"times they are changing" - bob dylan

there's no better way to cap the first week of the new year other than starting a project and planning a course of action for the first quarter. i’ve been bedridden since thursday because of flu, asthma, whooping cough and fever. bored to oblivion, while i’m recovering, i’ve turned on the limewire to download mp3s. my player needs a new repertoire. i was inspired by kat who burned a cd for our professor, and by bobby in michael cunningham’s a home at the end of the world. so here’s my folk-y new year cd collection (oo, alam kong out of place ’yung iba, at hindi folk/folk rock at/o wala sa tema, at ‘yung ilan ay recycled). our ladies joni and tracy may have dominated the collection, that’s because they deserve that much disk space in my mickey mouse cd-r.

1. woodstock- joni mitchell
2. scarborough fair- simon and garfunkle
3. blue- joni mitchell
4. falling is like this- ani difranco
5. fever- eva cassidy
6. the circle game- joni mitchell
7. hallelujah- jeff buckley
8. give me one more reason- tracy chapman
9. chelsea morning- joni mitchell
10. here’s where the story ends- the sundays
11. the promise- tracy chapman
12. california- joni mitchell
13. landslide- fleetwood mac
14. both sides now-joni mitchell
15. redemption song- indigo girls
16. imagine- eva cassidy
17. across the lines- tracy chapman
18. blowin’ in the wind- joan baez
19. something in the air- thunderclap newman
20. talkin’ ‘bout a revolution- tracy chapman

my favorite is joni’s blue. a tear and a sigh. “there is your song from me.”

i’m also in the process of downloading bob dylan’s times they are changing—this may be an apt theme song for my course of action.

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everything that has to be done must be done by the first quarter. i do not have any new year resolutions, though my present condition compels me to lessen smoking. and besides, i can’t afford to be lax --the course of action entails me to be 100% efficient.

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i do believe the band thunderclap newman when they said that the “revolution is here/ and you know that is right.” we do have to change things.