My reality show concept: Celebrity Karaoke Roulette
Shakespeare's Sister question of the day the other day was: "You've been given unlimited resources and creative control to create your own contest reality show (a la Project Runway) or game show: What's your concept?" I've had this one rolling around in my head: Celebrity Karaoke Roulette. Take five famous musicians, throw them up on stage with microphones, hit shuffle...
Music
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Music Rediscovered
We finally we able to upgrade the firmware on our Terabyte server last weekend, and it's finally behaving in a stable fashion with iTunes (fingers crossed). It was apparently having trouble with long file names (!) and iTunes loves to create long file names, so it kept hiccuping. Since I've been home this week, I've been able to sort out...
EW's Best Love Songs Ever: The Top 25!
Entertainment Weekly's List: 25. "Just Like Heaven" - The Cure (1987) 24. "As" - Stevie Wonder (1976) 23. "Purple Rain" - Prince (1984) 22. "Your Song" - Elton John (1970) 21. "Time After Time" - Cyndi Lauper (1984) 20. "If Not for You" - Bob Dylan (1970) 19. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" - Marvin Gaye/Tammi Terrell (1967) 18. "Crazy...
Currently listening to...
Proof of Youth by The Go Team. Discovered through a video posted on Coudal's Fresh Signals....
Melissa Etheridge's New CD
I bought her new CD "The Awakening" last week on a whim - I actually purchased the physical CD because we still haven't had a spare two or three hours to sit down and sort out what the hell is wrong with the terrabyte server after I killed it vacuuming. So our music situation is still in limbo at home,...
KT Tunstall's awesome cover of "I Want You Back"
(via Shakespeare's Sister)...
That's pretty lesbionic.
The video for the song "Girl I Told Ya" by Valeria....
24,000 some songs gone
I took my 200 GB external drive with all of my music on it to CompUSA this weekend to have it put in a new enclosure, because the old one was going bad. I had this happen before to a Maxtor drive - the enclosure doesn't spin the drive fast enough, apparently, so the disk kept crapping out while transferring...
Kingdom In The Sky
Kingdom In The Sky by DaVinci's Notebook From the album: The Life and Times of Mike Fanning Link will expire in 7 days All my life I have been searching for that fabled promised land, With my sisters and my brothers, we shall walk there hand-in-hand. Through the trials and tribulations, and the devil's cruel temptations I know that...
Oh, What A Beautiful Morning!
Oh, What A Beautiful Morning! Oklahoma! Soundtrack Music by Richard Rodgers, lyric by Oscar Hammerstein II There's a bright golden haze on the meadow, There's a bright golden haze on the meadow, The corn is as high as an elephant's eye, An' it looks like its climbin' clear up to the sky. Chorus: Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh...
International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
Aye, it be International Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties! Don't be a land lubber, learn t' talk like a pirate yerself! Here's a list o' stuff pirates say, Or try t' English t' Pirate Translator! Arrr! Being a Pirate by Hogeye Naavy from the album: Poor Old Horse (link expires soon!) Don't forget to attend the Talk Like...
The Lusty Month of May
Soundtrack to the Musical Camelot
What I'm Listening To
01 La goualante du pauvre Jean.mp3 Édith Piaf Éternelle Link expires after 7 days...
Really, How Hard Is It?
I think need to watch the movie Hustle and Flow, because there must be something about this pimping business that I'm missing. 'Cause now that it won an Oscar, I keep hearing the song "It's Hard Out Here for a Pimp" and I'm wondering what's so difficult about it. See, because my understanding of the pimping profession is this: you...
Natalie Portman Rapping on SNL
Wow. That's truly funny, and much better than the Lazy Sunday video. I want an mp3 of this. And the lyrics. Darn it. The video has already been yanked from Youtube.com, so my embedded file no longer works. Well, it'll be on iTunes; go look at it....
What I'm Listening To
Unwritten, Natasha Bedingfield, Ice Princess Soundtrack
Chocolate City
Chocolate City is Parliament song from 1975. Suddenly, Ray Nagin makes sense. And my African-American friends are looking at me like I'm retarded, because everyone knows what he was talking about. I am so white....
Four Things Meme
Four Jobs I've Had Public Library Page Assembly Worker of Industrial Gas Shut-off Valves Chicken Restaurant Cooking Staff Website Designer Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over Auntie Mame The Wizard of Oz Southpark: Bigger, Longer, Uncut Much Ado About Nothing Four Places I've Lived Ankeny, Iowa Canton, Ohio Muncie, Indiana Indianapolis, Indiana Four TV Shows I Love Veronica...
What I'm listening to: Rolf Is a Nazi
Rolf Is a Nazi: A SongFight Tribute to The Sound of Music Glitter and Twang does a cover tribute of the Sound of Music soundtrack. mp3s available at the link....
Melissa Etheridge and other cool stuff
My friend Amy gave me Greatest Hits: The Road Less Traveled by Melissa Etheridge a few weeks ago. I've been listening to it, but didn't get around to paying attention to some of the new tunes on it until this week. There's a very beautiful song called "This Is Not Goodbye" about going into surgery and having a loved one...
Hucklebuck
One of my cats is named Huckleberry, but I frequently shorten his name or call him some variation on that, like Huck, or Hucklebuck. I had no idea that hucklebuck is a word that other people use, though. Today I happened to be reading about the Flickr photo of Transexual Shaving Cream and noticed someone in the comments section said...
Freebird!!
