Did You Miss Me?

Hi. I was out of the country in Taiwan but I'm back now. I'm extremely jetlagged and my body thinks it is 6:45 PM. I'm sad that I missed shows by the Lucksmiths, the Hold Steady, Bishop Allen, and the Evens.

I've also got hundreds of photographs to post but that will come later.

But now: a music meme. Blame Mathowie.

Total volume of music files on my computer:
26.6 GB (6373 songs, and 16 days), in iTunes, and about 800 MB in my "to be listened to" folder, which I go through every week or so. I keep a subset of my music on my Powerbook and the rest on an external firewire drive, which currently holds another 10 GB. I've got a 20 GB iPod and mostly use the iPod for playback, so what's on the Powerbook is purely for syncing purposes, and the firewire is the main store, holding 36.5 GB in total. There's also about two hundred CDs I haven't ripped, and, face it, probably never will.

The last CD I bought was:
I'm in the middle of pre-ordering the new Pernice brothers album online. The last CDs I bought were in person, as I bought solo albums from both Thor and Travis of Shearwater. Before that, it was Separation Sunday by The Hold Steady, contender for album of the year (so far) along with The Sunset Tree.

Song playing right now:
"Falling" by the Comas, which has just segued into "Anything You Want" by Spoon.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:
"Changing Partners" by Patsy Page (My mother adores this.)

"Spectacular Views" by Rilo Kiley (It reminds me of California and the spring break right before I graduated college. My friends and I drove up to San Francisco for the day, rolled all the windows down, and blasted this song.)

"I Can't Hardly Wait" by The Replacements (I like the Tim demo version best. This song is about coming home. "I'll be home when I'm sleeping / I can't hardly wait.")

"This Will Be Our Year" by The Zombies (One of my radio DJ friends used to call this song "them trying to be Paul McCartney" but I like it just the way it is. And Colin Blunstone's voice is to die for.)

"This Is Not What You Had Planned" by the Wrens (Self-explanatory.)

Five Seven people to whom I'm passing the baton:
Lalitree
Jason
Curtie
Frank
David
Karen
Dayan

Photographs on this site are © Kathryn Yu. Don't steal.