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Okay, so I'm sitting here at the computer.
Things I should be doing:
1. Putting in OT. We're hella behind at work and I could use the extra cash to help pay for some upcoming expenses for things that are weighing heavily on my mind.
2. Sitting in the other room with Thom watching a movie and spending time together.
3. Writing. Mathieu's rewrite. Not the Dwayne Johnson/Orlando Bloom alt universe galatic empire thingie I already started, damnitdamnitdamnit
4. Cleaning the bathroom.
5. Going to the grocery store and getting squirrel food before they cut my brake lines.
What I am doing:
Putting in search terms in the Itunes store for 70's songs. Yes, "70s crap" gives you hits. So does "70s schlock" but it's something German so I don't think that counts.
The embarrasing thing is when I hit a song I like I tend to twitch, sit-dance and sing with it. Liv finds this utterly humiliating when she is in the car with me. When I hit something by Andy Gibb or the Bee Gees or Abba, she dives for the floorboards, eeling down like she has no bones.
Obviously, this means I had to load my Ipod heavily.
So here I am, listening to snippits of the shitty music I love so.
"Windy" by The Association. God, how can you not love this song? I mean, "Walking on Sunshine" is supposed to make you cheerful, but it just annoys the shit out of me. "Windy", though. Maybe because she has stormy eyes that flash at the sound of lies?
"Playground in Mind" by Clint Holmes. Of course, listening to this as an adult, I find several disturbing threads including gender specific roles and possible pedo-bear undertones. BUT WHO GIVES A SHIT? "My name is Micheal, I've got a nickel! I've got a nickel, shiney and new! I'm going to buy me all kinds of candy, that's what I'm gonna do!"
"Kiss You All Over" by Exile. Sexiest. Damn. Song. I love this song and I'm a little miffed that all I can seem to find on Itunes is some shitty remastered rerecorded version that just doesn't sound right. I can't put my finger on why, but it just doesn't. I know that makes no sense. It's like trying to describe the differences between something my mother makes vs. my mother-in-law when they make the same thing with the same ingredients and same recipe. (Of course, my viewpoint of my MIL's cooking is always clouded by the green slime stuffing every turkey-cooking holiday)
"I Was Made For Dancing" by Leif Garrett. Now for those of you on my FL who were born after 1974 (which I realize with a sinking feeling is at least 2/3 to 3/4 of you), you might not realize that this boy was IT. He was the Jonas Brothers of the time. He was IT. All us girls at F. C. Martin Intermediate in Miami wanted him. I don't know why we wanted him or what we were going to do with him, (after all, I was in 6th grade) but we wanted him. Of course, this was before he was introduced to heroin. Or testosterone, for that matter.
"Fool If You Think It's Over" by Chris Rea. Again, heard with grown up ears, it takes on a totally different meaning. It's actually really good advice for all those romantically heartbroken teen drama queens, if a little patronizing. And then he goes into how he'll buy the seventeen year old her first good wine and they'll have a "real good time" and now we're back into Pedo-bear country. I should pack a baseball bat.
"You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone. Let me put a caveat here: I fucking LOATHE this song. This song makes me twitch uncontrollably. I want to throw things, puke and swear all at the same time when I hear this one start up. This song gives me hives. This song makes my asshole clench. I hate this song more than "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Fucking Dion, which gives you an idea of the deep hatred and loathing and more hatred I have for this song. I'm pretty confident in saying that if you were born after 1974, you have no idea why people of my generation hate this song so fucking much. (Not to say that people don't like this song, but if they do, they're dead to me and I don't want to know what else they do with their spare time because it's probably something sick like putting llamas into fishnet stockings, getting them drunk and taking them out behind the barn). But, this song is classic 70s shit and explains so fucking much about the decade that I have to leave it in.
"Dancing In The Moonlight" by King Harvest Just a happy song, you know? I love this song. It makes me want to dance. Hold on. I've got to download this one so that I can send my kid into the backseat on her belly.
"Chevy Van" by Sammy Johns. God this song sucks but I LOVE IT SO. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. He fucked a hitchhiker in the back of his van, probably getting all kinds of STDs and creepy, crawly, burn-when-you-pee stuff and HE WROTE A SONG ABOUT IT. God, I love this song. They just don't write good, quality songs about fucking random hitchhikers in vans anymore.
"Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies. I had a K-Tel record with this on it. I remember the cover had a cat with a tamborine. I remember it had some great music on it, but I can't remember what. I'm going to have to go dig through my vinyl now. AND I have to download this one too. I'm going to make your life so sweet, YEAH YEAH YEAH!!! (Sobering thought that the guy in video is probably at least sixty years old now. YIPE YIPE YIPE!)
"Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck. You know what's missing in rock these days? THE ELECTRIC XYLOPHONE. SRSLY.
Oh, look. I wasted enough time that now it's bedtime! NITE!
Edit: Just did some googling about The Archies and found Jingle, Jangle!!!! I remember I had this one too. I loved The Archies. I wonder if this was on one of my old K-tel records? I need to go find this one and download it too. This one should send Liv to the trunk.
