It's after Hanukkah, but here--the best holiday song I've heard all year, hands down. Matisyahu, the Hassidic Jewish rapper who seems to really, fundamentally, get the religious debate. I love this song.

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I've been puttering about some on old journals, writing this year's NaNoWrimo descent into madness, and I found something I had to share.

Last night, they were still playing AC/DC's "For Those About to Rock" when I came to bed at a little past two. Cat was still up. She says when I walk in, "For those about to rock ( Read more... )

Also--I know I was just here, but this is eating my head.

"Burn baby burn/When you gonna learn?" is part of the chorus, and searching that phrase, or just "Burn baby burn", doesn't turn it up--it's a vintage, very sixties-sounding piece, choral, more than one single voice, that whole, group-of-four-guys kind of sound ( Read more... )

Yes, finally, I saw Rent. Now I must own it, and maybe the soundtrack, and it made me cry. Loved it to death.


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