This is another getting-to-know-me activity I saw on Facebook and have stolen for my blog. The idea is to list 15 albums that have had a profound effect on your life. "Profound effect" is really pushing it for a few of these, although I truly loved (and in most cases, still love) these albums. But enough analysis, let's do this thing (and along those lines, I am going skip giving commentary on these, which is difficult for me, as I love to reminisce...ok, ok shut up already). Please share your own albums in the comments section.

1. Big Audio Dynamite - The Globe 2. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes 3. Houses of the Holy - Led Zeppelin 4. Changesbowie - David Bowie 5. Blonde on Blonde - Bob Dylan 6. One Simple Word - The Connells 7. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins 8. Jar of Flies - Alice in Chains 9. The Harder They Come (soundtrack) - Jimmy Cliff 10. Fashion Nugget - Cake 11. John Prine - John Prine 12. Odelay - Beck 13. I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One - Yo La Tengo 14. Girls Can Tell - Spoon 15. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot - Wilco

Due to some of your recent comments, readers (that's right, the blame's on you) I decided this weekend to watch all the available episodes of "The City" on demand and now I'm hooked. It's not as good as "The Hills," can we just get that straight? Whitney is nice and pretty and has a good work ethic, but she's got nothing on LC as far as reality TV stardom goes, you know what I mean? She's never gonna ratchet up that sense of drama like Lauren can. She's too prim and proper to get drunk and cry with her best friend at a party. Multiple times. That's what I like about "The Hills." Despite the fact its a far cry from my actual life, the show reminds of me being 24 and drinking margaritas on the front stoop after work, analyzing the latest Raleigh, NC gossip in agonizing detail and then heading over to the sub-par Mexican restaurant and bar across the street (because we could walk there, DUH) for a few more because, hey, we were young and it's ok to be a little hungover for work in the morning. Undoubtedly, the night would conclude with a raucous and emotional declaration of our love for one another. "We will be friends for LIFE! What if we'd never met each other?! I love you guys!" And Whitney, I'm sorry, is never going to achieve that level of sisterhood for me. But, I mean, I don't have that much going on Monday nights, calm down, of course I'll watch the show.

Fifteen albums

I cannot BELIEVE Allie is still dating that loser pretty boy