Realizes way too late she had way too many kids way too early realness.
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Oh My God! I Totally Love This Song
I hate to see you go, I'll tell you what I'll do, I'll be good to you:
STAY AWHILE BY SHE & HIM
This gorgeous Dusty Springfield cover has had me swooning
for a couple days. The video is as quirky as one would suspect from the
adorkable one. I actually really enjoy Zooey Deschanel but can see how others
may find her annoying. For me, she brings a certain charm to everything she
does and is a pretty funny lady, too. Plus, she got style. This song is creamy
and dreamy and smooth and just gorgeous.
Sometimes, a song that sounds old timey at Christmas cements
itself as a Christmas song in my head (Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You
comes to mind). Other times, I’ll go down a YouTube hole and find old music
that I haven’t heard or every listened to. I think I’m about to go on a Dusty
Springfield kick. Or maybe just a Rick Springfield kick.
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Oh My God! I Totally Love This Song!
MAD ABOUT YOU BY BELINDA CARLISLE
Do you ever look back and think that it seems impossible
that you were ever sixteen years old? I feel like I started out formed the way
I am today and when I think of myself at 16 I feel like I was a little adult.
But, I was two steps out of childhood and a few years away from being a grown
up. I don’t really remember what this felt like. To me, it felt the same as
today feels, just with slightly less wisdom.
This song came out when I was sixteen and I remember seeing
the video at my friend’s house and being so impressed with how good Belinda looked.
As a huge Go Go’s fan, I had always thought of Belinda as a sisterly type and
here she was serving up 80’s Grace Kelly at an LA beach and sounding better than
she had in a long time. The vibrato was a little weird, but this song was just
so poppy and gorgeous.
A couple of fools running wild, aren't we?
Watching the skies first lights while the city sleeps:
Monday, December 15, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Oh My God! I Totally Love This Song!
200 OMG's!
We always hang in a buffalo stance:
200 OMG's!
BUFFALO STANCE BY
NENEH CHERRY
Once upon a time in 1989 there was a moment where downtown
was the place to be. Club culture was at its 80’s nadir and the kids were out
in full force whether or not Lisa Lisa was there. The first of sibling one hit
wonders Neneh and Eagle Eye Cherry’s hits, Neneh’s Buffalo Stance was pulling everyone
to the dance floor. All you needed was something new and expensive, something
from a thrift store and some cocaine and the night would be yours.
To this day, I think I’m cooler for having known and loved
this song. It should be a classic and I wonder if any youngs even know it. To
me it still sounds fresh (or is that phresh?) but that could just be me
desperately clinging to youth,. The whole talking bit in the middle, the
breakdown, it’s all good and it’s all in there. This was hip hop from across
the pond back when hip hop was still finding its legs.
What is he like, anyway?
We always hang in a buffalo stance:
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Oh My God! I Totally Love This Song!
THIS WEATHER BY PATRICK WOLF
It is really, really raining. I just went to grab a coffee
and a croissant and I’m soaked. This is a gloomy day best spent indoors
drinking tea and staying warm. Which doesn’t sound so bad, does it? Take a long
gander out the window and listen to this song.
Patrick Wolf has a very interesting catalogue of songs. For
a boy genius, he’s pretty great and this one is really beautiful, melodramatic
and intense. Some of his stuff totally misses the mark for me, but when it hits
it is so damned good. And this song is perfect for today.
The storm blows around this harbor town I
listen to its wind as a choir:
I want to live to see the sun break through these days:
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