Subject: Running with music - I'm getting credited for an iPod Mix

As far as related to parody writing I'm going out on a limb here but there's a list of 200 favorite songs of mine to follow so if nothing else it might be interpreted as a warning ;) of songs I may parody one day since a lot of my ideas have emerged while jogging. As some of you may know I'm a big fan of running with music. I spent part of the late summer writing about it for a Swedish online runners community (that was my special writing project this year and one of several time consuming reasons why my posting pace here has dropped). Originally I had plans to translate the whole thing to English and post it on the forum here too but there hasn't been time, maybe I'll let that be my special writing project next year.

: Anyway, through a number of turns I won't go into here I got in touch with an American who's as devoted to running with music as I am. His taste ranges from jazz to mainstream and my from mainstream to heavy metal so together we're covering pretty much all genres. He's retired and running a site promoting running with music on a different level than me, probably with the help of his son who's a techie at Mac if I've understood correctly. We've been picking up music from each other and now he's made an iPod mix from some songs on my list. It's not named after me but I'm getting semicredit in the intro.

I know some of you here use iPod so I though I'd give this mix and his site a plug, it's called www.jogtunes.com and I think it could grow to be a great site for people interested in music suited for running. The mix semicredited to me is on this subpage: http://www.jogtunes.com/jtcplaylists.php?x=141%20and%20148&y=14

: All of us here at Amiright are on some level big collectors of music so chances are that you're familiar with some of the songs in my running music collection. I might as well give you my 200 keepers list while I'm at it. They're sorted after running speed. SPM means Steps Per Minute and refers to the pace of your feet while jogging. Not exactly the same thing as speed but you'll get it if you'll accept my (and Runners World's) claim that most jogging takes place in the interval between 140-180 SPM. And from just trying out a few songs you'll get it even if I'm not coming all clear here.

Then there's BPM and I know that you all know what that is! ;D The ideal ratio is 2:1 meaning if you wan't to go att 160 SPM you should primarily look for songs with a BMP of 80, though other ratios can be OK too.

