I should say a bit about the process of these compilations. I don't just sit down on July 3rd and make a list - although back before iTunes and reliable internet, I did something like that. (I also had to insert each CD one at a time to burn a song off it onto a blank, and the songs burned in real time, and I had to add up the track times by hand. ( Read more... )

But I did do work! I read for two whole classes and I finished a borrowed book and I finished the first section of Monism!

But now I'm posting memes, because I don't want to read my history textbook, no I don't. *whistle*

( So the description makes me feel rather proud of myself, but the name of the humor type seems off and the people I'm supposed to be like? No. )

Ganked from glass_bullet.

25 Random Lyrics Meme
Step 1: Put your MP3 player on random.
Step 2: Post the first lines of the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.
Step 5: NO CHEATING.

( lyrical goodness - NOW WITH ALL ANSWERS )

So here's a strange thing. I used to be only an occasional fan of techno/dance music -- anything with a heavy beat, synthesized-to-death vocals, etc. Because I love singing and it's hard if not impossible to sing with most of that type of music. But over the past week I have tripled the play counts of every bit of VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, ( Read more... )

Every year I make a birthday compilation CD -- an amalgam of everything that represents the year for me, from the themes of good TV shows I've recently discovered, to songs that I associate with fics I've written, books I've read, friends I've made, places I've been, etc, to music that just, for one reason or another, holds a lot of meaning to me ( Read more... )

I went to the Tupelo Symphony Orchestra "Tribute to Mozart" concert last night -- absolutely magnificent. The guest pianist for Concerto No. 21 was amazing. Wanted to buy the CD they were selling in the lobby, but it was $20 and mine and Llama's money pooled was only 14 total. (Curses! Music is worth more than food! I should never have bothered ( Read more... )