100 Songs you should get familiar with...

100 songs that I really LOVE. Not ranked in order. This will give you an idea about how really messed up my musical tastes really are.
Here goes:
1) Sultans of Swing- Dire Straits
2) M79- Vampire Weekend
3) Nigga Nature-Tupac (Interesting side note, he was named after a famous Incan Tupac Amaru; his mom heard the name and gave it. Crazy. When I first got to my mission, there was the Tupac Park and I thought that for some reason they just really liked rap there)
4) Hit em High, Hit em Low- JT Money
5) Sierra Leone- Kanye West
6) D-I-E 4 Y-O-U – Family Force Five
7) Hey There Delilah- Plain White T’s
8) Cannonball- Damien Rice
9) Zombie Nation- Kernkraft
10) Tonight, Tonight- Smashing Pumkins
11) Album of the Year- The Good Life
12) Angels or Devils- Dishwalla
13) Dagostoni Tae (Mai ee Mai oo)- O-zone
14) Cabron- Red Hot Chili Peppers
15) While my Guitar Gently Weeps- George Harrison/Beatles
16) You Don’t Know Me- Ben Folds/Regina Spektor
17) Crazy- Gnarls Barkley
18) Burn One Down- Ben Harper
19) Flake- Jack Johnson
20) Boten Ana- Basshunter
21) I’m an Alchoholic- Xzibit
22) High Road- Fort Minor
23) Layla- Eric Clapton (and whatever his band was called)
24) My Name Is Jonas- Weezer (But lets be honest, I could take the next 10-15 slots and fill them with Weezer, same with Jack Johnson, and even Basshunter)
25) The Next Episode- Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg/Nate Dogg (I’m a sucker for anything that has Nate Dogg on it)
26) Killing Me Softly With His Song- The Fugees
27) Total Eclipse of the Heart- Bonnie Tyler (Especially the techno version.)
28) These Words- Natasha Bedingfield
29) Shut Up- Black Eyed Peas
30) Hey Baby Club Mix- Dj Otzi
31) One Fifty One Rum- Caribou Lou
32) Five Brothers- Marty Robbins
33) Asi Fue- Orishas
34) In the Shadows- The Rasmus
35) Bonita- Jarebe de Palo
36) California Dreaming- Mamas and the Papas (The techno version is really awesome aswell)
37) The Floor- Rooney
38) Walk Don’t Run- The Ventures
39) Bad Luck by Design- Brand New
40) Art is Hard- Cursive
41) Recluse- Cursive (I know, two from Cursive, but I can’t separate them)
42) Driftwood- Travis
43) SOS- Rihanna
44) With Eyes Closed- Kalai (If you don’t have Damien Rice and Kalai on your IPOD...you need to get it)
45) Lock and Key- Mason Pepper
46) Follow Through- Gavin Degraw
47) Won’t Back Down- Tom Petty
48) Hit em’ up Style- Blu Cantrell
49) I Believe in a thing Called Love- The Darkness
50) Solitary Man- Neil Diamond
51) Stayin Alive- Bee Gees
52) Disco Ball World- David Garza
53) Lake Pontchartrain- Ludo (Thanks Rage, this was a good snag, although I like their acoustic version better and don’t have it)
54) Gimme, Gimme, Gimme (a man after midnight)- ABBA ( I like Madonna’s rip off too but ABBA IS GREAT)
55) Otta Control- 50 Cent ( I LOVE 50, but my favorite string of vocals of his is one where he records to Eminem’s “Till I Collapse”; check that our)
56) Rap Game- G Unit/ D12
57) Man in Black- Jonny Cash (Or Folsom Prison, sorry, can’t hide my love for this guy. Also his cover of Hurt= Priceless)
58) Kalamazoo- Primus
59) No One- Alicia Keys
60) The City is at War- Cobra Starship
61) Time is Running Out- Muse (Honestly, my favorite band. Next thirty spots to them if I had to.)
62) Young and Proud- Ace of Base
63) Under Pressure- Queen (Can’t even begin with Queen, but suffice it to say they are great)
64) Runnin Scared- Roy Orbinson
65) El Condor Pasa- Huayanay (Or by Bamboo Peru, he’s awesome)
66) Intergalactic- Beastie Boys (Video Sabotage… We all love it)
67) Funks Your Brother- Fatboy Slim
68) Good Vibrations- Beach Boys
69) Moment of Clarity- Jay Z
70) Sound of Silence- Simon and Garfunkel
71) Cupid- Pistolita.
72) Llueve Sobre La Ciudad- Los Bunkers
73) Hospital Beds- Cold War Kids
74) In Keeping the Secrets of Middle Earth- Coheed and Cambria
75) La Camisa Negra- Juanes
76) Die Alone- Ingred Michelson
77) Time Running- Tegan and Sara
78) I Know You Want Me- Pitbull/ Calle Ocho
79) I Hope You Die- Bloodhound Gang (Love these guys)
80) Colorado Sunrise- 3OH3! (These Guys too. In fact, for Bloodhound Gang and 3OH3! I invented a genre of music for my Itunes, I call it: Electrocrunk)
81) Bowl of Oranges- Bright Eyes
82) Pa’ Bailar (Siempre Quiero Mas)- Julieta Venegas/ Bajofondo
83) Beautiful People- Marilyn Manson
84) Sweet Dreams/Get This Party Started (dance mix) – Busta Rhymes / Pink
85) Frijolero- Molotov
86) Brick in the Wall- Pink Floyd
87) In the End- Linkin Park (Lots of good stuff there, but no time or room)
88) Turn the Beat Around- Vickie Sue Robinson
89) Lets Go- Trick Daddy
90) Look What You’ve Done- Jet
91) Como Hago Ahora- Eddie Herrera
92) Don’t Stop Believing- Journey
93) Gangster’s Paradise- Coolio
94) Eleanor Rugby- Godhead (I love the Beatles version too, but this is good for anger)
95) Sway (techno version) - Pussycat Dolls (Spanish original is good also Micheal Buble’s version)
96) Authority Song- Jimmy Eat World
97) El Santo Grial- Mago De Oz (Heavy metal spaniards. There is a wicked riff that covers a Hungarian folk Song. Verdict: ROCK)
98) Baby Got Back- Sir Mix-a-Lot
99) Fools Rush In- Elvis Presley
100) They Don’t Really Care About Us- Michael Jackson

