Meme-ories light the corner of my mind
Posted on | May 27, 2005 |
Laura was right, I have been a busy blogger. While away I was tagged by the same meme twice, which makes me think someone’s trying to tell me something. Well, that I should be writing on my blog, I guess. What follows will be a hyrid version of both.
On Saturday night at the Townie there was a long and rather complicated debate at our table about what in fact a meme is, and whether the word was an appropriate description of what memes-on-blogs are. This followed my blasphemous confession that I didn’t know what meme meant, and hadn’t bothered to look it up as opposed to witnessing what memes-on-blogs seem to do. (It also preceded the extraordinary display of drunken goth girlness on the table behind us, which made me very nostalgic while simultaneously scared about my champagne drinking black-clad grrrl nights out in years past.) Laura’s glorious post title for the meme was enough to make me want to keep the thing kicking just a bit longer. I had only just discovered that song at a recent karaoke night, so who knows what music planet I’ve been on, or what good any of the following information will do anyone.
Total volume of music on my computer:
Should I be embarrassed that I don’t know how to do this? I have made an attempt and it looks like 2.12 MB. At least a third of this is the back catalogue of Modest Mouse. I only just got broadband, so if I need an excuse, that’s it.
The last CDs I bought:
Were for my housewarming party: Beck, Scissor Sisters, Le Tigre and Moloko.
Song playing right now:
Daft Punk Is Playing in My House, My House.
Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
Kool Thing, Sonic Youth
PM, The Nation Blue
Read to Me, Biftek
Private Property, Mouth
U Mass, The Pixies
Five songs you’ve been listening to a lot recently, from several genres:
Too Much Love, LCD Soundsystem. I chose this one because it gets me totally h-h-hot. But ‘Losing My Edge’ on Disc Two is the funniest song I’ve heard in a loooong time.
Maps, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Beautiful but kinda twisted if you think about it, like all the greatest unrequited crush songs.
Ghost Town, The Specials. Been watching a lot of Rage lately, and this song really helps me understand Thatcherite Britain on a whole new level… Someone - maybe me - should write a book about how music helps in researching recent history. If you want an easy way to understand the term ’structure of feeling’, see the film clip to this song.
White Lies Yellow Teeth, Modest Mouse. Ouch. This sounds like what a lot of 90s indie music tried really hard to write but never quite pulled off. Tough and a bit unhinged, just the way I like it.
Astrovisionary, RedSunBand. Makes me wanna weep it’s that good.
Next on the list: Townie meme discussants Gully and Dr Nic (photos to follow shortly); resident music advisors Ian On and Kris; and Ms Money O, in a thinly veiled attempt to encourage more from that most reticent of bloggers.
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May 29th, 2005 @ 5:40 am
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There we go. Pretension-in-extremis.