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Carolyn at 18thC Cuisine tagged me (among others) to participate in a diversion that's percolating throughout the food blogosphere. I don't know if it technically qualifies as a meme, though that's how we've been describing it. It seems like more of a chain letter with neither the attendant blessings nor any curses. But, whatever. I decided to play along since it is a good idea; you all get to know a little bit more about this mysterious Derrick person. And everyone likes music, right? Well, yes and no. I do like music, but I'm fairly blasé about it. So some of these questions were tough. What is the total number of music files on your computer?
641 songs that require 2.78 gigs of hard drive space and would take me 1.9 days to listen to. What is the last CD you bought?
Hmm. I don't remember. What about an album from the iTunes Music Store? In that case, it would be Euphorica's Dance Abba. What is the last song you last listened to before reading this message?
Well, I have an "upbeat music" playlist in iTunes that's set to random shuffle. I closed up my laptop, came home, and read Carolyn's message. So I don't remember precisely. I think it was Cyndi Lauper's cover of "On the Sunny Side of the Street". Write down 5 songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.
Tom at Butter Pig 'cause he's a good friend and I'm curious to see his answers.
Winnie at Hodge Podge Kitchen - she's jumped into all the other food blog community events; why not this one?
Meriko at Gastronome - because I'm sure she has opinions on the subject
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Tag! I'm It
Carolyn at 18thC Cuisine tagged me (among others) to participate in a diversion that's percolating throughout the food blogosphere. I don't know if it technically qualifies as a meme, though that's how we've been describing it. It seems like more of a chain letter with neither the attendant blessings nor any curses. But, whatever. I decided to play along since it is a good idea; you all get to know a little bit more about this mysterious Derrick person. And everyone likes music, right? Well, yes and no. I do like music, but I'm fairly blasé about it. So some of these questions were tough. What is the total number of music files on your computer?
641 songs that require 2.78 gigs of hard drive space and would take me 1.9 days to listen to. What is the last CD you bought?
Hmm. I don't remember. What about an album from the iTunes Music Store? In that case, it would be Euphorica's Dance Abba. What is the last song you last listened to before reading this message?
Well, I have an "upbeat music" playlist in iTunes that's set to random shuffle. I closed up my laptop, came home, and read Carolyn's message. So I don't remember precisely. I think it was Cyndi Lauper's cover of "On the Sunny Side of the Street". Write down 5 songs you often listen to or that mean a lot to you.
- Susanna's Garden Aria, from Le Nozze di Figaro - I don't know if that's the real name of the song, but it's when Susanna sings a song to an absent lover. Her fiancé Figaro is hiding nearby and assumes she means the Count, but Susanna knows he's there and it's clear to the audience, if not to poor Figaro, that she is singing about him. When Anna Netrebko sang this at the San Francisco Opera, everything came together and I became a steadfast opera devotee. Pity those moments are so rare.
- I rarely tire of hearing the duet between Rigoletto and Gilda near the end of Act II of Rigoletto
- Or the part at the beginning of Act III where Rigoletto confronts the courtiers who abducted his daughter. A good Rigoletto can use this piece to go from emotion to emotion. Sorrow, anger, defiance, pleading, playing it cool and begging for help. All in just a couple minutes of music.
- Beethoven's 9th never fails to make me pause and listen carefully .
- Annie Lennox's Love Song for a Vampire from Francis Coppola's Dracula is just a beautiful song and Annie Lennox puts so much emotion into it.
Tom at Butter Pig 'cause he's a good friend and I'm curious to see his answers.
Winnie at Hodge Podge Kitchen - she's jumped into all the other food blog community events; why not this one?
Meriko at Gastronome - because I'm sure she has opinions on the subject
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- Skipping A Meal
Yesterday I skipped dinner. This might not seem like big news to some, but in my world it's worth writing home about. The reason is, as it usually is, all in the timing. Lee had to fast for a medical test and I was fasting out of solidarity. Or laziness....
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There’s a little meme going around. If you follow food blogs you couldn’t have missed it – it’s been popping up everywhere. I was hoping it would somehow bypass me, but Zarah tagged me earlier today. So here goes… What is the total amount...
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What's that? Right. Sorry. Yes, I have been away from here a while, haven't I? Yeah...Dispensing Happiness is coming up on it's fifth birthday, and my other 'every day' blog, Standing here solidly on my own two hands and going crazy...
- Music In My Kitchen
We want YOU! - to participate in this mean chain-like blogging event that's going on - that's right, it's coming to get ya, it's coming to get ya! Be afraid, very afraid... Somehow, I got stuck with it too, thanks to the ever so lovely...