My weird music preferences

Some people say I have the weirdest collection of songs on my iPod. Looking at it, it's hard to argue otherwise.

How is it weird? Well, here's my entire song list in alphabetical order (and the order it appears on my iPod).

• "Addicted" -- Simple Plan
  
• "Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love" -- Van Halen
  
• "All About Us" -- Tatu
  
• "All My Life" -- Foo Fighters
  
• "All Star" -- Smash Mouth
  
• "All the Small Things" -- Blink 182
  
• "All the Things She Said" -- Tatu
  
• "All You Did Was Save My Life" -- Our Lady Peace
  
• "Always" -- Blink 182
  
• "Amber" -- 311
  
• "Angels Losing Sleep" -- Our Lady Peace
  
• "Are You Gonna Go My Way" -- Lenny Kravitz
  
• "At the Hundredth Meridian" -- The Tragically Hip
  
  
• "Back in Black" -- AC/DC
  
• "Bad Luck" -- Social Distortion
  
• "Bad Romance" -- Lady Gaga
  
• "Before it's Too Late" -- Goo Goo Dolls
  
• "Behind Blue Eyes" -- Limp Bizkit
  
• "Better Days" -- Goo Goo Dolls
  
• "Beautiful People" -- Marilyn Manson
  
• "Bleed Like Me" -- Garbage
  
• "Boom Boom Pow" -- Black Eyed Peas
  
• "Brand New Low" -- Treble Charger
  
• "Bring Me to Life" -- Evanescence
  
• "Bro Hymn" -- Pennywise
  
• "Broken" -- Seether
  
• "Buffalo Soldier" -- Bob Marley
  
  
• "California" -- Phantom Planet
  
• "California Sun" -- The Ramones
  
• "Call Me When You're Sober" -- Evanescence
  
• "Careless Whisper" -- Seether
  
• "Catch My Fall" -- Katy Rose
  
• "Ch-Check it Out" -- Beastie Boys
  
• "Changes" -- Thornley
  
• "Check My Brain" -- Alice in Chains
  
• "Chelsea Dagger" -- The Fratellis
  
• "Clumsy" -- Our Lady Peace
  
• "Cold Hard Bitch" -- Jet
  
• "Complicated" -- Avril Lavigne
  
• "Crackerman" -- Stone Temple Pilots
  
• "Creep" -- Radiohead
  
• "Crush" -- Jennifer Paige
  
  
• "Devil on my Shoulder" -- Billy Talent
  
• "Diary of Jane" -- Breaking Benjamin
  
• "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap" -- AC/DC
  
• "Dirty Little Secret" -- All-American Rejects
  
• "Disconnected" -- Face to Face
  
• "Don't Speak" -- No Doubt
  
• "Down" -- 311
  
• "Dr. Feelgood" -- Motley Crue
  
• "Dragula" -- Rob Zombie
  
• "Dream On" -- Aerosmith
  
• "Dude Looks Like a Lady" -- Aerosmith
  
  
• "Enter Sandman" -- Metallica
  
• "Every Little Thing" -- Melanie Doane
  
• "Every Morning" -- Sugar Ray
  
• "Extraordinary" -- Liz Phair
  
  
• "Face Down" -- The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
  
• "Fade to Black" -- Metallica
  
• "Faint" -- Linkin Park
  
• "Father of Mine" -- Everclear
  
• "The Fear (I Don't Know)" -- Lily Allen
  
• "Firestarter" -- Prodigy
  
• "Flagpole Sitta" -- Harvey Danger
  
• "Flowers in the Window" -- Travis
  
• "For the Moment" -- GOB
  
  
• "Get Free" -- The Vines
  
• "Ghetto Superstar" -- Pras
  
• "Gimme Sympathy" -- Metric
  
• "Girlfriend" -- Avril Lavigne
  
• "Give Up the Grudge" -- GOB
  
• "Going Under" -- Evanescence
  
• "The Good Life" -- Three Days Grace
  
  
• "Heading for Nowhere" -- Jets Overhead
  
• "Heaven Coming Down" -- The Tea Party
  
• "Heavy" -- Collective Soul
  
• "Hell Yeah" -- Rev Theory
  
• "Hell's Bells" -- AC/DC
  
• "Hella Good" -- No Doubt
  
• "Help I'm Alive" -- Metric
  
• "Here is Gone" -- Goo Goo Dolls
  
• "Hey Baby" -- No Doubt
  
• "Hot 'n' Cold" -- Katy Perry
  
• "How's it Going to Be" -- Third Eye Blind
  
• "Hurricane 2000" -- The Scorpions and Berlin Philharmonic
  
• "Hysteria" -- Muse
  
  
• "I Can't Stop Laughing" -- The Trews
  
• "I Don't Care" -- Fall Out Boy
  
• "I Don't Want to Miss a Thing" -- Aerosmith
  
• "I Get Knocked Down" -- Smash Mouth
  
• "I Hear You Calling" -- GOB
  
• "I Kissed a Girl" -- Katy Perry
  
• "I Knew I Love You" -- Savage Garden
  
