Again it has been months since I have updated in this blog. However, my return brings great substance, as I have accepted the music challenge of Andy Khouri to determine my 100 most favorite songs of the 2000’s.
Quite a lofty task that I have been working on for about a month now. Honestly, when Andy told me about this challenge, I was able to create a playlist within a matter of hours that basically had everything in it that will be included in my list. I put the playlist on my iPod and listened to it all the way through several times. It was with me on my travels to Philadelphia, Washington DC, and Mississippi, helping me to unwind on the planes after experiencing a tremendous amount of stress and anguish from witnessing incredible poverty throughout the country.
While the songs vary drastically in genre, mood, and depth, this exercise has helped to me remember and recognize the centrality of music to who I am as a person. That’s the special thing about music, it gets inside of you. And its personal. What sounds good to your ears may not sound good to the next person. But oh well, at least it’s making you feel good as the sound waves reverberate across your ear drums. That is unless you’re listening to this and in that case, STOP. STOP NOW.
So in the coming weeks, I’ll be posting my list in increments of 20. At the end of the year I am going to try and figure out a way to make a zip file of all the songs in numerical order so that anyone who wants to listen to my list can download it. Let’s begin!
