Party up!

Completely accidentally, I clicked the "Party Shuffle" button on my iTunes. After my computer hummed and paused and flickered on the brink of death for a few seconds (if you'd like to buy me a new one, leave your name and number after the beep)-viola! I can't remember the last time I made the same mistake, I know I've never intentionally clicked on that button because I'll make my own mixes for my parties, thankyouverymuch iTunes! Anyway, what resulted was one of the most diverse short playlists my computer has ever seen. I found it interesting, so I will share it with myself... on a blog... in the public forum. I suppose that means I'm sharing it with more than just myself?

17 songs, 1 hour, 68.2 MB


1) Gone- *NSync
2) House of the Rising Sun- The Animals
3) Accidentally in Love- Counting Crows
4) Wild World- Cat Stevens
5) Do You Remember- Jack Johnson
6) Pink Moon- Nick Drake
7) A Boy Named Sue- Johnny Cash
8) Eternal Flame- The Bangles
9) Death of an Interior Decorator- Death Cab for Cutie
10) Superman- Five for Fighting
11) Say It Right- Nelly Furtado
12) Rehab- Amy Winehouse
13) We Rule the School- Belle and Sebastian
14) Don't Stop Till You Get Enough- Michael Jackson
15) Lonely No More- Rob Thomas
16) More Adventurous- Rilo Kiley
17) Caress Me Down- Sublime

After looking through the vastly different songs, I realize there's a reason they're all in my iTunes, even if I don't listen to them very often. I don't think I would've been the same person I am now if the summer after my senior year of highschool wasn't spent listening solely to Belle and Sebastian and Death Cab as I drove between work at Target and Dress Barn. Honestly, how could I be the same person without that experience?

I don't think there's anything that sums this summer up better than drunkenly singing "Rehab" with Brody at Aromas. Yet the thing that kept me (reasonably) sane through it all was the entire More Adventurous cd along with various excerpts from Nick Drake (though I'll admit, it isn't exactly party fare, but I think that's why it kept me sane).

"Gone" by *NSync, I mean, c'mon... we all know I don't need to go down the highschool road except to note that "Accidentally in Love" reminds me of the absolute innocence and glee with which I (the 17 year old nanny) danced and sang at the top of my lungs along with Ethan (the 4 year old being nannied) every day for the summer of my Junior year. Which then reminds me of being the young child, watched by my sisters, laying on the couch singing "Eternal Flame" in our little house in Florida.

Music makes weird connections. Every time I listen to a song on this list, another comes up, I've in the time I've written this blog added "Ripchord" by Rilo Kiley and "Trouble" by Ray LaMontagne. And I could say so much about Ray that it would take four blogs just to summarize it.

Side note-Did you know that "House of the Rising Sun" is about a whorehouse?! I think I read that on AOL radio.com or something similar. I had no freaking idea. I always figured it was a drug den. In fact, I think that at some point I asked my parents and they assured me that yes, it was. Better to have your young child think a song is about drugs than prostitutes.

I could go on forever... I'll stop myself...