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Music preferences (Ask Audacia 5)
September 23, 2005
From the Ask Audacia mailbag: What type of music do you listen to? Any specific artists you could recommend? Do you like different tunes for sex work versus personal “work?”
This is a pretty perfect moment to answer this question, since this morning I’m heading to DC to see Q and Not U, one of my favorite bands of the last five years, play their farewell show. Worth a road trip, and I’m sure the drive will bring back memories of driving to DC and back in one day to see Fugazi play when I was a teenager, playing the “that guy is going to the show” game at rest stops and in traffic. When I was younger, I listened almost exclusively to punk (with a little bit of goth and industrial thrown in), and though I’ve grown soft in my old age I do still listen to a lot of the same stuff. The pile of cds nearest to my stereo includes the Cure, Screeching Weasel, Fugazi, the Pixies, Sonic Youth, Q and Not U, Brainiac, the Jesus and Mary Chain, the Cranes, PJ Harvey, the Boucing Souls, Stereo Total, Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Tom Waits, Elliot Smith, the Descendents, Voodoo Glow Skulls, Gorillaz, My Bloody Valentine… you get the idea. I also listen to jazz on occasions when my family (all serious jazz heads) tries to brainwash me.
I’ve made a whole bunch of hour-long mixes for my sex work sessions, but I’ve steadfastly refused to play music that is simply calm and easy to stomach – because I’m a brat like that; its one of the things my clients like about me. I listed my music tastes on my professional website, and often my regulars bring me mix cds to add to my repertoire, and sometimes I make mixes for them too. Occasionally I let a client convince me to put my iPod on shuffle during a session, as long as he’s well aware that we might jump from Chick Corea to Throbbing Gristle to Moussorgsky to the Beastie Boys. Here’s one of my favorite work mixes, which is basically to my taste without the really loud stuff:
“St. Ides Heaven”/Elliot Smith/Elliot Smith
“Bring My Car I Feel to Smash It”/The Sea and Cake/The Sea and Cake
“Sunset City”/The Magnetic Fields/The Charm of the Highway Strip
“Everywhere”/Cranes/Forever
“Puppies”/Underworld/Pearl’s Girl
“Sugar Hiccup”/Cocteau Twins/Head Over Heels
“avrl 14”/Aphex Twin/Drukqs - Disk One
“Silence is the Question”/The Bad Plus/These Are The Vistas
“Sunset Soon Forgotten”/Iron & Wine/Our Endless Numbers
“Infatuation”/The Rapture/Echoes
“Tema Amores Perros”/Gustavo Santaolalla/Amores Perros Disk One
“Only You”/Portishead/NYC Live
“Pyramid Song”/Radiohead/Amnesiac
“The State I Am In”/Belle & Sebastian/Tigermilk
“On Noble”/Tortoise/Tortoise
“Before I Sleep”/Mazzy Star/She Hangs Brightly
And with that, I’m off to say goodbye to Q and Not U.
Posted by Dacia at September 23, 2005 06:12 AM
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Geez, I would’ve chased you in school based as your taste in music.
Posted by: TG at September 24, 2005 06:05 PM