Wow. This is a good list. I could go to 500 easily enough I think. Surely 250 without too much difficulty. But I will stop now as I am sure you are bored with this thread. I would encourage all who read to pick your three faves FROM THIS LIST and post them as comments. I’d be interested to know.

I just ate beef stew.

Yep. It's true. And I really enjoyed it. Washed it down with a glass of grape juice from concentrate, and ate some bread. Life is just too busy these days. I feel like I can't be my normal happy go lucky, carefree self. I am glad that one of my jobs is about toast. Although I have been barely showing up there at all since I started school. The dance group is probably not going to see much of us either from here on out. One because we are so busy, another because they are not so cool.
Classes.
17 credit hours. My most enjoyable class? Photojournalism. Time consuming? Newswriting. Most asinine class? Media Law. But that's mostly because the Professor is driving me bloody mad. She is annoying and entirely to clownish for my tastes. Plus I feel like I am a jury she is rambling to.
Bang. Too much fun. I think I am addicted to it. Last night I got some banging in and some super inappropriate comments. Asher was there, along with new guy Nick. And Michele and Alan and Malu of course. It was great, Asher even brought floats. For those of you who are unfamiliar with bang, it is a card game that is something like "Murder in the Dark" and the Old West. Good times.
Anywho, I need to get on with my duties, later.


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PS. Click the above link to check out what I have been up to at the DU for the last 3 weeks.

Moving: Oh how I hate thee.

Well, there comes a time in every man’s life when he must pack up all his crap and move. Let’s just say that this sucks. Every one knows what I am talking about here. First you have to box up your stuff. This his were you realize that your mental projections of how much stuff you have was ridiculously short of reality. There are things like bathroom supplies and cleaning stuff and your clothes. Snowboards, electronics, furniture… Then you need a way to move it. In our case, an old purple power stroke that was resurrected after being dead for over two years to just barely make the move and then died again. Then you have to carry all you of your garbage in and out, out and in. Just a note, this is a bad time to fall out of a tree, which I did, and injure your lower back. This makes moving just that much worse. There is more to the story of course. After you move you things into the new apartment, it’s a long ordeal to place them in their respective areas. And then you find that BYU housing is OLD and CRAPPY and only provides one cable outlet by way of internet. Than you have to clean your old apartment. All of this can make life a drag for a few weeks. But hey, at least Now our house has less spiders.
Anyway, I work all the time, I dance on my spare time with Malu. That’s all I got.

