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• 1 xJane // Apr 29, 2008 at 6:31 am

  I like the convention of the Friday Random Ten: so often iTunes knows better what I want (need?) to listen to than I do. That, and you can totally tell things about a person by what’s on their iPod.

• 2 John // Apr 29, 2008 at 6:46 am

  I can see how those lists can communicate. I’ve only seen them in the feminist blogosphere–have you seen them elsewhere?

  This list wasn’t random. I was feeling down, and didn’t want to do a stereotypically emo blog post, so I just went through my library and picked the songs that expressed my melancholy and feelings of futility that evening. Synchronicity ii has some great lyrics for people who feel caught in the rat race:

  Another working day has ended
  Only the rush hour hell to face
  Packed like lemmings into shiny metal boxes
  Contestants in a suicidal race
  Daddy grips the wheel and stares alone into the distance
  He knows that something somewhere has to break

  Plus, it has Nessie!

• 3 xJane // Apr 29, 2008 at 3:57 pm

  Ah, for emo rock I go straight to Los Angeles by Sugarcult (
  

  This city’s killing me
  I want, I want, I want everything

  ) and LA Song (are we sensing a theme, here?) by Christian Kane (
  

  Sunshine turns the sky to gold.
  Warm, warm it’s always warm here,
  And I can’t take the cold .
  …
  The sky’s gonna open
  People going pray and crawl:
  It’s gonna rain down fire,
  Gonna burn us all

  )

• 4 xJane // May 5, 2008 at 7:01 am

  you know, I don’t think I have…but I always assumed that was because I spent too much time in the feminist blogosphere, as opposed to the fact that it was unique to it.

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