet.
Another thing I don't keep track of is how much I listen to the CDs which I do purchase (and have purchased.) This would be easy to do if all of my listening was at my computer from digital music... but that's so far from the case that it's ridiculous (and music listened to while at my computer is a non-representative subset of what I listen to that I can't just project from what data I do have)... but this is not what I was starting to discuss.
I was inspired by this post from the (possibly) soon to be renamed Waffle-Like Silicon Waffle House:
Keeping track of Books Bought and Books Actually Read .... [and] not allowing myself to buy new books (with few exceptions), thus forcing me to read the ones I already have. This could be combined with another gimmick, say, starting from authors beginning with A and seeing how far I get.
My first response was that it's impossible to not buy new books in order to force yourself to read the ones you have in the queue (or, at least, it is impossible for me to do that because I have self-discipline.) I love browsing bookstores (especially used bookstores) as much as I love browsing CD stores (especially used CD stores)... but inevitably I end up wanting to buy a few souvenirs... I mean, what fun is it to just find F/32 if you can't take it home with you? to commemorate the event? Then I decided that... well, it might be worth a try anyway. Or, rather, making overtures in that direction should produce more results than just hoping for the best... thus I shall list, for all to laugh at, my queue.
This list is going to be all fiction (including dramatic fiction, i.e. plays) mainly because that's the brunt of my reading.
For plays I'm only going to include books with a single play... I'm not going to, for example, list plays in Six Plays of Strindberg I have yet to get to; there are a number of collections like this that I'm cycling through non-linearly... which makes tracking difficult.
I also read a lot of poetry but it's more difficult to deal with. Also there are about 9 books of poetry that I'm semi-actively reading through (cycling through non-linearly) and a few others I haven't started. I'm not going to include philosophical or religious texts because I'm not going to. I'm not going to include Durant's Story of Civilization series but I am going to keep soldiering on through. I'm not going to include any other historical partially because there are almost none and partially just because. I'm not going to include anything else because that's all I can think of.
Let's see, I just finished Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson so that doesn't need to be here and I have no in-process novels. I'm in the middle of 60 Stories by Donald Barthleme and The Eye of the Sibyl (Vol 5 of the Collected Stories) of Philip K. Dick but I'm not going to read them straight through like novels (the same holds true for the short story collections that made it on the list.)
Yikes. Oh, well. Here goes nothing:
Acker, Kathy: Don Quixote - I've read two books by her (Empire of the Senseless; Blood and Guts in High School) and like both. I don't see her stuff used very often so I tend to pick it up when I do.
same: Great Expectations - (continued from above:) Hence two books from that same auther where neither is exceedingly high in the queue. Other than alphabetically, that is.
Barthleme, Donald: The Dead Father
same: The King
Calvino, Italo: The Baron in the Trees
Cervantes: Don Quixote - Bought at the same time as Acker's take-off. It's very long.
Conrad, Joseph: Lord Jim
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor: The Idiot - I've come a long ways from reading one chapter of Crime and Punishment for senior (high school) English.
Eco, Umberto: Foucault's Pendulum - This was recommended to me (sort of) like 8 years ago when I jokingly wrote a rather paranoiac analysis of the lyrics of Dream Theater. This book isn't mine; a friend loaned it to me... uhh... a year ago (to the day.)
Erudice: F/32 - OK, fine, I didn't find this in a used bookstore; I bought it on eBay for about $4 (all told) which still shocked me... I didn't expect to find this. Ever. I've been on the notification list at Powell's for this one for a while but I had started to doubt that there were enough copies out there for that to yield anything. Also I forget why, exactly, I wanted this one - that is to say where I got it in my head that I needed to read this. I finished this while camping and went fairly directly into the Gibson. This book was, well, odd. This is one reason I wanted to read it. Anyway the bit with Jessey Norman was just sublime.
Faulkner, William: Soldiers' Pay - My favorite author, hands down.
same: The Reivers
same: The Hamlet
Fitzgerald, F. Scott: The Short Stories of... - Almost 800 pages yet still only a collection.
Fo, Dario: Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas - I think I have one or two remaining in a separate book of plays that I'll read before getting to this one.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Sorrows of Young Werther - his plays are good.
same: Egmont - did I mention that I adore Iphigenia auf Tauris?
Ionesco, Eugene: Killing Game - Of the books on this list this may be the one I've had the longest. I've read a lot of Ionesco, have not yet gotten to this one (duh.)
Joyce, James: Finnegan's Wake - I also have A Shorter Finnegan's Wake as edited by Anthony Burgess. I'm going to read this book.
Lem, Stanislaw: The Star Diaries
Mamet, David: The Cryptogram
Nabokov, Vladimir: Bend Sinister
same: Ada
Proust, Marcel: Swann's Way - I figured eventually I need to get to A la recherche du temps perdu ... but not in French.
Rand, Ayn: Atlas Shrugged - OK, I hated We the Living but... I don't know how to finish that sentence.
Robinson, Kim Stanley: The Years of Rice and Salt - He has a newer one that I, surprisingly, have not yet bought (because I haven't started this one.)
Rowling, J. K.: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - I haven't read any of these books. And I've only seen one of the movies (the 2nd one, because my sister had seen the first one and was kind enough to stick around while I was drugged up after having my last wisdom teeth out. I may read the first one first, I may not read any of them; occasionally it's nice to rip right through a long book - which is what I expect here.
Shaw, Bernard: Man and Superman - I haven't read any Shaw. There, I've admitted it.
Steinbeck, John: The Grapes of Wrath - I have, however, read Steinbeck. Just not this one.
