Ok back to I’m a dork: I have not one, but two copies of TLU…one on VHS and one on DVD, both from Target, paid full price for em, and have forced my children to watch them more than once.

Ok random question for anyone around 30 and up: Who remembers seeing an Austrailian animated/live action movie called “Dot and the Kangaroo”? I only know one other person who remembers seeing it.

Mine was “Everything I Do…I Do it For You” by Bryan Adams from the “Robin Hood: King of Thieves” soundtrack. I literally had an entire 60 min blank tape of just that song, recorded off the radio…cuz this was before I had a CD player with the magic repeat track feature.

I would lay in my room doing homework or what not, listening to that song endlessly…I think the tape eventually broke :(

Now its on one of my magical computer playlists, cuz I’m such a dork, that every song I was ever obsessed with I still love.

I, unfortunately, didn’t have a tape recorder (just a tape player) when I was younger, so I just sat by the radio and begged the DJ with my thoughts to play the songs I wanted. But if I’d had the recorder, I probably would have recorded the songs that way, too.

I remember wearing out TWO cassette tapes of Bob Seger’s Live Bullet back in the day. More recently, I played “I’m No Good” and “Tears Dry on Their Own” by Amy Winehouse on my Ipod for a week before I put it back on shuffle.

I’ll have to check out some of your favorites. I tend to listen to classic hits and need to explore some of the newer stuff out there.

I am so not into current music. I’m so lame that way. I did hear a song today by Linkin Park that is fairly current, I assume, and you’re right–all I had to do was google the few lines I memorized and POP! there was the song I heard & loved and then downloaded from iTunes in 10 seconds & then dragged & dropped to my iPod. Much better than an 8 track.

Itunes also keeps track of how many times you’ve listened to a song- embarrasing!

If I like a song, I’ll listen to it over and over until I know it off by heart backwards. I don’t know why I do this, but I’ll add it to my list of compulsions as well. I do the exact same thing with songs I don’t like, which answers the question that many of us ask: ” Why is it that we know all the words to a song we don’t like?”.

It’s amazing how quickly I tense up when someone looks through my playlist. I suddenly find myself rambling with excuses as to why I have such and such song and that “oh, I downloaded that track by accident I thought it was someone else, a friend of mine wanted me to burn a CD for them”. Strange.

To compare it to weight-related issues, I used to have the same insta-mortification when someone would open my refrigerator. ” Oh there’s a bake sale at work, my mom knows I love such and such so she loaded my freezer with it, they were on special so I stocked up etc etc…”.

Why do we feel the need to justify ourselves ?

I thought I was the only one grooving to really bad music that knows it’s bad music but is listening to it anyway. I’m glad I’m not the only one who has guilty pleasure music that they wouldn’t listen to with anyone else around. I mean, there are fine albums like Dark Side of the Moon, and there is bopping one’s head to SexyBack. I know it’s just fluffy pop, but it’s FUN and has a pleasing beat to it.