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Anticipating Vienna Teng and The Paper Raincoat at The Palace of Fine Arts Theatre.

The stage is set

The Meadow at Woodland Park Zoo filling in ahead of the Marc Cohn/Aimee Mann show tonight.

Concert crowd

I turned on my iPod yesterday at 22:45, turned it off when I finished dressing about 09:15 today. Here’s what played in that time.

Song — Artist, Album

1. Michael Jordan — Five For Fighting, America Town
2. Silent Sea — KT Tunstall, Eye to the Telescope
3. Opportunities (Let’s Make Lots of Money) — Pet Shop Boys, Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
4. Boys of Summer — Don Henley, Building the Perfect Beast
5. After Midnight — Eric Clapton, Crossroads (Disc 2)
6. Wounded — Third Eye Blind, Blue
7. Sway — The Perishers, KMTT New Music Sampler 2005
8. Have You Seen My Love? — Barenaked Ladies, Everything to Everyone
9. Give Me Novocaine — Green Day, American Idiot
10. Dust — Steve Winwood, Arc of a Diver
11. G’day — Peter Best, Crocodile Dundee
12. Elysium — Elysia, The Celtic Circle (Disc 2)
13. Shattered — The Cranberries, Bury the Hatchet
14. As Long As It Matters — Gin Blossoms, Congratulations... I’m Sorry
15. Making Love Out of Nothing at All — Air Supply, Billboard Top Hits: 1983
16. Forget Me Nots — Kate MacLeod and the Pancakes, Breakfast
17. La La Means I Love You — The Delfonics, Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 12
18. I Never Loved You Anyway — The Corrs, The Best of The Corrs
19. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) — Diana Krall, When I Look in Your Eyes
20. Deep Inside of You — Third Eye Blind, Blue
21. Windows — Handful of Luvin’, Land of Giants
22. Angel — Matt Nathanson, Beneath These Fireworks
23. Help Is On the Way — The Animators, Home by Now
24. Darkness — Third Eye Blind, Blue
25. Happiness Runs — Donovan, Happiness Runs - Single
26. Tales of Brave Ulysses — Cream, Crossroads (Disc 1)
27. Love Is Blindness — U2, Achtung Baby
28. Two Worlds Reprise — Phil Collins, Mark Mancina, Tarzan
29. If I Ever Lose My Faith in You — Sting, Ten Summoner’s Tales
30. Uphill Battle — Sarah McLachlan, Touch
31. Lonesome Pine — Carbon Leaf, Echo Echo
32. Rearrange — The Animators, Home by Now
33. Half a Million Dollars (And a Bottle of Red Wine) — Ian MacFeron Band, KMTT New Music Sampler 2005
34. Whatsername — Green Day, American Idiot
35. Windsong — John Denver, The Best of John Denver
36. Come Fly with Me — Frank Sinatra, All the Best (Disc 1)
37. Breathless — The Corrs, The Best of the Corrs
38. Over the Rainbow — Ray Charles, Johnny Mathis, Genius Loves Company
39. The Jerk — Larks, Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 2
40. Stop This World — Diana Krall, The Girl in the Other Room
41. I Won’t Tell — The Animators, How We Fight
42. Traces — Classics IV, Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 11
43. Eye in the Sky — The Alan Parsons Project, Billboard Top Hits: 1982
44. I Love to Boogie — T-Rex, Billy Elliot
45. If This Is the End — Faith Hill, Cry
46. Planxty Bunting — The Chieftains, The Celtic Harp
47. With You — Linkin Park, Hybrid Theory
48. Wisemen — James Blunt, James Blunt
49. Invisible Sun — The Police, Every Breath You Take: The Classics
50. Sign of the Rainbow — Robbie Robertson, Storyville
51. Bank Job — Barenaked Ladies, Barenaked Ladies Are Me
52. Bluer — Over the Rhine, Drunkard’s Prayer
53. F.O.D. — Green Day, Dookie
54. Whole World Round — Kate MacLeod and the Pancakes, Breakfast
55. Frim Fram Sauce — Diana Krall, All for You: A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio
56. Rest for the Weary — Marc Cohn, The Very Best of Marc Cohn
57. Since I Fell for You — Lenny Welch, Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 12
58. Sparkle — Live, The Distance to Here
59. Become You — Indigo Girls, Become You
60. New Homeland — Kate MacLeod, Kat Eggleston, Drawn From the Well
61. Up Where We Belong — Jennifer Warnes, Joe Cocker, Billboard Top Hits: 1982
62. Spoon — Dave Matthews Band, Before These Crowded Streets
63. Duke of Earl — Gene Chandler, Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 6
64. Landed — Ben Folds, KMTT New Music Sampler 2005
65. Next Time — Barenaked Ladies, Everything to Everyone
66. Under the Wire — Carbon Leaf, Love, Loss, Hope, Repeat
67. Fee Fi Fo — The Cranberries, Bury the Hatchet
68. Bandit — The Senate, Live at Solstice
69. Splish Splash — Bobby Darin, Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 8
70. Microdancing — Babasónicos, Mucho
71. Say About Love [Live] — The BoDeans, Best of The BoDeans: Slash & Burn
72. Always on My Mind — Pet Shop Boys, Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
73. The Hounds of Winter — Sting, All This Time
