New Year: Summary of 2009

Hi! Since the new year is coming up I just thought I'd list up some of the most important things that happened this past year.

I was stupid enough to fall in love with a girl named Jackie.

I did work practice at a pre-school where I got to know some very wonderful children.

I fell out of love with Jackie.

I went to a great Diamanda Galás concert.

I fell in love with my best friend, we met in real life several times and spent lots of time together.

My cat Yuffie died.
She was eleven years old and had kidney failure.
Luckily my boyfriend/best friend was with me and he comforted me a lot.

My little sister Lydia went to America as an exchange student or whatever they call it these days.
She's not coming back to Sweden until next Summer.

I broke up with my amazing boyfriend/best friend, because I found someone else.
My ex doesn't wanna be friends anymore.
I'm gonna miss that beautiful man, but I'm falling in love again, which is great!
My new man's name is Stuart.

Diamanda Galás Concert

The Diamanda Galás Concert yesterday was great. She was singing so loud and shaking and moving around in her chair, it's the kind of music that can only be made very passionately, it's hard to keep still, because it makes you go out of control. She pounded that piano like she was murdering it, she actually even broke a key.

Everybody in the audience loved it, of course. People clapped their hands and stomped their feet and whistled and woo'd. She did some different songs, in some different languages. Her voice was perfect, of course. It ranges three and a half octaves. I'm no expert on these terms, but basically, she can scream pretty dang loud.

She looked fabulous, of course, at age 53, long black kinda messy looking hair, long black dress with some frills on it. She performed each and every song completely perfectly, not a single mistake in her voice. I love her music because it's so passionate. It can be about passionate sex, passionate love, passionate heartbreak or passionate disgust, it doesn't matter, all in all, passion is all the same.

In other news...

...My practice at the kindergarten is going great! I have lots of favorites, in fact, I think basically every child there is my favorite, but in a different way. Some children are just cuddlier than others, some are just cuter than others, some just need a lot of special attention and some just remind me of someone I know... So they're all special to me and they all have their unique qualities.

...I think my dad had a birthday recently. Oh, yes, he turned 57 the day before yesterday. I wonder if he got any presents.

...On the 21st I'll go on karate camp. It will mostly be younger kids there, I think, but whatever, it seems fun, sure, why not?

...On the 30th, my darling Fruppy is coming here. I love him so much. There are no two people closer than me and him.

...And Jackie, my darling, I will always love you, but I can't keep dreaming about being with somebody who will never love me. I miss you so much.

The Most Complete List Of Great Songs Ever - Or At Least The Best One Made So Far

255 this time! And as usual, yes, there are many more great songs than this!

