10 Songs

OK, so I've been away from home all week, back in Baltimore, training someone else to do my job. And guys, I am SO homesick for New York!! WAAAAHHH!! If there were ever any doubts (which there weren't on my end) about me staying in New York, there certainly can't be any now. I miss my new house and my ruffed grouse and phoebes and weird stuff in the woods so bad I feel sick. BUT, that being said, I have had a great time visiting with friends and well, frankly, eating everything in sight. Cafe Hon cheesesteak subs tomorrow!!!

Now on to your regularly scheduled blog post:
This little "meme" has been going around some blogs lately and I wanted to join in. So, 10 songs. I decided to just force myself to pick the first 10 that came to mind and if wrote this tomorrow even, most of the songs would probably change. When people ask me for my favorite something, I usually freeze and can't think of anything - until days later at 3 in the morning. So:

1. "Fade to Black" by Metallica. This song, in addition to being my favorite ever, also very literally saved my life. And according to the band members themselves, who get this said to them by thousands of fans, it's had that effect on many, many other people.

2. "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" by Fuel. This is my second favorite song ever. Fantastic song. "You don't remember, but I do."

3. The entire soundtrack to the movie "Amelie". My cousin gave me a copy of this and I'll be grateful to him forever. It's a style of music totally unlike what I normally listen to, but I was instantly in love with it. Who knew accordion music could be so hauntingly beautiful?

4. The soundtrack to "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou," particularly "Man of Constant Sorrow." Awesome music!

5. "The Vulture Song" from Disney's The Jungle Book. Having had the pleasure (I really mean that) of working with real vultures during my time as a zoo keeper, I really think this is great theme song for vultures. They get a bad rap, but vultures (particularly the North and South American ones) can be really sweet, wonderful creatures. They can't help being how God made them (or evolution, or whatever). They are what they are and without them, the world would be a very nasty, stinky place. So hug a vulture today! (Or just blow kisses in their general direction.)

--why so many soundtracks? who knows?

6. "Toccata and Fugue in D minor" by Bach - played on a REAL pipe organ.

7. "Here It Goes Again" by OK GO. This is my "song of the moment". I can't get enough of watching those guys dancing on the treadmills! Even on my grumpiest of days, that video never fails to make me laugh and clap my hands. (What a dork I am.) But now the song has really grown on me too.

8. "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by the Charlie Daniels Band. Stop laughing! I love that song. And just as good is a local Baltimore radio station's version, "The Devil Went Down to Dundalk" where Johnny races his Chevy against the devil's Mustang. Oh come on, LISTEN you know you want to.

9. "With You" by Linkin Park. I love this band so very much. I know almost all the words to every song. But I promise not to sing them in public.

10. See? Now this one's the hardest. Out of all the songs in the world, I can only pick one more? Too much pressure! OK, so randomly, "Cheap Seats" by Alabama. SUCH a feel-good, summertime song. And it makes me think of the year I spent in South Dakota, where it was the law that you listen to country music at least 6 hours a day.