A history of the phenomenon of people shouting "Freebird!" at concerts. The best part is the last paragraph, where Lynyrd Skynyrd band member Johnny Van Sant admits he's done it himself at a Cher concert....
My Top 10 Favorite Love Songs
I realize I'm going to get torn to shreds by my fellow Indyscribers for the utter cheesy sappiness of this post, but I don't care.
WTTS 92.3 is playing through their entire catalog
Starting at 6 this morning, WTTS radio station began playing through their entire catalog of songs alphabetically. Currently they've finished all songs beginning with "All." I fully realize that I will get made fun of for posting this, since three writers on our IndyScribe team are in a alt/punk band, but somebody needed to put something in the "Music" category....
Weekend Update
Stephanie and I did a ton of work at my house this weekend to get the place ready for the party I'm throwing this coming Saturday. Mainly we did a lot of cleaning and organizing. The party will be a retro 80's party... and in gathering up stuff to wear, we've seen tons of appropriate stuff in the stores. Target...
American Idiot Lyrics
Green Day
80's Music From Doug
98 compilation CDs. 662 Artists. 1352 Songs, 3.7 Days worth of music. 7.28 GB of disk space. Of course, there are duplicate songs, so the numbers on the final count will change, and I have quite a few 80's CDs in my own collection. I still have to add the collections together and eliminate duplicates. And assess what might be...
What Do I Know Dumpster Diving playlist
One of my favorite blog sites, What Do I Know, has a great iTunes Playlist of guilty pleasure songs from younger days, entitled the Dumpster Diving Playlist. It's now available in the iTunes store as an iMix. What a great list!!...
paper moon
I saw the 1973 movie "Paper Moon" on TCM on Monday. I'd never seen it before; it was a great movie. Tatum O'Neal was a terrific kid actor. The soundtrack was great, too -- Depression era jazz. I searched around but found there was never officially a soundtrack released for it, although someone put together a long out of print...
God damned Hansons
I have "mmmBop" stuck in my head. Where the hell did I put the skate punk music? Grrrr....
Stuck in my head
little wisps of song lyrics that drift through my brain and stay there... hold up, slow up, stop, control Don't pull the thang out unless you plan to bang; Don't even bang unless you plan to hit something oh I want the way, the way you talk about her, to be the way, the way, the way you talk about...
Dixie Chicks Rawk
Natalie Maines is really fucking funny. Smart hawt chix. There's nothing better....
You've Got To Be Kidding Me
That's not really for sale on Amazon, is it? a Sexual Sound Effects CD? Because, well... Okay....
Wow, those are some mp3s
Check out this bizarre collection of mp3s. There's some great wacky songs and spoken word items there, and hilarious comedy bits....
And the Hype machine spins out of control...
Now we have congressional hearings suggesting that if you download mp3s from the internet, you're funding Terrorism. Yeah, Right. Crap, I thought I was only riding with Hitler and channeling Satan. I guess now I'm also funding the terrorists. Looks like the folks at Modern Humorist were ahead of their time....
Michael Jackson's Original court documents
Speaking of things that piss me off and make me angry... the original court documents alleging sexual abuse of a child on the part of Michael Jackson. Just for the record, Michael, stay far the hell away from me. I'm not inclined to be nice to you....
Rhyme Zone
In case you ever have to make up a little song, here's an important link to have... the Rhyme Zone. Just type in a word, and find the rhymes to it. For example, the word vagina, contrary to popular belief, has plenty of rhymes, such as bone china, erwina, and dinah. "Someone's in the kitchen with Dinah, someone's in the...
Tatu
Cute Russian lesbian teenage musical duo tops the U.K. singles chart. Yum. I'll have to look up Tatu, and their single "All The Things She Said." I hope it's in English. What the hell. If it's not I'll listen anyway....
Ani DiFranco
You know, I own one Ani DiFranco album, and I've never been able to listen to the whole thing all the way through. This is one of those things I've never admitted to anyone, because everyone seems to think she's the shit, despite that fact that you never actually hear anyone out just humming one of her tunes. But here...
Leather Tuscadero
Strange things that come up in conversations at work: Leather Tuscadero from Happy Days (Suzi Quatro). Until I saw the pictures, I really didn't remember her, and now I'm wondering why I didn't, because I have a vague memory of Mom hating that character and saying she wasn't very feminine. You'd think I would have glommed onto that. Funny... just...
Parodies of Indigo Girls Songs
Okay, you have to be an Indigo Girls fan for this one: Parodies of Indigo Girls Songs. There's a parody of "Don't Give That Girl a Gun" entitled "Go Give That Girl Some Gum." Now that's funny. Also a christmas version of "Burn All the Letters" that's called "Return All The Sweaters." It may not be Weird Al caliber writing,...
Indigo Girls
New favorite lyric: "You are so baroque; all of those words, just to tell me no." -- from"Yield", Become You, the Indigo Girls...
Cecelia, you're breaking my heart
Simon and Garfunkel
Rhino Records Comedy
Amazon pages to return to later: Rhino Records Comedy Rhino Records...
Mr. Lady Records
Go here and buy some stuff. They produce numerous cool bands, including LeTigre....
Ohio Lesbian Festival Recap
Just got back from the Ohio Lesbian Festival, outside of Columbus, Ohio. The festival was Saturday, and we (Chi, Chelly, Leighe and I) drove up. There were a number of performers and booths & shopping. It was interesting, like a mini-version of National....
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