I grew up in a singing household -- my mother sang all time, and we were always singing along to the radio or the record player/tape player/CD player, and then we went to camp and there are So. Many. Camp. Songs ( Read more... )

That's the title of my new dancepop playlist. Give me suggestions for it. So far it's, er, Beyonce-heavy (it has all of Telephone, Single Ladies, and Jumpin' Jumpin' on it).

Prefer female artists, but I do have Bowie's "John, I'm Only Dancing" in there, so it's by no means an absolute ban on men....

What would you include?

ipmcc sent a link to Living Colour on the Arsenio Hall Show.

That song is still f'in awesome. The clothes? Less so.

This is basically flummery's fault. I am listening (once again) to the Flobots "Handlebars" and I am (once again) wondering what this song structure is called ( Read more... )

Last time I looked at Donors Choose, there weren't any Pittsburgh-area schools with submitted proposals. That's changed now, so I made a Pittsburgh-area challenge.


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kindly pointed out to me by mine seester vallentine:

"on my very hottest looking day, with an extra cup size and three inches added to my height with hair and makeup done by gwen stefani, my fierceness would still be less than half the square root of david bowie's. actually, this goes for everyone." -- screamofwheat

SRSLY.

I'm watching And You Don't Stop: 30 Years of Hip Hop on VH1, and they are talking about Def Jam and LL Cool J right now ( Read more... )

Nicked from sockkpuppet1. Have your music library ready ( Read more... )

I was going to steal the ipod meme from basingstoke, but all my answers turned out bizarre and ridiculous. I know that's half the point, but I got all upset at the way the answers were SO NOT actual answers to the questions ( Read more... )

Gakked from thete1:

1) Put your music player on random
2) For the first 20 tracks, find a picture of the artist via Google Images (or cheat *cough cough*)
3) Get your friends to guess the artist.

( image-heavy )