28 de Julio= I wore a dress and danced in front of a lot of Peruvians

Here is what we were up to on the 24th of July. Aside from dominating in the morning at volley ball and horse shoes at the Sweat family reunion, we went and danced at two places in Salt Lake. The Peruvian Independence day fell on a Tuesday and that was lame for all of the Peruvian people here so all of the celebrations went down on Pioneer Day. This video has all of our dances, but the first two we danced again at the second place and better. At about seven and a half minutes, you can see me in drag:). Honestly though, the dance is from Cuzco, called Turkuy. This dance has the skirt and such because the Peruvians somehow found out about the Spain/Turk conflicts and decided to implement some of the Turkish dance trappings to tick of the Spanish in Peru. -The enemy of my enemy is my friend- Anyway. Enjoy.

It's hot, and I have no AC.

Last week:
Camping
New Job, Water Reclamation
Wake boarding
Peruvian dance practice
Lots of Driving.

The Funny pic is just to make this post less lame.

Clothes

Today my wife got mad at me. This isn’t terribly uncommon, or surprising. I am juvenile and impossible most of the time. But, today she was mad at something that surprised me. Apparently, I am too practical. She told me that I dress like a bum, and that sometimes I am an embarrassing eyesore. Of course she didn’t put it like that, that is something I’d say, but that was the gist of it. I was disturbed at this thought, then determined to argue. Unfortunately, she is right. Politicchic will no doubt whole heartedly back this up. I was in denial for a while, but when we got back to our house, we went through all of my clothes and I have to admit, I’m a poorly dressed hobo. My two newest t-shirts Malu brought to me from Peru. Before that, two shirts that my sister sent to me on my mission. Oh, and one “Lucky to by Irish” shirt my brother gave me for Christmas. I’m not Irish. Where did all my clothes come from? Gifts, plays, yard sales, DI, and just random free ones. I have not bought a new shirt since the Oscar the Grouch and Slacker t-shirts that I bought when I was 14 or 15. I got some shorts from that time period as well. I bought a pair of pants at Mervyns (SP?) when it went under because they were cheap. My sister bought me a pair just because she felt as my wife does. Got a pair for Christmas from my mother. Tis a sad state. As I was explaining to Malu how I had aquired all of my clothes, and hats, I realized that I am a bum. I don’t care about clothes. I am happy not being naked, but I really don’t have a style, except scruffy. That’s a word for me. Scruffy. I have found clothes in apartments that I have moved into that I have kept because I like them. I have and use t-shirts that I got for being in plays when I was in 8th grade. Sad. I remember the Kenya Breweries t-shirt that my sister made me chuck because you could see through it. Also the Blue Nike t-shirt that was too big for me in seventh grade and finally met it’s demise after the mission looking like a holey muscle shirt. Or how about the green shants that were made of parachute nylon and finally ripped all the way up the backside? Or my tough green shants that I currently am wearing as I write this, though the fade and worn areas render them mostly tan? I get attached to my clothes and I’m cheap, that’s all I can say. Sorry. I really am. It’s just a tribute to my not really being concerned about other people’s perceptions. But alas, there is a person who’s perceptions I cannot ignore, and therefore: the light blue Nike hat, the Pink Floyd baseball T, the Oscar t-shirt, all the flannel, the Duchesne Eagle muscle shirt, the Music Man, the long sleeved red shirt, the slip on black shoes, the gray hat, the Old School Denver Broncos t-shirt, the green and white baseball T and other articles are all being discarded. Some will find their way to DI, some will become rags to clean with, and some will be tossed outright. This was sad for me. I thought Malu was going to have a seizure she was so pleased when she tossed my light blue Nike hat (One of the only 2 fitted hats I have ever bought in my life- the other one Steven stole). I loved that hat. It went golfing with me more than I can recall, and to concerts, and to Peru. Oh well. Maybe now I can become better dressed and more presentable. Maybe one day I will be a snappy dresser like unto, dare I say it, BEN JENSEN? I doubt it. In the last ten years, I have probably spent less than $250 for clothes. Not even Mason Jennings can make me feel better about losing some of my favorite clothes, who I am currently listening to. Next time I will talk of happier things, such as Peruvian dancing and the antics therein. But for now, I’m spilling out some of a proverbial 40 on the ground for my homies that didn’t make it.

These are tributes to my fondest childhood.

Well, you maybe have too much spare time on your hands already. I assume this because you are blogging and lets face it, nobody is doing this as a number one priority item. So, I will not feel bad about recommending these videos for your viewing. The people in the video obviously had more free time than you do now...