So that's today's memory lane, with all the pathos and pain

It's fairly obvious that I think and talk and do a lot with music. The subject line of nearly every entry is a song lyric and it's not even the song that's listed under "current music". Usually the current music is what's actually playing, while the song lyric just fits the topic at hand. Or maybe it's just stuck in my head and doesn't seem related though later I'll make a connection.

So is it possibly for me to say I'm obsessed with music lately? I mean, I suppose it's all relative. I'm sure part of this comes from a few days without hearing much, when in the midst of moving I only had a couple CDs out from the boxes, the computer was packed away, and the car and truck I was driving had limited radio capabilities. Even my iPod was MIA a couple days due to lack of charging or accidentally leaving it on all day.

My iPod is supposedly randomly choosing songs from the 1800 stored inside, but I swear it favors some. Damon and I actually recently discussed how computers actually must be programmed to be random because they're incapable of it. Only humans can do it, which I don't even actually believe because there's always some variable that tips the scale. So does this mean the pure concept of random does not exist except in a vaccum? I'll write about that another time.

Here are songs my iPod loves and plays often and always near the beginning:
Viennese Lift -- Future Bible Heroes
Believed You Were Lucky -- Til Tuesday
Song for the Lonely & Half-Breed -- Cher
P.I.M.P. -- 50 Cent
You Don't Bring Me Flowers -- Barbra and Neil
That Is Why -- Jellyfish
Starkville -- Indigo Girls
Ricki Don't Lose That Number -- Steely Dan
A Girl Like You -- Edwyn Collins
Feel Good Time -- Pink
anything by Everything But the Girl

Here are the songs I would be playing "at random" because I'm obsessed with them:

Cross My Heart & Each and Every One -- Everything but the Girl
Amateur & Fourth of July & You're With Stupid Now -- Aimee Mann
El Metro & El Ciclon-- Cafe Tacvba
Play Dead & Possibly Maybe (strings remixes from Family Tree) -- Bjork
Muzik -- Knoc'-turnal
Scapegoat -- Atmosphere
Complexity -- The Roots
Whatever Lola Wants -- Sarah Vaughn
Quittin' Time (live) -- Mary Chapin Carpenter
The Difficult Kind -- Sheryl Crow
Estoy Aqui -- Shakira