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...

Comments

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!