Sifting through old playlists
Mar. 23rd, 2026 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wombat_sochoAn unexpected benefit of having to fall back on Windows Media Player has been finding that I had a dozen or so playlists that had been hiding somewhere on the hard drive, and most of them were still playable. It was a blast from the past listening to the old playlists, many of which are around 20 years old, including the one that horrified Melody (that playlist apparently got amended), and the one about my exes. So that's been fun, mostly; playing them has brought up a lot of memories, not all of them unpleasant.
There's a thread on X asking people the three songs they want played at their funeral. That hits a little close to home for me to want to hang it out in public, but I did ask Grok what it thought the three most appropriate songs to sum up my life would be. It came up with Cake's "Love You Madly" (haha, no), the Butthole Surfers' "Shame of Life" (oookay), and "something classical" like Holst's "The Planets." I thought James McMurtry's "Too Long in the Wasteland" and Beethoven's "Eroica" sympathy would be more apropos for #1 and #3, myself.
So while I was flipping through old posts about music looking for the second link supra, I wound up listening to more Beethoven, some Tchaikovsky, and finally Dvorak on YouTube. Nice, relaxing stuff.
There's a thread on X asking people the three songs they want played at their funeral. That hits a little close to home for me to want to hang it out in public, but I did ask Grok what it thought the three most appropriate songs to sum up my life would be. It came up with Cake's "Love You Madly" (haha, no), the Butthole Surfers' "Shame of Life" (oookay), and "something classical" like Holst's "The Planets." I thought James McMurtry's "Too Long in the Wasteland" and Beethoven's "Eroica" sympathy would be more apropos for #1 and #3, myself.
So while I was flipping through old posts about music looking for the second link supra, I wound up listening to more Beethoven, some Tchaikovsky, and finally Dvorak on YouTube. Nice, relaxing stuff.
