itunes play count

I find it interesting to go on to my iTunes music and see what are the top played songs and the recently played songs.  I suppose it may give some insights into my personality...

Here are my top 15 played songs:

1)  No Bad News- Patty Griffin, Children Running Through (23)

2) Sleeping Lessons- The Shins, Wincing the Night Away (22)

3) Sugar Baby Love- The Rubettes (18)

4) The Melody of a Fallen Tree- Windsor for the Derby (18)

5) I Think I See the Light- Cat Stevens, Harold and Maude Soundtrack (17)

6) I'm the Man Who Loves You- Wilco, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (16)

7) Little Green Bag- George Baker, Reservoir Dogs Soundtrack (15)

8) Stars and Sons- Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It In People (13)

9) I Feel It All- Feist, The Reminder (13)

10) Naked As We Came- Iron & Wine, Our Endless Numbered Days (13)

11) Queen Bitch- David Bowie, Hunky Dory (13)

12) Heavenly Day- Patty Griffin, Children Running Through (13)

13) The 59th Bridge St Song- Simon and Garfunkel, Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (13)

14)  You Are My Face- Wilco, Sky Blue Sky (13)

15)  The General Specific- Band of Horses, Cease to Begin (12)

* I do have to keep in mind that iTunes only changes these counts when I play the songs all the way through and don't skip to the next one, which I have to admit rarely happens

movie: the great escape

The other day I was in the flat and casually went to iTunes to see what cheap movies that had for rentals. Most of the time their top 100 rentals make me laugh (number one rental right now is Fool's Gold.... really? really?), but I can usually find something that looks worthy of watching.


This time The Great Escape caught my eye, so I downloaded the rental (for 99 cents) and waited for SJ to get home so I could tell him about the great looking film that I found. Unfortunately, though he was excited to see it, it turns out that in England they play this film around Christmas every year. Only in England would a film about WWII prisoner-of-war escape artists become a tradition at Christmas. In the States our traditional films are 24 hours of A Christmas Story, A Charlie Brown Christmas, A Christmas Carol, and It's a Wonderful Life..... none of which SJ has ever seen! (besides Charlie Brown, which I made him watch) The anarchy!

I digress.

The Great Escape. It's a great film about a maximum security prisoner-of-war camp that the Germans opened in 1943 to hold all of the craftiest English and American army escape artists. Why the Germans would think that the best way to keep them all from escaping is to put them all in the same place is beyond me, but it's a true story, so I guess it shows just one of the reasons why they lost the war. The film is 2 hours 51 minutes and 57 seconds, so I was a bit daunted at first, as 3 hour films usually lose my interest quickly, but I didn't lose focus once while watching.

The first half of the film is about their attempts to escape the camp, while the second follows their journeys as they try to get out of Germany. An all-star cast for the 1960s headlines the film as well, with Steve McQueen, James Garner, Richard Attenborough, Charles Bronson and James Coburn.