1. Diamanda Galás - Scream Of Love

2. Diamanda Galás - Eyes Without Blood

3. The Blue Nile - Soul Boy

4. Rita Lynch - Baby I Wonder

5. Roger Dean Young and The Tin Cup - Little Wind

6. Clannad - I Will Find You

7. Luther Allison - Reaching Out

8. Joy Division - I Remember Nothing

9. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You

10. Joy Division - In A Lonely Place

11. Joy Division - Decades

12. The Danse Society - Somewhere

13. Neil Young - Like A Hurricane

14. Corvus Corax - Mille Anni Passi Sunt

15. Diamanda Galás and Jane's Addiction - Sex Is Violent

16. Diamanda Galás - Insane Asylum

17. Diamanda Galás - Let My People Go

18. Diamanda Galás - Gloomy Sunday

19. Rezsõ Seress - Szomorú Vasárnap

20. Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday

21. Diamanda Galás - My World Is Empty Without You

22. John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch

23. Diamanda Galás - At The Dark End Of The Street

24. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

25. Chris Botti and The Blue Nile - Midnight Without You

26. Hocico - Spit As An Offense

27. Hocico - Nightmare

28. Danzig - Sistinas

29. Corvus Corax - Tanzwut

30. Corvus Corax - Zauberlehrling

31. Corvus Corax - Rausch

32. Corvus Corax - Ore Dragonis

33. Diamanda Galás - I Put A Spell On You

34. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

35. Corvus Corax - Celtic Roots

36. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

37. Diamanda Galás and Recoil - Strange Hours

38. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

39. Gene Loves Jezebel - Kiss Of Life

40. Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence

41. The Mission - Tower Of Strength

42. Bill Withers - You Just Can't Smile It Away

43. Corvus Corax - Dulcissima

44. Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - You Are Everything

45. Jimmy Witherspoon - Everything But You

46. The Police - Every Breath You Take

47. Hocico - Sucios Pensamientos

48. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades

49. Apoptygma Berzerk - Kathy's Song

50. Apoptygma Berzerk - Unicorn

51. Gnarls Barkley - Who's Gonna Save My Soul?

52. Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have

53. The Blue Nile - From A Late Night Train

54. Townes Van Zandt and Willie Nelson - Marie

55. Runrig - Abhainn an t-Sluaigh

56. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

57. Gnarls Barkley - Just A Thought

58. Luther Allison - Serious

59. Nine Inch Nails - Only

60. Bruce DeBoer - Autumn

61. Bruce DeBoer - Praying For Bree

62. Palash - Blue Sky

63. Dave Bainbridge and Joanne Hogg - Until The Tide Turns

64. Joan Baez - Diamonds and Rust

65. Dolly Parton - Jolene

66. Diamanda Galás - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean

67. Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight

68. Cage and Darryl Palumbo - Shoot Frank

69. Usherhouse - November Dream

70. Mance Lipscomb - Ain't It Hard

71. Mance Lipscomb - Baby Please Don't Go

72. Screams For Tina - Kristen

73. All About Eve - Martha's Harbor

74. Enya - I Want Tomorrow

75. Loreena McKennitt - Skellig

76. Danzig - How The Gods Kill

77. Joy Division - Sound Of Music

78. Loreena McKennitt - The Mystic's Dream

79. Iona - Divine Presence

80. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

81. Mary J. Blige and Method Man - You're All I Need

82. Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

83. Fields of the Nephilim - From The Fire

84. Leonard Cohen - Waiting For The Miracle

85. Color Theory - Snowing

86. The Locust - The Unwilling... Led By The Unqualified... Doing The Unnecessary... For The Ungrateful

87. The Locust - Psst! Is That A Halfie In Your Pants?

88. The Locust - We Have Reached An Official Verdict: Nobody Gives A Shit

89. The Locust - AOTKPTA

90. The Locust - One Manometer Away From Mutually Assured Relocation

91. The Locust - Slum Service: Served On The Sly

92. The Locust - Book Of Bot

93. Jimmy Reed - I Wanna Be Loved

94. Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do

95. Jimmy Reed - Big Legged Woman

96. Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City

97. Jimmy Reed - You Got Me Dizzy

98. Jimmy Reed - Hush, Hush

99. Luther Allison - Life Is A Bitch

100. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Somliga Går Med Trasiga Skor

101. Björn Afzelius - Tusen Bitar

102. B. B. King - How Blue Can You Get

103. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl

104. O'Jays - Now That We Found Love

105. Nina Simone - Feeling Good

106. Cage - Suicidal Failure

107. Ice-T and Insane Clown Posse - Dead End

108. John Lee Hooker - Think Twice Before You Go

109. The Blue Nile - Tinseltown In The Rain

110. Sonny Terry - Lost John

111. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

112. Clannad - Blackstairs

113. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

114. Pink Floyd - Keep Talking

115. Leftöver Crack - Heroin Or Suicide?

116. Mance Lipscomb - God Moves On The Water

117. Skip James - Worried Blues

118. Clannad - Northern Skyline

119. Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business

120. Mance Lipscomb - So Different Blues

121. Skip James - 4 O'Clock Blues

122. Skip James - Shake 'Em On Down

123. Robert Johnson - Last Fair Deal Gone Down

124. Mance Lipscomb - Going Up North To See My Pony Run

125. Mance Lipscomb - Angel Child

126. Mance Lipscomb - Mama Don't Allow

127. Mamie Smith - Sweet Man O'Mine

128. Gnarls Barkley - Smiley Faces

129. Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses

130. Mississippi John Hurt - Frankie and Albert

131. Lead Belly - In The Pines

132. Neil Diamond - Solitary Man

133. Capercaillie - Servant To The Slave

134. Gorillaz - Feel Good, Inc.

135. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

136. Adiemus - Adiemus

137. Máire Brennan - Against The Wind

138. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

139. Gary Jules - Mad World

140. Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self-Destruct

141. Gnarls Barkley - Go Go Gadget Gospel

142. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

143. Lil' Johnson - So What Papa?

144. Color Theory - Forget His Voice

145. Folk Och Rackare - Nidvisan: Hur Tjänaren Får Fara

146. Lumsk - I Lytinne Två

147. The Mission - Daddy's Going To Heaven Now

148. Lumsk - Trolltind

149. Folk Och Rackare - Bältet

150. Clannad - Newgrange

151. Mats Ronander - Elisabeth

152. Skip James - Crow Jane

153. Venetian Snares - A Lot Of Drugs

154. Procol Harum - A Whiter Shade Of Pale

155. David Honeyboy Edwards - Gamblin' Man

156. Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing

157. Skip James - I'm So Glad

158. John Lee Hooker - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman

159. Lead Belly - Black Betty

160. Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly and Sonny Terry - How Long Blues

