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May 20, 2005
Music Meme
Alex tagged me with the music meme that has been floating around for a while. I'd planned to participate several weeks/days ago (blogtime runs too fast, so I can't remember when I first saw this meme), but got distracted, as often happens.
Once again, answers below the fold.
Total volume of music files on my computer:
Maybe 1-2 songs at most. I have a dial-up modem.
The last CD I bought was:
Cat Power, You are Free, at GZomie's suggestion.
Song playing right now:
Oddly enough, Star Wars music. Album 88, Georgia State's radio station has a soundtrack show on Fridays called "Nitrate 88." Really good show, even though the Star Wars music is getting old.
Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
Like Alex, I think that’s too difficult. Randomly from my relatively limited CD collection:
Johnny Cash, "Man in Black."
Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows."
Louis Armstrong, "What a Wonderful World."
Tom Waits, "Alice."
Wilco, "I am Trying to Break Your Heart."
Five people to whom I’m passing the baton:
Any five people who want to play. I'll tag Filmmaker-Guy back, since he tapped me for the "threes meme," but this one has been around for a while. I can't remember who has played already.
Posted by chuck at May 20, 2005 5:45 PM
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Ha! See, those five would be part of my top X as well. Way too hard. I might go for "Take this walz" over "Everybody knows," but that's mostly a function of over-playing the latter.
Posted by: Alex Halavais at May 20, 2005 8:32 PM
Woohoo! I did it too.
Good call on the Cat Power CD. She's fuckin' great.
Um, do you really have a dial-up modem?
Posted by: Amber at May 20, 2005 9:01 PM
Alex, "Take this Waltz" is good, too. I tend to associate "Everybody Knows" with Atom Egoyan's amazing film, Exotica, so that's why I chose it. I also really like Cohen's Hallelujah, though I know that Jeff Buckley's version is more popular.
Amber, yep, I'm still the world of 56k. But don't worry, I'm working on it.
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at May 20, 2005 9:13 PM
We have eerily similar taste - both regarding the Top 5, and the fact it's totally GZombie's fault that I also bought You Are Free.
Posted by: Krista Kennedy at May 29, 2005 11:20 PM
Krista, I've always appreciated GZombie's taste in music. He also introduced me to Vic Chesnutt's music, for which I'm very grateful.
Posted by: Chuck at May 30, 2005 4:10 PM