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Stolenated from e_p_kitty...
Apr. 6th, 2005 08:59 am...who said she wasn't passing it on to anyone, but, too bad I've pounced it away from you anyhow, like a ball of yarn... hey, my true 'nature' is a cheetah, so I'm thinking in the game of scissors-paper-kitty, that a cheetah beats a pursian kitty in the pouncing competition. (Now that I've said that, I'm almost expecting a lion or a tiger to come wrestle this big fluffy ball of yarn away from me) *sinks teeth into yarn ball* Where were we again...? Oh, yeah, quizzie poo...
01) Total volume of music files on my computer?
I accidentally hit 'save' on a couple CDs when I was listening to them... so I think I have about five disks of music on there, and also, a music video of Elton John that has a bunch of guys in skin tight tiger striped costumes dancing around him that TW sent me years ago. Yeah, pathetic little listening library...
02) The last CD I bought was...
Erasure's 'Nightbird'; we were at Disney and Mark had a free CD thing from buying so many at the Virgin Megastore, and we don't have one of those up here, so he had to use it. So, Mei and I are sitting outside, and they were piping out music that sounded like Erasure only I wasn't sure... Mark couldn't find a thing that he wanted, so when I got in and found out Erasure had a new CD, I went with that one. So far, I've only warmed up to two of the songs on it, but they are both excellent Fin/Ress story material. Oh, yes, much Erasure influence goes into my pairing those two.
03a) The last song I listened to before writing this was...
hee hee, I was listening to Erasure in the car... I think it was on "Witch in the Ditch" when I turned the radio off. At least, I think that's the name of it... my probablem is that I sometimes change words a little to suit my own 'inner thoughts', so NOW when I listen to that song, my mind just overwrites certain lyrics, so some of that one is in Elvish... yeah, shutting up now, I'm such a geek...
03b) Song playing right now:
Well, not actually out loud, but in my head I've got that "I'm Still Standing" one by Elton John --- that's the one that TW sent me!
04) Ten songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me.(Ha! I changed it from five! I have the power!) -- warning, I sometimes suck remembering song names...
1)"If" by Bread -- it was the lullaby that was sung to me as a child, and the song I danced to with my dad at my wedding
2)"Grandma's Feather Bed" & "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" -- mum would play these when we did the dishes or folded clothes on the record player, and we'd all sing along
3)"It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" -- The first time I had a real live bass solo! Weehoo! (I played upright, but I was using timpani sticks to make some cool noises. Go me!)
4)"Light My Fire" by The Doors -- Mark played it for me and made me actually listen to it one night in the car. And finally, I knew what Erestor's voice sounded like. And also, I was floored by the poetry of the verses.
5)"Always" by Erasure -- I was at that low teen angsty point type thing, and I was out on the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan one night, and this came on the radio, and then, things just didn't seem so bad, and I sang it (probably not well) into the waves, and then I didn't figure out who that group was for nearly a decade, but I remembered the chorus, and finally found someone who knew what I was talking about when I recited it to them. If I'd have found someone earlier who knew what I was talking about, I could have used it for my wedding like I wanted, darn it.
6)"Night and Day" by Frank Sinatra -- *sigh* Yeah, it's the 'our song' song. Even though he had a record album with Frank on it up on his wall that creeped me out (I swear, Frankie's eyes follow you...)
7)"Oh, L'amour" by Erasure -- which, Monty and I would sing 'Voldemort, broke my wand, now I'm running from you; Voldemort, what's a boy, with a scar to dooooooo....' Heh. Well, we have some worse lyrics for it, too, actually... anyhow... I introduced her to Erasure. And it just sort of clicked. It's the shared obsession between us, musically. With TJ, it was Billy Joel... with Maggie, it was the Partridge Family (erm, don't ask...)... with Monty, it's Erasure.
8)"Like the Rain" by Clint Black -- *sighs again* This is the 'other' 'our song'... a more contemporary one... because I'm one to go out purposely in rain, and he didn't, until I came along and dragged him (willingly) out into the rainy day world.
9)"Love Shack" by the B52s -- It came on the radio one day, and no explanation, my brother and Maggie and I started to sing it, each of us taking one of the three parts. And we would karaoke it, too. Then deny it completely afterwards. It was just one of those crazy, silly, funny things we did. I loved it.
10)"Seven" by Prince -- The first audio cassette I was gifted with was when I turned 12. I wasn't into all of the pop boy bands my peers were into. I heard Prince on the radio, had no clue who he was at all, and so started an obsession when my unknowing mother handed me a gift bag with a walkman and the Androgynous tape in it. Oh, my goodness... that was May... I was writing smut fic in September... yep, yep, it probably wasn't great, but the girls at the lunch table loved it. It was also an end to a writing drought that started in second grade when I was told that my creative writing stories had too much fantasy and needed to be toned down. Stupid teachers and those stupid grey sheets with the blue lines for writing and the section at the top for illustrating the story... I still hate those bloody awful things.
05) Which 5 people are you passing this baton to, and why?
