Got home to an empty house, so I spent thirty minutes doing something I've wanted to do badly in the last few weeks--play the piano.  My wrists are a little sore now, I'm rusty, and the piano has fallen out of tune, but it's probably the best half an hour I've had all week.

I have a new favorite song: "Gravity" by Sara Bareilles.  Just downloaded the sheet music, but alas, there's no piano to play with.  And besides, it's 2:30am, and I'm pretty sure the other people in the house would appreciate me playing right now.  Lucky for them.

Reason this is my new favorite song?  Because I was introduced to it this morning ( Read more... )

Of the three deaths I've learned about today, is it bad that the saddest one to me is of Lorena Gale?  If you don't know, she played Elosha on BSG.  And if you still don't know who that is, that's fine (although you should watch the show, but whatever).  When I got the e-mail from CNN this morning about Farrah Fawcett, the hymn "Oh Freedom" started ( Read more... )

Guess what I saw today?  (Points to icon)  And, yes, it was fantastic.  Details tomorrow, need to go to bed now since I'm working 9-4 tomorrow.

Thank you Entertainment Weekly (and my sister for the free subscription) for pointing out that if you go to Coldplay's website, you can download nine tracks from one of their concerts for free.  It includes "Fix You"; therefore, you must go download.

Second, I've taken over voy_stillness  and our first challenge back from a five month long break is up, and you ( Read more... )

Last weekend my sister went and got me addicted to the Wicked soundtrack.  I'm cutting myself off from listening to it so I don't get sick of it.  And in case you need some icons from the musical, there are gorgeous ones here (also feature John Krasinski, Rashida Jones, and Jenna Fischer).

Now if only I could cut myself off from procrastinating and ( Read more... )

From gabri_jade:

1. Reply to this post and I'll assign you a letter.
2. List (and upload, if you feel like it) 5 songs that start with that letter.
3. Post them to your journal with these instructions.

My letter was "M"--

1. "My Life Would Suck Without You" by Kelly Clarkson

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My love for Kelly Clarkson knows no bounds.  I love her music and adore this song.  It's ( Read more... )

So, I kind of feel bad whining about this considering that some people lost everything yesterday in the Great Flood of 2008, but I'm going to anyway ( Read more... )

Last night was the Michael Buble concert, and man was it amazing.  He's the first person I've seen in concert that I would without question classify as an entertainer, and not just a singer.  He was hilarious (as was his band members) and was bound and determined to let us all have a good time, which we did.  But not only was he funny and his band ( Read more... )

Vince Gill just now on the Grammy's:  "I just got an award handed to me by a Beatle.  Have you had that happen to you yet, Kanye?"

Oh how I love when people smack around the horrendous ego that is called Kanye West.