It is like crack.<\/p>\n
I feel like I am not responsible enough to deal with iTunes. I feel like I need to have some outside authority limit what I am able to do on iTunes. Like: Oops, Sheila has overstayed her welcome … she is now cut off until next month. I feel like one of those mindless drones pouring their welfare checks into the slot machines. 10 minutes go by and I could spend 200 bucks. 99 cents a song?? That’s NOTHING!! Click, click, click, click … 50 songs later …<\/p>\n
It’s evil.<\/p>\n
And yet … ohmigod ohmigod.<\/p>\n
Old favorites I have tracked down on iTunes … things I only had on cassette tape …<\/p>\n
SPLIT ENZ. Uhm … that one album <\/a>… where every song is awesome? Found it. Click, click, click. I have been listening to Split Enz all day. I freakin’ LOVED Split Enz. I’m sorry but I think “Nobody Takes Me Seriously” is just a classic song – I can’t get enough!!! “What’s the Matter With You”?? Another awesome song – but the album doesn’t have a bad song on it. “I Got You”. “Shark Attack”.<\/p>\n Seriously. I had that thing on cassette for years … never upgraded to CD because I am retarded … but now I have it!!<\/p>\n More:<\/p>\n “Better Be Home Soon” by Crowded House. Uhm … great song? Help me deal with the wistful greatness of that song!! Haven’t heard it in years … but suddenly it popped into my head and I NEEDED to have it.<\/p>\n “House of Fun” by Madness. MADNESS. I can’t hear Madness without thinking of Meredith … just because we listened to that album at her house ALL THE TIME. What a RIDICULOUS album. “Our House” was by far their LEAST good song. “House of Fun” is psychotic. I adore it. And now I have it.<\/p>\n N-n-n-n-n-n-no no miss Uhm … come again?<\/p>\n “Paint it Black” – Rolling Stones. I’m actually not a huge Stones fan … but this song? Kicks some seeeeerious ass. Now I have it. Took a run this morning with that damn thing blasting in my ears. That song makes me feel like a bad ass, like: do not. Mess. with me.<\/p>\n “Cool Jerk” – by The Go Gos … This is another one which always makes me think of being at Mere and Jayne’s house in high school. Mere had a bass. She would play the bass. We would listen to “Cool Jerk”. Life can’t get any better.<\/p>\n “Don’t Think Twice, it’s all right” – Bob Dylan. Had a LONG overdue crying jag this afternoon listening to that exquisite song. I have a bunch of other Dylan but for some reason – not that one. It touches me. On this deep and almost deja vu level.<\/p>\n “Fell On Black Days” – Soundgarden – Uhm … YUM.<\/p>\n “Livin’ la vida loca” SHUTUP. Great song. But … Ricky … I have so many questions. How does a bullet through the brain TAKE AWAY your pain? I mean, yes, with death … but … is that really the analogy you’re after? And the lines “her skin the color mocha” reaches a level of cheese RARELY achieved. It’s so hilarious. And woah: she’ll “make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain”. Man. That is so WACKY. Like: she sounds PSYCHOTIC AND DANGEROUS! Take your clothes off and dance in the rain? What kind of SICK SHITE IS THAT? hahahaha Like: THAT’S the example he uses to show the “danger” of this woman? Sounds pretty benign and fun to me. But woah. It freaked him OUT. Love that song.<\/p>\n And “La La” by Ashlee (“love your body the way it is … DOH”) Simpson. I don’t even know anything about this woman’s music – except for her various live-performance acid-reflux debacles – but I do know that I heard this song, randomly, on the radio one day last year and found myself jamming out. Then on came the DJ: “And that was Ashlee Simpson!” What?? Great song. LUDICROUS lyrics. Like: you’re embarrassed for her. I do not want to think of Ashlee Simpson being a French maid. Or a stray cat. Lapping up the milk on the kitchen floor. I do not want to think of Ashley “dressed up in dirt” (how would that work, exactly? Ashley? How do you get dressed up in dirt?) Also, Ashley – if someone throws you like a boomerang, then it probably isn’t good manners to come back and beat them up. Because you say in the first verse of the song that you “like it better when it hurts”. So … if you “like it better when it hurts” – then you really have no call to beat someone up just because they whipped you off towards the horizon like a boomerang. You SAID you like pain, ya little French maid. But whatever. Rockin’ stupid song – great for working out.<\/p>\n Joan Armatrading!!! I was SO into her in college (it was kind of a prerequisite if you wanted to be friends with Mitchell. He showed me the ways of the Armatrading). Me Myself I!! Awesome song! I Love It When You Call Me Names. Terrific. And then – the achey-heart song “Love and Affection” – which resonates so deeply with me right now that I kinda can’t even listen to the song yet. Soon. What a song. She’s marvelous<\/i>.<\/p>\n And lastly:<\/p>\n “Rock Lobster” – B-52s. It just never gets old.<\/p>\n Back away from the iTunes, Sheila. Back away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It is like crack. I feel like I am not responsible enough to deal with iTunes. I feel like I need to have some outside authority limit what I am able to do on iTunes. Like: Oops, Sheila has overstayed … Continue reading
\nYou misunderstood
\nSixteen big boy
\nFull pint in my manhood
\nIm up to date
\nAnd the dates today
\nSo if youll serve
\nIll be on my way
\nWelcome to the house of fun
\nNow I’ve come of age
\nWelcome to the lions den
\nTemptations on his way
\nWelcome to the house of fun<\/p>\n