Another silly game

I guess I saw this one first at Feministe. I am totally not cool enough to get, like, invited to play these games but I don't generally like to wait around for permission.

1. What is the total volume of musical files on your computer?

So far it's 12.84 GB on my laptop, but only about 4.8 GB fits on my iPod at a time so I have to switch it all every once in a while. Like, who can listen to the same 1100 or so songs over and over again? The damn thing is like heroin. Give me more more more. Plus there are several large stacks of CDs sitting here that I haven't even loaded yet. I have no idea what-all's on my desktop at my office.

2. What song are you listening to right now?

"Ride" by Liz Phair, from Whitechocolatespaceegg

3. Last CD I bought?

Re-release of 'King of America' by Elvis Costello.

4. Five songs you listen to a lot and which mean something to you:

This changes so often, and there are so many more, but I like what Mac over at Pesky'Apostrophe said about how there were certain songs she absolutely had to listen to before she went to work or she'd have a bad day. I'm not exactly that attached to any routine, but when I drive to work I frequently sit in my car in the parking lot and listen to music until I feel I'm ready to go in. I'm not ready to go in until I play the Ramones' classic "I Don't Want to Grow Up." So I guess I'll start with that:

1. "I Don't Want to Grow Up" by the Ramones, on Adios, Amigos for those of you following along at home. Sometimes I listen to the Tom Waits' version on Bone Machine, which I like a little better if you want to know the truth, but for kicking my day in the ass and getting out of the car it's gotta be the Ramones.
2. "Superman's Song" by the Crash Test Dummies from The Ghosts That Haunt Me. I don't know why this song breaks my heart but it does. "Superman never made any money/for saving the world from Solomon Grundy/& sometimes I despair/the world will never see another man like him."
3. "So It Goes" by Tom Waits, from the Early Years, vol 2. I can't play this one at work; I listen to it though whenever I just want to cry and cry.
4. "Essence" by Lucinda Williams. Not for work either. It makes me want to -- oh never mind. None of your business. It's just so fucking sexy I can hardly stand it.
5. This is so corny I can't believe I'm even admitting it, but "The Mary Ellen Carter" by Stan Rogers on Home in Halifax, among other recordings. It's a song about a wrecked ship, and the guys who were on board when it sank putting it back together. It's kind of inspirational in a cornball kind of way, and makes it easier to go to work sometimes. In a different way than the Ramones, though: "And you to whom adversity has dealt the final blow/ with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go/ turn to and put out all your strength/ of arm and heart and brain/ and like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again/ rise again rise again/ though your heart it be broken and life about to end/ no matter what you've lost be it a home a love a friend/ like the Mary Ellen Carter rise again"