Anyway, here's the list (some are Swedish, deal with it, I do) :P

144 SPM (36 BPM) - Hooters - Private emotion
144 SPM (36 BPM) - Snow Patrol - Run
144 SPM (72 BPM) - A flock of seagulls - I ran (so far away)
144 SPM (72 BPM) - Axel Rudi Pell - Cold as ice
144 SPM (72 BPM) - Hooters - And we danced
144 SPM (72 BPM) - Raven - Screaming down the house
144 SPM (72 BPM) - Steeler - Hunter or hunted
144 SPM (72 BPM) - The Donnas - Fall behind me
144 SPM (72 BPM) - Wolfsbane - I like it hot
146 SPM (146 BPM) - Members of Mayday - The day X
146 SPM (146 BPM) - Scatman John - Scatman's world
146 SPM (73 BPM) - At Vance - Chained
146 SPM (73 BPM) - Axel Rudi Pell - Wanted man
146 SPM (73 BPM) - Blink 182 - All the small things
146 SPM (73 BPM) - Green Day - Holiday
146 SPM (73 BPM) - Lordi - The deadite girls gone wild
146 SPM (73 BPM) - Pretty Maids - One way to rock
146 SPM (73 BPM) - Rose Tattoo - It's gonna work itself out
146 SPM (73 BPM) - Wilmer X - Cool tid ihop
147 SPM (49 BPM) - Gavin Rossdale - Adrenaline
148 SPM (37 BPM) - Sugababes - Stronger
148 SPM (74 BPM) - Cinderella - In from the outside
148 SPM (74 BPM) - Danko Jones - First date
148 SPM (74 BPM) - Eminem - White America
148 SPM (74 BPM) - Motorhead - Down the line
148 SPM (74 BPM) - Motorhead - In the name of tragedy
148 SPM (74 BPM) - Seether - I'm the one
148 SPM (74 BPM) - Static X - Push it
148 SPM (74 BPM) - The Nails - 88 lines about 44 women
150 SPM (150 BPM) - Razed in Black & Taime Down - Too fast for love
150 SPM (50 BPM) - Alice In Chains - What the Hell have I
150 SPM (50 BPM) - Evanescence - Tourniquet
150 SPM (75 BPM) - Danko Jones - We sweat blood
150 SPM (75 BPM) - Judas Priest - Turbo lover
150 SPM (75 BPM) - Magnus Uggla - Mitt liv
150 SPM (75 BPM) - Motorhead - Devil I know
150 SPM (75 BPM) - Rose Tattoo - Union man
150 SPM (75 BPM) - The Donnas - It's on the rocks
150 SPM (75 BPM) - Wolfsbane - Fell out of heaven
150 SPM (75 BPM) - Y & T - Forever
151 SPM (151 BPM) - Axel Rudi Pell - Streets of fire
152 SPM (38 BPM) - Fjeld - Mother of devotion
152 SPM (76 BPM) - Bon Jovi - Runaway
152 SPM (76 BPM) - Dio - We rock
152 SPM (76 BPM) - Motorhead - Be my baby
152 SPM (76 BPM) - Sparks - Progress
152 SPM (76 BPM) - Tank - Stormtrooper
154 SPM (77 BPM) - Bloodhound Gang - Along comes Mary
154 SPM (154 BPM) - Scooter - Let me be your valentine
154 SPM (154 BPM) - The Free - Children of the night
154 SPM (77 BPM) - ABBA - King Kong Song
154 SPM (77 BPM) - Motorhead - All gone to Hell
154 SPM (77 BPM) - Myofist - Double or nothing
154 SPM (77 BPM) - Rainbow - Can't happen here
155 SPM (155 BPM) - Depeche Mode - Barrel of a gun
156 SPM (39 BPM) - Coolio - Gangstas paradise
156 SPM (39 BPM) - Megadeth - 1000 times goodbye
156 SPM (39 BPM) - Moby - Spiders
156 SPM (39 BPM) - Nas - If Heaven was a mile away
156 SPM (39 BPM) - Scorpions - China white
156 SPM (39 BPM) - Shawn Mullins - Lullaby
156 SPM (52 BPM) - Consolidated & Yeasty Girls - You suck
156 SPM (52 BPM) - Gina Jacobi - Upp igen
156 SPM (52 BPM) - Van Halen - Don't tell me (what love can do)
156 SPM (78 BPM) - Axel Rudi Pell - Call of the wild dogs
156 SPM (78 BPM) - Motorhead - One night stand
156 SPM (78 BPM) - Petter - Fredrik Snortare och Cecilia Synd
156 SPM (78 BPM) - The Beatles - Paperback writer
156 SPM (78 BPM) - The Donnas - I don't care (so there)
158 SPM (79 BPM) - Axel Rudi Pell - Firewall
158 SPM (79 BPM) - Cheap Trick - Mighty wings
158 SPM (79 BPM) - Raven - Hard Ride
158 SPM (79 BPM) - The Donnas - Take it off
158 SPM (79 BPM) - Wilmer X - Lyckliga hundar
158 SPM (79 BPM) - Wolfsbane - Kathy Wilson
159 SPM (53 BPM) - Di Leva - Ber om ljus
160 SPM (160 BPM) - Scooter - Move your ass
160 SPM (40 BPM) - Ice Cube - It was a good day
160 SPM (40 BPM) - Puff Daddy & Jimmy Page - Come with me
160 SPM (40 BPM) - Queensryche - Empire
160 SPM (40 BPM) - Sugababes - Follow me home
160 SPM (40 BPM) - Yellowcard - Only one
160 SPM (80 BPM) - AC/DC - Heatseeker
160 SPM (80 BPM) - Black Sabbath - Time machine
160 SPM (80 BPM) - Ministry - New world order
160 SPM (80 BPM) - The Donnas - Too bad about your girl
162 SPM (162 BPM) - Gorillaz - Clint Eastwood
162 SPM (81 BPM) - Kingdom Come - Do you like it
162 SPM (81 BPM) - Rose Tattoo - Motorbike song
162 SPM (81 BPM) - The Ramones - I wanna be sedated
162 SPM (81 BPM) - Wilmer X - F