Okay, if you missed the make-any-song-swing tool "The Swinger" when fennel posted about it, rectify that right now and go play those samples. "Sweet Child of Mine" is the one I most want to dance to.

In case you have not yet seen the nine and a half minute long Lady Gaga/Beyoncé prison flick extravaganza "Telephone", it is here. I'm amused that MTV tried to make a cheat sheet for all of the pop culture references and missed enough that they had to issue a supplement. It's kinda NSFW but magnetic and epic and weird - I was reminded of Thriller.

spike recently sent me a link to F_ck Sh_t Stack (N at all SFW), which reminded me of how much I love Reggie Watts. I've been checking him out all over Vimeo tonight, and it's a weird silly mixture of things. Still smitten.

California English
Alabama Chicken
Tennessee Waltz
Nashville Skyline
London Calling

What comes next? I don't think it's Tokyo Police Club, but I might be wrong.

Bonus #1: the song ceelove played me last night, which is my new anthem: Unworthy, by Cheryl Wheeler.

Bonus #2: Nashville Skyline is still my favorite Dylan album, so here's another track.

I played "3 Feet High and Rising" for Natalie, and she liked it well enough. I didn't get around to playing the other recommendations you guys gave me (thanks!), because last night all she wanted to hear was yodeling. We played "The Lonely Goatherd" three times, and she also quite liked this video of a girl who taught herself to yodel because she ( Read more... )

So, I have a thing for Bob Dylan. A deep and abiding serious soft spot for his music, which actually includes his voice. I also have a thing about people making fun of his voice: I hate it. A lot. I think it's cheap and easy and lazy to play the "Bob Dylan has a funny voice ha ha" card. Don't like his music? Fine! I sincerely do not care. But don't ( Read more... )

[scene: in the car. NPR came on when I started it up ( Read more... )

"United Breaks Guitars". This is awesome. Also, I like his voice.

I've known for a while that Natalie is strongly motivated by music. She loves hearing songs, and there were lots of times when she was a baby when the only thing in the world that would calm her down was one of us singing her a song (preferably, multiple people singing it as a round). That would grab her attention right quick ( Read more... )

I had an extremely difficult weekend -- blah blah hard hard, everyone's fine, not interested in talking about it, I'm fine too -- but the coffeeshop has been playing Paul Simon all morning and it helps a lot. They played Hearts and Bones, then Graceland, and now Rhythm of the Saints and I think, you know, I am just about always in the mood for this ( Read more... )