17 July 2008

coffee and music

I have often pondered the addictive properties of coffee.  On my days off, I make an entire pot of it.  I drink it throughout the day, usually finishing it up by one in the afternoon.  So that is about five hours (I am generally up by eight or eight thirty anymore).  My coffee pot makes ten cups, so two cups every hour, or one cup every thirty minutes.  Hopefully my math is right on that, forgive me if it isn't.  It just feels right having a pot going throughout the day.  Is that dependance?  

For work, it is close to half a pot, usually consumed before work and on my first break.  I've been at work before with no coffee, and it wasn't pretty.  I was a bit irritated at the end of the day.  I wasn't to the point of having cold sweats or the shakes, but still, I thought about that day and the one thing that sticks out is the no coffee.  At any rate, I am going to continue to drink it because it is so so tasty.  

Now on to music and my grudge with Entertainment Weekly:

EW released their lists of the 100 most influential movies, books, records, etc. in the past 25 years.  I agreed with plenty of what they had on their lists, except for the music.  There were some pretty fucked up choices.  I'm not going to stand here and say that I have listened, or even heard of, most of these albums.  But there are some crucial albums that didn't even make the top one hundred.  I can't even look at this list without getting pissed off about it.  The one thing that makes me mad is the fact that Rage isn't on their list.  I know not everyone enjoys that band, but the political aspects of their music is HUGE.  Every single one of their cd jackets has websites for political activism.  Thinking about this, I have complied the top ten records that I own that most people should own or at least look into.  Pretentious of me, isn't it?

10.  Beck:  The Information (you find out what constitutes music)
9.  Robert Plant and Alison Krauss:  Raising Sand (classic rock legend plus bluegrass legend equals awesome)
8. Pink Floyd:  The Wall (more than just stoner music)
7. Johnny Cash:  A Hundred Highways (It will send shivers down your spine if you are listening closely)
6. Loretta Lynn:  Van Lear Rose (yes, that Loretta Lynn)
5. The White Stripes:  Elephant and Icky Thump (a tie, these albums show diversity and maturity) 
4. Rage Against the Machine:  Evil Empire (People of the Sun is their most politically charged track outside of Take the Power Back)
3. U2:  War 
2. Led Zeppelin:  Led Zeppelin 
and number one is...





The Beatles:  Abbey Road (is there any doubt?)

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