in which rox joins BMG

[supercheesegirl]

oh yeah, last night i decided to join BMG. i got a thing in the mail from them for the first time in like forever, and it was 12 cds for the price of one. jorn helped me figure out what the cost would *actually* be with the shipping, and it works out that i'll get 12 cds for roughly five bucks each. that's pretty good. so i joined. the cds that i chose for my first seven "free" cds are:

-Jennifer Lopez: On the 6
-the Muppet Show: Music, Mayhem, and More (25th Anniversary Collection)
-Shakira: Donde Estan las Ladrones?
-Lynyrd Skynyrd: (something, i don't remember what, the best of maybe?)
-Simon & Garfunkel: best of
-Dirty Dancing soundtrack
-Bon Jovi--Slippery When Wet

this kinda shows how behind i am in my cd purchases. i don't think i've bought a cd for myself since i got Ben Folds' Rockin' the Suburbs in september 2001. i figured it was about time i started expanding. most of the ones i ordered are things i know all the words to because my mom or sarah owns it (lynyrd skynyrd, shakira, simon & garfunkel), or that i used to have on tape but lost (bon jovi). j lo and dirty dancing are just things i should have had years ago. and who can resist the muppets?

i'm pretty happy with my selections, although i think jorn's a little disappointed in me. i mean, he's worked so hard to show me different bands and stuff, and i go and order j lo. but in my defense, out of the more jorn-ish music the bmg catalog had listed, it was all either things he already owns (and, therefore, that i don't need to buy) or that *he* wants. and i'm not going to order, for example, the new roots cd, when i know he's just going to get it eventually.

i was kind of torn, though--i wanted the frida soundtrack, too, but i had put that on the birthday list i sent to my mom. ditto for the new chieftains cd. and i was thinking about getting the eagles' best of, or the best of genesis, or sheryl crow's tuesday night music club, but i wanted the others more. (plus, jorn looked really disgusted when i mentioned the sheryl crow. but that *is* a great album.)

and happy birthday to allen ginsberg (77 today), and happy death-day to franz kafka (1924).

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[ame0toko.livejournal.com]

*Breathes deeply*

...


...It's ok. We all go through phases. My first CD was Astrolounge by Smashmouth. That's a scar I'll carry for the rest of my life. I hope you get through this J-lo thing before I come and visit you guys.



PS I have a theory that J-lo is really a pen name for Jay Leno. Kind of like a Milly Vanilly sort of thing. He's just too ashamed of his ridiculously girly lyrics and feminine voice to come out and say it. Oh, that and he's like 80 years old. So he hired this woman (Whose name conveniently fits the nickname) to get up on stage and lip-sync for him. Opens up some rather interesting questions, no?

[sleepyworm.livejournal.com]

HEY! Milli Vanilli were the BAAAEEEERRRRMMMBBBB!!!!!!!!

[sleepyworm.livejournal.com]

kafka's birthday is july third. Birds of a depressing feather... ;)

And maybe you're thinking of some other cd and putting sheryl crow's name to it, like with Edwin Collins and "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon".

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

kafka *would* have been a cancer.

and i knew it was an edwin. god, what an awful mistake *that* was. well, now i know i just need to get the pulp fiction soundtrack--it's what i should've asked for in the first place. but you know when i mix up musicians, it's usually by first name: david bowie/lee roth, edwin collins/mccain, neil young/diamond, etc. i can't think of another sheryl. besides which, i know for a fact that i like that cd a lot. you poophead.

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

i don't know, i just have a thing about j lo. i'm fond of her. i like her movies, i like a lot of her music. i like the perfume too, i just can't afford it (plus jorn hates perfume). and ditto on the j lo jeans--i'd love to have a pair (but more because i bet she understands the plight of curvy girls shopping for jeans in a stick-thin-biased fashion industry than because i like *her*). i don't know why i like j lo, i just do. but don't worry, i won't make you listen to my new cd. :)

[sleepyworm.livejournal.com]

just to reiterate, it was Urge Overkill; there wasn't any edwin involved. :) But it was written by Neil Diamond, so maybe subconsciously you connected through that somehow. heehee!

[supercheesegirl.livejournal.com]

i swear to GOD it was edwin collins. where the hell did i get that idea, anyway? and what's the name of the singer for urge overkill?

[sleepyworm.livejournal.com]

Nash Kato.

And it might have been around that same time that Edwin Collins had his one little hit, and it's possible that the songs were played back to back on the radio and the DJ announced the names and you might have only heard him say the one, or got them confused or something. DJ's on commercial stations are notoriously bad at naming everything they play. Confusion is rampant.