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walkingshadow) wrote2005-02-04 01:56 am
walkingshadow) wrote2005-02-04 01:56 am
When you're wearing a green tuxedo, you dance where they tell you.
As with icons, any time is a good time to talk about music, so first off, an iTunes meme, from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deepsix
How many total songs?
4899 songs, 13 days, 18.17 GB. The hard drive is starting to creak under the pressure, but I just can't. stop. downloading.
Sort by Song Title - first and last
First: The Lion King Soundtrack - . . . To Die For
Last: Fluke - Zion
Sort by Time - first and last
First: They Might Be Giants - Who's Knocking On The Wall? (0:04)
Last: Flickerstick - Sorry . . . Wrong Trajectory (14:34)
Sort by Album - first and last
First: Hawksley Workman - Striptease ((Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves)
Last: Faultline - Your Love Means Everything (Part 2) (Your Love Means Everything)
TopFive Ten Most-Played Songs:
1. Gary Jules - Mad World (99)
2. Ani DiFranco - Both Hands (87)
3. The Wallflowers - When You're On Top (87)
4. New Order - Your Silent Face (86)
5. Rufus Wainwright - California (84)
6. Beth Orton - Thinking About Tomorrow (79)
7. Duran Duran - Michael You've Got A Lot To Answer For (79)
8. Ben Folds - Fred Jones, Pt. 2 (78)
9. Jason Mraz - The Remedy (76)
10. Jude - You Mama You (68)
Top Ten Last Played
1. Garbage - A Stroke of Luck
2. Magnetic Fields - Smoke and Mirrors
3. Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow Wendy Is Going To Die
4. The Verve Pipe - Photograph
5. Trevor Lissauer & The Glass Plastiks - Apple Stems
6. Remy Zero - The Golden Hum
7. Smash Mouth - Force Field
8. The Wallflowers - Laughing Out Loud
9. Petula Clark - It's A Sign Of The Times
10. Girlyman - The Shape I Found You In
Find "sex." How many songs show up? 21
Find "death." How many songs show up? 7
Find "love." How many songs show up? 224
Yay for Advanced Step with Ann! And weight training! I'm trying out a new workout routine, wherein I go to the gym only three days a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday) instead of five or six, and work my ass off. Those just seem to be the classes I'm clicking with this semester. Well, Monday is pretty good too, but three days in a row might throw that staggered schedule off a bit.
I took a shower after I got home and ordered some sushi, and the sushi took almost an hour to get here, but that's okay. I set up shop in the living room withsilentfire's lovely dishes, the sushi, some Jasmine green tea, and E. B. White. I reread "Bedfellows," one of the essays that struck me so forcefully and stayed with me so long after the first time I read it, mostly because of this:
Then later: "A President should pray whenever and wherever he feels like it (most Presidents have prayed hard and long, and some of them in desperation and agony), but I don't think a President should advertise prayer. That is a different thing. Democracy, if I understand it at all, is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only half a dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy, their tranquility would be its proof. . . . I believe that our political leaders should live by faith and should, by deeds and sometimes by prayer, demonstrate faith, but I doubt that they should advocate faith, if only because such advocacy renders a few people uncomfortable. The concern of a democracy is that no honest man shall feel uncomfortable, I don't care who he is, or how nutty he is."
And then this, from his 1962 postscript (the original piece is dated 1956): "I think the Court again heard clearly the simple theme that ennobles our Constitution: that no one shall be made to feel uncomfortable or unsafe because of nonconformity. New York State, with the best intentions in the world, created a moment of gentle orthodoxy in public school life, and here and there a child was left out in the cold, bearing the stigma of being different. It is this child that our Constitution is concerned about—his tranquility, his health, his safety, his conscience. What a kindly old document it is, and how brightly it shines, through interpretation after interpretation!"
Don't tell anyone, but that made me cry, just a little. My glasses fogged up as I fumbled my chopsticks.
deepsixHow many total songs?
4899 songs, 13 days, 18.17 GB. The hard drive is starting to creak under the pressure, but I just can't. stop. downloading.
Sort by Song Title - first and last
First: The Lion King Soundtrack - . . . To Die For
Last: Fluke - Zion
Sort by Time - first and last
First: They Might Be Giants - Who's Knocking On The Wall? (0:04)
Last: Flickerstick - Sorry . . . Wrong Trajectory (14:34)
Sort by Album - first and last
First: Hawksley Workman - Striptease ((Last Night We Were) The Delicious Wolves)
Last: Faultline - Your Love Means Everything (Part 2) (Your Love Means Everything)
Top
1. Gary Jules - Mad World (99)
2. Ani DiFranco - Both Hands (87)
3. The Wallflowers - When You're On Top (87)
4. New Order - Your Silent Face (86)
5. Rufus Wainwright - California (84)
6. Beth Orton - Thinking About Tomorrow (79)
7. Duran Duran - Michael You've Got A Lot To Answer For (79)
8. Ben Folds - Fred Jones, Pt. 2 (78)
9. Jason Mraz - The Remedy (76)
10. Jude - You Mama You (68)
Top Ten Last Played
1. Garbage - A Stroke of Luck
2. Magnetic Fields - Smoke and Mirrors
3. Concrete Blonde - Tomorrow Wendy Is Going To Die
4. The Verve Pipe - Photograph
5. Trevor Lissauer & The Glass Plastiks - Apple Stems
6. Remy Zero - The Golden Hum
7. Smash Mouth - Force Field
8. The Wallflowers - Laughing Out Loud
9. Petula Clark - It's A Sign Of The Times
10. Girlyman - The Shape I Found You In
Find "sex." How many songs show up? 21
Find "death." How many songs show up? 7
Find "love." How many songs show up? 224
Yay for Advanced Step with Ann! And weight training! I'm trying out a new workout routine, wherein I go to the gym only three days a week (Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday) instead of five or six, and work my ass off. Those just seem to be the classes I'm clicking with this semester. Well, Monday is pretty good too, but three days in a row might throw that staggered schedule off a bit.
I took a shower after I got home and ordered some sushi, and the sushi took almost an hour to get here, but that's okay. I set up shop in the living room with
silentfire's lovely dishes, the sushi, some Jasmine green tea, and E. B. White. I reread "Bedfellows," one of the essays that struck me so forcefully and stayed with me so long after the first time I read it, mostly because of this:I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or nonpolitical, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
Then later: "A President should pray whenever and wherever he feels like it (most Presidents have prayed hard and long, and some of them in desperation and agony), but I don't think a President should advertise prayer. That is a different thing. Democracy, if I understand it at all, is a society in which the unbeliever feels undisturbed and at home. If there were only half a dozen unbelievers in America, their well-being would be a test of our democracy, their tranquility would be its proof. . . . I believe that our political leaders should live by faith and should, by deeds and sometimes by prayer, demonstrate faith, but I doubt that they should advocate faith, if only because such advocacy renders a few people uncomfortable. The concern of a democracy is that no honest man shall feel uncomfortable, I don't care who he is, or how nutty he is."
And then this, from his 1962 postscript (the original piece is dated 1956): "I think the Court again heard clearly the simple theme that ennobles our Constitution: that no one shall be made to feel uncomfortable or unsafe because of nonconformity. New York State, with the best intentions in the world, created a moment of gentle orthodoxy in public school life, and here and there a child was left out in the cold, bearing the stigma of being different. It is this child that our Constitution is concerned about—his tranquility, his health, his safety, his conscience. What a kindly old document it is, and how brightly it shines, through interpretation after interpretation!"
Don't tell anyone, but that made me cry, just a little. My glasses fogged up as I fumbled my chopsticks.