161. John Lee Hooker - The Numbers

162. Odetta - God's Gonna Cut You Down

163. Pamela Morgan - True Or False

164. Skip James - How Long Blues

165. Supertramp - The Logical Song

166. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The Message

167. Neil Diamond - Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon

168. Killer Mike and Outkast - The Whole World

169. Outkast - Hollywood Divorce

170. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

171. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

172. Mario Winans, Q-Tip and Stevie Wonder - Shame On Us: What's The Fuzz?

173. Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe

174. Leonard Cohen - First We Take Manhattan

175. Coolio - I'll C U When U Get There

176. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

177. Leonard Cohen - The Future

178. Alien Sex Fiend - E.S.T: Trip To The Moon

179. Mame Smith - No Good Man

180. Mamie Smith - Harlem Blues

181. Ma Rainey - C. C. Rider

182. Folk och Rackare - Vänner och Fränder

183. Big Mama Thornton and Buddy Guy - Hound Dog

184. Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning

185. Mississippi John Hurt - Stagger Lee

186. Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave - Some Velvet Morning

187. Two Gallants - Steady Rollin'

188. Junior Wells - Sweet Sixteen

189. Ebba Grön - Tyna Bort

190. Alabama 3 - Woke Up This Morning

191. Chicago - I'm A Man

192. Peps Persson and Timbuktu - Dynamit

193. Neil Diamond - Sweet Caroline

194. Gerard McMann - Cry Little Sister

195. Trolltider - Solsången

196. Trolltider - Bergatrollets Vaggvisa

197. Screaming Dead - Night Creatures

198. Fiona Joyce - Letting Go

199. Garmarna - Herr Mannelig

200. The Chieftains - Here's A Health To The Company

201. Alice Cooper - Poison

202. Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood

203. Sunglasses After Dark - Morbid Silence

204. The Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City

205. In Extremo - Vänner och Fränder

206. Ray Charles - Hit The Road, Jack!

207. Bone Orchard - Kicking' Up The Sawdust

208. Ebba Grön - Die Mauer

209. Rasputina - Bad Moon Rising

210. Pippi Långstrump - Här Kommer Pippi Långstrump!

211. Garmarna  Vänner och Fränder

212. Marvin Gaye - I Heard It Through The Grapevine

213. Kool Rock Steady - You Ain't Nobody

214. Funkadelic - Groovalegience

215. Funkadelic - Who Says A Funk Band Can't Play Rock?

216. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove

217. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

218. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightnin'

219. Rita Lynch - Call Me Your Girlfriend

220. Fiona Kennedy - Riverdance

221. John Lee Hooker - Devil's Jump

222. Bo Diddley - Bring It To Jerome

223. Frank Zappa - Bobby Brown

224. Ebba Grön - Häng Gud

225. Ebba Grön - Mamma Pappa Barn

226. Imperiet - Du Ska Va President

227. Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face

228. The Tough Alliance - Make It Happen

229. The Knife - Heartbeats

230. The Knife - Pass This On

231. The Tough Alliance - Koka Kola Veins

232. The Knife - You Take My Breath Away

233. Little Walter - Too Late

234. Michael Sembello - Maniac

235. Ebba Grön - 800 Grader Celcius

236. The Knife - Handy Man

237. The Knife - We Share Our Mother's Health

238. Michael B. Tretow - Telefånen

239. Michael B. Tretow - Den Makalösa Manicken

240. Electric Banana Band - Electric Banana

241. Weird Al Yankovic - Don't Download This Song

242. Weird Al Yankovic - You Don't Love Me Anymore

243. Weird Al Yankovic - White And Nerdy

244. Michael B. Tretow - Trolle é Bäst

245. Michael B. Tretow - Russin

246. Weird Al Yankovic - Germs

247. Weird Al Yankovic - Amish Paradise

248. Weird Al Yankovic - Another One Rides The Bus

249. Schnappi - Schnappi, Das Kleine Krokodil

250. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues

251. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit

252. Gorillaz - Dirty Harry

253. Frank Zappa - Dancing Fool

254. Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life

255. Michel Jackson - Billie Jean

The 116 Greatest Songs Ever!

Why 116 I do not know. I just tried to put down lots of songs that I like. Perhaps there are lots of songs that I like more than some of those but that didn't get on the list, perhaps some of them aren't in exactly the order I like them. But hey, I spent lots of time trying to write down my favorite songs and put them in the right order and it's not so easy to remember all my favorite songs or decide in which order I like them all and I really can't spend forever on one list, so I guess I think this list is quite good enough!

