iTunes Genius

I am a fan of iTunes, despite some of its more obvious faults, and I think Genius is a pretty cool mod. Most of the time, it has no idea what I want to listen to. But every once and a while, it gets something right.

I created a playlist off of Aimee Mann's 'Wise Up' (which they didn't have on MixTape,) but I tried to put the rest of the playlist on there as best as I could.

the Playlist (click to listen)
1. Wise Up - Aimee Mann (not on playlist because they're poopy, but listen to it here. Or you can listen to my college a cappella group, All-Night Yahtzee, do it here.)
2. Winter - Tori Amos (originally 'Precious Things' on the playlist, but mixtape didn't have that, so I subbed)
3. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
4. Postcards from Italy - Beirut
5. Brick - Ben Folds
6. Warning Sign - Coldplay
7. Bedshaped - Keane (originally She Has No Time, listen to that here. And listen to the kick-ass version by the UNC Clef Hangers, with solo sung by Anoop Desai, here. No really, listen to it. I actually like it better than the original.)
8. Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel) - Billy Joel
9. Where is My Mind - The Pixies
10. Paranoid Android - Radiohead
(originally Mr. Zebra by Tori Amos was in here, but I couldn't find anything I want to sub for it, so listen to it, here.)
11. Tymps (The Sick in the head Song) - Fiona Apple
12. The Luckiest - Ben Folds
13. We Never Change - Coldplay
14. Battle of Who Could Care Less - Ben Folds
15. Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead
16. Elephant Gun - Beirut
17. Falling for the First Time - Barenaked Ladies
18. Sunshine - Keane
19. Still Fighting It - Ben Folds
20. Landed - Ben Folds
21. A Rush of Blood to the Head - Coldplay
22. Don't Cry - Seal
23. Army - ben Folds
24. Criminal - Fiona Apple

We went out for drinks with my co-workers last night, so dinner was quick pasta with cheese (it's also lunch today,) but tonight, I'm contemplating making baked teriyaki-brown sugar salmon with brown rice. Need to figure out a veggie, since I'm pretty sure all we have is onions or celery. We might have some frozen brussel sprouts. Maybe I'll chop those up and toss them in with the rice.

I'm excited, because our bananas are almost mushy enough to make banana bread, which is obv the best and most nutrious breakfast in the whole word. Especially when you slaughter cover it with brown sugar and butter. Obviously.

We went grocery shopping at the regular grocery store (as opposed to the Asian market) and spent $56 and saved $27, which I'd say is pretty fair. We got a bunch of chips, mainly because I had coupons so we could get them FREE (uhm, yes please free bag of Food Should Taste Good Sweet Potato chips?!) We're also contemplating starting to make our own trail mix again, since trail mix is expensive (although, the ingredients we like for trail mix are also expensive, but maybe not as expensive, so it works out,) like we used to in MA. See, when we lived in Boston, we bought one of those GIANT tubs of Utz cheese balls, like lard-os, and ate the whole thing. And then saved the tub and made a bunch of different kinds of (really bad for you) trail mixes that our friends LOVED, which included things like marshmallows and honey bbq chips. Clearly, we were concerned about losing weight. Anyway, it's fun to make trail mix, because you get to put exactly what you want in it. And exaclty what I want is chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate! Oh, and maybe some almonds.

Also bought a thing of dry roasted, un-salted peanuts that was on sale to make peanut butter with. Get excited.

I was listening to Lonely Avenue (Ben Folds & Nick Hornsby collaboration) this morning, and some of the lyrics to Practical Amanda really spoke to me. So I made a picture with them. Behold:

What about you guys? Any specific artist or band's lyrics speak to you?

-C

(p.s. because I just know you were worried, I'm probably still gonna do the accent vlog. I might make the boy do it with me, because we are from opposite ends of the east coast, so we say some things differently.)