I'm not... I'm just leaving it as an open casting call to any and all takers. 'Cause the whole five people thing, that's really mean, it's like the picking of people for the kickball team back in elementary school... okay, I will say, I do hope that Siesta answers this, because I am very curious, with her being all the way across the globe, what her musical tastes are. That is all.
01) Total volume of music files on my computer?
I accidentally hit 'save' on a couple CDs when I was listening to them... so I think I have about five disks of music on there, and also, a music video of Elton John that has a bunch of guys in skin tight tiger striped costumes dancing around him that TW sent me years ago. Yeah, pathetic little listening library...
02) The last CD I bought was...
Erasure's 'Nightbird'; we were at Disney and Mark had a free CD thing from buying so many at the Virgin Megastore, and we don't have one of those up here, so he had to use it. So, Mei and I are sitting outside, and they were piping out music that sounded like Erasure only I wasn't sure... Mark couldn't find a thing that he wanted, so when I got in and found out Erasure had a new CD, I went with that one. So far, I've only warmed up to two of the songs on it, but they are both excellent Fin/Ress story material. Oh, yes, much Erasure influence goes into my pairing those two.
03a) The last song I listened to before writing this was...
hee hee, I was listening to Erasure in the car... I think it was on "Witch in the Ditch" when I turned the radio off. At least, I think that's the name of it... my probablem is that I sometimes change words a little to suit my own 'inner thoughts', so NOW when I listen to that song, my mind just overwrites certain lyrics, so some of that one is in Elvish... yeah, shutting up now, I'm such a geek...
03b) Song playing right now:
Well, not actually out loud, but in my head I've got that "I'm Still Standing" one by Elton John --- that's the one that TW sent me!
04) Ten songs I listen to a lot or that mean a lot to me.(Ha! I changed it from five! I have the power!) -- warning, I sometimes suck remembering song names...
1)"If" by Bread -- it was the lullaby that was sung to me as a child, and the song I danced to with my dad at my wedding
2)"Grandma's Feather Bed" & "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" -- mum would play these when we did the dishes or folded clothes on the record player, and we'd all sing along
3)"It Don't Mean a Thing If It Ain't Got That Swing" -- The first time I had a real live bass solo! Weehoo! (I played upright, but I was using timpani sticks to make some cool noises. Go me!)
4)"Light My Fire" by The Doors -- Mark played it for me and made me actually listen to it one night in the car. And finally, I knew what Erestor's voice sounded like. And also, I was floored by the poetry of the verses.
5)"Always" by Erasure -- I was at that low teen angsty point type thing, and I was out on the bluffs overlooking Lake Michigan one night, and this came on the radio, and then, things just didn't seem so bad, and I sang it (probably not well) into the waves, and then I didn't figure out who that group was for nearly a decade, but I remembered the chorus, and finally found someone who knew what I was talking about when I recited it to them. If I'd have found someone earlier who knew what I was talking about, I could have used it for my wedding like I wanted, darn it.
6)"Night and Day" by Frank Sinatra -- *sigh* Yeah, it's the 'our song' song. Even though he had a record album with Frank on it up on his wall that creeped me out (I swear, Frankie's eyes follow you...)
7)"Oh, L'amour" by Erasure -- which, Monty and I would sing 'Voldemort, broke my wand, now I'm running from you; Voldemort, what's a boy, with a scar to dooooooo....' Heh. Well, we have some worse lyrics for it, too, actually... anyhow... I introduced her to Erasure. And it just sort of clicked. It's the shared obsession between us, musically. With TJ, it was Billy Joel... with Maggie, it was the Partridge Family (erm, don't ask...)... with Monty, it's Erasure.
8)"Like the Rain" by Clint Black -- *sighs again* This is the 'other' 'our song'... a more contemporary one... because I'm one to go out purposely in rain, and he didn't, until I came along and dragged him (willingly) out into the rainy day world.
9)"Love Shack" by the B52s -- It came on the radio one day, and no explanation, my brother and Maggie and I started to sing it, each of us taking one of the three parts. And we would karaoke it, too. Then deny it completely afterwards. It was just one of those crazy, silly, funny things we did. I loved it.
10)"Seven" by Prince -- The first audio cassette I was gifted with was when I turned 12. I wasn't into all of the pop boy bands my peers were into. I heard Prince on the radio, had no clue who he was at all, and so started an obsession when my unknowing mother handed me a gift bag with a walkman and the Androgynous tape in it. Oh, my goodness... that was May... I was writing smut fic in September... yep, yep, it probably wasn't great, but the girls at the lunch table loved it. It was also an end to a writing drought that started in second grade when I was told that my creative writing stories had too much fantasy and needed to be toned down. Stupid teachers and those stupid grey sheets with the blue lines for writing and the section at the top for illustrating the story... I still hate those bloody awful things.
05) Which 5 people are you passing this baton to, and why?
I'm not... I'm just leaving it as an open casting call to any and all takers. 'Cause the whole five people thing, that's really mean, it's like the picking of people for the kickball team back in elementary school... okay, I will say, I do hope that Siesta answers this, because I am very curious, with her being all the way across the globe, what her musical tastes are. That is all.
