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I'm not doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

For just a few more moments, let me indulge myself before I get to the "shoulds" in my life.

You see, I bought a VEI (very expensive iPod) the other day and now I'm loading my entire music collection on it. Yup - that wall of CDs is going to fit into this relatively tiny little box. Wow. Tonight it is Jane's turn.

Jane and I go way back. Of course, she did that name change thing and I'm a bit unsure about that. She'll always be  Jane to me ... she is so entrenched in me that it doesn't matter what she does next.

A while back, there was a Vox QoTD about what kind of music you listen to when you are blue. I noticed some respondants dividing their responses into "music that lifts the mood and gets you out of the funk" and "music that lets you wallow in the delicious funkiness". For me, Jane can do both, but she is especially good at the former. There are Jane songs that can, with only a few notes or words, lift me straight out of whatever dark place I might be in.

There are so many gems on her first album, Jane Siberry (1981). I think she was in her mid-20's and this was a self-produced indie effort. Been down memory lane quite a bit with this tonight. Here is a song for all those who fancy themselves writers here ... :-)

Three years later came No Borders Here. How can anyone listen to Symmetry and not decide that the world is a

pretty special place?  (... you can't chop down a sym-me-tree ... you can't chop down a sym-me-tree ...) I know that Mimi On The Beach is a popular choice from this album and it is a terrific song. I'm probably the only person in the world who has a huge soft spot for the quirky and indecipherable Map of the World (Part I). It takes me right back to summers in undergrad days, lying back on the grass under a blue sky, imagining the possibilities.

Speckless Sky was the album that really launched me into Jane. After hearing this album (originally purchased in vinyl in the mid-80's), I went back and found the first two. How can one POSSIBLY be in a bad mood after hearing One More Colour?!? Should anyone require this information in the future, if I'm in a crabby mood, just the first few notes of Map of the World (Part II) will perk me right up.

For wallowing, there is the world's most exquisite break-up song ... The Taxi Ride.

I really have to leave it there, I think, and get to my "shoulds". And that is only the first three albums ... there is so much more ... do stay tuned ...