The hills are alive......

With the sound of lots and lots of music. We've been hitting the genres pretty hard this evening. Starting with Johnny Cash - the newest cd, America IV: the Man Comes Around. This blew me away. He covers Depeche Mode's "Personal Jesus" - and he makes you forget anyone else ever did it. Nick Cave sings with him on a Hank Williams Sr. song. AND he sings "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails and it's more intense in a way then the original. Dude, it's gothalicious goodness from the Man in Black! It's actually a fine, fine album. I am mightily impressed.

See, our home has been undergoing a slight country conversion lately. It started with Dwight Yoakum and Hank Sr. and some roots music. Then Dixie Chicks hit, and we've been loving their music. Most recently P. has gone on a Willie Nelson kick. Let me tell you, Willie is a fine song writer with a beautiful way of phrasing his songs. And the sounds he gets from his old, beat up guitar - beautiful. So now with the new Johnny Cash, I have a feeling we'll be looking for more of his work as well. It must be the whole growing up in Oklahoma thing ;) But I will not touch modern country with a ten foot pole - Alan Jackson can kiss my ass.

So we moved on from Mr. Cash to some old video tapes of - viideos! Most of which date from 1993 or so when we moved away from the little town we lived in while in college to a place where we actually got cable. We taped soooo many videos from MTV when we finally had it again. Of course, this was when MTV played slightly more videos than now. Sigh, remember "120 Minutes"? Good times, good times. This tape has some great stuff though - "Perfect Drug" Nine Inch Nails (in which Trent Reznor is the closest to my mental image of Snape than anyone else), "Caught a Light Sneeze" Tori, "Put Your Hand in the Puppet Head" They Might Be Giants...

But my sickening revelation of the night - the fact that I am, indeed, getting old whether I like it or not - was when "How Soon Is Now" by the Smiths came on. Now, this is one of my favorite songs ever - it was my teenage anthem. P, ever the realist, turns to me and says 'This is almost 20 years old." I couldn't wrap my head around that. In 1984, my 14 yr-old-self looked at 20 years ago and saw the early Beatles. It was like ancient history. And that's how the teens now look back at my music. It is so weird to think about it that way. So weird. WAH.

But anyhoo, it's been a pleasant evening. And I'm not so old that I don't like some new stuff. Ok, I only like Coldplay - all the rap and hip hop stuff out there now sounds like mostly rude noise to me, but oh well.

Another fun meme

The I won't meme (I saw it on thete1's)

( Lookie here )