Kim and I have gotten a few iTunes gift cards through various promotions, and after about half a year of occasional purchases, I've finally gone through my first $25 on what seems an odd mix of tunes -- a mix that I'm sure says something important about me, but I'm not at all sure what. If you figure it out, let me know.
From that gift card, $10 was spent on one album: Arsis Handbell Ensemble's "Awake, My Heart!," which is both the best handbell album I've ever heard and otherwise unavailable in America. The other $15 were spent on 15 singles:
* "The Avalanche," Sufjan Stevens * "Brothers on a Hotel Bed," Death Cab for Cutie * "Everything In Its Right Place," Christopher O'Reily (piano Radiohead cover) * "I Don't Know What Else to Do," Aloha * "King of the Road," Roger Miller * "Mr. Blue Sky," Electric Light Orchestra * "Missing Summer," Greater California * "Never Knew," The Rocket Summer * "Rhapsody in Blue," Columbia Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Bernstein * "Señorita," Justin Timberlake * "Silent All These Years," Tori Amos * "Someone in a Tree," from the musical Pacific Overtures * "Strange Fruit," Billie Holiday * "Trip to Little Big Horn," Marty Stuart * "Who Are Parents?," Danielson Familie
Of course, I could be wrong about the strangeness of this list -- maybe most Justin Timberlake fans also like Roger Miller, ELO, Stephen Sondheim, and the Danielsons.
--- Also, Benji has now climbed an entire flight of stairs. Twice.
i sincerely do not know what you are doing here. are you lost? were you
looking for your delicate calico cat, and did you follow her up two flights of stairs
to this room? she is not here. she was here, yes. we gave her a warm bowl of milk, we talked with her about campaign finance reform for a time, and then she bid us good day. i believe she was
going to the post office two blocks down, but i don't quite recall.
for surely you did
not find your way from prinsiana, the least traveled site on
the internet. if you did, though, perhaps you are looking for humor. perhaps you are looking for profundity. perhaps you are looking for answers.
i'm sorry, but you shall go naught-for-three.
