Happy Monday morning. So when I was hiking Mount Whitney a couple weeks ago I brought my iPod to listen to music. Even though I felt fine the whole hike and made it to the top without any problems, I had the thought that if I were hiking Mount Everest or something actually hard and died on the mountain, what music would I want to be playing. I also wondered, if I had my iPod on random and was laying beside the trail half-frozen, what if some terrible song that I have on my iPod mostly as a joke, started playing and I had to sit there dying, listening to Since U Been Gone or something that Leslie has on my iPod that I don't even know about. You would hope that the last song would be something dramatic and deep (Goodbye Sky Harbor by Jimmy Eat World or the Birth and Death of the Day by Explosions in the Sky) or even ironically apropos (Don't Fear the Reaper by Blue Oyster Cult or Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor). Really though if I were freezing to death on the top of a mountain I would want to listen to songs about sunshine and being alive (A Summer Song by Chad and Jeremy or Syracuse by Pinback).
In other news, I'm planning a hiking/camping trip back to Mount Whitney for next August. Who's in?
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don't pretend like your love for kelly clarkson is my influence. she speaks to your soul, and that's ok. also, i'm in for next august. also, songs to die too? wow. morrrrbid. I'd pick johnny nash's i can see clearly now. you know, keep it light.
You mean Jimmy Cliff. Johnny Nash must be the bizarro version of Johnny Cash.
No, I mean Johnny Nash. Thank you very much.
Meh.
Double Meh.
TRIPLE MEH!
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