• "I Know You Want Me" -- Pitbull
  
• "I Like" -- Katy Rose
  
• "I Need You" -- LeAnn Rimes
  
• "I Think I'm Paranoid" -- Garbage
  
• "I Will Follow" -- U2
  
• "I Will Not Bow" -- Breaking Benjamin
  
• "I'm Just a Kid" -- Simple Plan
  
• "I'm Only Happy When it Rains" -- Garbage
  
• "I'm Shipping up to Boston" -- Dropkick Murphys
  
• "I'm With You" -- Avril Lavigne
  
• "If You Only Knew" -- Shinedown
  
• "(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To" -- Weezer
  
• "Imaginary" -- Evanescence
  
• "In This Life" -- Chantal Kreviazuk
  
• "Indestructible" -- Disturbed
  
• "Innocent" -- Our Lady Peace
  
• "Iris" -- Goo Goo Dolls
  
• "It'll be You" -- Daniel Wesley
  
• "It's About Time" -- Lillix
  
  
• "Jumper" -- Third Eye Bline
  
  
• "Kashmir" -- Led Zeppelin
  
• "Keep On Rockin' in the Free World" -- Neil Young
  
• "Kickstart my Heart" -- Motley Crue
  
  
• "Ladies and Gentlemen" -- Saliva
  
• "Last Parade" -- Matthew Good
  
• "Leaving on a Jet Plane" -- Chantal Kreviazuk
  
• "Lemon" -- Katy Rose
  
• "Let it all Hang Out" -- Weezer
  
• "License to Thrill" -- Katy Rose
  
• "Life" -- Ashlin Debison
  
• "Lights and Sounds" -- Yellowcard
  
• "Love is a First" -- The Tragially Hip
  
  
• "Major Tom" -- Shiny Toy Guns
  
• "Man in the Box" -- Alice in Chains
  
• "Man Overboard" -- Thornley
  
• "Master of Puppets" -- Metallica
  
• "Mess of Me" -- Switchfoot
  
• "My Happy Ending" -- Avril Lavigne
  
• "My Immortal" -- Evanescence
  
• "My World" -- Sick Puppies
  
  
• "Never Ever" -- All Saints
  
• "Never Gonna Stop" -- Rob Zombie
  
• "New Divide" -- Linkin Park
  
• "No Rain" -- Blind Melon
  
• "No You Girls" -- Franz Ferdinand
  
• "Now or Never" -- Everlife
  
• "Numb" -- Linkin Park
  
  
• "Oh! Ellin'" -- GOB
  
• "One of a Kind" -- Breaking Point
  
• "Original Skin" -- Katy Rose
  
• "Overdrive" -- Katy Rose
  
  
• "Panama" -- Van Halen
  
• "Panic Switch" -- Silversun Pickups
  
• "Paparazzi" -- Lady Gaga
  
• "Paralyzer" -- Finger Eleven
  
• "Paranoid Freak" -- The Trews
  
• "Party in the USA" -- Miley Cyrus
  
• "Perfect" -- Simple Plan
  
• "Pilgrimage" -- Daniel Wesley
  
• "Poker Face" -- Lady Gaga
  
• "Poor Ol' Broken Hearted Me" -- The Trews
  
• "Pork and Beans" -- Weezer
  
• "The Pretender" -- Foo Fighters
  
• "Push it" -- Garbage
  
  
• "Ready to Roll" -- Jet Black Stare
  
• "Real World" -- Matchbox 20
  
• "Remedy" -- Seether
  
• "Rescue Me" -- Hawthorne Heights
  
• "Right Now" -- Van Halen
  
• "Rise Above This" -- Seether
  
• "Rock and Roll" -- Led Zeppelin
  
• "Rock Superstar" -- Cypress Hill
  
• "Run Baby Run" -- Garbage
  
• "Runaround" -- Van Halen
  
• "Rusted From the Rain" -- Billy Talent
  
  
• "Saeglopur" -- Sigur Rios
  
• "Saint Veronika" -- Billy Talent
  
• "Saints of Los Angeles" -- Motley Crue
  
• "Santa Monica" -- Everclear
  
• "Savior" -- Rise Against
  
• "Seasons" -- The Veer Union
  
• "See You Again" -- Miley Cyrus
  
• "Seether" -- Veruca Salt
  
• "Sex on Fire" -- Kings of Leon
  
• "Sex Type Thing" -- Stone Temple Pilots
  
• "She Could be You" -- Shawn Hlookoff
  
• "She Likes Me for Me" -- Third Eye Blind
  
• "She Likes Me for Me" -- Everclear
  
• "She's a Genius" -- Jet
  
• "She's so High" -- Tal Bachman
  
• "Sick Muse" -- Metric
  
• "Slide" -- Goo Goo Dolls
  
• "So Whatcha Want" -- Beastie Boys
  
• "Somebody Save Me" -- Remi Zero
  
• "Somewhere Out There" -- Our Lady Peace
  
• "Steal My Sunshine" -- Len
  
• "Stupid Girl" -- Garbage
  
• "Sucker Train Blues" -- Velvet Revolver
  
• "Sweet Child of Mine" -- Guns 'n' Roses
  
• "Sympathy" -- Goo Goo Dolls
  
  
• "Take Me Out" -- Franz Ferdinand
  
• "Telephone" -- Lady Gaga
  
• "Then the Morning Comes" -- Smash Mouth
  
• "Thunderstruck" -- AC/DC
  
