Darth Drabek

I have about 200 albums archived on my hard drive in mp3 format, and a 5,000 song "General Stacks" section of my music library. I just don't see the need to take all that with me everywhere. If I am going on a long road trip, I'll burn an mp3 CD to play in the car; you can fit 10-15 albums on one of those depending on the song quality. For just walking around or going to the gym 128 MB is enough for me.

I've been using a 128 MB Creative MuVo Nomad for a few years now. It's given me a little trouble, but reformatting it has always straightened it out so far (knock, knock). It doesn't have a screen, but I like it because it's small and cheap ($50 American two years ago). It's basically a drag and drop USB drive with a headphone jack. Plus, I get a kick out of how it randomly orders the songs that are added to it. It was a "shuffle" before shuffles were cool!

Ted Leo + the Pharmacists - Me and Mia

Bob Dylan - Love Minus Zero/No Limit This song has two of my absolute favorite Dylan stanzas in it: My love she speaks like silence, Without ideals or violence, She doesn't have to say she's faithful, Yet she's true, like ice, like fire. People carry roses, Make promises by the hours, My love she laughs like the flowers, Valentines can't buy her. In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, Read books, repeat quotations, Draw conclusions on the wall. Some speak of the future, My love she speaks softly, She knows there's no success like failure And that failure's no success at all.

Old 97s - Jagged

Today I was listening to a CD I pulled out of a Golden Grahams box in 1996. It was like taking a time machine back to the good old days when alternative rock stations were still alive and kicking in small markets. The only artists on there I had heard of were Matthew Sweet, Edwyn Collins and Blessed Union of Souls (oh yeah!). Still there were some really cool songs on the track listing from bands called The Corrs, Once Blue and Velocity Girl too. That CD is still the best thing I've ever pulled out of a cereal box. Velocity Girl - Same Old City

Rocket from the Crypt - Break It Up "Old man, young boy, you're hangin with another guy I'm the fool, I'll never be true to you"

Ben Folds - Not the Same

Hey, my town has some of the tallest roller coasters in the world! So during the summer it's a cool place to be if you're into that sort of thing.

Reminds me of a web community sort of thing that took off here in the States: the facebook. Sort of an online directory for people you know at school. Or people who you haven't talked to for years and ask you to be their friend the first day you sign up for the service. But anyway, yeah, same "list your interests" sort of thing. I liken it to collecting baseball cards, just of your friends and acquaintances.

John Lennon - How Do You Sleep? That song is one big middle finger to Paul McCartney.

I can now be found at my exotic Northern Ohio locale, although info and a picture will have to wait until I'm not at work.

Vashanti, that was an extremely accurate description of a guitar flourish.

Yeah, he is an arrogant jerk. And he'd do well to not record every single song he writes. And that beard... well it's just ridiculous. But, that voice! Oh, baby, why.... do I miss you like I do? He's on the right track to go back to the country side of things. I thought Cold Roses was a nice return to form, although I guess he's released another album since that one came out not even a year ago. The Killers - Andy, You're a Star Didn't Charles Mingus just die recently?

Whiskeytown - Top Dollar Blues "Faithless Street" is a damn good album.

Two tunes: R.E.M. - Talk About the Passion Cracker - The Golden Age

Sega Genesis, with Sonic the Hedgehog. Also up there, from a little further in the past: ThunderCats Cats Lair, with Special Laser Action!

Third Eye Blind - Jumper I just love that spot where the drum breakdown leads into the rhythm guitar busting in with the chords and then a full-fledged guitar solo. Definitely my favorite song of theirs. Haha, yeah Kor I'm back where I belong - in the music thread.

Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Timorous Me

^ Hell yeah! I used to play that one on guitar all the time. The Use your Illusion albums are classic. G 'n R - Yesterdays

Cheers to 100 pages of music! But now a warning... If they strike this thread down, it will only rise again, becoming more powerful than they could possilbly imagine. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - There She Goes, My Beautiful World

Nerf Herder - Vivian Electronic drums and synthesizers Angular haircuts and black eyeliner We'll start a new wave band And then I'll make you mine You'll play the keyboards And everything will be alright We'll show the soc's We'll show the jocks We'll show the heshers We can't be stopped Come on Vivian Put your glasses on Yeah you've gone away to med school And I've gone out of my mind Flock of Seagulls really busted out Haysi Fantayzee made all of the kids shout We've got a microphone and its made out of plastic We've got a show tonight, it's gonna be classic We'll take on the world and MTV We'll rock the Math club Christmas party Come on Vivian Put your glasses on Yeah you've gone away to med school And I've gone out of my mind Put 'em on...

If you go, I will surely die... Beautiful song, one of my favorite pixies numbers. Right now: Louis XIV - A Letter to Dominique

Heh... I haven't seen him here since that alt-account, multiple-post Olympics a while back.

The Wallflowers - Nearly Beloved