Eight! Eight remarks on music, ah-ah-ah!

I have lost track of the count as to how many Remarks this has been, but luckily I have not been so verbose on here that I can't just look it up. So anyways: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7

Welcome to the land where the winters tried to kill us and we said: we will not be killed.
Welcome to the land where the waters tried to drown us and we said: we will not be drowned.
Welcome to the land where we lost our loved ones and we said: we will still go on.

Yep. We're still on the Come From Away bullshit. Let's fukken go!

• I like it when I successfully identify what past-Kat was thinking. In this case, I went into "BoyPop" to make a folder for Matchbox Twenty...and it told me I already had one. Good job!


• Gods, I am going to have the mix tapes my Sir has made for me again, all in proper order, and findable, and able to actually like.......put on my phone again! I am so excited about this.


• ...okay, not perfect. Wanted to put Matthew Ebel into Internet Geek Darlings, but couldn't find him. In Indie Rock or Whatever! That's pretty good too. He's both! (And more recently electronica, but I don't think that's his stuff I have)


• Matt & Kim! I should find out what they've done recently --they are a little duo who I know about specifically because they sold out and I think that's great!
  
  (They are the song in the background of this ad, which is my second-favourite alcohol commercial ever made¹. I am just such a sucker for dancing and history! And Daylight is a banger!)


• I have three separate folders of "Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies" --one correct (according to wikipedia), one with an ampersand instead, one with a misspelling. Well done, me!


• I love the layers and layers of history in this project. Things I've loved from so many different years and times and selves. And things from people who have loved me. It's grand!


• Maybe the funniest part of Come From Away is that nearly every ensemble member is sympathetic and interesting and charming...except for one of the two gay Kevin's, who is kindof an asshole. According to mom, the musical is largely based on a book, written by...the other gay Kevin. After they broke up. Is this a petty way to handle your breakup? Absolutely, but _very_ funny.


• Are....are Tubular Bells electronica or classical? Don't answer that, I know both my categories are ridiculous. (Also it's electronica, because "same category as Laurie Anderson" was literally my entire criteria here. I should get some Steve Reich. And make my boyfriend _flail_ by labeling it electronica, because damnit, I am not making a separate folder for Percussive Minimalism, and these are the correct vibes.


• Mitch Hedberg! He's not going into the regular music stuff, just the general folder, but I'm damn glad to have his stuff. ("Ducks eat fo FREE at SUBWAY" is a phrase I have probably thought at average of once a month for the last twenty years. To say nothing of every time I ever pass a doubletree hotel...)


• I have a small flaw with this whole thing, in that at some point I was given the entire discography from the first Guitar Hero. And...it is not labeled thusly. So I have a _fuckton_ of just single tracks scattered across various folders, that I can kinda look at and be like "oh yeah, this is probably part of that". It would maybe be a classy idea sometime to collect them all into one folder, like the other, better labeled, compilations I've got.


• I am a little surprised that I only have one My Chemical Romance song. Like, I was never that kind of alt-kid, but I would've expected to gather more somewhere along the way?


• HM. I am concerned by finding a track in a folder "Guitar Hero 3". This absolutely sounds like a compilation folder I would have --I have tons of tracks at this point from "Rock Band 2". Except we have just entered the "n's", and I haven't seen any other tracks for this yet. So...I am not sure what's going on there. I sorta feel like more than halfway through the alphabet and *well* over halfway done the folders I should not be starting new compilations. :/


• .......okay, I also just found one track from the Dr. Demento 20th anniversary album, which I have not seen any others from, so maybe it's not too late to be starting new compilations?
  
  Also maybe someday I should find disc 1 of this, because we got disc 2 at a garage sale when I was a kid and basically wore grooves into the CD (shuttup) from listening to it so many times.
  
  ....yes this means I *do* know every word to Homecoming Queen's Got A Gun, which YouTube very obliging served me earlier, because sometimes algorithms can be taught :3


• Ah! Interesting, I don't think I realized how long I've had the various Mouth Albums! I am somehow surprised that the first came out in 2014. Sometimes the internet makes time very fucky.


• I love seeing the phrase "New Broadway Cast" because that does not tell me _the slightest_ bit about what it's gonna be. (The Rocky Horror Show, it turns out)


• "There She Goes My Beautiful World"!!!!! <3 <3 <3!!!!! (I should get some actual Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, this is the only one I have but it's SO GOOD.)


• I should probably investigate more Nirvana at some point? I was jusssst a couple years too young for really being a grunge kid (much how like I missed out on the Riot Grrl scene, a thing I have vaguely regretted for many years), so I should make up for it sometime.


• Oh hey, another mashup artist who gets a solo folder! Norwegian Recycling, notable especially for being the _first_ mashup artist I ever heard, I think!


• Oh no. The last folder I am going to do today is labeled "Nyota". This is a deep cut, but that was the name of my first smartphone (replaced by Ida, replaced by Janet-Keeley because I couldn't pick which television admin assistant I wanted to name the most recent after). Anyways, since I am positive I don't have any tracks sung by Nichelle Nichols, this one hundred percent means this folder has voice memos or recordings or whatever from that phone.
  
  ........I am genuinely a little scared to open it.
  
  OH GOOD. THERE ARE FIVE OF THEM, ALL FROM MARCH 9 2014. THIS IS GONNA BE GREAT TO GO THROUGH.
  
  I did it. _shockingly_ not feeling dysphoric about my voice, which is genuinely unusual? They're snippets of me writing a little song, which is actually a cute concept even if they don't actually make a cohesive whole. No you can not hear them, ever.
  
  (This did prompt me to look at what voice memos are in my current phone, which I should _seriously_ back up sometime. I have two recordings of The Octopus Provides Illumination² (which I should really look at again before YTS in case I want to workshop it more there), the chorus to a *different* octopus song (currently unwritten because I don't have anything more than the very stupid and funny sing-alongy-bit, which has the same tune as Octopus Provides Illumination because I all these concepts of "I should write a song about Octopodes" hit me like a bus one day at Harmony week and it took a few hours to sort them out), and 45 seconds labeled "bluesy improv stuff" which actually sounds great and I should write into a real song? I don't have any recordings of the tune for "my hands are clean but my elbows have sinned" which is okay because I also don't have any more lyrics than that, but I should record at least that line at some point.)
  
  Also I have like...24 and a half minutes of various bell recordings because I am a _dweeb_. On multiple axes!)
  
  In other dire news though, I know for a fact that I have a single fully recorded song from me in my assorted music pile and I am _deeply_ unexcited to find it, because again, my voice makes me feel pretty damn dysphoric sometimes.


• Okay, leaving off with 590 folders to go, and 11674 tracks in my library. Astute readers will notice that that means I went through over a hundred folders and less than 200 tracks. PROGRESS.

~Sor
MOOP!

1: SPEAKING of things that always make me cry. Here is a two minute short film that in the last three seconds remembers it is also advertising an alcohol. It's _so good_.

2: uggghhhhhhh one of my favourite verses in this includes the lines "from each their ability to each their need; you shouldn't do eight times the rest of the team" but I'm ANNOYED because an octopus only has _four_ times the arms of a regular human, except that's much less obvious and uggghhhhhhh writing songs is haaardddddd why does anyone ever do this?

(actually, writing songs is super easy and I do it constantly. Writing *good* songs --which is to say, editing or rewriting songs-- is hard. But I should do it! I should sit down with all these stupid little songs and work them out better, at least for myself to have more canonical versions!

...I should also record "wet butt" sometime, because again, canonical versions and data is cheap. (especially because I swear I had a second part to it, and I cannot remember it right now. This is my biking in the rain song that I sing for myself.)