Been wanting to make a list of songs that remind me of Shannon. I don't know how to do that Spotify thing, so I'll just link to YouTube videos:

Ed Sheeran, "Thinking Out Loud"
(Just been listening to this a lot lately & feeling sappily romantic)

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Ingrid Michaelson, "The Way I Am"

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Jason Mraz, "The Remedy (I Won't Worry ( Read more... )

I've been executing a project the past couple days, because I decided to take advantage of iTunes's Smartlist capability & make myself some decade lists-60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's-but discovered that many (perhaps even a majority) of my songs didn't have years attached (or had incorrect years, referring to compilation albums or movie soundtracks ( Read more... )

A librarian at the Berkeley Public Library (South Branch) told me today that there are apps available that would allow me to use my iPod Touch as a phone (for free) via wifi. Wow. So I looked it all up tonight & now I have a free fake cell phone whenever I can connect to wifi. Neato keen ( Read more... )

For some reason, as I was falling asleep last night, I was thinking about this song "All At Sea," and how I identify with it so strongly, and so I thought about what other songs I might feel that way about (click on the links to hear the songs):

1. Jamie Cullum, "All At Sea"
2. John Lennon, "Imagine"
3. Indigo Girls, "Closer to Fine"Just a lark. ( Read more... )

I've decided that I'm going to start using this journal as my old kind of diary, just writing my thoughts and feelings and not really thinking about anyone else. Just as before LJ's decline, I'll set the entries to varying degrees of privacy depending on the content, but I'm going to try to think of the journal less as something intended for ( Read more... )

I'm home, having arrived on our front doorstep in the wee hours of yesterday morning. I'm exhausted & oversocialized, and I've been diving back into some solitary pursuits that were in my mind when I left & have been languishing for more than a week ( Read more... )

For those of you interested, my Season 7 Spike/Buffy video (set to Mads Langer's excellent song "Fact-Fiction") is up on YouTube:

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I'm not much involved in BtVS fandom anymore, so I don't have many friends who would be interested, but take a look if you care.

I've had a great day of self-indulgence today so far, and it's done wonders for my state of mind ( Read more... )

Shannon always sings to Munchkin when we are "healing" her (read: administering subcutaneous fluids -- Shannon wanted to use a positive term for it so that we wouldn't think about the fact that what we're really doing is stabbing her with a needle). The thing is: he only knows the official lyrics to a couple of songs. The rest, he ad libs. He gets ( Read more... )

Songs I Love
Primarily Because They Remind Me
of Certain Great Scenes in Movies or TV

Hall & Oates, You Make My Dreams ((500) Days of Summer)
Why: I love scenes in which characters spontaneously burst into song and/or dance in a non-musical film, and this is probably my favorite of all of those particular scenes.

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Tears for Fears, Everybody Wants ( Read more... )