• "Tik Tok" -- Kesha
  
• "Times like These" -- Foo Fighters
  
• "Tomorrow" -- Lillix
  
• "Too Close" -- Next
  
• "Torn" -- Natalie Imbruglia
  
• "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" -- Stone Temple Pilots
  
• "Truly Madly Deeply" -- Savage Garden
  
• "Typical" -- Mute Math
  
  
• "Ultimate" -- Lindsay Lohan
  
• "Underneath it All" -- No Doubt
  
• "Uprising" -- Muse
  
• "Upside Down (and I Fall)" -- Jakalope
  
• "Us Remains Impossible" -- Matthew Good
  
• "Use Me" -- Hinder
  
• "Use Somebody" -- Kings of Leon
  
  
• "Vivrant Thing" -- Q-Tip
  
  
• "The Wait" -- Metallica
  
• "Walk" -- Pantera
  
• "The Way I Feel" -- 12 Stones
  
• "We Used to be Friends" -- The Danny Warhols
  
• "We're from America" -- Marilyn Manson
  
• "Welcome to My Life" -- Simple Plan
  
• "Welcome to the Jungle" -- Guns 'n' Roses
  
• "What I Like About You" -- Lillix
  
• "What?" -- Rob Zombie
  
• "What's my Age Again?" -- Blink 182
  
• "When I Grow Up" -- Garbage
  
• "When You're Gone" -- Avril Lavigne
  
• "Where the Wild Roses Grow" -- Kylie Minogue and Nick Cave
  
• "Who Are You" -- The Who
  
• "Why Can't I?" -- Liz Phair
  
• "Why do you Love Me?" -- Garbage
  
• "Woman" -- Wolfmother
  
• "Won't Get Fooled Again" -- The Who
  
• "Wonderful" -- Everclear
  
  
• "You Could be Mine" -- Guns 'n' Roses
  
• "You Get What You Give" -- New Radicals
  
• "You're Going Down" -- Sick Puppies
  
• "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" -- Offspring
  
• "Your Love is My Drug" -- Kesha
  
  
• "3 A.M." -- Matchbox 20
  
• "24" -- Jem
  
• "50 Mission Cap" -- The Tragically Hip
  
• "1901" -- Phoenix
  
• "1985" -- Bowling for Soup"
  

The coolest/creepiest music video I've seen in a while

I came across this great music video earlier today, and thought it was probably among the best I'd seen recently. The song is "Where the Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave and Kylie Minogue. (Seeing Kylie's name on this was somewhat of a surprise; this isn't really a song you'd expect her to do.)

The only thing about this video is that it's one of the CREEPIEST ones you'll ever see. Here it is:



Basically, the story is that a man has obsessive romantic feelings towards a woman. He finally goes out with her but partway through, he realizes that her beauty won't last forever. He decides to preserve her beauty by killing her with a rock and laying her down in the water (in the same manner as the Ophelia painting by Millais).

Very creepy stuff, but very cool at the same time.

My newest love-hate relationship with Miley Cyrus

Recently, I got an iPod dock that also has an alarm clock radio function. I took advantage of that, so now I wake up for work to the American Forces Network Korea (AFN Korea) radio station -- one of the two English stations in town.

As you can expect, they play a lot of rock music, similar to the music that I usually listen to back home in Vancouver (on 99.3 The Fox). So I thought to myself, "Cool." But AFN Korea keeps playing this really "bubble-gum style" pop song. And the thing is that it's such a catchy song! I found myself humming along to it, and started to wonder who the singer was.

And then I found out that it was Miley Cyrus. I was thinking, "So... I, a grown man, was singing along to a Miley Cyrus song? Wow... that's... awkward."

I guess as a fan of One Tree Hill and 90210 (not to mention Degrassi: The Next Generation, and experimenting with the new Melrose Place), I shouldn't be surprised that I fell into this trap. Why is it that I always end up being attracted to weird songs and shows that 12-year-old girls like? It's amazing how often that happens.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to a party in the USA...