Tuesday, June 14, 2005

hah!

turns out I have 1.74 gb of music on my computer. And I don't even have an ipod...

off to Canada on Saturday, so don't expect much action here until early August. In fact, no action would be the way it will be.

looking forward to two weeks in nature... sort of. In a nice cushy 4-bedroom cottage (with a dishwasher) on a river off in Quebec. I mean really. You can take the princess out of the city, but you can't... well, you know.

have a happy July!

Saturday, June 11, 2005

meme me me

Apparently, I've been meme'd. At first I thought it was me-me'd as it is all about me me me me me. But no, apparently a meme is some sort of obscure term from somewhere about something, that is far to complicated and convoluted to explain.

Anyway, my dear shorter-haired now than before friend Jo did this to me.

And I have to answer these questions without giving away how uncool I really am...

Total volume of music files on my computer: uhhh... I don't even know how to find this out... But I am planning to get an ipod when we are back in Canada this summer, so probably I'll be able to answer this sometime by, say, christmas.

Song playing right now: sweet, sweet silence. We had a birthday party last night for Steve's 39 & 11/12ths, so I'm enjoying quiet. Which, in fact, I do a lot. Much more as a parent than I did pre-Sam. Go figure.

The last CD I bought: more embarrasment. I can't recall. Oh - I think it might have been "Brain" by Hitomi , who I saw at an Oscar Peterson tribute at the embassy - last year. She was great, this tiny little Japanese woman with a huge afro, dressed all in black with bright red sneakers on. It may have been the shoes that did it for me.

Five songs or tunes I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
well, first it would have to be Suavemente - Elvis Crespo. If Steve and I had a song, this would be it. It always makes us dance - together. And there's nothing I like more than a merengue with my sweetie.

then, Take me to the River - Talking Heads, and the live version is the best of all. I just love the talking heads. Everything about them. Especially the big suit.

strangely, the CBC radio pre-news tune. It just makes me think of being a little kid, lying in bed - I don't know if it was morning or night - and hearing that sound. My dad is smoking his pipe - which makes me think it was night - and I can smell the tobacco, and then the familiar voices of the newscasters. Kind of a safe and homey feeling.

this is tough. There aren't that many things that I listen to all that regularly.

But...

If I had a Boat - Lyle Lovett makes me think of living in Montreal, and the hot hot summer and our funky old apartment and feeling so cool just to be living in Montreal...

Kiss you till you weep - Paul Gross is just a lovely song, and from a movie that I strangely love - Men with Brooms. It's embarrassing how much I enjoy that movie. It must be due to my extreme lack of Can Con here overseas.

There. That's five. Although only the first two really sprang to mind for me. So I guess that I'm less influenced by music than one would imagine. But let me hear the sound of a chainsaw, and I'm thrown right back into my childhood.

I'll probably come up with more really cool songs later. But that's it for now...

I'm supposed to send this on, I think. But the truth is, I don't know anyone who blogs - except the ones that have already been meme'd.

So, this meme is up for grabs. Just let me know if you take it so I can read it.