Mondo Headache
Aug. 31st, 2007 04:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gurdymonkeyIs trading CDs/DVDs/books analogous to making each other mix tapes?
In last week's "prisoner exchange," I returned the Flags of Our Fathers/Letters From Iwo Jima boxed set along with my copy of Sally McClain's Navajo Weapon: The Navajo Code Talkers. (Flags and Iwo are both brilliant, but both a difficult and bloody slog. Heroes, villains and ordinary joes on both sides of the same battle. Well worth watching if you're up for it.)
I had loaned a few accessible-to-modern-ears Renaissance CDS, gateway drugs like the King's Singers "Madrigal History Tour," and "The Bones of All Men," a collaboration between Richard Thompson and Phillip Pickett. He said he liked the Praetorius dances. In exchange for the code talkers book, I have been loaned three, count 'em, THREE Kodo CD's and a compilation of Enigma's greatest hits. Kodo is certainly innocent enough, but eighteen tracks of techno makeout-music? Jesu Criste's milde Moder weepeth!
I remember how fascinating it was when James loaned me his iPod for a day's commute so I could see if I wanted one. Surfing someone else's music collection can be an interesting exercise. So does the fact SG seems to like stuff with a beat mean he dances? Or just likes stuff with a beat?
I think the return salvo requires The Hilliard Ensemble and saxophonist Jan Gabarek performing Officium. Anonymous 4 Doing It Right, and perhaps some incendiary vocals by Eva Cassidy.....
I had loaned a few accessible-to-modern-ears Renaissance CDS, gateway drugs like the King's Singers "Madrigal History Tour," and "The Bones of All Men," a collaboration between Richard Thompson and Phillip Pickett. He said he liked the Praetorius dances. In exchange for the code talkers book, I have been loaned three, count 'em, THREE Kodo CD's and a compilation of Enigma's greatest hits. Kodo is certainly innocent enough, but eighteen tracks of techno makeout-music? Jesu Criste's milde Moder weepeth!
I remember how fascinating it was when James loaned me his iPod for a day's commute so I could see if I wanted one. Surfing someone else's music collection can be an interesting exercise. So does the fact SG seems to like stuff with a beat mean he dances? Or just likes stuff with a beat?
I think the return salvo requires The Hilliard Ensemble and saxophonist Jan Gabarek performing Officium. Anonymous 4 Doing It Right, and perhaps some incendiary vocals by Eva Cassidy.....
Played on KFog as I left work this afternoon:
Melissa Etheridge "Message to myself" ("I'll know that I am fine / I'll know that I am loved.")
Sting, "If you love somebody (set them free)"
Huh? I don't believe in this sort of screwy hooey. The universe does not send me personal messages.
So I stop by the house, clean out and organize the back of the truck while I can park in FRONT of the house, throw some laundry in the machine, backtrack over to Dr. T's to pick up my new reading glasses, then hit Home Depot for some 2x4s. Thank you, I already HAVE two 6' 2 x 4's with an S curve in them, so I had to sort through quite a bit of lumber, all of it wet. I carefully load and bungee it into the back of the truck because, of course, nobody is ever at the cutting station, and pull out. At which point, Alannis Morisette starts chanting, "You live, you learn."
Melissa Etheridge "Message to myself" ("I'll know that I am fine / I'll know that I am loved.")
Sting, "If you love somebody (set them free)"
Huh? I don't believe in this sort of screwy hooey. The universe does not send me personal messages.
So I stop by the house, clean out and organize the back of the truck while I can park in FRONT of the house, throw some laundry in the machine, backtrack over to Dr. T's to pick up my new reading glasses, then hit Home Depot for some 2x4s. Thank you, I already HAVE two 6' 2 x 4's with an S curve in them, so I had to sort through quite a bit of lumber, all of it wet. I carefully load and bungee it into the back of the truck because, of course, nobody is ever at the cutting station, and pull out. At which point, Alannis Morisette starts chanting, "You live, you learn."
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Date: 2007-09-01 05:00 am (UTC)I was fully expecting the Kodo to show up, but I have to wonder whether Enigma was an accident or not.
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Date: 2007-09-01 05:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-01 05:15 am (UTC)Such a happy tune, makes me smile every time I hear it :)
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Date: 2007-09-01 11:20 am (UTC)Been married twelve years last month. :-)