Originally posted on December 20, 2004.
This will be short. I have spent most of the day quite ill and I don’t expect I have the strength or mental capacity to write a whole lot at this point. My blog pal Foolish Knight has asked everyone for their top ten songs of all time. I posted mine in his comments which you can read here although it is not the final version. I have a very hard time with the term “favorite.” Mainly because it makes me try to say one thing is better than the other. If I say Star Wars is my favorite movie then it means I think To Kill a Mockingbird is not as good as Star Wars. When this is not at all true. Choosing ten songs was amazingly difficult. There are a whole lot of other songs that I enjoy just as much as those ten. Then there are a million more that I enjoy at certain moments to make me happy or sad or whatever…All this is to say I hope to make a new list on this site going over a whole bunch of my favorite songs/artists.
Being sick I slacked off even more on my movie watching. I still haven’t finished The Abyss and didn’t get started on this week’s movie: About Schmidt. And now there is Christmas to contend with. Maybe I’ll get back on track in the New Year.
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I think I’m going to crawl into a hole now.
Why?
To hide from your wife. Didn’t you say she was going to hurt me? I laughed right out loud when I read that, I thought it was very funny. But perhaps you weren’t joking? [insert smiley face here] Anyway have a nice time in Paris, and say hello to the Mona Lisa for me, will you?
It’s so true though. I had been bothering her with my ramblings about which songs I should choose continuously since you first posted the question. Of course I’m constantly bothering her with various lists anyway. Lucky for you I was busy packing and finnishing up some holiday errands and didn’t have the time to redo the entire list!
Merry Christmas to you!
I hope you feel better soon.