I’ve been sitting in my apartment this afternoon, restructuring several gigabytes of archived email on my PowerBook, playing Civ4: Beyond The Sword on my Windows box, and watching the snow fall. When at last the mail was done, and the CPU that had been pegged at 100% for the last hour dropped to idle, I fired up iTunes and put on the headphones. And this was what the “random 10” playlist delivered to me:
- “Animal Ghost” by No-Man (from Flowermouth)
- “Comes A Time” by Neil Young (from Live Rust)
- “Shintaro” by Men at Work (from Men at Work ’81-’85)
- “No Man’s Land” by Fairport Convention (from What We Did On Our Holidays)
- “Cherish” by Madonna (from Like a Prayer)
- “Alone” by Heart (from Alive In Seattle)
- “The Coldest Winter In Memory” by Al Stewart (from Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time)
- “Dhanno Ki Aankhon (In Dhanno’s Eyes)” by Asha Bhosle & Kronos Quartet (from You’ve Stolen My Heart – Songs from R.D. Burman’s Bollywood)
- “For A Thousand Mothers” by Jethro Tull (from Stand Up)
- “Gorecki” by Lamb (from Back To Mine: Dave Seaman)
Random enough for you?! As I finish this posting, I’m listening to Heart’s “Alone“. I’ve always thought that this was a remarkable expression of the raw hunger of unrequited love, and the live version sounds incredibly vulnerable.