74. Flight to Salt Lake — Eric Allaman, Latter Days
75. Ordinary Day — Grey Eye Glances, If I Was
76. Aluminum — Barenaked Ladies, Everything to Everyone
77. I Only Have Eyes for You — The Flamingos, Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 13
78. Learnin’ the Blues — Frank Sinatra, All the Best (Disc 1)
79. The Distance — Live, The Distance to Here
80. De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da — The Police, Every Breath You Take: The Classics
81. Sometimes It Hurts — Stabbing Westward, Darkest Days
82. Dan Y Dwr — Enya, The Celts
83. Soul and Inspiration — The Righteous Brothers, Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 11
84. Crazy Beautiful — Hanson, Underneath
85. Mists of Down Below — The Duhks, KMTT New Music Sampler 2005
86. Torn to Tattered — Carbon Leaf, Echo Echo
87. Life in a Northern Town — Dream Academy, Dream Academy
88. Make Someone Happy — Jimmy Durante, Sleepless in Seattle
89. Keep Yourself Alive — Queen, Classic Queen
90. Dreams — The Cranberries, You’ve Got Mail
91. Machine Messiah — Archetribe, Earthtones
92. Acrobat — U2, Achtung Baby
93. Different — New London Fire, I Sing the Body Holographic
94. My Unclaimed Love — Kate MacLeod, Feel the Earth Spin
95. Virginia — Gin Blossoms, Congratulations... I’m Sorry
96. High — James Blunt, James Blunt
97. Heal Over — KT Tunstall, Eye to the Telescope
98. Pulling Teeth — Green Day, Dookie
99. The Girl in the Other Room — Diana Krall, The Girl in the Other Room
100. My Car — Gin Blossoms, Congratulations... I’m Sorry
101. (Don’t Go Back To) Rockville — R.E.M., Eponymous
102. Keep It Loose, Keep It Tight — Amos Lee, KMTT New Music Sampler 2005
103. Untitled 1, Mix 2 — Ottmar Liebert, From Lava (?)
104. Come Away with Me — Norah Jones, Come Away With Me
105. N’Eus Forzh... — Denez Prigent, Sarac’H
106. Winter’s Frost — Paul Spaeth, The Lost Collection
107. To Breathe — New London Fire, I Sing the Body Holographic
108. Dancin’ in the Wind — Hanson, Underneath
109. So. Central Rain — R.E.M., Eponymous
110. Cantus Inaequalis — Karl Jenkins, Adiemus 1: Songs of Sanctuary
111. Ain’t Too Proud to Beg — The Temptations, The Big Chill
112. A Thousand Years — Sting, All This Time
113. If That’s What it Takes — Celine Dion, Falling Into You
114. The Boy From New York City — The Ad Libs, Oldies But Goodies: Vol. 6
115. Goodbye — The Sundays, Blind
116. Nice ’n Easy — Michael Bublé, Come Fly With Me
117. How Peculiar (Reprise) — Robbie Williams, Escapology (U.S. release)
118. Bring the Peace — Mary McLaughlin, Celtic Voices: Women of Song
119. Ramblin’ on My Mind — John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, Crossroads (Disc 1)
120. Turn of the Century — Annie Haslam, Steve Howe, The Celtic Circle (Disc 2)
121. Cantus Iteratus — Karl Jenkins, Adiemus 1: Songs of Sanctuary
122. Vox (Extended Version) — Sarah McLachlan, Touch
123. Just My Imagination — The Cranberries, Bury the Hatchet
124. Sweetest Thing — U2, Best of 1980-1990
125. Mountains of Burma — Midnight Oil, Blue Sky Mining
126. If — Bread, Anthology
127. Sunday Bloody Sunday — U2, Best of 1980-1990
128. Too Much — Dave Matthews Band, Crash
129. How Are Ya Fixed for Love? — Frank Sinatra, All the Best (Disc 2)
130. Superman — Five For Fighting, America Town
131. Out Of The Shadows — Sarah McLachlan, Touch
132. The Fall — Electric Light Orchestra, Xanadu
133. Old Friends — Simon & Garfunkel, Bookends
134. Upside Down — Barenaked Ladies, Everything to Everyone
135. Pilgrim — Enya, A Day Without Rain
136. Suspended in Time — Olivia Newton-John, Xanadu
137. Y.M.C.A. — The Village People, Billboard Top Hits: 1979
138. Honey, I’m Home — Shania Twain, Come on Over
139. You Saw His Eyes — Mary McLaughlin, Celtic Voices: Women of Song
140. Last Payday — Harry Connick, Jr., Blue Light Red Light
141. Balmy Song — Kate MacLeod and the Pancakes, Breakfast
142. Iris — Goo Goo Dolls, City of Angels
143. Spark — Over the Rhine, Drunkard’s Prayer
144. Haunting Me — Stabbing Westward, Darkest Days
145. Who Will Guard the Door — Over the Rhine, Drunkard’s Prayer
146. Keening of the Three Marys — William Coulter, The Celtic Circle (Disc 1)
147. Zoo Station — U2, Achtung Baby
148. The One That You Love — Air Supply, Billboard Top Hits: 1981
149. The Dolphin’s Cry — Live, The Distance to Here
150. Crossroads — Cream, Crossroads (Disc 2)
151. Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You) — Pet Shop Boys, Discography: The Complete Singles Collection
152. Silver Thunderbird — Marc Cohn, Marc Cohn
153. Take Me Home, Country Roads — John Denver, The Best of John Denver
154. Be My Hero — October Project, October Project
155. Only Time — Enya, A Day Without Rain
156. Answer — Sarah McLachlan, Afterglow
157. On Your Way — Eastmountainsouth, Eastmountainsouth

