Day 10: A song that makes you fall asleep

I'm going to have to skip this one because I just can't think of any songs that put me to sleep. Music always seems to wake me up. So, I've decided to pick a song that makes me feel relaxed and could therefore lead to sleep at some point.

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Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days is a film that divides people, ( Read more... )

Well, I can dance to pretty much anything really, if by "dancing" you mean either swaying or jumping up and down.

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This one takes me straight back to university. My friends and I would go to cheap student nights at these dingy rock clubs. As soon as we heard the opening of 'Song 2', we'd run to the dance floor (you had to be quick because it's a ( Read more... )

Iron Maiden, 'The Number of the Beast' (1982

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'The Number of the Beast' is a song forever linked in my mind with a Catholic residential retreat. I was 15.  It had been an emotionally overwhelming and highly manipulative experience and, by the time we left, most of us were in a state of near hysteria. One kid, however, had managed to hold out ( Read more... )

R. L Burnside, 'Rollin and Tumblin'

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The first time I visited Andy she was living in Arizona and because Arizona is a big place, we spent a lot of time driving around in the car, and while driving around we played a lot of R. L. Burnside's album, A Bothered Mind.  Now, whenever I hear the song it takes me straight back there, to a landscape ( Read more... )

I didn't manage to do this yesterday, so two for the price of one today.

Day 04: A Song that makes you sa

Joni Mitchell, 'Both Sides Now'

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Joni Mitchell is another artist (much beloved by lesbians) who I've never managed to get into. This is really the only Joni Mitchell song that I'll listen to and I have to be careful when I listen to it ( Read more... )

Ani DiFranco's 'Little Plastic Castle' is a song that never fails to make me feel happy ( Read more... )

For my least favourite song, I've chosen the saccharine horror that is Chris De Burgh's 'The Lady in Red ( Read more... )

It's impossible for me to pick out one song as an overall favourite, so I've chosen a song that I can always listen to and which never seems to leave my mp3 player: Patti Smith's 'Dancing Barefoot' from her 1979 album Wave.

I came to Patti Smith when I was about 20 and picked up Horses in a 3-for-a-tenner CD sale. I just love everything about ( Read more... )

How many books read in 2009?

38

Fiction/Non-Fiction ratio?

Fiction: 29
Non-fiction: 9

Male/Female authors?

Female: 28
Male: 10

Favourite book read?

Neil Astley (ed.) Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times

It's one of the books that will be with me for life.

Least favourite?

Harlan Ellison (ed.), Dangerous Visions.

It had some good stories, but I ( Read more... )