Mere hours after downloading a relatively obscure song by the Passion Puppets (see previous post), I find a mashup site with a mashup featuring that very song. And then I find this Project Opus page with Passion Puppets songs I never heard before (along with two I have). I love the internet so very much tonight.

I've been missing my old record collection lately. Been missing it rather a lot. There are far too many old songs in those LPs and EPs and 12-inchers and 7-inchers and even (can such things be?) 10-inchers that I just never, ever got in any kind of digital format; and since I don't have my records here, much less any way to play them even if I ( Read more... )

The two songs running through my head all day so far:

Icehouse, "Your God, Not Mine," currently available as a free mp3 on The Official Icehouse/Iva Davies WebsiteJonatha Brooke and Kevin Gilbert, "O Come Emmanuel." This was always available on the official Kevin Gilbert site, but that site appears to be nonexistent today.* For those of you who ( Read more... )

The part of my brain responsible for earworms has decided that the top songs for today are "In the Real World" by The Alan Parsons Project and Idha Ovelius' cover of Janis Ian's "From Me to You." And just when I think that Idha might be winning out, APP comes back with "Standing on Higher Ground" or "Stereotomy" and the fight starts all over again ( Read more... )

Peter Himmelman's album The Pigeons Couldn't Sleep will be in stores on 7/24! Woohoo! Of course I'd be more excited about this if I had the money to buy it (and a little bit of net searching shows that I missed a local performance this month too), but new Himmelsongs are a cause for joy.

He was at the Rams Head in Annapolis and that article ( Read more... )

megthelegend tagged me last weekend, but I was too icky-feeling to respond properly then. This is what she tagged me with:

List seven "songs" you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your seven songs ( Read more... )

This is a link for fans of mashups: If you haven't heard all the tracks already, check out The Best of Bootie 2006, a rather nifty-looking* collection of bootleg/mashup type tracks. Link via someone over in lunatunes.

Update later this weekend if I can manage to get myself to sit still long enough.

* I say "nifty-looking" because, as a dial-up user, I' ( Read more... )

Because advertisements keep showing "snowflakes" with seven or eight points on them, I feel the need to link to a Guide to Snowflakes. Also see the snow crystal primer and various other pages on the site if you like, but the first link is the one with all the pretty pictures ( Read more... )

Too oogie for deep thought tonight. Am still behind on MegaPoMo posts (oh, the angst!), though, so here's the second one for the day. Two poems featuring Braaaaaaiiiiins. Where there are brains, there might be zombies--so one of the poems features Wal-Mart too!

While wal-mart may be the same ( Read more... )

Lately I've been listening to lots of new music, trying to acquaint myself with more of the trends of the 21st century. Last night, the part of my brain responsible for earworms took its revenge by repeating not one, not two, but three songs from the '80s which I almost certainly have not heard since the '80s. I found lyrics for all three songs ( Read more... )