The things your friends find for you to do...

Okaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

Queenie has finally sorted out the parameters of the 2007 mix for Inmyday.

Not that she was under any pressure, GOD NO, cds popping into the mail box every evening from people who have jobs AND children is not PRESSURE.

Nosireebob.

It just took a while to organise the potential tracks on the iTunes.

Finally, she did a smart list that was tracks added after 01/01/2007 and tracks added before 01/01/2008.

That only took a month to figure out.

Then she had to get the names of the tracks, having done something stupid to the iTunes so that it wouldn't 'get track names' for her. Everytime she tried it sent her a stupid message saying unable to connect to iTunes.

WTF?

I thought the whole point of iTunes and iPods etc was to force you to buy music.

With your shiny new Canaydyan credit card.

Nope.

The point is to make Queenie get in tune with her technology.

At least it's only every three years.

So, three hours, a disk defragmentation, the wholesale clear out of her hard disk and a download of the latest version of iTunes update later, we are ready to begin....

... I was just downloading Version 7.6 of iTunes when the door opened and the Himself who was supposed to be working till midnight walked in.

Shit.

No dinner (why bother with dinner when it's Tuesday, you've had a stressful day wowing the masses, there's an open bottle of wine, and no Himself).

Thankfully Himself is the kind of Himself who sees the lack of dinner on the table as an opportunity to cook dinner for the woman he loves.

He even washed a wine glass for me.

What did I do in a past life to deserve this man?

I must have brokered the peace treaty between the Chinese and the Parthians in the eleventh centurey, or something equally major.

Anyways, just as we were eating dinner, the phone rang and it was the weather saying, it's snowing again, come back to work, so off Himself went again until midnight so I will try to get this done.

Inmyday Music 2007 - Queenie's cd.

Well, I have 5.26 GB to choose from, but there are some issues.

Some of it I stole from Mr. Monkey's laptop when he was over during the summer.

I don't know if that counts.

Also, I spent a lot of this year trying to rebalance the emphasis on the iTunes from plinkity plink shite that Queenie listens to in favour of a little cock rock for Himself.

When we're having our Friday night chats we always end up having an argument about whether or not cock rock is a valid music genre.

Yes it is.

Cock rock is rock played by a band with a guitarist who plays with his guitar resting on his enormous cock, sung by a singer who sings while squeezing his equally enormous cock.

Yes it is.

So we will have some CR on the cd.

It's good for the soul, really it is.

But we'll start off mellow.

1. Cowboy Junkies, a lovely mellow cover of The Way I feel, from the Gordon Lightfoot tribute album, Beautiful.

In celebration of the fact that I am now supposed to be okay about GL.

Buy the album.

It rocks.

2. Yaser Habeeb, Elana.

From a $1 album I got at a yard sale, called Sahara Lounge. Vurry smooood.....

And cos I love yard sales.

3. Elliot Smith, Angel in the Snow.

'Cause I'm going out with one.

Ahhhhhhh...

Also, this is my most played song this year, with a whopping 27 plays according to the software that monitors your darkest moods and silliest parties.

The reason I play it so much is because I just think the guitar riff is the sweetest little complicated but simple little riff I've ever heard.

4. Burial, Archangel

This is my favourite album of 2007.

I found it on eMusic one day when I was really desperate to spend my 30 buys, it being the end of the month. As I mentioned in an earlier post, every song on this album reminds me of a band I used to listen to in the eighties. I wanted to put the whole album on the playlist, but I didn't for reasons of DE RULES (which took up about 37 emails - I love inmyday because we can have 76 emails about music and 3 about war on the same day. Or vice versa. Depending)

I put Archangel on because a) it is about angels, b) it is 5 star rated, and c) it is my most played 5 star on the album (see I did pay some attention to DE RULES).

5. Jimmi Hendrix, All Along the Watchtower

This was my first purchase in the attempt to balance the music collection. It didn't go down particularly well. It's not cock rocky enough, apparently.

