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23 December 2007
What music are you listening to right now? →[More:]Right now, as I type this:
I'm not listening to anything now. The last music I listened to was the Dion 'N' Little Kings CD I bought the other day. On Sunday Morning they just had footage of James Taylor and Carole King doing a benefit show together. Taylor's OK but Carole stands head and shoulders above him, if only because she wrote 'The Locomotion' and 'Dedicated To The One I Love.'
My best friend bought me Five Leaves Left for Crimbo, so I listened to all of that this morning. Colossal. I love it (heard it before but never owned a proper copy).
He knows me really well, this guy. I gave him the new Neil Young.
Now, my wife is listening to Pandora again and I have no idea who's on.
I've moved on to the Zambonis, America's Greatest Hockey Rock Band (the lead singer and I share a birthplace). Even if you don't like hockey, these guys are a hoot. Check 'em out. Nice guys, too.
I just watched CBS Sunday Morning and saw James and Carole, too. Now I am watching Mike Huckabee on Face the Nation. No music on (the chattering class is too busy chattering). Next time I turn on music, it iwll be either Ella's Swinging Christmas, or Sarah Maclachlan's (sp?) Wintersong. It's Christmas time, dammit!
I've been listening to Internet radio for the past few days. Right now, I'm listening to EBU Christmas Around Europe concerts on BBC Radio 3 (originally broadcast a week ago). It's mostly classical music, with some folk and jazz.
When I Take My Sugar to Tea by Leon Redbone. I'm collecting songs about tea. I just heard Green Lantern by Al Hirt (the version on the Kill Bill soundtrack) - I effing love that song.
My parents are listening to 24-7 Christmas-song radio. I can't say it's a bad thing, really. When I get in the car soon I'm going to snag my favorite selection from their Christmas CDs, the Chieftains' Bells of Dublin. It's a hippity hoppity Irish Christmas craic with cameos from Elvis Costello, Sting, Roger Daltrey, and Nanci Griffith. Love it.
Boyfriend is playing a video game with some music that sounds like The Cure's 'A Forest'. It was making me kind of sad, until jonmc gave me a bloody 'Guantanamera' earworm. Ta muchly, jon. I may have to hurt you severely through the computer in a few hours.
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