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That Music Meme

Day 1: Your favourite song - "Despite Dense Weed" by Shriekback
Day 2: A Song that Makes You Cry - Pippin's song from "The Lord of the Rings"
Day 3: A song that makes you dance. - "Daylight" by Matt & Kim
Day 4: Your favorite male singer. - Jeff Lynne, hands down.
Day 5: Your favorite female singer. - Johnette Napolitano
Day 6: Your favorite band. - Shriekback
Day 7: One band/singer you're ashamed to admit you like. - The Backstreet Boys
Day 8: One band/singer whose popularity you will never understand. - Nickelcrap
Day 9: A song that reminds you of an ex. - Celtic Dream by Ronan Hardiman
Day 10: A song that reminds you of your father. - "Somewhere over the Rainbow" by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Day 11: A song that reminds you of your mother. Doris Day - "Que Sera Sera." It was of particular comfort when we visited New York.
Day 12:A song that makes you want to have sex. Pretty much anything by Prince, but "Gett Off" tops the charts in that arena. And the man doesn't age. He's like Barry Andrews...a Vampire rock avatar.
Day 13: A song you sing in the shower. - Oh jeez, I don't sing in the shower, not out loud anyway. Usually, this song comes to mind, though. "Little April Shower" from the movie Bambi
Day 14: A song from the year you were born. The album Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band was released the Summer of 1967.
Day 15: A song you liked in high school. - Electric Light Orchestra "Hold on Tight"
Day 16: The first song in your mp3 folder. - A-Ha "Take on Me"

Day 17: The last song in your mp3 folder.

"Super Tuff" by XTC. One of the few songs written by Barry Andrews that I can honestly say I dislike. He was right to part ways with XTC so he could blossom into the lovely deathflower that was inevitable outside the realm of Andy Partridge's influence.

( more to come )

The Day with Friends

clumsycake joined us this time for what's becoming our annual brouhaha with falkenna, paulpearson23, janalyson, and her daughter Jennifer. This time we met at El Molcajete, a local Mexican restaurant. We traded books and gifts. falkenna gave me this miniature recreation of the Prague astronomical clock. I'm gonna put a battery in it and countdown to 12-21-2012, more than I already am, that is. Paul gifted me with a copy of his Pagan journal, Greenmantle, a Talis Kimberly CD, and a 2011 Magickal Diary and Almanac, published by the same group that will probably publish Paul's book this next year. janalyson had already purchased a copy of The Chalice and wanted me to autograph it. I did so and had an autographed copy for falkenna and clumsycake. Aunt Tudi had a special red pen for paulpearson23 and an angel tree topper for Jennifer. Everyone seemed pleased. Good food and good company tend to have that effect on people. I suggested to them that they try to make it to Brown Mountain before having to go back to England. The lights are more prevalent this time of year and it'd be quite the experience, I think, for Paul especially. They mentioned wanting to go to the mountain that had a shadow of a bear on it at certain times of the day. I'd never heard of this, so now I have some research to do methinks.

All in all, it was certainly a pleasant day. I think I'm gonna go stare at this clock for a little while and try to calm my overactive Beagle from having another tantrum because I left his precious butt alone for more than three hours.