The Joys of an iPod on 'shuffle'

[trinityvixen]

I just loaded every sound file I had when I made my iTunes library. As a result, I get songs I've never listened to (ripped to mp3 for other people) interspersed with my books on tape and my AIM sounds. At one point during my lunch break, the latter two collided, and Luke Skywalker hailed Harry Potter in an exchange that couldn't reall have done anything for either of them:

"Greetings, Exalted One."
These words did nothing to raise Harry's morale.

I dunno about Mr. Potter, but if Luke Skywalker called me 'exalted one' I'd be a little more impressed.

Also thanks to the 'shuffle' function:

Bad Wisdom by Suzanne Vega

Mother the doctor knows something is wrong
Cause my body has strange information
He’s looked in my eyes and knows I’m not a child
But he doesn’t dare ask the right question

Mother my friends are no longer my friends
And the games we once played have no meaning
I’ve gone serious and shy and they can’t figure why
So they’ve left me to my own daydreaming

What price to pay
For bad wisdom
What price to pay
For bad wisdom
Too young to know
Too much too soon
Bad wisdom
Bad wisdom

Mother you’ve taught me the laws are so fine
If I’m good that I will be protected
I’ve fallen through the crack and there’s no getting back
And I’ll never trust whoever gets elected

Mother your eyes have gone suddenly cold
And it wasn’t what I was expecting
Once I did think that I’d find comfort there
And instead you’ve gone hard and suspecting

What price to pay
For bad wisdom
What price to pay
For bad wisdom
Too young to know
Too much too soon
Bad wisdom
Bad wisdom

Mother I’m cut at the root like a weed
Cause there’s no one to hear my small story
Just like a woman who walks in the street
I will pay for my life with my body

What price to pay
For bad wisdom
What price to pay
For bad wisdom
Too young to know
Too much too soon
Bad wisdom
Bad wisdom

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

My personal favorite River Tam song is "She Runs Away" by Duncan Sheik.

She saw the symptoms right away
And spoke to me in poetry.
Sometimes the more you wonder why
The worse it seems to get.

And she says "Oo, darlin' don't you know?
The darkness comes and the darkness goes."
She says, "Oo, babe why don't you let her go?
Happiness ain't never how you think it should be so."

But then, I'm just partial to Duncan Sheik. I like Suzanne Vega too. We sang "Calypso" by her in my acappella group.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I like Duncan Sheik, too. Or, at least his first two albums, never got any farther than that. "Little Hands" makes me ache every time I hear it, and it's a pity that his most famous song "Barely Breathing" is not his best by far. Other favorites: "Wishful Thinking" and "House Full of Riches."

Suzanne Vega: "Blood Makes Noise," "99.9 F," and "Solitare

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I did an arrangement of "Reasons for Living" for my group. It's by far my favorite arrangement of mine, even though the recording on the album is godawful. When I was working on it, I'd call up my friend veryschway, also a big Duncan fan, and be like - he's using cluster chords! That's just so... cool!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I think you explained this 'cluster chord' concept (whew, say that five times fast) but I'm going to just imagine (correctly, I bet) that it is something fantastically complex and pretty.

La la la, music sure is puuuurty. Wow, someone else likes Duncan Sheik. My friend Liz M went to a Ben Folds concert and the bill was split between them and she was like 'meh' to Duncan. I was insanely jealous, of course.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Well, he did go to my highschool, ya know. Not at the same time as me, of course.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, keen! I am all sorts of impressed. The closest brush with fame we've got is...uh...well, the girl who was the lead in our Senior Class Play was an extra at the end of "Welcome to the Dollhouse." Yeah, okay, that was so lame, I ought not to have bothered.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, the current president of the United States also went to my highschool. As did his father and his brothers.