I think it's pretty good.

And he wore very tight trousers.

Isn't it very similar to Archangel in a weird slowed down speeded up kinda way?!

6. Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love

HOORAH!!!!!!!!!! COOOOOOOOOOOCK RAAAAAAAAAAAWK!

You need coolin'! de dum DUM de DUM de DUM de DUM DE DUM!

What an opening line!

On Friday nights, the cock rock argument usually stems from the 'if I were to walk down an aisle at some point in time, what would be the song' argument.

In a very frightening way, this CANNOT be dislodged from the top five.

Angels have a stubborn side to them.

I need someone to send me a cd of 'potential walk down the aisle songs if they were ever to be needed ever' real soon.

Otherwise the Queen Dad could be in a world of pain some day.

7. Radiohead, Weird Fishes, Arpeggio

This is the one I want.

It's Radiohead.

I can't do it to anything else.

This was a question on Canada's smartest people quiz Sunday night. Which band sold their album for what you can afford last year?

WTF? It's in the shops now.

That wasn't part of the deal, lads.

Anyways, let's stop for a moment and listen to the SONG OF 2007.




By the way, Zoom are flying to Nova Scotia from Belfast from the end of June to the end of September this year. Please form an orderly queue if you wish to recommend a particular week, bearing in mind that August and September are the best months. Also bearing in mind that Electric Picnic is on during Labour weekend so I need to know soon if people want to do both.

8. Patrick Watson, Drifters

I only discovered this guy this year. Actually this was the year of Watson, Cat Power, Elliot Smith and Erik Wollos. Four artists I had never heard of but am very glad that I have now, as they formed the spine of my listening.

Plus Tom Waits, as Mike, the neighbour who chose to abandon us, as did Kate and the kids and the dogs, gave me the complete works this summer.

Talk about giving a girl a doorway back to 1989....

9. Erik Wollo, Totem

I like this song, because it reminds me of our key joint learning pathway last year, which was a journey into the Aboriginal American experience. 2007 will be a key year in the Canadian history of dealing with 'the Aboriginal question' I think.

Many things happened.

Caledonia. The riots in the summer. The tension between the old guard, the recognised leaders, and the younger leaders coming up, who are sick of the same old same old.

Jim Prentice. Minister of Indian Affairs. A man who seemed to get it, but because he was competent (and ambitious I assume), he got moved to Industry. With disastrous results.

Payments for the industrial schools. Long conversations on the radio about how large cheques would result in drunkenness on reservations. And now everytime there is an accident, that's the reason.

The abandonment of the historic Kelowna Accord signed by the previous governments, along with everything else that was signed by them.

In the absence of being able to do anything, we watched a lot of movies on the issue and read some books.

I even read Germs, Guns and Steel.

I still don't get it.

10. Mavis Staples, Down in Missippi

For Barack. The day after MLK day.

God love him.

This was a great find. Staples was one of the singers that associated with MLK. Ry Cooder has rerecorded her hits, you can hear him in the background.

This is why I like Canada.

They might not get their own inequities.

But by God, they get the inequities in YankeeLand.

Ohyessirreebobtheydo.

11. Cat Power, Keep on Running

Because you have to, don't you.

Now we head into the difficult last couple of songs part of the cd.

There are about seven in the playlist, so I will have to cull...

Give me about twenty minutes to figure out what to delete and what to keep in and what order to put them in, etc.

Time passes.....

12. Okkervil River, Love to a Monster

Okkervil River beat Spoon, which is probably not right.

But it's past my bedtime.

And it's only Tuesday.

13. John Lee Hooker, Let's go out tonight

This is the first cd that Himself chose, bought and added to the online collection.

So let's stay in and listen to it.

Now, all I have to do is go buy enough cds to burn, envelopes, stamps, etc.

This weekend. I will.

Anyone else who wants one let me know.

I will burn twenty copies.

Note to self: I have already set up 2008's smart list.

I ain't going through all this again.

Night.
xx