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February 06, 2005
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Ah so Saturday was my 1 year blog anniversary. I realized this late Friday evening and planned on posting. Unfortunately my knitting life has been rather disorganized and I had nothing to discuss in that arena which left politics. I even had two topics to discuss. The first is courtesy of Jennifer who linked to this action alert on the 2nd. Apparently our wonderful president has decided that all reports about the imminent demise of our planet are false and passed a "dirty air act" The second was rather quip-y. As we all know our president has decided that SS needs to be revamped. Why doom and gloom over a system which is successful instead of the state of our world is beyond me but there is a serious flaw to his doomsaying. Bush et al are quite proud of helping to foster/create a 'society of life.' The way I see it is the current decreased availability in obtaining abortions, trend towards denying birth control, and laughable excuse of sex education can only lead to one thing. A baby boom. Really if women become baby machines we can only expect an increase in birth rates. All of these extra people~ that is people who will be born beyond the current birth rate~ will be working by '48 which is when the president assumes the number of workers will be so much lower than the number of retirees. If Mel Gibson and Ray Charles can each father more children than live in my neighborhood[keep in mind I have 3 of my own]each than just imagine the workforce if everybody is having children the way those two do/did. Of course the other option is that women will only have sex once in life and men will kill each other to provide an outlet for their sexual frustration. I am not a nymphet but I am fairly certain once in the expected 90 years of life expectancy is rather not enough.
You have been spared the political theorizing courtesy of the fabulously creative Mare who tagged me with the musical MEME that has been floating around knitblog land these past few weeks. Can anybody please tell me what a MEME is? My nerd/geek score was 17, about 16 more than I could have possibley hoped for, and I have no clue. Anyway the MEME goes like this:
1. Total amount of music files on your computer?
2. The CD you last bought is:
3. What is the song you last listened to before reading this message?
4. Write down 5 songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.
5. Who are you going to pass this to? (3 persons) and why?
I have no clue how many music files are on my computer. I suspect it is zero, zip, nada, nil. I think one needs an MP3 player to download and listen to music but I could be illustrating the full extent of my nerdiness. I do listen to Winamp, My Radio, and Real Player. Am I downloading stuff to listen to online radio? I don't think so. I also do not purchase CD's. I tend to listen to the radio in car, occassionally online, and SIRIUS on tv and am not picky about what I am listening to. I like almost all music tho I do have certain favorites. I remember, as a teen, setting my alarm radio to country music sure that the horridness of it all would get me to haul ass outta bed to turn it off. I learned to like country music. Sleep is sleep after all. And Patsy Cline wasn't amongst the horrid ever but the general genre... When I was in college I suffered from an amazing sense of insecurity and remember the horror of having my roomate[the fabled Loretta] invite a very kewl and hunkalicious guy over who looked through my many, many, many albums and making snide comments. Yes I had a ton of albums even tho I now live in a musical void. Everything but the Girl for some reason stands out[and the band she was in before] Sinaid O'Conner[prob mispelling it] and various mainly female artists plus Prince [including his first and second albums which nobody knew about] and other 80's dance stuff. Some punk. My musical tastes were formed by the numerous guys I hung out with most of whom were in bands. This total uncoolness was tempered, in my opinion, by an enduring love of jazz and soul.
For the what five songs well that is easy. There are some musical bits I have owned for decades. In record form when I had a turntable, in tape form when I was a nomad with a tape deck, in CD form when I had a CD player. These must haves are probably more telling than anything else. Aretha -I used to replay RESPECT over and over and over ignoring all other tracks, Otis Redding who I listened to entire tape/record/disk over and over and over,and Alligator Record's Genuine Houserocking Music 2 specifically for Gloria Hardiman's Meet me with your Black Drawers On. I have at no time been without these songs. I also greatly enjoy Squeeze, Elvis Costello and hello! that Sinatra song These Boots were made for Walking and Salt n Peppa's Lets talk about Sex and Allanah Myles Black Velvet. I do enjoy rap~ not the gansta rap but rather hip hop rap. The song that means the most to me is Route 66 and I forget the band that covered it in the 80's early 90's but I drove from Rhode Island to Columbia MO with my friend Loretta with that and Dylan blaring. Oh and Imagine cause really who is more important than Lennon in his later years~ his outlook and politics appeal to the hippy dippy me. Anyway have fun gathering whatever clues into my phyche you can from this and I am passing it on to Liz, Sheila, and Prudence cause I have met them and they can tell me to blow off without hurting my feelings. I *don't* think they have done it yet....
Posted by Elka at 02:49 PM