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Melissa Etheridge’s New CD

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I bought her new CD “The Awakening” last week on a whim – I actually purchased the physical CD because we still haven’t had a spare two or three hours to sit down and sort out what the hell is wrong with the terrabyte server after I killed it vacuuming. So our music situation is still in limbo at home, which is the source of endless frustration for me, because we have tons of music, but no way to get at it, and it’s a situation that’s gone on so long that it’s starting to really affect my mood a lot. And later I came to know about Cy Fair Music & Arts: guitar lessons in houston texas that they teach music at affordable price.
My desire to press “pause” on this endless merry-go-round of obligations just to have SOME TIME to work on these sorts of things hasn’t been fulfilled, and now that it’s getting colder and all the stuff we were supposed to do before winter is still waaaaaaayyyyy undone and now clearly won’t be done before winter, I’m starting to stress out again. The yard sale didn’t help much. This started out being a post about a CD and it veered off somewhere else, which is par for the course lately.
ANYWAY – I popped it into player in the car and listened to most of it on the way to work. Some of the songs at the beginning are a bit cheesy, but I still sang along with “message to myself” anyway, because it’s catchy and I can see it being played a lot on the radio. “Threesome” is pretty funny, although (this sounds strange, I know) I think it needs to be even more twangy country than it is. It’s intended to be a comedic country song (which are my favorite kind of country music songs- the absolute best being “I’m going to hire a wino to decorate our home”) but she needed to paint the broad strokes just a little broader on that one. Several songs, notably “I’ve loved you before” really make me think of my sweetheart, which is my favoritest thing to do on the way to work, so this is a great car CD for me. The later songs on the CD I need to listen to again – but they’re more overtly political, which I like, of course.
In all, I’m glad I bought it. Over the years my musical tastes have grown quite a bit away from female folk/rock songwriters, but there’s lots to enjoy about this CD.

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24,000 some songs gone

I took my 200 GB external drive with all of my music on it to CompUSA this weekend to have it put in a new enclosure, because the old one was going bad. I had this happen before to a Maxtor drive – the enclosure doesn’t spin the drive fast enough, apparently, so the disk kept crapping out while transferring music. I considered trying to back up the 120 GB of music on the drive, but I don’t have another drive that big, and I was afraid I’d kill the bad one while copying the music over. We were planning to get a music server soon for our home WAN, so that we could both use the same music library for our multi-platformed (PC and Mac) household, so I didn’t want to invest in a whole new external drive right now, with all the other household expenses.
I know I was taking quite a chance in handing the drive over to teen-aged clerks without having a backup copy – I certainly knew better. They reformatted the drive and wiped all my music from it, along with all the cover art I created for my mix cds.
I’ll have to run the totals from iTunes when I get home, but it was something on the order of 24,000 songs on the drive. Fortunately, most of the important stuff to us is on CD, but trying to figure out about music I bought from iTunes is my biggest concern.
Sigh. We have a lot of re-ripping to do. At least it was only music, though. If it had been my photos or design stuff I’d be bouncing off the ceiling right now.

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Steph Sold Her House Mix

Douglas made me this mix, in celebration of selling my house.
The Creeps – Camile Jones Vs. Fedde Le Grande
She’s My Man – Scissor Sisters
Miracle – Cascada
By The Way – Jenna Drey
Glamourous – Fergie feat. Ludacris
She’s Madonna – Robbie Williams
Love Today – Mika
Take It – Tom Novay and Lima
Girlfriend – Avril Lavigne
Minimal – Pet Shop Boys
Dare Me – Junior Jack
Lil’ Star – Kelis feat. Ceelo
Ruby – Kaiser Chiefs
This Ain’t a Scene, It’s An Arms Race – Fall Out Boy
Read My Mind – The Killers
Standing in The Way of Control – The Gossip
New Shoes – Paolo Nutini
Lost Without U – Robin Thicke
So Not Over You – Simply Red
I Need to Wake Up – Melissa Etheridge

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Kingdom In The Sky

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Kingdom In The Sky
by DaVinci’s Notebook
From the album: The Life and Times of Mike Fanning
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All my life I have been searching for that fabled promised land,
With my sisters and my brothers, we shall walk there hand-in-hand.
Through the trials and tribulations, and the devil’s cruel temptations
I know that we’ll all get there one day!
After years and years of wandering, oh, the kingdom we shall find
and the doors might not be open, but we’ll gather in the line.
And our hearts will swell with pride the day those gates swing open wide
and we take a walk down Main Street, USA!
Oh, that Magic Kingdom in the Sky!
We will all be there together by and by!
We will all drink from the fountain and go riding on Space Mountain
When we reach that Magic Kingdom in the Sky!

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I Am The Very Model Of An Ex-Gay Individual

by Justin, of Gay Christian.net

as Justin points out on his site, “Ex-gay” people admit they have what they call ongoing “same gender attraction” (called SGA in the song) but claim they’re not actually gay. (Never mind that the definition of gay is “being attracted to some one of your own sex.)

I.
I am the very model of an ex-gay individual
I’ve no more gay attractions (okay, maybe a residual)
I go to ex-gay conferences, where folks hold me accountable
They say with Jesus, SGA is never insurmountable
I think of God, not Gaynor, when I hear someone say Gloria
I always stay a block away from local gay emporia
I’ve read 8 books on how to please my wife while I’m caressing her
And probably a dozen more by Dr. Laura Schlessinger
[Chorus:
And probably a dozen more by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
And probably a dozen more by Dr. Laura Schlessinger,
And probably a dozen more by Dr. Laura Schlessing-Schlessinger!]

