I woke up this morning aware that OneRepublic's "Good Life" was playing on my brainradio - and had been doing so during my early morning dreams. Here's part of what I was hearing:

Sometimes there's airplanes I can't jump out ( Read more... )

Did you watch Ally McBeal? Because I sure did. Heck, I even bought the Christmas album, and I can assure you that Robert Downey Jr.'s recording of "River" is heartwrenching and swoon-inducing. (Yes. Both. Really.But there was this one season where Ally went to see a shrink (played by Tracey Ullman), and that shrink advised Ally to get herself a ( Read more... )

Over at Nerdfighters.com, Hank Green has posted a video showing his new house and doing his "Numa Numa dance." Which turns out to be him dancing and lipsynching to "Dragostea din te", a song in Romanian that has, evidently, been a YouTube sensation for a while now ( Read more... )

Guess what song's on brainradio this morning? It's the original version, too, not the slower, more melancholy Harry Connick Jr. version (although since it's gloomy and raining outside, that would have been a good guess). I love the scarecrow's song from the Wizard of Oz, don't you? And some days, it sums everything up so nicely. Particularly as ( Read more... )

Last night, I took a few minutes of my time and read Seedfolks by Paul Fleischman. Each chapter is from the p.o.v. of a different character; all have to do with a developing community garden in Cleveland. Because many of the characters were immigrants, there were some dialect issues that left me wondering how I felt about them: on the one hand ( Read more... )

Radiobrain is the term I've created to describe the never-ending, continuous play music going on in my brain. No matter what time of day or night it is, whether I'm awake or, presumably, asleep (since it's apparent as I'm waking up), there it is: MUSIC in my head. At 3:15 this morning when I woke up to let the cat in or out of the room (it's a ( Read more... )