Intergalactic
It's "The Jessica Numbers".
When people share their "Top
25 Most Played" music lists complete with play counts, I am freshly
reminded that other people do not listen to music the way I do. I
listen to albums or little temporary mixes on loop all day long all day
all day, and sprinkled in I will get crushes on individual songs and
play them on individual endless loop. I stay in these little
ruts for a week or more on end. And this is how it comes to pass that
my #1 most played song has been played 387 times since I imported my
music library onto this computer a mere five months ago.
No one wants to hear about your cat.
The other day, I was telling Snark about my ingenious plan to wean the cat away from his habit of racing after me and leaping into the sink every time I enter the bathroom. He does this, with great vigor and consistency, because I began turning on a little stream of water for him to drink whenever he happened to be around. The entirely foreseeable leaping behavior is sub-optimal, though, what with the way he sheds all over the sink and the fact that I am often in the bathroom because I want to use the sink, say to brush my teeth, which is somewhat hampered by the presence of a furry, insistent creature filling my spittin' basin. (My ingenious plan, by the way, is to turn on the trickle of water in the bathtub, instead.)
Snark does not have this sink problem, because the cat is apparently capable of remembering that bearded human does not produce delicious water trickle, while russet human does. We were discussing all this, musing about the mind of the cat and its mysterious ways:
Me: Russet human supports life!
Snark: Hey, bearded human supports life too. You just give him water. I give him delicious food.
Me: True.
Snark: And yet he loves you better. Not rational.
Me (brilliantly): Ah, but I give him water. Whereas you are continually not giving him food.
It's true! For every time that Snark actually feeds him, there are probably dozens if not hundreds of times that the cat wants food and is denied. Whereas I am simply not implicated in the food question at all. Ergo, I win.
Comments
My usual way of listening to music is a whole album at a time, and since I got a car I have been leaving one album (or mix tape) in the car stereo for several days on end listening to it over and over. I'm always interested by people's random 10 posts though, so I have been experimenting a little with the shuffle feature. Not ultimately that random though since about 60% of the music on my iPod is by Robyn Hitchcock -- this doesn't really reflect my music collection as a whole, but I got the iPod right around the time I was really getting into Hitchcock. The couple of random 10 posts I've done so far are predictably weighted toward a single performer.