we chose rejoice

...of my 50 favorite songs (at the moment).  In case this isn't any indicator, it's been an obnoxiously boring day.

1.  Pavement - Here
2.  Modest Mouse - Styrofoam Boots/ It's All Nice on Ice, Alright
3.  the Misfits - Where Eagles Dare
4.  Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - Toby, Take a Bow
5.  Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
6.  Beck - Modern Guilt
7.  Jeffrey Lewis - Williamsburg Will Oldham Horror
8.  Fugazi - Epic Problem
9.  Builders & Butchers - Red Hands
10.  ... And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Stand in Silence
11.  David Bowie - Sound and Vision
12.  Foo Fighters - X-Static
13.  Heatmiser - See You Later
15.  Frank Black - Sir Rockaby
16.  DeVotchka - Transliterator
17.  Beatles - No Reply
18.  Fugazi - Ex Spectator
19.  Kimya Dawson - Parade
20.  Xiu Xiu - I Do What I Want When I Want
21.  R.E.M. - Let Me In
22.  Joy Division - Warsaw
23.  the Blow - True Affection
24.  Xiu Xiu - Under Preasure (Queen Cover)
25.  Soundgarden - Searching with my Good Eye Closed
26.  Cat Power - Maybe Not
27.  the Roots - Rising Down
28.  DeVotchka - Queen of the Surface Streets
29.  the Beatles - I Want You (She's So Heavy)
30.  Talking Heads - I Want to Live
31.  the Eels - That's Not Really Funny
32.  Elliott Smith - Let's Turn the Record Over
33.  the Smiths - Heavens Knows I'm Miserable Now
34.  Pixies - I Bleed
35.  Frank Black - Headache
36.  Bob Dylan - Visions of Johanna
37.  Guided by Voices - Game of Pricks
38.  Chris Bell - I am the Cosmos
40.  the Kinks - Sunny Afternoon
41.  Of Montreal  - Suffer for Fashion, Sink the Seine, Cato as a Pun (these are all tracked so that I have to listen to them as one)
42.  Sebadoh - Flame
43.  Smashing Pumpkins - Lucky 13
44.  Elliott Smith - Fear City
45.  David Bowie - Across the Universe
46.  Alice in Chains - Frogs
47.  Smashing Pumpkins - Transformer
48.  Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - I Love Creedance
49.  the Kinks - Death of a Clown 
50.  the Replacements - skyway


Looking at this list, I can't help but see that most of my favorites are really songs that I've know for awhile now.  That's kind of depressing. 

 

Thanks to Amanda for letting me know on Facebook, today (June 2nd, for another hour here in CO) is the anniversary of the Smashing Pumpkins album Adore.  This is my favorite album from my favorite band (old Pumpkins, not new Pumpkins).  This, for me, was their last really great album  It's not their most cohesive album, nor is it their most eclectic, but it is their most ambitious.  Really, it's the emotional attachment that does it.  I've had this record since I was high school, and it's been there for me on some many countless days.  It's like a friend that I can see all the faults of, but still love insanely.  I can't really say anymore, because I'm pretty much totally biased. 

I am not a vegetarian so you can tell me how much you love meat, and that you could never stop eating it.  I don't advertise that I don't consume dead animal flesh, but I can't help that it comes up in conversation on occasion.  When it does, don't talk about eating the muscles of some dead cow.  Don't talk about how delicious it is.  I don't want to hear about it.  It's not cute.  You are not being funny or even remotely original.  Nearly everyone does the same goddamn thing.  

As most of my friends can attest to, I am more than capable of taking a joke.  We joke all the time about my various flaws and shortcomings.  However, some people have convictions which they hold close to their hearts.  It's common decency to not attack those convictions unless otherwise provoked.  I am not trying to convert anyone, so I can't imagine what I do to provoke such behavior.  If you ask me about my diet and why I choose it, then I might tell you because you just fucking asked.  That isn't an invitation to tell me about how you love eating a pig that was probably more intelligent than your dog.  I don't care what you put into your body, whether it be pork, chicken, alcohol, LSD, or drain cleaner.  Although, chances are I don't like you, so let me go ahead and suggest the drain cleaner. 

...cause these are good for when you are bored, and Texas is boring.  But I should be home tomorrow night! yay!

Meme #1:
1. Name:
2. Birthday:
3. Where do you live:
4: What are you studying/What are you working as:
5. What makes you happy:
6. What are you listening to now/have listened to last:
7. What is particularly good/bad about my LJ:
8. An interesting fact about you:
9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment:
10. Favourite place to be:
11. Favourite lyric:
12. Best time of the year:
13. Weirdest food you like:

Meme #2:
RECOMMEND
1. A film:
2. A book:
3. A song:
4: A band:

Meme #3:
1. One thing you like about me:
2. Two things you like about yourself:
3. Put this in your lj so I can tell you what I think of you.

 In case none of you were aware, I am in love with Carie Brownstien.  One day Sleater-Kinney will get back together and I'll have a chance to see her high kicks while she rocks out to "I Wanna Be Yr Joey Ramone".  Until that day, I'll have to make do with blog entries and these random Thunderant videos (don't know how I feel about them, Fred Armisen is getting a little too close for my taste). 

In the meantime, everybody tell George to move to CO.  And while you are at it, why don't you move out there too.  It could be like a big Bavarian Exodus.