Music

This seems like a fun thing to do:

Total volume of music on my computer:
8.39 GB (1985 songs). Scattered across my iBook and G4 desktop, but gathered in one place on my iPod.

The last CD I bought:
I think it was Lucinda Williams Live at the Fillmore. But that would've been from iTMS.

Song playing right now:
Dance Music by the Mountain Goats.
Lean in close to my little record player on the floor/So this is what the volume knob's for
Excellent new record.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
Lately I've been listening to:
Van Lear Rose - Loretta Lynn. From her record with Jack White.

The Day We Left Town - Magnet. From the ep of the same name, but I got it from an excellent year-long cd swap I'm part of.

When I go Deaf - Low. From The Great Destroyer. A lovely song.

srb - Kristin Hersh. From 2003's The Grotto, but I just heard it again thanks to a swap cd. I always forget how much I dig her voice. I have to admit, it took me forever to get into the Throwing Muses. I remember being 13 and thinking they were just ridiculous (actually I was ridiculous). I love that she uses the word "whirligig" in this song.

and Ain't No Grave (Gonna Hold My Body Down) - my aunts singing in a church in Alabama recorded on my iPod. I heard this song once and couldn't stop singing the chorus.

Race in Boston

Adrian Walker has a great column about Boston Magazine's latest issue's "The 100 People Who Run This Town." Boston Magazine has defined this as 78 white guys, 21 white women, and 1 black man. Seriously? And Mitt Romney on the cover. The whole thing makes me feel queasy.