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The Best of All Possible Worlds – Cate’s CD Club Mix

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The CD mix I’m working on for my friend Cate’s CD Exchange Club. I still need to finish the liner notes, print them all out and slice up the paper to fit the cases, burn the CDs, and put everything together. And I’m considering substituting in a different song from Hogeye Naavy for one song or another. The picture included is a sculpture in Münster, Germany, where Cate lives. Every ten years, Münster holds an art festival in which sculptures are installed throughout the city. The best become permanent parts of the city landscape.

The Best of All Possible Worlds

  1. Best Of All Possible Worlds | The Little Willies | The Little Willies | 3:06
  2. Sister Kate | The Ditty Bops | The Ditty Bops | 2:26
  3. Coin-Operated Boy | The Dresden Dolls | The Dresden Dolls | 4:47
  4. La goualante du pauvre Jean | Édith Piaf | Éternelle | 2:04
  5. Give a Little Whistle | Michelle Shocked | Got No Strings | 2:22
  6. Shoefly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy | Ella Fitzgerald | | 2:38
  7. Organ Grinder’s Swing | Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Fitzgerald: The Early Years, Pt. 1 (1935-1938) | 2:51
  8. Smiley Faces | Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere | 3:05
  9. Ramalama (Bang Bang) | Roisin Murphy | Ruby Blue | 3:36
  10. Steady, As She Goes | The Raconteurs | Steady, As She Goes – Single | 3:36
  11. Ooh La La | Goldfrapp | Supernature | 3:25
  12. Suddenly I See | KT Tunstall | Eye to the Telescope | 3:21
  13. You Are the Light | Jens Lekman | When I Said I Wanted To Be Your Dog | 3:23
  14. Rock & Roll Queen | The Subways | Rock & Roll Queen | 2:52
  15. Unwritten | Natasha Bedingfield | Ice Princess | 4:18
  16. Mary Jane | Rick James | Anthology | 4:57
  17. Foxy Break Beat | Jimmi Hendrix vs. Propellerheads vs. Death in Vegas | DJ Moule | 4:11
  18. Dont Hold Back (Sweet Jane) | R. Kelly Vs. Velvet Underground | Go Home Productions | 4:16
  19. Butterfly | Dance Dance Revolution | Dance Dance Revolution | 2:57
  20. Standing In The Way Of Control | The Gossip | Standing In The Way Of Control | 4:17
  21. Walk Away | Kelly Clarkson | Breakaway | 3:08
  22. Put a Lid On It – Big Brother Remix | Maxwell/Mosher | Maxwell/Mosher | 2:45
  23. Hips Don’t Lie | Shakira ft Wyclef Jean | Oral Fixation Vol. 2 | 3:39
  24. Buttons | Pussycat Dolls / feat Snoop Dogg | PCD | 3:52
  25. Dirty Little Secret | The All American Rejects | Move Along | 3:16
  26. I Write Sins Not Tragedies | Panic! At The Disco | A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out | 3:07
  27. Kate’s Song | The General & Duchess Collins | Calling Earth | 2:38
  28. Molecular Love | The General & Duchess Collins | Calling Earth | 3:19
  29. One Of Us Is Gonna Die Young | The Ark | State Of The Ark | 3:31
  30. Lady Loves Me | Maggie Moore & Yvette Narlock | The L Word – Season 3 | 3:45
  31. Crazy (Live Lounge) | Nelly Furtado | 2006 june mix | 3:25
  32. Promiscuous (Radio Edit) | Nelly Furtado featuring Timbaland | Promiscuous – Single | 3:43
  33. Fish to Fry | The Ditty Bops | Moon Over the Freeway | 3:06
  34. Bye Bye Love | The Ditty Bops | Moon Over the Freeway | 2:34
  35. DJ Teds Techno Tubes | Paul Holcomb | The Bold Headed Broadcast | 3:05
  36. Dear Mr. President | Pink | I’m Not Dead | 4:34
  37. Free To Be… You And Me | New Seekers | Free To Be… You And Me | 3:14
  38. You Don’t Own Me | Lesley Gore | 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Lesley Gore | 2:32
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The Lusty Month of May

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The Lusty Month of May
Julie Andrews
Camelot Soundtrack

The Lusty Month of May, Camelot
The Lusty Month of May, Camelot

Tra la, it’s May, the lusty Month of May
That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray
Tra la, it’s here, that shocking time of year,
when tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear.

It’s May, It’s May, that gorgeous holiday,
when every maiden prays that her lad will be a cad
It’s mad, it’s gay, a libelous display,
Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks,
everyone makes divine mistakes
The Lusty Month of May

Whence this fragrance wafting through the air?
What sweet feelings does it’s scent transmute?
Whence this perfume floating everywhere?
Don’t you know, it’s that dear forbidden fruit.

It’s May, the lusty month of May,
That darling month when everyone throws self-control away.
It’s time to do a wretched thing or two,
and try to make each precious day one you’ll always rue.

It’s May, it’s May, the month of "Yes, you may."
The time for every frivolous whim, proper or im-
It’s wild, it’s gay, a blot in every way,
The birds and bees with all of their vast amorous past,
gaze at the human race aghast
The Lusty Month of May.

Tra la, it’s May, the lusty Month of May
That lovely month when everyone goes blissfully astray
Tra la, it’s here, that shocking time of year,
when tons of wicked little thoughts merrily appear.

It’s May, it’s may, the month of great dismay,
when all the world is brimming with fun, wholesome or un-
It’s mad, it’s gay, It’s gay, a libelous display
Those dreary vows that everyone takes, everyone breaks, everyone makes divine mistakes
The Lusty Month of May

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