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If music be the food of love, is it Hungarian food?
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Marissa has written a lovely entry about Hungarian food, and now I am hungry.
The new version of iTunes that I downloaded a month or so ago makes an automatically generated playlist of the top 25 most-played songs in your song library. Currently the Top 10 are:
I suppose that's a fair representation of my musical tastes, though there really ought to be some Soundgarden in there, seeing as how Soundgarden is probably my favorite band in the world and all. A couple of other oddities:
"Gypsy Road" served Daniel as some kind of talismanic song during some particularly tricky bit of novel revision that he was doing on my laptop. He must have played it an ungodly number of times, because it hasn't budged from the number 1 spot since. I like the song, but it probably doesn't belong in my top 10.
About half of the songs in that top 10 are on a mix CD/playlist of love songs that I made for Daniel before I went to Clarion. I burned the songs to CD and gave them to Daniel, and took the laptop with the playlist with me to Seattle. The idea was that we could listen to the songs and think of each other. It worked. It was also, I guess, a good list of songs, since we've both kept playing them on this computer since.
Readers might be surprised to learn that Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" is one of those love songs. In fact, it comes perilously close to being "our song." On something like our second or third date, I made some offhand reference to some Led Zeppelin song, and when I discovered that Daniel didn't know it, I dragged him back to my place and played him my entire CD collection. Which was about half a dozen CD's at the time, but still.
Readers will probably also be surprised to learn that another lead contender for "our song" is Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant." This all made picking the music for our wedding really interesting. The band leader is asking me, "So, are they any songs that have a special meaning for you two?" And I'm thinking, "Yeah, but I want my mother to still be speaking to me once the reception is over, so I don't think you can play any of them."
Besides, asking a typical wedding band to grind its way through "Houses of the Holy" would have been cruel and unusual punishment for musicians and listeners alike.
The new version of iTunes that I downloaded a month or so ago makes an automatically generated playlist of the top 25 most-played songs in your song library. Currently the Top 10 are:
- Gypsy Road by Cinderella
- If I Had A $1,000,000 by Barenaked Ladies
- Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix
- If That's Your Boyfriend (He Wasn't Last Night) by Me'Shell NdegeOcello
- Divine Thing by the Soup Dragons
- I Am The Highway by Audioslave
- Metropolis by The Church
- Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin
- Hungry As the Hunter by The Mission UK
- 60 Miles an Hour by New Order
I suppose that's a fair representation of my musical tastes, though there really ought to be some Soundgarden in there, seeing as how Soundgarden is probably my favorite band in the world and all. A couple of other oddities:
"Gypsy Road" served Daniel as some kind of talismanic song during some particularly tricky bit of novel revision that he was doing on my laptop. He must have played it an ungodly number of times, because it hasn't budged from the number 1 spot since. I like the song, but it probably doesn't belong in my top 10.
About half of the songs in that top 10 are on a mix CD/playlist of love songs that I made for Daniel before I went to Clarion. I burned the songs to CD and gave them to Daniel, and took the laptop with the playlist with me to Seattle. The idea was that we could listen to the songs and think of each other. It worked. It was also, I guess, a good list of songs, since we've both kept playing them on this computer since.
Readers might be surprised to learn that Led Zeppelin's "Houses of the Holy" is one of those love songs. In fact, it comes perilously close to being "our song." On something like our second or third date, I made some offhand reference to some Led Zeppelin song, and when I discovered that Daniel didn't know it, I dragged him back to my place and played him my entire CD collection. Which was about half a dozen CD's at the time, but still.
Readers will probably also be surprised to learn that another lead contender for "our song" is Arlo Guthrie's "Alice's Restaurant." This all made picking the music for our wedding really interesting. The band leader is asking me, "So, are they any songs that have a special meaning for you two?" And I'm thinking, "Yeah, but I want my mother to still be speaking to me once the reception is over, so I don't think you can play any of them."
Besides, asking a typical wedding band to grind its way through "Houses of the Holy" would have been cruel and unusual punishment for musicians and listeners alike.
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