Music:
There's been a lot of talk about REM's decision to finally sound like a rock band again for their new album, Accelerate. I rather like the first single, "Supernatural Superserious," which sounds like the REM I remember, rather than some...
Posted on May 10, 2008 8:08 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm typing this on the tablet in my in-laws' kitchen, while Kate sleeps in-- we're in Boston for a wedding, heading back home this afternoon. I need some sort of post to keep things going on our travel day, and...
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Posted on May 4, 2008 11:21 AM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Are there any songs about specific and readily identifiable political events that aren't terrible?
Posted on April 17, 2008 10:12 AM • 76 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
What's your favorite drinking song?
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Posted on April 10, 2008 10:44 AM • 25 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm looking for some recommendations of music in the instrumental jazz sort of vein, and I figure this is an area in which the Internet knows more than I do. I have some fairly idiosyncratic constraints, though, so please read...
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Posted on April 6, 2008 9:49 AM • 40 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In which I steal post ideas from Kate: The following are two-word phrases from songs in my iTunes library that ought to be enough to identify the song in question. Leave your guesses in the comments: Pre-Raphaelite curls Chrome horse...
Posted on April 1, 2008 9:16 AM • 26 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Who gives a f*ck about an Oxford comma, anyway? And why?
Posted on March 28, 2008 7:27 AM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
We had an appointment yesterday for a fetal echocardiogram, to look for heart problems that might've caused the scary first trimester screen result back in January. This was basically a high-resolution ultrasound focussed on the heart (with Doppler velocity imaging...
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Posted on March 15, 2008 9:57 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
You know, there are really a remarkable number of bands whose names begin with "S"... There may be more "B" or "T" acts in my library, just because I own a bazillion songs by Bob Dylan and Tom Waits, but...
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Posted on March 14, 2008 12:17 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Looking at this segment of the playlist, it's clear that I was, consciously or not, giving a good deal of weight to how well a given song works as a sing-along. For whatever reason, this chunk of the artist alphabet...
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Posted on March 13, 2008 11:51 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
As noted in the previous FutureBaby playlist post, I started doing this after hearing Don McLean's "American Pie" on the radio while running errands the other day. Amusingly, you will note that that song is not present in this part...
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Posted on March 12, 2008 11:47 AM • 9 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
A collection of vaguely kid-appropriate songs from my collection, because it's important to expose children to music that doesn't suck.
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Posted on March 11, 2008 11:51 AM • 11 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via Orac, a religious movement I think we can all get behind: Pastor Wants 30 Days of Sex for Couples The pastor for Relevant Church in Ybor City is challenging the couples in his congregation to get busy in bed...
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Posted on March 1, 2008 5:34 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Over at Musical Perceptions, Scott has something that seems like a "meme": go to the Metropolitan Opera archives and see what they were playing on the day you were born (keyword search with your birth date written out). For me,...
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Posted on February 12, 2008 9:52 PM • 15 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
In the middle of reviewing the top ten songs from Feb 7, 1987, which includes the Georgia Satellites at #7, Jason Hare offers us a list: Artists I'd Like To Hear Cover "Keep Your Hands to Yourself": Andrea Bocelli Barbra...
Posted on February 9, 2008 8:35 AM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
I'm not organized enough to make this a regular feature, or to use it to divine the future, but every now and then, I get a really good run of songs on the iTunes shuffle, and make a note. Here's...
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Posted on January 22, 2008 9:19 AM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
"Prof. Orzel gives the impression of an everyday guy who just happens to have a vast but hidden knowledge of physics." (anonymous student evaluation comment)
