because this is easier than cleaning my room

lately while listening to mp3s on the subway, i find myself hitting the skip button more often than usual. either my palm's SD card is getting too crowded with mp3s or it's time to make changes in my music library.

some stuff i'll delete:

• all eraserheads songs (anti-homesickness songs; but after hearing "maselang bahaghari" for the 5th time, i remembered why i've outgrown ely buendia's caterwauling)
• all michael buble songs (icky sticky sappy)
• all norah jones songs (ditto)

stuff i'm definitely keeping:

• cry me a river (ella fitzgerald; for those senti moments)
• all pete yorn songs (mahal ko pa rin siya)
• all jose gonzales songs (ditto)
• teardrop (massive attack; back to back with jose gonzales cover)
• bright yellow gun (throwing muses; keeps me awake on road trips)
• nothing but the sky (ivy; gives me a buzz every time)
• sexual healing (marvin gaye remixed with shaggy toasting/rapping in background; so i can dance in the subway and get more strange looks from ajimmas)
• selected early liz phair songs (can sing along to these because we have the same severely limited vocal range)
• panaginip (hotdogs tribute by brownbeat allstars; because i can)
• lanca perfume (that old brazilian song from the 80s; ear kitsch)
  

new stuff i'll transfer to the palm:

• songs from shirley bassey remix album
• songs from cafe mundo (pang-counter sa oppressive monoculture na nakikita ko araw-araw, token multiculturalism ba...)
• van morrison (because pico iyer told me to)
• selected tracks from francesca beard, and il postino, english patient & red violin soundtracks (para may WTF moments naman ako)
  
• random weird stuff downloaded from salon.com

been looking for stuff by shrift (bagong banda ni nina miranda [dreamy vocals behind smoke city]) both online and in stores here but so far nothing i can actually carry around. tsk, ang hirap talaga magnakaw ng musika. so i just listen to a lot of yahoo radio, especially the chillout station. memoryado ko na ang radio ads ng subway sandwiches.