Cover the Earth

obsessical did this survey on MySpace, and I thought it seemed pretty cool. I love talking about the music I listen to (just in case you hadn't noticed). I'm doing it on LJ, though, as is my wont. A lot of questions are missing, so I'm going to fill them in myself.

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Incidentally, on the subject of MySpace, I noticed at the mall that Hot Topic is now selling shirts with messages like, "You looked better on MySpace." I have to wonder who would actually buy a shirt like that, but there are probably people who would.

And speaking of music, I guess it's about time for my weekly post on music-related issues (as opposed to all those other posts on music-related issues, which don't count {g}). Today's topic is "songs I would like to cover if I were a musician." Obviously this is totally hypothetical, yet it's still something I consider fairly often.

One song I'd love to be able to perform is TMBG's "When It Rains It Snows." I'm not totally sure why that one. It just seems like it would be fun. Maybe because it's a waltz? I don't know. The other TMBG song I'd want to play would be "Half A Boy" (AKA "The Writing's On The Wall"), an old Dial-A-Song that I first heard on that Power of Dial-A-Song thing (which is to say it was an ordinal-number-that-God-alone-can-fathom copy of something recorded over the phone in the first place) and thought was really cool. It actually surfaced again with Clock Radio, in a version that was of much higher quality, but was slower and dreamier than the original. If I were to record the song, I'd probably want to expand on the country-ish sound of the DAS version.

Speaking of country-ish sounds, I've always had the idea that the Smiths' "This Charming Man" would sound cool if done country-style. I'm not sure exactly why. Has this been done by anyone before?

A few other additions to my list:

• XTC's "Helicopter," which is just so much fun to sing.
  
• A YFF song, but I'm not sure which one. Actually, I was thinking about this earlier today, and then the song "Thirsty" came up randomly. I think that would be a fun song to do, as would "Hang Out Right."
  
• An early Posies song. Maybe "Under Easy"?
  
• Some video game music. I know this has become all the rage nowadays, but there's no reason I wouldn't want to jump on that bandwagon, is there?
  
• Oz-related songs. I'd be interested in setting King Rinkitink's songs to music, if I knew anything about writing music. I do get tunes in my head when I read the lyrics. (Hmm, this is the second time I've mentioned Rinkitink today.)
  

I think the important thing with cover songs is that you have to do something different with them, or what's the point? Because of that, if the arrangement of a song is the most important part, it would be pretty futile to attempt a cover, wouldn't it?

Meh, this whole exercise was pretty pointless. Maybe if I stopped devoting so much brainpower to hypothetical exercises like that, I'd get something accomplished. But what fun would that be?

And I was able to call DAS tonight, which was cool. It must have been about two years since the last time I heard an actual song on there.

Scans and Plans

This is probably a dumb question, but is there any way to delete memories? My plan to save things I want to look at later as memories isn't such a good idea if I'm going to have to keep them forever.

My dad left an old scanner behind when he left for New Mexico. It's so old that it doesn't have an outlet for a USB cable, just for those connectors with the pins. It does work, though. I have finally joined the twentieth century! Seriously, though, there were a few things I'd wanted to scan for a while, so it's good that I can now do that.

Speaking of scanned images, is there anywhere I can post such things for free? Probably not, right? I was trying to look into the web space offered by my current DSL provider, but it was too complicated and I didn't have the time. (Stupid springing forward! I could have USED that extra hour!) Besides, I don't know how much longer I'm going to have that service. Maybe bethje will upload some things for me, but it would nice if I just had my own convenient storage space for such things.

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