NPR has been hitting it out of the park for me lately. So many interesting things were talked about this morning!

First was a story about an English cathedral with a rather unique welcoming message on their door:


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Child of Grass (Book 2 of the Sea of Grass Trilogy) by David Gerrold ( Read more... )

I came to share a video, only to find LJ looks totally different. Different font (ugh, harder to read), different menus. I wish they'd stop changing things! My eyes suck, never before have I been annoyed at font being too big, but it's just too big. Blah.

Anyway! I've loved this string quartet's version of Coldplay's Yellow forever. Seriously, ( Read more... )

I was listening to a great episode of This American Life while going to the store today, and in the background of one story was the best music. I'm not much of a music person, but I had heard it before, I just couldn't remember the name of it. Tonight I tracked it down.

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Skip to 1:56 if it doesn't start there, the first two minutes are all warm up ( Read more... )

I'm not big on Christmas. Long story, holidays were bad when I was a child, blah blah blah. As a side effect of that, I really, really dislike most Christmas music. I try not to be grumpy about it, but it still bothers me deep down. There are only two songs I like: Little Drummer Boy and Gloria in Excelsis Deo ( Read more... )

I don't understand most of this song (it's in Spanish, I think), but I can't stop listening to it.

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A Target commercial uses it, and after hearing it once, I had to track the whole thing down ( Read more... )

Ever think you'd see that title used? It's true! Justin Beiber is amazing... when you slow his music down by 800%.

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I could listen to this forever. It really is amazing.

1) I'm not a music person. I rarely listen to it, I have very little interest in it. Now and then I regret that. WoW has new music coming out in this patch, and I wish I knew why it catches my attention so hard, I wish I knew how it makes you feel things.

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It feels slightly "off", darker than it should. It's surprising to me that music could make ( Read more... )

I can't stop listening to this song. The rhythm? flow? bounce? of it makes it so easy to listen to, and the lyrics are just silly. NWS, but it's not graphic or anything.

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Fiiiine booty ( Read more... )

Thank you, Twitter, for having "In the Navy" trend and remind me of something I've been meaning to post about for days ( Read more... )