Pretend, for a moment, that I’m a dude
September 1st, 2010Our friend Eddie is leaving shortly for a Jesuit seminary, and he is allowed to bring ten books and ten CDs (and an ipod, but that’s beside the point). Since he told us this last week I’ve been fixated on my ten. I can’t even fathom ten books, because really, if you tell me I can have only ten books you’re really saying “you can choose three.”
But ten CDs – that I can do. Because it’s not forever. He can switch them out whenever he wants. So let’s just pretend. Pretend I’m going to be a Jesuit, because truly, if I had the required parts and was called to be a priest SURELY, if there is some rational god, I’d be a Jesuit (but not he icky conservative kind – I’d be the kind that gets arrested like it’s a bodily function).
Here are my ten. Right now. On the brink of autumn. These are not necessarily my ten most important or favorite albums of all time, just Ten For Now. For pretend seminary. Peace be with you.
Iron & Wine – The Creek Drank the Cradle
Paul Simon – Graceland
Neutral Milk Hotel – In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Gillian Welch – (Time) The Revelator
Neil Young – Live at Massey Hall
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left
Joanna Newsom – Milk-Eyed Mender
The Avett Brothers – The Gleam EP
Ryan Adams – Cold Roses
Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
What are your ten?
September 2nd, 2010 at 11:33 am
Okay- I will just say that I applaud the Cold Roses pick- I’ve been going through an intense Ryan Adams re-awakening (you know when you hear a CD that you haven’t heard in years and get really back into it) and thanks to my library, have branched into his band Whiskeytown…. I love the Pneumonia CD, and Faithless Streets. So there’s my three.
I would also add in
Pinback- Loro
TV on the Radio- Return to Cookie Mountain
Sun Volt- any
Flaming Lips- the Soft Bulletin
Neko Case and Her Boyfriends (this is her country band before her solo stuff or the New Pornos)
Add in the Whiskeytown and Ryan Adams and the Cardinals- that’s +3
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