Story of our Lives Vol. 1

The first real post will be a download opportunity; It's a two-parter, on filesharing sites that doesn't have ridiculous limits. The files are from a mixtape that I put together in the summer of 1992, after some of my friends from the previous three or four years had drifted away, or, in the case of my closest friend at the time, joined the Air Force. It's mostly music that meant something more to me than the usual tune on the radio.
I had always held music closer to my heart than most, and some songs have a strong emotional and nostalgic pull to them. The mixtapes are either long lost or broken, but a powerful memory for things that aren't really important to essential life is a facet of mine; thus, I was able to piece together most of the 11 volumes of mixtapes covering 1989 to 1998. The first, which I'm giving to you, covered 1989, 1990, and some of '91, I think. I'm not going to describe the importance of these songs right now; I want to see if anyone downloads and listens to them first.

story 1a:

track listing: http://www.zshare.net/download/151856748292451d/

1. God - John Lennon
2. If I was your Girlfriend - Prince
3. Heartbreaker - Led Zeppelin
4. Ramble On - LZ
5. (you may notice that there's a skip between 4 and 6; there was a GnRoses song there that meant something else to me, concerning a girl I had a crush on in high school, but it had several discriminatory comments that most of you would disagree with and I don't care for much myself, either, so it's blank)
6. Fish Cheer - Country Joe and the Fish
7. Christmastime is Here - Vince Gauraldi
8. Where've you Been - Kathy Mattea
9. Positively 4th St - Bob Dylan
10. Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
11. I'm yo Pusher - Ice-T

story 1b: http://www.filesend.net/download.php?f=e703c1f106c10063b94fecdbb2ad82cb

1. Castles made of Sand - Jimi
2. Suite Judy Blue Eyes (live at Woodstock) - CSN
3. Don't Believe the Hype - PE
4. Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles
5. Here comes the Hammer - MC Hammer
6. (nothing but) Flowers - Talking Heads
7. Fool in the Rain - LZ
8. Love Shack - B-52's
9. Bold as Love - Jimi
10. Sister Moon - Sting
11. Little Wing - Jimi

there you go; hope you enjoy.

Hola

I decided to start one of these things myself, since Chris did so. There's a few things that I can do here that probably would get me kicked off MySpace.

About myself: On the backside of thirty, single as Hell, currently unemployed whilst recovering from medical problems.

Avid sports fan, although I generally look at it through a journalistic point of view, except when it comes to Auburn football, Roger Federer, and the New England Patriots; I get emotional about these three since my sole goal in watching them on TV is to see them get their asses kicked.

Avid music fan. Favorites include Prince, R.E.M., Radiohead, Talking Heads, The Smiths (although not as much as Pink James), the Beatles' later stuff, U2, yacht rock, country music from the early 40's until about 1983, some classical music, Coltrane, and crappy stuff like Sweat Talley. One of the reasons I'm starting this blog is to share some of this with you, although I'm not going to post whole albums like most of the music blogs where I've built most of my collection.

Other interests: Roma's Pizza (although it's a great delicacy for me now, with Diabetes and all), hippy chicks, Garrison Keillor, and I am also an avid film nut. I'll be posting various lists about movies in the future.

Hope this thing is worth reading at times. Send all comments through the proper channels. Enjoy the free music that I'll share.