The Hunger Games soundtrack

Okay, so I know I *just* posted, but let me say one more thing: The Hunger Games Soundtrack? Freakin' awesome. Lots of acoustic folksy-type music that is so totally what I've been in the mood for the last few months. Ever since hearing the likes of Laura Marling and Mumford & Sons last summer/fall, I've been in a very folksy mood and I've been seeking diligently for new artists who have the same flavor. What a treasure trove then to receive this CD from my darling and giving husband just this very evening. I mean, of the first four songs, three of them were women. I mean, really?? Rarely do you find a compilation CD (beyond Lillith Fair) that has three women on the entire CD let alone three out of the first four. To find some new gems (to me) like The Secret Sisters and The Civil Wars and Jayme Dee. . . I'm researching them on last fm, jocolibrary and Pandora as we speak :)



We're going to see the movie tomorrow morning at Cinamark. I kinda hate to waste a perfectly beautiful day in the theater but. . . . well.

It's a funny thing, something I've been thinking about. I started reading The Hunger Games in, what? January or February I guess? Since I've read them, at least four other people in and around me at work have begun or have read them. I mean, it's wildfire. And these books aren't new. I only just read them because I've been on the waiting list at Jocolibrary for the past year or so (no kidding). The power of suggestions, yes? I read them and inspired another who inspired another who inspired somebody else.

It would be a very interesting human study.

Perhaps I should've been a sociologist after all. Darn me and my art-degree / communications  background. Oh well. That's the price you pay for choosing a degree on whether or not you'd have to take math or science (I did not with mine. Haven't taken a science class since I was 17).