Stephenson, Neal: The Confusion - Speaking of ripping right through a long book.... Just borrowed this one (from the same guy I got the Eco from - yes, he's willing to loan me another book) and this is the next one I'm going to start. Then, eventually, someone else will loan me The System of the World or, who knows, I could give in and buy it myself. Only having read the first one of the cycle I'm figuring that it all could easily be considered one 2700 page book; we'll see how that turns out. Eventually. I predict I'll be done with this one before the new moon.- Wow. I do need a break before I go and get The System of the World but.... Anyway F/32 is next.
Sturgeon, Theodore: The Cosmic Rape - I need to go back to Ellison's intro to Angry Candy (which was better than any of the shorts) and see what other sci-fi authors he lamented. The two Alfred Bester novels I read were necessary and I liked the first Strugeon novel I read. Here's another.
same: Starshine - And here's some short stories.
Queneau, Raymond: Zazie in the Metro - Louis Malle directed a film adaptation of this book. I haven't seen any Malle. There, I've said it. As much as I'd like to end this little note on that I don't have any more Queneau in the queue so I need this space to say that Queneau is an odd one.
Welsh, Irvine: Filth
Welsh, Irivine: Marabou Stork Nightmares - Trainspotting was brilliant, I tried to start... I think this one. Several years ago. I need to try these again.
Woolf, Virginia: Jacob's Room - I bought this one to get The Waves (two novels in one volume.) Now I'm trying to figure out if I liked that one more than To the Lighthouse. Her prose is just gorgeous... Nabokov (when he tries for that sort of thing) and Faulkner are the only I know that are in the same class.
same: Orlando
same: A Haunted House and Other Short Stories - I've actualy read 3 (of 18) so this could count as in-process (along with the Dick and Barthelme.)
Wright, Richard: Native Son
Aldiss, Brian: Supertoys Last All Summer Long and other stories of Future time - short stories, so I guess it doesn't belong here... but it still was a lapse so I guess here it goes. OK, this is how this works. I can't count the Dick because I started reading it before the new year. This, however, will all be read in 2005 (assuming I finish it this year.) OK? Also I'm using this purple-ish bit for new comments on books I've yet to finish.
Burgess, Anthony: A Dead Man in Deptford
Card, Orson Scott: Shadow Puppets
Egan, Greg: Diaspora
Gibson, William: Pattern Recognition - yes, I eventually broke. Sheesh. Done. Less than seven days, this one. See comments in their own entry on 02/19/05. I don't know what's next.
Lawrence, D.H.: The Complete Short Stories (volume 2)
Mamet, David: Wilson
Now what I'd really want would be for the massive readership of this blog to comment upon these works; which one's should head the list, which ones I should not bother with, what's missing, how long I you think I can hold out before breaking (I did recently receive a $20 gift certificate to Bookmaster so there'll be more to add to the list, plus eventually I'll really break and get Gibson's Pattern Recognition) that sort of thing. Not that I'll listen, mind you, I just think it'd be interesting. I wonder if there's a way to turn on comments after posting. *UPDATE: Yes, yes there is. Unfortunately this also means all the old posts now have comments turned on; this was not supposed to happen and I don't know how to get rid of them. Then again I doubt the traffic here would call for spam.*
Also: This color means I have yet to read the book, let's say I'll use mauve (or whatever that is) for what I've finished and green for short comments on what I thought (longer comments will have their own blog post, presumably.)
UPDATE: D'oh. I lasted, what, a dozen days? On two days during the second full week of JanuaryI bought 7 more books. I had not finished a single book on my list and I went out and got more. And not even using the gift certificate (I stayed closer to home at less well stocked bookstores.) Alas, they are listed in a new alphabetical block after the main one. I can only assume that I'll do the same for the results of further lapses.
As I mentioned below I have, off and on, considered doing my own blog. I'm not going to start one now because I don't want to bother starting if it's not going to work (this, distilled, is one of my biggest faults, a lazy, defeatist, perfectionism, sort of, if you will.)
It's not yet time to post my top 10 CDs for 2004 but in preparation for that I wanted to look at my list from last year (actually I wanted to look at my lists from many years previous... but only last year's is on this blog.)
If I were to make that list now there would be only minor changes. I've gotten a little sick of Sumday by Grandaddy, maybe because I figured it was a good "I like this and it won't annoy people who share my lab at work as much as, say, KaitO so I can listen to it at work a lot" CD so I listened to it a lot. And saw Grandaddy twice (if you count the early hours of January 1st, 2004... which I don't elsewhere so I shouldn't here but whatever.)
Speaking of KaitO their album would probably move to the top 10 from the honorable mentions and Metric's Old World Underground Where Are You Now? and Cooper Temple Clause's Kick Up the Fire and Let the Flames Break Loose would move at least as far as the honorable mentions... probably causing Chutes Too Narrow and Elephant to feel nervous. Give Up by the Postal Service, Everybody Come Down by Earlimart and Hate by the Delgados all would also need some mention in there.
All said I am still rather happy with the 2003 list.
What I really would like to do is do a list of top 10 CDs bought in 2004, the main problem being that that's one thing I don't keep track of (it would be exceedingly easy... and I figure I should for 2005 just cause I'm thinking of it now.)
Now Playing: digital music collection on random: I started this earlier to prepare a "guess the song from lyrics for 25 random songs" bit I stole from Matt the Bruce and I've just stuck with that listening method for a while. I am unsure whether to post the fruits of my random playlist partially because there's not going to be enough recognition to make it worthwhile (the point is not to demonstrate to people that you listen to music that they've never heard of but to allow other people the joy of recognizing lyrics out of context.) Hell, I doubt I'd get that many of them. Since I did it I probably will post the stupid thing (especially since I've spent this much time on it already.) But not now. And I should, like, have cash prizes (but I won't.)
