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Day 01 - Your favorite song
Day 02 - Your favorite movie
Day 03 - Your favorite television program
Day 04 - Your favorite book
Day 05 - Your favorite quote
Day 06 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 - A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - A fanfic
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - This month, in great detail
Day 28 - This year, in great detail
Day 29 - Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - Whatever tickles your fancy

Day 1: Favorite Song
Like most people, when I'm asked this question, I list my favorite song of the moment. I'm quite the audiophile and on my computer alone I have over 130G of music which, even when most of it's 320kbps, is a fairly obscene amount. When I was younger, I used to hold entire conversations in song lyrics, the more obscure and underground the better (and usually the more angsty the better, too). Y'see, I was raised to be a musician. My exposure to anything other than classical, opera, jazz, Broadway and 'world music' (usually Celtic or South American) was pretty minimal until I turned . . . oh, eight or ten or something like that. So this is a more complicated question for me than it should be, I suppose, especially since I can't even pick a genre that's a particular favorite. I can say that I don't like country or rap, but even that's not true - I love Patsy Cline and Elvis, and Will Smith when he was the Fresh Prince still cracks me up.

So, I'm going to break the 'rules'. I do that a lot.  Being a classically trained musician and an audiophile does not at all lend itself to picking one favorite song.

Favorite song to play (flute near-solo): Minuet from L'Arlésienne, Bizet
Favorite song to play with (symphonic) band/orchestra: An American in Paris, George Gershwin
Favorite marching band song: Malagueña (which is not so much a song as a style/genre, sue me)
Overall favorite classical piece: Adagio in G Minor, Albinoni
Favorite song to sing (ensemble/choir): All Things Bright and Beautiful, John Rutter
Favorite song to sing (solo/classical): Ave Maria, Schubert
Favorite song to sing (solo/karaoke): Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Pat Benetar

There are so many more.  I was going to go into it - favorite songs in a genre and the like, but!  That's way too much.  We'll stick with the mostly classical we have here.