swap favorite music CDs with other 43ers

That mainly resulted in chaos, but I hope my CDs reached some of their targets…

but I’ve started…

Casey? :)

is that they’ve been sitting in a bag in my office for a month or so.

And sorry. I had great hopes for this one but I’m just too crap. I mean, I’m not ruling it out but well I have no excuse actually.

but they are nearly on their way!

I did it! I just tested it on the audio player and I did it! It works!

Think ‘kid with new toy’. I shall inflict one on everyone that crosses my path. Yeeeheeeeee!

And I’ll be able to listen to my own music in the bath. How cool is that?

from Pandoritis.

There’s all this good new music on Pandora which keeps sidetracking me. I’m not sure if my taste has gone wonky from listening to the same songs all day long, but I have found myself thinking all day today that a song by the US’s Bachelor called “Girlfriend” is the best thing since sliced bread, and I know that can’t be right. It’s got one of those happy melodies and I’m even being able to forgive what must be multiple truck driver gear shifts (definition of which is hotly debatable) because I like the words too.

I didn’t know he was the US’s Bachelor until I’d thought I really like this, I’ll look him up. MISTAKE!

So of course now I want to put him on the CD but I don’t know if this song will survive the test of hundreds of plays or whether it will irritate me eventually. Possibly the less I know about the person, the less likely it will be.

Sigh. This goal is HARD. If only I hadn’t learned the pandora save fix I’d have been okay.

thinking about how to stop the wars. Maybe if all of us young people (er well that’s relative) got all the older political types we know to get some acid flashbacks or something a bit of that vietnam-era seventies love and peace movement… I wonder if mailing CDs of seventies folk music to American politicians of a certain age could bring about a change of heart. They might just stand still and go all gooey and think yes, let’s not drop any more bombs.

It’s probably worth a try. When I’ve burned them (it’s like cooking really) I’ll send them to 43ers and make some extras…

Yes I know that makes me sound like a space cadet but I can’t think of anything better just right now _{and it’s really making me cross}

1. Closing Philip Glass
2. Festivo Keiichi Suzuki
3. Soulstorm Patrice
4. Banquet (Phones Disco Edit) Bloc Party
5. Nos Sourires Louise Attaque
6. Matador Mickey 3D
7. Let go Frou Frou
8. Served Its Purpose Thomas Newman
9. Perpetuum mobile Penguin Café Orchestra
10. Out of time man Mano Negra
11. Sinnerman Nina Simone
12. Bigmouth Strikes Again The Smiths
13. Mala Vida Mano Negra
14. Tarnation Max Avery Lichtenstein

The CD begins with Closing, a minimalist track beautifully played by Philip Glass (♥). Follows Festivo: imagine two dozens samourais dancing all together; then Soulstorm brings back a sunnier rythm, idael for waking up de bonne humeur. A special version of Banquet by Bloc Party for a dose of energetic pop music, followed by Nos Sourires (Our Smiles) by Louise Attaque and Matador by Mickey 3D: a bit of modern French rock. Frou Frou’s Let go (from the Garden State OST) then invites us to sit down and relax. To remain in this mood, the minute and a half of Served Its Purpose urges you to fall asleep peacefully. Perpetuum mobile then brings back the best of un-classical music, to be followed by the classic Mano Negra’s Out of time man (along with Mala Vida, later on). Nina Simone’s divinely deep voice brings us back to reality with Sinnerman (The Thomas Crown Affair); the pénultième track features the Smiths: Bigmouth Strikes Again, and the finale contains the whole message—Tarnation gives a soundtrack to your dreams, and invites you to live in them.

Casey, hope you’ll enjoy it :)

Sorry CaseyLeighT, I couldn’t send my CD before leaving.

It will be burnt + sent very quickly. Any other taker, by the way?