1. Diamanda Galás - Scream of Love

2. Diamanda Galás - Eyes Without Blood

3. Diamanda Galás - I Put A Spell On You

4. Rezsõ Seress - Szomorú Vasárnap

5. Joy Division - I Remember Nothing

6. Joy Division - In A Lonely Place

7. John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch

8. Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

9. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You

10. Clannad - I Will Find You

11. Mary J. Blige and Method Man - You're All I Need

12. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

13. Dave Bainbridge and Joanne Hogg - Until The Tide Turns

14. The Blue Nile - Soul Boy

15. The Danse Society - Somewhere

16. Joy Division - Decades

17. Neil Young - Like a Hurricane

18. Bill Withers - You Just Can't Smile It Away

19. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

20. The Police - Every Breath You Take

21. Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - You Are Everything

22. Corvus Corax - Mille Anni Passi Sunt

23. Hocico - Nightmare

24. Iona - Divine Presence

25. All About Eve - Martha's Harbour

26. Diamanda Galás - Insane Asylum

27. Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence

28. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

29. Gene Loves Jezebel - Kiss Of Life

30. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

31. Diamanda Galás and Jane's Addiction - Sex Is Violent

32. Diamanda Galás - Gloomy Sunday

33. Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday

34. Leftöver Crack - Heroin Or Suicide?

35. Jimmy Witherspoon - Everything But You

36. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

37. Luther Allison - Reaching Out

38. Corvus Corax - Rausch

39. Loreena McKennitt - Skellig

40. Enya - I Want Tomorrow

41. Diamanda Galás and Recoil - Strange Hours

42. Hocico - Spit As An Offense

43. Corvus Corax - Zauberlehrling

44. Runrig - Abhainn an t-Sluaigh

45. Clannad - Northern Skyline

46. O'Jays - Now That We Found Love

47. Jimmy Reed - Big Legged Woman

48. Jimmy Reed - You Got Me Dizzy

49. Luther Allison - Serious

50. Jimmy Reed - I Wanna Be Loved

51. Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing

52. Fiona Kennedy - Riverdance

53. Lead Belly - Black Betty

54. John Lee Hooker - Think Twice Before You Go

55. Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City

56. Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do

57. Venetian Snares - A Lot of Drugs

58. Bo Diddley - Bring It To Jerome

59. Mance Lipscomb - God Moves On The Water

60. Sonny Terry - Lost John

61. Adiemus - Adiemus

62. John Lee Hooker - Devil's Jump

63. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightin'

64. Pink Floyd - Keep Talking

65. Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business

66. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades

67. Skip James - Shake 'Em On Down

68. Mississippi John Hurt - Stagger Lee

69. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

70. Luther Allison - Life Is A Bitch

71. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

72. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

73. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl

74. Ma Rainey - C. C. Rider

75. David Honeyboy Edwards - Gamblin' Man

76. Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly and Sonny Terry - How Long Blues

77. Mamie Smith - Sweet Man O'Mine

78. Skip James - I'm So Glad

79. Mance Lipscomb - Ain't It Hard?

80. Leonard Cohen - Waiting For The Miracle

81. Skip James - Worried Blues

82. Skip James - Crow Jane

83. Odetta - God's Gonna Cut You Down

84. The Blue Nile - From A Late Night Train

85. Mance Lipscomb - So Different Blues

86. Mamie Smith - No Good Man

87. Skip James - 4 O'Clock Blues

88. Mamie Smtih - So What Papa?

89. Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe

90. Mamie Smith - Harlem Blues

91. Mance Lipscomb - Baby Please Don't Go

92. Mance Lipscomb - Going Up North To See My Pony Run

93. John Lee Hooker - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman

94. Clannad - Blackstairs

95. Skip James - How Long Blues

96. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

97. Mance Lipscomb - Angel Child

98. Cage and Darryl Palumbo - Shoot Frank

99. Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self-Destruct

100. Clannad - Newgrange

101. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

102. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

103. Corvus Corax - Tanzwut

104. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues

105. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Somliga Går Med Trasiga Skor

106. Máire Brennan - Against The Wind

107. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

108. Kool Rock Steady - You Ain't Nobody

109. Mance Lipscomb - Mama Don't Allow

110. Ray Charles - Hit the Road, Jack!

111. Supertramp - The Logical Song

112. Michael Sembello - Maniac

113. Junior Wells - Sweet Sixteen

114. Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave - Some Velvet Morning

115. Mance Lipscomb - Big Boss Man

116. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit