MUSIC

These are the CD's in my car.
I would change them more often, but the player is in my trunk.

	1 Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill This CD deserves all the hype. It is nostalgic and powerful. She is morally strong, which is a nice change from contemporary music.
	2 Mass of Creation - Marty Haugen I'm told this is one of the most popular masses used. Our Church sings this version, including this Kyrie. Listening to this in the car makes commuting more peaceful.

	3 Yoshikazu Mera - Mother's Songs Yoshikazu Mera sang the song in the Japanese original Princess Mononoke. A classical Counter Tenor, his Japanese folk songs are haunting and lush.
	4 Rusted Root - When I Woke The "I want to protest the IMF in Seattle and go to Burning Man" band. I have not kept up with them, other than through LAUNCH, but I assume they are still doing the same "people back to the earth" music they did in 1994. They have a website. I love this font so much, I copied it for Nightline's "Burning Man" show.

Django Picture

Not the real cd cover - this nice pic is from the WBUR website

5 Django Reinhardt
Borrowed from my sister. If you're getting into swing, jazz, guitar, or Esquivel, this will snuggle into your collection nicely.

6 Dick Dale - King of the Surf Guitar
Dick Dale visited our generation with Tribal Thunder, but this collection of his earlier stuff is the best. Then he became a household name with the Pulp Fiction soundtrack. Pick up this CD and find out why he shows up on all those "History of Rock" shows.

I listen to CD's when I'm not listening to NPR or evangelist Malcom Smith cassettes.

At work, I used listen to Launch.com, at one time coolest concept in music radio ever, and everything interactive media was designed to be. This Internet radio station used to play songs that you liked based on "ratings" you give the songs or artists. It will also "recommended" songs based on the music that you played most often.
Select DJ Jacksos to hear my station, a mix of 80's new wave, punk and goth, a little R+B and rap, with some "world" stuff on top. It has NOT been edited for content, so don't play it for the kids.

Sadly, LAUNCH was killed by Yahoo. Why is it that every time something good is discovered, a large company snatches it away and then props up an annoying simulacrum charging higher fees? Yahoo used to be cool, but so was Adobe and Microsoft in the distant past, I suppose.

You can still visit it, but it is now entwined with Yahoo crap, and they've removed the DJ function. I'd rather listen to a CD. Oh, and the new interface sucks too. :(

Here are CD's that are often in my car, but are not in the player today.

	Ani DiFranco - Not A Pretty Girl The most Righteous Babe back when she had a bone to pick with everyone. She screams, kicks and smacks you in the head. She dose not whine and could not care less if you respect her or not.
	Cesaria Evora - Cabo Verde An NPR favorite, she is husky, smoky and romantic. Your soundtrack if you want to appear international, cultured, hip without being too pretentious.

	Dixie Chicks - Fly Good for road trips when the whole family is in the car. Country Grrrls all grown up. Not as esoteric as Gillian Welch, but more appropriate for the little ones.
	The Smiths - Meat is Murder One of the few eighties bands that I carried into my adult life from art school. This album shares a permanent slot with Queen is Dead.

	Erika Badu - Mamma's Gun The first half of this album is great. I lost Baduizm one when my Civic was totaled, along with Maxwell and Big Black. I can't bring myself to buy them again, yet I miss them so.
	Sublime Very cool rock and roll. Whenever the limping WHFS can play four or five songs off a single album, you know it deserves a second look.

	Faye Wong Mega-star pop singer who played the girl with the crush in Chungking Express. While doing a search for Love and Rockets (the comic, not the band) I came across a fan site by Mark Rosenfelder, whose unusually broad world view impressed me enough to explore his entire site. Further investigation showed that Faye Wong has more fan sites than the X-files. The best of these is Josh's Faye Wong Page. It has become somewhat cluttered recently, but has a complete discography and mucho English translation.
	The Big Easy My 4-year old calls this CD "Pigs Eating." More movies should be this good. More soundtracks should be this strong.

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