[i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage]

[minervacat]

oh my god, i woke up this morning feeling like SUCH WRETCH that i can't even put it into words. if i didn't have an assignment due and a lab to write in my databases class, i would stay home. how can one head produce this much snot? i have no idea. nnnnnnngh. *whine*

if you're smartlikejustin or me, last night's duke @ bc game was a question of not is the

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For my many homes:

[xayide79]

In the Garden, traditional hymn. Most of my memories of my first home in Fayetteville have to do with my first church. In the Garden was my favorite hymn.

Player's Ball, Outkast. I lived in Atlanta when Outkast was just a very good, but local rap group. All early Outkast makes me think of Atlanta, but this was my first Outkast song (on the Atlanta based LaFace Christmas album).

Carolina in my Mind, James Taylor. Whenever I hear this song, I want to get on the road to Charlotte and Asheville.

Strange Fire, Indigo Girls. Ever since I heard them play this song at a concert at Emory, this is one of my Atlanta songs.

Taxi Driver, Sipho Mabuse. This song will always take me home.

Re: For my many homes:

[minervacat]

Carolina in my Mind, James Taylor.
even now that i live here - this song still says home so fiercely to me. you know how it is.

[perfectbound]

1. "michigan" by beth amsel. new home.
2. "living it up in the garden" by the nields. see caffeinediary. (yay!)
3. can't pick between "this town is wrong" by the nields and "clairman town" by nerissa and katryna nields. being home and wanting to get the fuck out. both are about teenagers alienated by suburbia - pretty much the same suburbia i grew up in, although they're about a half hour apart with traffic.
4. "buick city complex" by the old 97s. i hadn't heard it yet at the time but this one's chapel hill, right before i left, and also intangible home.
5. "mary jo" by belle and sebastian. living alone.

[caffeinediary]

Mmm, Beth Amsel. I really need to get her cds and/or see her in concert (if she ever gets here). I adore her stuff with Voices on the Verge.

[perfectbound]

She is really, really, really good in concert. CDs too - I think Kindling is my favorite.

[minervacat]

i hadn't heard it yet at the time but this one's chapel hill, right before i left
without knowing any circumstances: i can see that. yeah, i can see that one. ("blinding sheets of rain" almost made my list, for chicago, for the same right-before-i-left, and i just couldn't.)

[sophia_helix]

1. Subject reuse! You totally already did that one. *g*

2. I was about to say "Cheater! You live in Carolina and several songs include the word 'Carolina'!", but then I remembered I live in California. But you know what, "California Dreaming" and "California Girls" were written by people who didn't grow up here and lived in LA, so I have no connection with them. (None. I actually fucking hate California Girls, have never been within ten yards of a french bikini, etc. etc.)

Then I realized no songs make me think of home. Even "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" was written by someone from New York (and I don't live in SF, just near it). This is so tragic. I think it would help if songwriters remembered more often that there was a Northern California.

[minervacat]

1. IS NOT OMG. i just checked and i've done other lists about places you live, but top five songs that remind you of home is NOT ONE. *sticks tongue out*

2. it still reminds me of home! home is here, and that song makes me think of here wherever i am.

[sophia_helix]

1. I mean the actual subject header. You totally used that one before! But I forgive you, because I suppose it comes from #5.

2. No, I meant you're cheating because you have an eeeeasy one. And then I realized that technically I should have easy ones too, except I hate all songs written about California.

Wait. I lied. That Tiny Tim song about "Little houses on the hillside" that was written about Daly City kinda reminds me of home, if by "home" you mean "I'm really glad every time I drive past Daly City taht I don't live there."

[minervacat]

1. oh, yis, that. i use that one a lot. it's actually my journal title, hee.

2. that makes sense. i blame the cold medication for my inability to comprehend anything at all today, omg.

if by "home" you mean "I'm really glad every time I drive past Daly City taht I don't live there."
i think that's an EXCELLENT definition of home. the other side to "if you lived here, you'd be home now."

[humpingbears]

1) "Tennessee Mountain home" by the Earl Scruggs Revue - It has a line about "sitting on the front porch, with the ones you love, just lauging, talking, making future plans." I love that, and it's what I think about most often when I think about going back to Tennessee, either to my parents' house or to Nashville. Plus, bluegrass and the Scruggs family. Can't go wrong.

2) "Oklahoma!" (Original Cast Recording) - My mom's side of the family is from Oklahoma, and I go there once, sometimes twice a year. Mom gets very excited whenever she hears this song, and insists up on standing up and singing along. I've grown to really enjoy and appreciate having so many relatives out there. I don't think I'll ever live there, but there are parts of Oklahoma that are home, and it will always make me think of mom

That Song

[febrile]

I have such a love/hate relationship with that song. (The second one, natch.) On the one hand, it does inspire a certain nostalgia for and pride in the place I call Home. On the other hand, whenever I say I'm from Oklahoma, people invariably start singing it at me as if I'm like to start dancing and rope twirling.

The audience-participation version I heard at Sidetracks, a Chicago gay bar, always makes me smile: "We're only saying, 'You're doing fine, you're a homo! You're a homo! You're gay!'" Goes nicely with "All the cattle are standing like statures / the corn is as thick / as an elephant's... eye!"

Re: That Song

[humpingbears]

Yeah, I'm well aware of the cheesiness and the love-hate-ness of the song, but it always, without fail, makes me think of my mom standing up in the theater in Chattanooga when we went to go see the play there, and singing along and clapping wildly. Always. When we drive to Oklahoma, we like to sing it as we cross the state line.

I do like the gay version, though. hee.

[febrile]

There are so many songs I have that reference Oklahoma, but it's terribly difficult to find songs about Indiana or Milwaukee....

Sigh. Mine are so obvious, I'm not even going to provide commentary.

5. Frank Sinatra, "Chicago"
4. John Mellencamp, "Pink Houses"
3. Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys, "Take Me Back to Tulsa"
2. "Indiana, Our Indiana"
1. "Boomer Sooner"

Bloomington and Norman are wonderful places everybody should have the chance to call Home.

[minervacat]

if you find a song about milwaukee, let me know. i'd like to hear somebody spin that place as positively as sinatra spins chicago, you know? *g*

[febrile]

The Violent Femmes always make me think Milwaukee, but that's just because they were local and played all the time. Also, Flogging Molly apparently has a song called "What Made Milwaukee Famous (Has Made a Loser Out Of Me)," but I somehow doubt that one spins like Sinatra....

[minervacat]

... yeah, but now i want to hear that flogging molly song. what a fuckin' great title.