I usually wake up in the morning with a random song stuck in my head. Most of the time it's something pretty good, like Tori Amos or Smashing Pumpkins (like this morning), since I mostly listen to good music. But every now and then, I'll wake up with something like the Gilligan's Island Theme Song stuck in my head. Why? Why? Why does this happen? I ( Read more... )

Good:
Obama was elected President. I feel as though a crushing weight has been lifted from my soul.Bad:
Prop 8 passed. I'm not constantly agonizing about this anymore. And I don't feel like I'm going to hit anyone with blunt objects now because of it.Good:
MTV is putting all of their videos up online, so you can watch them any time you like ( Read more... )

The Jonathan Coulton Experience Through a long complicated series of events going back billions of years, I suddenly found myself at the recent Jonathan Coulton concert being filmed at the Great American Music Hall, for a concert DVD. If you buy the DVD and watch it very closely, you'll probably see a blueish-purple blur of pixels in the back ( Read more... )

To make a long story short, the post-lyrics-from-random-songs-meme is going around again. ( Exhibit A, Exhibit B, Exhibit C) And that's been percolating around in my head with This Post and This Post

Growing up in Idaho, MTV's 120 Minutes was my only exposure to real culture, and heavily influenced my musical tastes. For those of you too young to ( Read more... )