Happy birthday, Sue!

What timeframe of your life are you supposed to become attached to the music of?

Is there a supposed? Me, I'm very simple -- British music of the 80s, Jamaican music of the 70s, the 60s music I discovered in the late 80s, and hip hop from 1995.

I love Simply Red, and I love The Eurhythmics (see above).

There was Prison Break yesterday? Dammit, I have a lot of TV to watch.

I grew up on folk and "world" music, for the most part, and barely listened to anything else outside of the (generously-defined, but still) folk category until I got to college. Oh, and musicals. And Queen. Since then, I've spent a lot of time and energy (and, oh, so much money) on finding new bands and genres that I like. Still, to a large extent, my musical tastes were formed early on by my parents, and then by my camp counselors.

For those of you who don't play around in the music thread, there was a quiz thingy last week sometime where you went through the list of the Top 100 songs from the year you graduated high school, and checked off any that wouldn't make you change the channel immediately if they came up on the radio. I knew maybe 10 of the top 100 for my year. It was interesting to see how few people actually liked most of the top songs from their year.

I have three brand-new holes in my arm

But at least it's over now, and no lockjaw!

With 12 to go! I think this is the Royals' year.

If they win all their remaining games they'll avoid a 100-loss season. They will need some help to grab the wildcard though, everyone in the American League will need to lose the rest of their games, and the season will have to extended from some reason to be named later.

I have three brand-new holes in my arm

Don't try lifting something off the shelf over your head for a few hours! Not sure why, but right after I got my tetnus shot, I sorta would lose strength in my arm if it was higher than my shoulder. So I dropped cans of catfood on my head in Target.

But at least it's over now, and no lockjaw!

I need to get additional hepatitis shots eventually, but yeah, the tetanus was not nearly as bad as I remembered it being.

the season will have to extended from some reason to be named later.

Oh, I can name the reason: The Yankees don't get into the playoffs.

My arm muscles do feel kind of funny. I can't decide if it's psychosomatic.

Yeah, I wasn't sure either. It didn't really hurt at the time, just didn't work quite right.

Cindy, I don't like the Eurhythmics either. Just thought I'd let you know you're not alone. And DH just played me some more recent Annie Lennox, and while I concede she has a good voice, the overall style is way too breathy and electronic for my tastes.