The Musical Baton

Judi passed the baton along on this blogging relay, and I’m “it.” I don’t mind getting these prompts, generally, but this one really makes me think what a low priority music has been in my life lately. Odd, considering that as a teen I dreamed of becoming a musician.


Total size of music files on my computer:

3.37 GB, though very few are mine. Most are my husband’s; we definitely do not share the same taste in music. I’d transferred them to our other PC, and when the hard disk in that one crashed he nearly cried over all of that music vanishing into thin bits and bytes. He didn’t know I still had it. Now it’s safe on MP3 CD’s.

The last CD bought was:

Very tough question, because I can’t remember. Since Judi says downloaded CD’s count too, I’ll have to say it’s the soundtrack to “O Brother Where Art Thou.” I love that movie, and the music too.

I think the last “real” CD I bought was Tom Petty’s Wildflowers, a few years ago. My nine-year-old daughter loves it. I almost bought a Rush Greatest Hits CD today in Wal-Mart while waiting for an oil change, but I decided to download my own compilation instead.

Song playing right now in iTunes:

I do not have an iPod. I don’t have an MP3 player, either. My husband has a Memorex MP3 player; I gave it to him for Christmas and he loves it. But if you do not have an iPod, all you can do in iTunes is listen, though that’s not a bad thing in itself. We found that out when we tried to use those Pepsi bottle cap codes.

I do listen to Netscape Radio sometimes, but my PC speakers aren’t very good and I’m better off just turning on the TV with a cable music channel, or popping a CD into the DVD player. But I’m one of those weirdos that focus on work better when it’s quiet, so I usually only listen to music in the car or when I’m doing something mindless like data entry for record keeping or stuffing envelopes for marketing myself.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or mean a lot to me:

I tend to pick fairly obscure favorites for anything. Some are my favorites just because I like the way they sound. Others have messages or sentimental value. And just because I like a song doesn’t mean I’d listen to the whole album, know what I mean? Well, except for Rush.

• Trees (Rush)
• The Rain Song (Led Zeppelin)
• Just The Way You Are (Billy Joel)
• You’ve Got A Friend (James Taylor)
• Man of Constant Sorrow (lots of artists, most recently Dan Tyminski on O Brother Where Art Thou Soundtrack)

Five people to whom I’m passing the baton

Nope…I don’t know five people who blog. I’ll pass it on to Shelley Haggert, okay?