* Yet Another Long List Of Don’s Music, And Probably No One Cares

According to Last.fm, though this doesn’t take into account my iPod listenings (I haven’t found a reliable way to ensure iPod play counts are reflected in Last.fm stats):

1. Providence — The Fat Lady Sings
2. Here’s Where the Story Ends — The Sundays
3. What About Everything — Carbon Leaf
4. Be Still — The Fat Lady Sings
5. Gravy Train — The Fat Lady Sings
6. Lonely Stranger — Eric Clapton
7. The Boxer — Carbon Leaf
8. Summertime — The Sundays
9. How You’ve Grown — 10,000 Maniacs
10. The Atheist Christmas Carol — Vienna Teng
11. Songbirg — Fleetwood Mac
12. Arc of a Diver — Steve Winwood
13. Signe — Eric Clapton
14. Twist — The Fat Lady Sings
15. Never Going Back Again — Fleetwood Mac
16. Arclight — The Fat Lady Sings

Sixteen songs in my Top 10 Songs list because of ties. A list in the style of TopFive.com’s Top 10 lists. ;-)

Answering:

What are your top 10 most-played songs currently?

I installed iTunes on my PC at work so I could listen to a couple gigs of my own music library when I don’t have my iPod with me.

iTunes includes a music-sharing feature that sweeps the local network and shows you the libraries of any other iTunes users who

1. have allowed their libraries (or subsets of libraries) to be shared, and
2. have left iTunes running.

Right now there are two shared libraries available to me. One is comprised almost entirely of TV shows and video clips, 297 items totaling five days’ playing time and 50GB; the other is all music, 4700 items and change totaling more than 15 days’ playing time and nearly 22GB.

I of course fired up a connection to the second library and in my desire for something interesting to play (I did indeed forget my iPod tonight), I decided to use iTunes’ genre-browsing function.

Some of the genres this person has, spelling and punctuation exactly as they appear in the library:

• 80’s
• Acid
• Acid Jazz/Trip Hop
• Bastard Pop
• Death Metal
• default
• genre
• Gospel
• MSTRKRFT
• Nerdcore Geeksta
• Proto-Punk
• Sermons
• Unclassifiable
• Unknown
• Weddings and funerals

I’m intrigued by Nerdcore Geeksta but the one song classified under that genre doesn’t play, counts out about 3 seconds and then skips. I’m disappointed.

I also like the genre genre. Very direct, obvious, no-holds-barred classification there. There are two songs listed under that genre (in Song - Artist, Album format):

1. SONG NAME 1 - ARTIST, ALBMNAME
2. SONG NAME 2 - ARTIST, ALBMNAME

The Weddings and funerals genre contains two tracks by Beirut from their 2006 release Gulag Orkestar. They do not, in fact, sound appropriately dirge-y for the genre naming. They sound more like Tiny Tim with better production values, which is annoying because so far I’m liking them, and I hate Tiny Tim’s “music.”

What’s the last thing you usually do or think about before you fall asleep?

As the season changes and it gets cooler at night, often the last specific action I take is to move one or both cats off my person so I can get comfortable under the blankets. Then I just drift into reverie with whatever random thoughts
firing through my brain.

Sometimes I have the stereo on, and I often sing quietly to myself if a particularly good song comes on.

I also do the death-twitch-from-hell thing occasionally, when I’m just about dozed off and the sensation of falling becomes absurdly tangible.

What's your musical horoscope?  (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)  Inspired by Stephanie.

1. Do What You Have to Do — Sarah McLachlan
2. Rapid Hope Loss — Dashboard Confessional
3. Oh Sheila — Ready for the World
4. Love & Affection — Donna Lewis
5. Will of the Wind (Reprise) — Kenny Loggins
6. Neptune, the Mystic — Gustav Holst
7. Guarani — Ennio Morricone
8. Morning — Mannheim Steamroller
9. Negative Creep — Nirvana
10. We’ve Got It Goin’ On — Backstreet Boys

What’s up?

I just got out of the shower and I’m now enjoying a cup of coffee while the stereo blasts out some of my favorite songs and the washing machine cranks through my usual week-and-a-half-or-so load of colored shirts.

Six hours of music (and maybe a bit of drinkin’) about to start.

Marymoor Park

Audience members milling around before Vienna Teng takes the stage at 22:00.

Chop Suey on Capitol Hill