Things I should be doing:
1. Putting in OT. We're hella behind at work and I could use the extra cash to help pay for some upcoming expenses for things that are weighing heavily on my mind.
2. Sitting in the other room with Thom watching a movie and spending time together.
3. Writing. Mathieu's rewrite. Not the Dwayne Johnson/Orlando Bloom alt universe galatic empire thingie I already started, damnitdamnitdamnit
4. Cleaning the bathroom.
5. Going to the grocery store and getting squirrel food before they cut my brake lines.
What I am doing:
Putting in search terms in the Itunes store for 70's songs. Yes, "70s crap" gives you hits. So does "70s schlock" but it's something German so I don't think that counts.
The embarrasing thing is when I hit a song I like I tend to twitch, sit-dance and sing with it. Liv finds this utterly humiliating when she is in the car with me. When I hit something by Andy Gibb or the Bee Gees or Abba, she dives for the floorboards, eeling down like she has no bones.
Obviously, this means I had to load my Ipod heavily.
So here I am, listening to snippits of the shitty music I love so.
"Windy" by The Association. God, how can you not love this song? I mean, "Walking on Sunshine" is supposed to make you cheerful, but it just annoys the shit out of me. "Windy", though. Maybe because she has stormy eyes that flash at the sound of lies?
"Playground in Mind" by Clint Holmes. Of course, listening to this as an adult, I find several disturbing threads including gender specific roles and possible pedo-bear undertones. BUT WHO GIVES A SHIT? "My name is Micheal, I've got a nickel! I've got a nickel, shiney and new! I'm going to buy me all kinds of candy, that's what I'm gonna do!"
"Kiss You All Over" by Exile. Sexiest. Damn. Song. I love this song and I'm a little miffed that all I can seem to find on Itunes is some shitty remastered rerecorded version that just doesn't sound right. I can't put my finger on why, but it just doesn't. I know that makes no sense. It's like trying to describe the differences between something my mother makes vs. my mother-in-law when they make the same thing with the same ingredients and same recipe. (Of course, my viewpoint of my MIL's cooking is always clouded by the green slime stuffing every turkey-cooking holiday)
"I Was Made For Dancing" by Leif Garrett. Now for those of you on my FL who were born after 1974 (which I realize with a sinking feeling is at least 2/3 to 3/4 of you), you might not realize that this boy was IT. He was the Jonas Brothers of the time. He was IT. All us girls at F. C. Martin Intermediate in Miami wanted him. I don't know why we wanted him or what we were going to do with him, (after all, I was in 6th grade) but we wanted him. Of course, this was before he was introduced to heroin. Or testosterone, for that matter.
"Fool If You Think It's Over" by Chris Rea. Again, heard with grown up ears, it takes on a totally different meaning. It's actually really good advice for all those romantically heartbroken teen drama queens, if a little patronizing. And then he goes into how he'll buy the seventeen year old her first good wine and they'll have a "real good time" and now we're back into Pedo-bear country. I should pack a baseball bat.
"You Light Up My Life" by Debby Boone. Let me put a caveat here: I fucking LOATHE this song. This song makes me twitch uncontrollably. I want to throw things, puke and swear all at the same time when I hear this one start up. This song gives me hives. This song makes my asshole clench. I hate this song more than "My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Fucking Dion, which gives you an idea of the deep hatred and loathing and more hatred I have for this song. I'm pretty confident in saying that if you were born after 1974, you have no idea why people of my generation hate this song so fucking much. (Not to say that people don't like this song, but if they do, they're dead to me and I don't want to know what else they do with their spare time because it's probably something sick like putting llamas into fishnet stockings, getting them drunk and taking them out behind the barn). But, this song is classic 70s shit and explains so fucking much about the decade that I have to leave it in.
"Dancing In The Moonlight" by King Harvest Just a happy song, you know? I love this song. It makes me want to dance. Hold on. I've got to download this one so that I can send my kid into the backseat on her belly.
"Chevy Van" by Sammy Johns. God this song sucks but I LOVE IT SO. I LOVE IT SO MUCH. He fucked a hitchhiker in the back of his van, probably getting all kinds of STDs and creepy, crawly, burn-when-you-pee stuff and HE WROTE A SONG ABOUT IT. God, I love this song. They just don't write good, quality songs about fucking random hitchhikers in vans anymore.
"Sugar, Sugar" by The Archies. I had a K-Tel record with this on it. I remember the cover had a cat with a tamborine. I remember it had some great music on it, but I can't remember what. I'm going to have to go dig through my vinyl now. AND I have to download this one too. I'm going to make your life so sweet, YEAH YEAH YEAH!!! (Sobering thought that the guy in video is probably at least sixty years old now. YIPE YIPE YIPE!)
"Moonlight Feels Right" by Starbuck. You know what's missing in rock these days? THE ELECTRIC XYLOPHONE. SRSLY.
Oh, look. I wasted enough time that now it's bedtime! NITE!
Edit: Just did some googling about The Archies and found Jingle, Jangle!!!! I remember I had this one too. I loved The Archies. I wonder if this was on one of my old K-tel records? I need to go find this one and download it too. This one should send Liv to the trunk.