A meme, in honour of my daughter...

[lady_schrapnell]

... who told us today of seeing one on people's blogs, where they turned on iTunes and wrote up the first 15 songs on a party shuffle (playlist) no matter how embarrassing. Only she said it was a 'me me'. I asked her if she meant a meme, and she said, 'no, those are me-mes, right? - because they're about Me! Me!' ;) Her 15 did include some pretty embarrassing songs - mine are only shameful because I was too bloody lazy to write out the names of the songs off the Best of J.S. Bach CD!

Anyway:
Track 3, Bach (see what I mean?)
Who Knows Where the Time Goes?, Fairport Convention
Paradise Lost, Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy
Be My Yoko Ono, Barenaked Ladies
Track 7, Bach (again)
The Bonny Swans, Loreena McKennitt
The Little Drummer, Planxty
Snake and the Moon, Dead Can Dance
Summoning of the Muse, Dead Can Dance
Track 15, Bach (sigh)
The Leave Taking, LotR Soundtrack
Night Ride Across the Caucasus, Loreena McKennitt
Wedding Dress, Pentangle
The Mummers' Dance, Loreena McKennitt
When Fortune Turns her Wheel, The Drovers

Funnily enough, there's nothing at all from one of my favourite playlists - the one I've titled 'Mutton dressed as lamb music' - which is music I learned of or got from my kids. (I'm sure there's some similar expression in Portuguese, Finnish - Iranian if you're reading, K. ;) meaning an old person who dresses/acts as if he/she is much younger than is really the case.) Most of it is the O.C. Soundtrack, which is just wonderful - and a couple of albums discovered from that. This party shuffle is mostly folk and the difficult-to-classify Loreena McKennitt; the playlist titles sound as if they're the basis of a wonderful folktale, if only I could write it!

Good day today, though nothing exciting: made bread (which I do almost every day - Irish = soda bread, not yeast => far less work!), made muffins (yum - carrot spice, with lots of toasted pecans and dried fruit - from my famous 'Adapt-a-muffin recipe'), made earrings, cleaned up a bit, read a bit, got a couple of nice emails, studied a bit (didn't have to breathe into a paper bag when looking at exam specimen paper this time, so a big improvement) and watched The Bourne Identity with the girls (younger daughter's got a rotten cold), which we'd all missed when it was out and all enjoyed.

And now 'When Fortune Turns her Wheel' is playing - such a beautifully haunting song. I googled the lyrics, and they seem to say little more than let's have a drink to better times for good friends, and let the ones who turned their backs on me when I was down have good fortune as well, but says it so movingly! Better put on something cheerful before going to bed. Now it's Summoning of the Muse - not exactly bouncy cheerful. (Small voice here) Hmmm. What's fair use; you can burn a CD with no more than one song from each CD, right? Maybe my next book packages going off will have a CD as well - Tam Lin for Fire and Hemlock, and The Cruel Sister for The Perilous Gard and The Little Drummer Boy because how else are you going to discover Planxty, and Edinbro' for one of my favourite cities and... and...

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My Me! Me!

[myntti.livejournal.com]

The first 15 songs on Winamp when I hit shuffle:
* King Cry Baby (from Cry Baby soundtrack - I don't know who sings it)
* Savage Garden: Break Me, Shake Me (I don't even like Savage Garden)
* Weeping Willows: True to You
* Ella Fitzgerald: Night and Day
* Fatboy Slim: Weapon of Choice
* Liekki: Pienokainen
* Kolmas nainen: Kartat mua
* Gang Starr: Jazz Thing
* Sophie Ellis Bextor: Murder on the Dancefloor
* Madonna: Ray of Light
* INXS: Suicide Blond
* Cher: Believe (now this is embarrassing!)
* Tony Bennett: Winter Wonderland
* Sheryl Crow: Sweet Child of Mine
* Kiss: God Gave Rock 'n' Roll to You ;-)

Re: My Me! Me!

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

Tee hee - daughter had a Savage Garden cassette and we listened to it a million times in the car back when I used to pick them up from school. Lyrics of some are very fun to sing, but don't think Break Me, Shake Me was one with cool lyrics. And Cher - well, it's far more embarrassing to me that I can remember when she and Sonny had a show on tv. Talk about something showing your age!

Me-mes!

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

made earrings

oohh, do tell! I nearly missed that comment :) I been feeling very artsy indeed after a break during summer, well, most of this feeling evolves wanting to buy suplies and check books rather than do things, but am trying ;) What colors do you like best? Pierced ears earrings?

I love the Me-Mes thing, it makes so much sense. And I want to do my own me-me for the music, can not figure out how to put real player do a shuffle :) Will try!

Re: Me-mes!

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

The earrings comment slid into the 'bit of cleaning up' comment in reality - I started to put away the stuff which had been sitting on a tray in the living room and instead realised that I did have a matching - drat, what do you call it - the part of the earring that goes through your ear and to which the dangly bits are attached - that, anyway, for the one I'd made. (So yeah, these are pierced!) When we were on holidays we went into the most wonderful bead-shop - tons of stuff and they'd all the tools there and you could make anything up and they'd help you. It was amazing. Ours in Dublin (into which I swear I had gone before you started talking about beadwork - honestly!) is small and stuffy and not all that well stocked. (Though there is always the Knitting and Stiching Show, in early November - can't wait!) I like all colours but often end up wearing greyish earrings - these stones are supposed to be turquoise, but are a very greyish-green instead of the bright blue-green I think of as turquoise.

Real Player is refusing to shuffle with you? Inconceivable! ;)

Re: Me-mes!

[generalblossom.livejournal.com]

Real player is not shuffling for me, bad real player. I gotta check it more and perhaps threaten it a bit ;)

About beads, I believe you, I do :) Though that holiday shop is making me drool, there is nothing like lots of choices. And are not beads so very irresistible in themselves? Even before I had the bravery to do do anything and tackle buying plyers and headpings and all, I had bought beads and kept them, they are like solid pieces of color, so great :)

Re: Me-mes!

[lady-schrapnell.livejournal.com]

I had bought beads and kept them, they are like solid pieces of color, so great

Yes! Know exactly what you mean. I do that with embroidery floss as well - the colours and the textures are just irresistible!