First, to today's song:

Day 09: A Song That You Can Dance To:

I Don't Feel Like Dancing -- Scissor Sisters

It's like the Mary Poppin's lullaby Stay Awake. I dare you to listen and not want to shake a tail feather ( Read more... )

Heh. As anyone who has ever driven with me in northern California can attest:

Do You Know the Way to San Jose?" -- Dionne Warwick.

I will not lie. I love Burt Bacharach unironically.

Also, White Collar and Covert Affairs return! I really liked both premieres an awful lot. Thoughts?

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Sally MacLennane

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This song will always make me think of Trafalgar Square, London, when I was 16 and on my class trip, which was my first trip overseas. I don't think that I can explain clearly enough the ways in which my friend Maurie's cassette copy of Rum, Sodomy and the Lash -- heard through one earphone of a crappy ( Read more... )

In my defense, I was totally watching a really bad movie with my dad last night, so there's that.

Instead, you get a twofer.

( DAY 04: A Song That Makes You Sad )

Alex Chilton by The Replacements ( Read more... )

Day 2: Your least favorite song

Do NOT click unless you want to be earwormed forever.

( Tom's Diner -- Suzanne Vega )

Hello, Internets! I thought I'd try posting while it was still 2011. Or currently 2011. Whatevs. :)

Anyhoodle, stolen from playfullips and lots of other people:

Post the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. Feel free to ask about anything and I'll tell you the premise or paste you a tidbit for any of ( Read more... )

I kind of like posting right before bed. It makes me feel like I'm having a last chat with a friend. Like summer camp for really, really sad people ( Read more... )

I am happily ensconced in beautiful Sebastopol, CA for the next 10 days, where I hope to run into Tom Waits at the Gravenstein Apple Fair this weekend.

I am housesitting/cat sitting at a lovely house with a bananas garden/deck/fountain/lounging area, halfway between Bodega Bay and The Bohemian Grove (of Tales of the City fame), and couldn't ask ( Read more... )

No, seriously. No. Seriously.

I have been at my parents' house for far too long. My mother watches crime shows pretty much 24/7. Now, ask miss_begonia, I like me an occasional Law & Order episode, especially when I can't sleep. But this is like Panama-level torture. My brain hurts. I had to watch CSI: Miami tonight ( Read more... )