My Music: A Meme

I saw this meme on Zeldman's site a few days ago. But recently the torch was passed my way via Rev. George so I figured what the hell, I can prolly do it.

Total volume of music on my computer:
I'm going to count my external hard drive because I don't store any MP3s on internal anymore. So, that being said, total volume of music? 263 GB, approximately 30k songs. I haven't calculated the cumulative time of all that music, largely because I'm afraid to add them all to my iTunes library. I use it as a record store of sorts. If I want to buy it, I check the drive to see if I don't already own it, so far I'm 8 for 10.

The last CD I bought
Uh...The Garden State Soundtrack. For my wife. She loves it. For me, it would be the last song I downloaded...Matisyahu, King Without A Crown

Song playing right now
This isn't a fair question. Nothing as I started this, but when I went to look at the library to check my stats, a song started playing. That song, One Minute Massacre by Mix Master Mike. Now, at this moment, Rusholme Ruffians, by The Smiths is playing.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me

• Matisyahu - King Without A Crown
• Van Morrisson - Madame George
• Yo La Tengo - Don't Say A Word (Hot Chicken #2)
• Fabolous - Into You
• Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)

Five people to whom I'm passing the baton
I'm not sure if all of them have a forum for showing this information but, here we go: TravelChick, Alex, Peter, Ami, and Tank.. If you don't have a place, post it in a comment on here.

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I'm Creeped By ♥ NYC.

Walking out of the office yesterday, I was ushered across the street by some member os the swat team. While I'm some what used to seeing men with machine guns around the city, specifically in Times Square and Grand Central, at my work was a little off putting.

Aparently in the early morning hours a grenade went off in front of the British consulate. This obviously sparked immediate reaction whereby the city went on alert.

My building which houses the agency I work for is also home to a Middle Eastern consulate. The perimeter of the block was guarded by men with big guns, and other men sitting in big black trucks, which I only assume turn into big guns when a button is pressed.

Security in general seemed to be stepped up. By my apartment, some 1.5 miles away from work, there was increased police presence, including several extra details at the subway stop and all along the street.

The irony (I think) of this increased security is that the jewelry store around the corner from my house was robbed overnight. I guess it wasn't an important block.

Today there was a suspicious package found under the Manhattan Bridge. Many of my co-workers were late to work because of it. In fact a rumor began that it might have been a bomb. Turns out we don't know what it was, but confirmed is that the bomb rumor starter is a dick.

*****
On the way into work today, I was listening to End Of The Party by The English Beat. It's perfect for that gray, cool breezy morning commute.

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