Musical baton

Of course I still read everyone's blogs even though I've "moved on to a cooler place"! :) Literally - it's the end of June and the high today in Seattle was barely 65.

Anyway, since Jen has passed me the musical baton, here it goes:

Total volume of music files on my computer:
4.12 Gb. I reformatted my harddrive about a year ago and lost 1/3 - 1/2 of all my music files because I backed them up on CD's that were corrupt. Cari was kind enough to recover some of my music from the CD's, but the combination of that and removing Kazaa from my computer has caused a definite decrease in the amount of music on my computer from a year and a half ago.

Last CD I bought:
Well, this might get into some hair-splitting... Just this afternoon I bought "Stop All the World Now" by Howie Day on amazon.com (you know, gotta support the new boss). The most recent CD I bought before that was "American Idiot" by Green Day. I originally bought it for the song that everyone knows - Boulevard of Broken Dreams, but I think my favorite track is now Holiday.

Song playing right now:
Resurrection, by PPK (techno/trance that I got from Goutam)

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
"Melanie" by Toto. Freshman year in college, when everyone was spending more time downloading songs on Napster than studying for all of their tests combined, my roommate Angela searched for her name on Napster, and to all of our surprise, came up with several artists singing about one Angela or another. Not to be outdone, my other roommate Leah and I promptly searched for our names on Napster and both came up with a couple songs - I got this and another song by Weird Al Yankovic. The lyrics to the Weird Al song are much funnier, but I like the beat and the harmonies of the Toto song better.

"Everywhere I Go" by Shawn Mullins. It's just got a good beat and the lyrics are really sweet without being over-the-top cheesy.

"In da Club" by 50 Cent. I should preface this by saying that the only kind of dancing I'm not terrible at is ghetto booty dancing. However, I love dancing whenever I go out to clubs, and this is absolutely, hands-down, my favorite song to dance to.

"Learning to Fly" by Tom Petty. Somehow, this song always conjures up an image of the greatest part of any roadtrip – driving down an open road (in a convertible, preferably), clear head, no cares in the world, leaving all the bad stuff behind and heading for greater places, ready to take on the world. I dunno… I guess the lyrics don’t really say that, but that's what it reminds me of, and I love it.

"When You Say Nothing at All" by Ronan Keating. I can't remember the first time I heard this song, although it may very well have been when I saw Notting Hill, but it's my favorite song to listen to when I'm in a slow, quiet mood. The song didn’t really hit home for me though, until it was played at Katie's memorial service. To me, it describes the perfect relationship: the two of you are perfectly in sync and will stand by each other through anything, making each other happier than anyone else in the world could, and it's all expressed without any words – just a touch and a smile.

Passing the baton to:
Nick, because I can't wait to see what combination of French music and Michael Jackson he comes up with for "favorite songs";

and my little sister Laura, because she needs some motivation to update more often. :)