Victor thinks I need to shut up about the kitchen. What? Huh? You mean the kichen stories haven't been my best whining to date?
Fine. I'll do his silly meme, then.
Total volume of music files on my computer: Volume? I have 38 songs that I "ripped" for my little thumb-drive thingy a couple years ago. It took me a long time to get those songs loaded. I actually like the iPod concept, but not the laborious downloading of files. Someday I might spring for one that's pre-loaded, though. And I did just spring for XM radio so that I could get real oldies.
If you're interested, my 38-song playlist is in the extended entry.
The last CD I bought was: I think it might have been a Simon & Garfunkle album, or maybe a compilation of '70's hits I saw at Target. It's hard to believe I'm the same girl who used to cash paychecks at the record store.
I have some friends that are slightly younger than I. The first time they came to the house, the guy saw my shelves of LP's and said "Wow, you have a lot of actual records. You really are old."
Song playing right now: The baseball game.
Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me: Hmm. Well, I have a list of 38 songs in the extended entry...all songs I know mean a lot to me. I'm very sentimental that way.
Five random songs that aren't on the list would be:
Nights in White Satin (Days of Future Passed was the first "real" [not teeny bopper pop] album I bought)
Teen Angel (My dad used to sing this to me before bed. Odd, huh?)
Don't Fear the Reaper (A friend of mine loved this song. My friend died at 21; we heard this on the radio on the way home from his funeral.)
Summer Breeze (This song both reminds me of when I was a little kid...I can picture our yard, the windows open on a summer Friday night...and what I expected my life to become.)
Walk the Dinosaur (This is a horrible song. But it has a funny story: My sister plays '80's music for the kids, which I think constitutes child abuse. My nephew, age 4, loves Walk the Dinosaur. My sister told me this, and I was horrified, so she passed on to the children that I didn't approve. Next time I was at the house, I said to my nephew "I hear you like Walk the Dinosaur."
He started singing "Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur."
His sister (age 6) came tearing down the hall, screaming in horror "No! Noooooo! Aunt Nic doesn't like that song!"
I thought she was gonna tackle the poor kid to stop him from singing.)
Five people to whom I'm passing the musical baton: Just one: Karen. I want to see how many of her picks are from the '80's.
Feel free to comment on my lack of taste.
Sound of Silence
Fire and Rain
Flowers on the Wall
Goodtime Charlie’s Got the Blues
Sweet Baby James
King of the Road
One Toke Over the Line
Radioactive
Coconut
Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town
Hazy Shade of Winter
A Pirate Looks at 40
Don’t Let Me be Lonely Tonight
Mysterious Ways
Satisfaction Guaranteed
Trying to Reason with Hurricane Season
Slit Skirts
Only Daddy That’ll Walk the Line
The Boxer
Galveston
Honey
Wichita Lineman
Bad Bad Leroy Brown
I Got a Name
I Wouldn’t Want to be Like You
Maggie May
Mama Told Me Not to Come
One Less Set of Footsteps
Operator
Rocky Mountain Way
Statesboro Blues
Stuck in the Middle with You
Sweet Home Alabama
Vehicle
Whipping Post
Workin’ at the Carwash Blues
You’re So Vain
Early Morning Rain