The Spoils

about 10 days ago, cathi and i were engaged in a little wager ... well she paid up.  look what she sent me...she said she would...and i didn't believe her.

STEELER FUN FUR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ha!  i'm only kidding.  i'll show you what she sent later on when i'm not quite so lazy and feel up to taking a picture.

cathi also tagged me.  thank god for that because i was having flashbacks from 7th grade (oh please cool girls... pick me....).  anyway, cathi was hoping for some fun french music.  i do have some old patrick bruel, julien clerc,  but other than that i haven't listened or paid attention to what those crazy french kids are listening to in years.

Total amount of music files on your computer:    Approximately 1.5GB   mostly what i nabbed on napster.  yeah, i know that's stealing but i really did end up buying more CDs, especially of artists that i wouldn't have normally gone for.  so there metallica.  happy?  i might have bought some of your music...but now forget it.  never going to happen.

The last CD you bought was:  Beyond the Sea -- the soundtrack from the movie of the same name starring kevin spacey.  kevin spacey sings all of music in this movie too.  and sounds great.

What is the song you last listened to before reading this message? Mack the Knife from Beyond the Sea, while cruising home in the mini.   this retro swinging stuff sounds really great in the mini, and i can't help but dance.  yeah, i dance in my car, don't you?  i listen to a lot of music from the 60's and 70's in this car.  it seems to fit. 

The 5 songs you often listen to or mean a lot to you:  the songs i'm going to list aren't necessarily ones that i listen to a lot, but they are ones that take me to  particular time and/or place when i hear them.

1.  Super Freak by Rick James -- fall of my freshman year ... i was young, vulnerable, and scared shitless.  i bonded with the girls on my floor to this song.  MC Hammer can't touch this.

2.  West End Girls by the Pet Shop Boys -- i don't particularly care for this song but whenever i hear it i'm taken right back to the spring of 1986 when i moved to boston.  i spent several weeks looking for a permanent place to live and spent a lot of time hoofing it through JP with this song playing on my walkman.  it got a  lot of radio air play that spring.

3.  Piano Man by Billy Joel -- i dare anyone not to start swaying to and fro when you hear this song.

4.  Let's Groove Tonight by Earth Wind and Fire -- i love dancing to this song.  that's my reason for putting this song on the list. 

5. Pride and Joy by Stevie Ray Vaughn - when j and i were dating, he would quote lines from this song to me.  we danced our last dance at our wedding to this song.    i do not remember what we danced to for our first song.  i had asked the dj to pick something from frank sinatra.

Yeah, I love my baby, heart and soul
Love like ours won't never grow old
She's my sweet little thing
She's my pride and joy
She's my sweet little baby, I'm her little lover boy

Who are you going to pass this stick to, and why?  I'm going international...

anna -- because maybe she's got an "in" on what those crazy french kids are listening to these days.

kim -- because maybe she's got an "in" on what those crazy canadian kids are listening to these days (she's got a new issue of crochetme up by the way, check it out).

and more locally ...

elisa -- i can't tell if you've been tagged ... so if you have already, then you don't have to do it again.  well you don't really have to do it at all....

ooh and amy from seattle.  just because i like her blog and she's new around here (and she drives a mini too)..

and anyone else who wants to play ... just throw me a comment ...