This is not the sort of thing I do, but Anne PLSJ (which is pronounced "Pludge") tagged me, and I'm growing sick of maintaining radio silence. Still and all, I feel dirty. The next thing up will be reporting which Harry Potter character, then maybe a little kitten icon indicating that I am feeling "frisky" today, then picking a fight over who's allowed on my LiveJournal friends list.
Total volume of music on my computer (which is pretty much unrelated to the total volume of music on my iPod):
12.2 gig, 8.4 days, 2406 songs (some of which are half-hour or hour long radio shows). I'd say this represents roughly a quarter of my CD collection.
The last CDs I bought:
The Evens, s/t
The Deathray Davies, Midnight at the Black Nail Polish Gallery
The Sadies, Favourite Colors
Song playing right now:
"Words and Guitar", Sleater-Kinney (true when I started; now playing is "It's Nothing to Me" by the Sadies)
Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
"Washington, DC" by Stephin Merritt/the Magnetic Fields, from 69 Love Songs -- Every word of it is true.
"Jackson", by Johnny and June Carter Cash, from At Folsom Prison (among others) -- Redfox and I sing this as a duet sometimes. "Ring of Fire" played at our wedding, not this, because who wants the fire to go out?
"Mechano", by Burning Airlines, from Mission: Control! -- Crawling from the wreckage of Jawbox, Burning Airlines is up there with Fugazi as the definitive DC band for me: intensely overintellectualized, undanceable, ferociously tight. This album lived in my CD player for about six weeks straight at one point in college.
"Precision Auto" by Superchunk, from On the Mouth -- Superchunk's No Pocky for Kitty was the first indie album I ever bought. It is entirely fair to say that it changed my life, at least in a small way. On the Mouth is the album I listen to more, though: a collection of jewel-like stories about breaking up and not getting over it (thankfully written before emo was emo), even if all the songs sound the same.
"13 Monsters" by Lightning Bolt, from Ride the Skies -- Just the name of the damn song gives me an earworm.
I'm going to tag Drew, Nick, Rosebaby, Kathryn (whose answers are reasonably sure to make me feel a million years old), and AXT. I hope all of them have more willpower than I did. (Miranda Gaw has already succumbed and is thus immune from my icky meme. Curses!)
Let us never discuss this post again.