Today's Shuffle: 02/09/05


It's an all writing day, so music is a definite background requirement

I've got a lot of writing to do today:

Many, many blog posts...wraps ups still to do on NewComm Forum, on Mobile Monday; reviews of a book I read and a play I saw; plus just the usual backlog of bookmarks of interesting site/posts I want to blog about, both here, and at my Worker Bees blog.

Outside the blogging? Well, my next Silicon Veggie column deadline is coming up; I have a bunch of search engine ads to place for a cool new show coming to SF next month; I need to create, of all things, a Trash Rules & Guidelines for posting by my complex's dumpster!

It's going to be many hours straight just sitting here at the computer reading and writing. So, the volume is down pretty low, but the music is a necessary accompaniment to a long day of text!

Here's today's first 10 songs in the Party Shuffle:

Terrible Vision by Rhett Miller
Say It's All Mine by Moby
I Want It All by Eurythmics
Hands Down by Dashboard Confessional
Ten Million Years by Black Lab
Everything In Its Right Place by Radiohead
Godspeed (Sweet Dreams) by Dixie Chicks
Lonesome Tears by Beck
Living by Moby
You Were Always On My Mind by Fantasia

Two songs by Moby, both from his Animal Rights CD, which is my least favorite of his CDs, but I like it for the title :) Speaking of an artist's beliefs helping you like them, or at least support their work...I only ought the Dixie Chicks CD after the dust-up caused by their anti-Bush comment. I wanted to show that while part of the country might boycott them for it, others would become first-time buyers because of it. And I even ended up liking the CD!

BTW: the last song is the one Fantasia performed last year that really made me certain she not only would win, but would deserve to. Up until that point in the competition she had been singing funky uptempo songs...and she was clearly kick-ass at that.

But she stood there in an elegant black gown and sang this country classic like the ultimate ballad. Simply, truthfully. I knew then that she had the versatility and emotional honesty in her singing to win, and to be a star.

Posted: Wed - February 9, 2005 at 03:04 PM       EmailFeedback

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