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Meme snagged from Meg
total number of tracks: 1523
total length of music: 3.8 days
sort by song title:
- first song: Above Ground - Norah Jones
- last song: 100% Pure Love - Crystal Waters (That's so late 90s! I love it!)
sort by time:
- shortest song: This Box Contains - Ani DiFranco
- longest song: Appalachian Spring Suite - Aaron Copeland
sort by artist:
- first song: Are You That Somebody - Aaliyah
- last song: Trouble Me - 10,000 Maniacs
top 10 most played songs: High>Low
1) Useless Desires - Patty Griffin
2) A Walk Outside - Butterfly Boucher
3) Rowing Song - Patty Griffin
4) I Shall Believe - Sheryl Crow
5) Now Touch the Air Softly - Peter Mayer
6) That Lonesome Road - James Taylor
7) Sweet Baby James - James Taylor
8) Only a Dream - Mary Chapin Carpenter
9) Fire and Rain - James Taylor
10) Top of the World - Dixie Chicks (that one was written by Patty Griffin - note the trend!)
first five songs that come up on shuffle:
- We Are One - Emma's Revolution
- Don't Wait Too Long - Madeleine Peyroux
- Sorry So Sorry - Howie Day
- Let Yourself Go (Don't know who sings it - I did a tap piece to it a few years ago!)
- Mountains O' Things - Tracy Chapman
how many songs come up when you search for:
- "sex": 3 (hahaha! Too Sexy, You Sexy Thing, and Sexy M.F.)
- "love": 89 (I'm a sap!)
- "you": 180 (Starting with In Your Eyes, from the best. movie. ever.)
- "death": 1 (Country Death Song by Violent Femmes)
- "hate": 2 (Hate to Say I Told You So - The Hives and I Hate the TV - Violent Femmes)
- "wish": 16 (Including Wish You Well, a song written by a friend of mine for her mother.)
- "rain": 27 (Helps that I own The Beauty of the Rain by Dar Williams.)
Quiz Meme snagged from Stina & Meg
1.What did you do in 2007 that you'd never done before? Moved states because I could; joined FF, TSFF, and LJ; wrote a play of sorts; went on a sleigh ride, shoveled snow.
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Not really - I haven't written every day or even most days. Will try again this year. Also, that whole lame exercising thing...
3. Did anyone close to you give birth? A friend back in Music City. Two more special ones coming in February and June!
4. Did anyone close to you die? The fathers of two of my closest friends.
5. What countries did you visit? None this year - too busy moving.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007? Perseverance, especially around editing.
7. What date(s) from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? Sept. 1 - reconnected with an old friend I hadn't seen in 12 years.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Pulling off the play w/in a play for youth sunday.
9. What was your biggest failure? I'm not editing the big one yet...
10. Did you suffer any illness or injury? Kidney stones, of all things. That really sucked.
11. What was the best thing you bought? A new house.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration? My sister's - she's the nicest person I know.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? All those yucky people who post mean things on the abc boards. Boo.
14. Where did most of your money go? New house.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Um, like you don't know. Mark & Sabrina. :)
16. What song will always remind you of 2007? Heavenly Day by Patty Griffin or Let Go, Hold On by my youth group kids
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Happier on most levels.
ii. thinner or fatter? About the same. Kind of wimpy - need to lift some weights or something!
iii. richer or poorer? About the same.
18. What do you wish you'd done more of? Writing and editing.
19. What do you wish you'd done less of? Being angsty and unproductive.
20. How did you spend Christmas? With my family, in the snow.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007? No.
22. How many one-night stands? None.
23. What was your favorite TV program? Gilmore Girls (Oh, the sadness...)
24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year? Not a big hater.
25. What was the best book you read? Prepare yourselves for a novel! As of this moment, I've read 49 books this year. Deathly Hallows was the most significant, most satisfying, and yet bittersweet read of the year, of course. Pride and Prejudice, which I had never read before, was the most impressive and beautifully crafted. The Last Summer (of You and Me) by Ann Brashares made me cry the most, in a good way. The Big House by George Howe Colt was the most interesting. Rose in Bloom by Louisa May Alcott was the best walk down memory lane. Madam Secretary by Madeleine Albright was the most informative. And Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose, which I will finish today, will change my writing the most. How was that? lol
26. What was your greatest musical discovery? Almost Amy is up there, but I really think it was Regina Spektor.
27. What did you want to get? A new laptop.
28. What was your favorite film of this year? OotP or The History Boys
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you? Not too much, which was nice. 27.
30. What one thing made your year immeasurably more satisfying? Snow.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007? Hang on to color - even in New England!
32. What kept you sane? Reading, writing, the girls on FF, TSFF, and LJ!
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? We're all just a little bit in love with M&S!
34. What political issue stirred you the most? Education.
35. Who did you miss? My grandmother. Every moment, but especially at Christmas.
36. Who was the best new person you met? I remet an old person and am getting to know him as an adult for the first time.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007: Do the things that scare you.
40. Would you say that 2007 was overall a good year? Seismic in nature, but good. 2008 will tell.