Cheap Trick’s Authorized Greatest Hits CD was in my car CD player for all of February, with 9 Great Hits, and 7 Songs I Don’t Like All Lumped at The End Thank You Cheap Trick.
At one point I went home and sang “If You Want My Love” to Mac the Dog. I got to “I won’t throw, your love, a-wayyyy … oooo!” He howled along on the “oooo.” It’s an excellent sing- screech-along CD.
So I sang myself out with Cheap Trick, admitted I cannot sing, decided to listen, and switched Cheap out with my new Art of Time Ensemble CD featuring the-former-lead-singer-of-BNL, Steven Page. (After his solo album comes out this summer I shall call him the-former-lead-singer-of-The-Art-of-Time-Ensemble.)
Evidently The Art of Time Ensemble will pick a favorite Canadian recording singer, ask him or her to choose songs to cover, and play new arrangements of the music while the singer sings. I say “evidently” because I cannot say “definitively” because The Art of Time Ensemble does not have a Wikipedia page. I swear they still exist. The CD is on Wikipedia, and in my car, I can prove it.
Every day I have picked a favorite song I set on Repeat. Last Friday it was The Divine Comedy’s “Tonight We Fly,” a perfect song to hear when I top my favorite hill. (“Tonight we fly / over the mountains, the beach and the sea … and when we die/ Oh, will we be that disappointed or sad / If heaven doesn’t exist / What will we have missed / This life is the best we’ve ever had.”)
On the other hand, yesterday and today it was “I Want You” originally by Elvis Costello. Not easy listening. Pain listening. Intense emotional pain listening. Here, listen.. And why would I want to listen to a betrayed man snarling about his betrayal? Because I spent all day yesterday and today studying this:
PACs (planned amortization class) are CMOs insulated from prepayment risk by “swing” tranches called companions or support bonds, which are retired before PACs if prepayments are high, and after PACs if prepayments are low.
Can I hear a woo-hoo. I don’t think I can be faulted for listening to emotional songs, or for assuming every Prius in my rear-view mirror is accelerating toward me, or for taking a break to alert my office that Lindsay Lohan is suing E*Trade because we are supposedly all accusing her of being a milkaholic. (I assume her lawyers are bored as well.)
I realized today that when people are bored with work, they seek out emotion and drama. So, from that analysis, what do we know? We know we need to get Gary into a more exciting job. I’ll be just like Gary after a few more weeks of studying, and then I’ll come home and gesticulate wildly about the “dismembered foot” (shoe) I saw on the side of the highway past my favorite hill.
11 responses to “What Your CD Choices Say About You”
Yeah, you really do not want to integrate drama into your work life, even if it is boring. Take it from someone who accidentally does it way too much. Boring is good. Go ahead and sing on the way home. Much better all around. Truly.
as for me I strive to HAVE NO EFFING DRAMA BEYOND THE AWESOME MARRIED TO A HOT MAN HUSBAND AND AWESOME SMART AND CUDDLY KIDS KIND. seriously though, iffn i had to read paragraphs like that up there, for my work, my head would banging repeatedly against the desk of my work space. GAAAH!!
Becs – I agree. We have a pretty-low drama team. Even when people try to jack up drama it doesn’t go far. Mrs Hall – Oh, and tomorrow morning I get to spend four hours listening to it in class. Gah, indeed.
“A Singer Must Die”. I was playing that one over and over about 10 days ago. It’s awesome.
Tami – I’ve been skipping Paranoid Android. What the hell is the point of that song? The rest are great.
Funny, I love Paranoid Android, but have been skipping “I Want You” because the length and the cacophony get to me. “King of the Boudoir” cracks me up extra, because I have the original version by The Magnetic Fields.
Tami – I haven’t heard the original by Magnetic Fields, but I did listen to the original placid Elvis Costello “I Want You.”
There’s samples of all the songs on “69 Love Songs” on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/69-Love-Songs-Magnetic-Fields/dp/samples/B00000JY1X/ref=dp_tracks_all_1#disc_1
“69 Love Songs”, by the way, is a 3 disc set of 69 love songs. “The Book of Love” and “I Want a Zebra” are tracks I listened to over and over.
Tami – that sounds great! I’ll have to check it out when my life is my own again.
I don’t go to the board anymore, so I’ll explain Elvis’ placid version of “I Want You”. Elvis isn’t yelling and screaming because he’s stalking the other person and watching her with “that clown”.
K. Lyn – thank you. I haven’t been to the board myself for two months, I think.