I asked whether I should post covers or hip-hop for More Joy Day; when I started prepping the post, covers were winning, but since then hip-hop has taken the lead. So... covers now, hip-hop later this month.

I am not a fanatical collector of covers, though I do like them, and the existence of several blogs maintained by people who are fanatical ( Read more... )

More Joy Day is next Thursday! I have a couple of ideas for things I want to do, and one of them is to post some music, since I haven't done that in a while. I've narrowed down my options to two posts that I think I could put together reasonably quickly (including a long-overdue sequel to the hip-hop post I did a few years ago), and I've already ( Read more... )

I am super-excited about More Joy Day tomorrow, and especially about the fact that festivids will be posted as well! Unfortunately, I'm going to be away from the computer pretty much all day, and my Friday is looking rather full, so I probably won't have time to watch vids (or do my own MJD posts) until the weekend, which has me feeling a bit sulky. But let ( Read more... )

My contribution to More Joy Day is a mix of songs that make me dance. Not dance music per se - that would be a separate mix - but a bunch of songs, mostly indie-rock and pop with a smattering of hip-hop, that never fail to get me moving. These are songs that make me seat-dance when I'm in the car, move faster when I'm walking, bounce while I'm ( Read more... )

First of all, thank you thank you thank you to my very favorite renenet for the black cat and to whatever lovely anonymous person gave me hugging (making out?) teddy bears. They did indeed brighten my day!

Other More Joy activities, beyond what I've already posted:

• Went to lunch with two friends yesterday and, when tempted to gripe about some stuff that ( Read more... )

For More Joy day, here's a celebration of the show that's given me more joy than any other. Come share your stories of Buffy joy with me!

In the last couple of weeks I've started rewatching Buffy from the beginning. I'm doing this partly because I need to prep for some long-delayed vid projects; I'm also doing it simply because it's been several ( Read more... )

counteragent has made a vid that's a wonderful tribute to vidding. Here's where I confess that meta vids often don't work for me; there are exceptions, like flummery's terrific "Walking on the Ground," but typically I find myself tilting my head to one side and saying "huh ( Read more... )

Last year's obsesso-songs are hereThis is a list of the songs that took over my head in 2007, presented more or less in order. It is not a representative sample of everything I listened to, or even of the CDs I acquired. It is not necessarily a list of the best songs on the CDs in question. It is simply a list of songs that burrowed into my brain ( Read more... )