Today's Post has a discussion of readers' Top 10 Beatles songsI really should not do this on the spur of the moment, since I always forget something. But here are my ( Read more... )

Commuters should expect major delays on Metro's Red Line this morning, officials said, while crews check a report of smoke on the tracks at Metro Center. In addition, power is out at the Dupont Circle, Farragut North, Farragut West and Shaw stations, where trains are still moving, but the fare card machines, elevators and escalators may not be ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I've done a mix. I was overdue ( Read more... )

Following in skybound2's footsteps, I bring you a music meme. You all know the drill.

1. "Down to the earth I fell / With dripping wings / Heavy things won't fly / And the sky might catch on fire / And burn the axis of the world." "Tonight and the Rest of My Life," Nina Gordon. Guessed bylebonheurbum

2. "When you recover, from yesterday's low / True slave to ( Read more... )

skybound2 tagged me and asked me to list seven songs I'm into right now:

1. "9 Crimes," Damien Rice
2. "Never Lonely Alone," Space Needle
3. "Where Did You Sleep Last Night," Nirvana
4. "Late at Night," Buffalo Tom
5. "Haunted," Poe
6. "Running Up That Hill," Placebo
7. "Parting Gift," Fiona Apple

Play as well, if you would like!

Iron Man was BAD ASS ( Read more... )

Best and Worst R.E.M. videos.

I love R.E.M. I have since I was in fifth grade and got a hold of a cassette tape of Green. They've fallen off my radar screen of late, but I always loop back to them. Now that their new album is out, they've been on my mind again.

I know it's a bit of a cliche for my age bracket, but I adore Automatic for the ( Read more... )

skybound2 is doing it, so why shouldn't I? Here are a number of songs I currently have on heavy rotation. Guess the lyrics.

1. Another head aches, another heart breaks / I am so much older than I can take / And my affection, well it comes and goes / I need direction to perfection "All These Things That I've Done," The Killers, guessed by aurora_84

2. Your ( Read more... )

I am getting more and more excited about Shutter Island. Is it weird that I seem to universally love Dennis Lehane adaptations, but I have no desire to read the novels? I have to wonder if its because I've heard he woefully underwrites female characters. Who knows. I still loved the cinematic adaptation of Mystic River, which seems to be an ( Read more... )

I did make it to the gym this morning! Miracle of miracles. I was a bit confused when my alarm went off--I heard Elliot in the Morning and my first thought was "Who are you, and why are you in my apartment and talking to me???" But up I got, and to the gym I went. I did 30 minutes on the elliptical, x-train aerobics (forwards and backwards, etc ( Read more... )

skybound2 got me thinking about lyrics memes again. I decided to do a high school/early college edition. ;) Ah, nostalgia. Ah, my taste in music really hasn't changed since I was 16/17/18.

1. My girl's got eyeballs in the back of her head. She looks around and around. You know it makes me sad to see her like that. "No One Else," Weezer, guessed by mdunnbass2 ( Read more... )