If you know me at all you know that I’m a big book person. But I’m also a music enthusiast — a casual one. I like a lot of pop — chick music, really — anything I can sing along to. I also like a lot of other things (musical soundtracks, lyricless film soundtracks, and random rock, metal, and of course, audiobooks). I don’t care enough about music to critique it, nor do I have particularly strong, consistent opinions. Frankly, my music mood changes as often as any other mood. Also, it depends on what I’m doing. I might be in a Foo Fighters mood or a Kelly Clarkson mood. That’s why I need to get an iPod bigger than 20G one of these days — I have quite a bit of music.

In terms of other things, I don’t listen to the radio (with iTunes, why?!) but I do use Pandora, and I also watch VH1’s JumpStart most mornings, so I see a lot of videos and get exposed to whatever VH1 is deeming awesome at the moment. (At this moment it’s Adele, Duffy, and Charlotte Sometimes; in the past it was Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson.)

Lately these are the CDs that have caught my attention and are sort of on repeat on iTunes:

• Sara Bareilles, Little Voice
• Katy Perry, One of the Boys
• Adele, 19
• Alanis Morissette, Flavors of Entanglement
• Ingrid Michaelson, Girls and Boys
• Tristan Prettyman, Hello…x
• Marie Digby, Unfold
• Missy Higgins, On a Clear Night
• Kate Nash, Made of Bricks
• Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova, Once: Music from the Motion Picture

I have yet to listen to but I suspect I will enjoy:

• Duffy, Rockferry
• Kate Voegele, Don’t Look Away
• Charlotte Sometimes, Waves and the Both of Us

Also, somewhat in regards to music but also to Broadway and random girlie things, I’m sort of addicted to Legally Blonde: The Musical: The Search for the New Elle Woods. It’s on MTV and it’s pretty interesting. And by interesting I mean that having seen Legally Blonde: The Musical on both MTV and Broadway, I didn’t think that it was really, well, that much of a musical. (It’s not a Sondheim musical, I suppose is what I’m saying.) It’s a good show in its own right though. It’s good, don’t get me wrong — I love a lot of the songs and its energy is amazing — but it’s no Wicked, you know? But in watching this show I have gained an entirely new appreciation for the triple-threat-ness of the best Broadway stars and how difficult it is. It’s an entirely different playing field from the one I’m looking to dive into. Kudos to those who can do it; I’d rather buy the tickets and watch the performance at the end.

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