Musical Monday
It’s Monday and obviously a little quiet at work if I’m writing here. I’m pretty sure that despite having been born and raised here, in a unilingual (monolingual?) household that English is my second language. Everything that I’ve written in an email or instant message seems to have the verbs and adverbs flippity-flopped and the word I’m looking for is continually JUST at the tip of my tongue. Soon I will be busting out phrases like “That will sell like warm bread!”
In other news, I just ate several large handfuls of Jelly Bellies and feel oogy for doing so. I prefer to eat them one at a time so as to savor the flavor of each. I tried mixing a grape and a peanut butter to imitate a PB&J’s flavor but got a caramel instead of the PB and winded up with a grody concoction. So I stick to individual beans. But now they’re gone and I really could’ve eaten another handful so I could feel uber-oogy. At home, if I tarry too long before hitting the Jelly Belly Bag, I'm left with some very slim pickings, I was going to list out some of the flavors but it will suffice to say that most of them taste like ass. Although, some of the ones that Richard considers "ass" flavored, I actually enjoy. One man's ass is another's treasure?
Lacking a clever seque, I’ll just mention that I set i-tunes to shuffle today and I’ve gotta say that sucker is no where near sufficiently shuffled, I kinda expected actual randomness . I have 1,221 songs on this here computer and here are the last 15 played:
- Tear Your Love Apart – Gomez
- June – Pete Yorn
- Pecan Pie – Golden Smog
- Loose Ends Feat. Justin Timberlake – Sergio Mendes
- Fixed Bayonets – The Kingsbury Manx
- Hypnotise – The White Stripes
- Drop It Like It's Hot (Extra Clean) – Snoop Dogg & Pharrell Williams
- Track 12
- You're the Reason I'm Leaving – Franz Ferdinand
- Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd – Ryan Adams
- 10:1 – Rogue Wave
- Man-Revolutionary! – Rogue Wave
- Well That Was Easy – Franz Ferdinand
- Baby, Now That I've Found You – Alison Krauss
- Track 12 (NOT the same Track 12)
Two Rogue Wave songs in a row? And two different songs that never got their names entered into iTunes but are named “Track 12” and two Franz Ferdinands? Come’on!
A few notes about the songs listed, firstly, this does give you a view of the eclecticism I practice. The Sergio Mendes is a from a Remix album that highlights the Black Eyed Peas among others. It’s got a swingy Cuban jazz feel with some lovely hippity hop beats thrown in for good measure. Drop it Like it’s Hot is my personal favorite accompaniment to my Friday dance, you can’t help but raise the roof with this tune. I'm only a little embarrassed that I downloaded the "extra clean" radio version, but seriously, I just wouldn't think it cool if the kidlet busted out the "N" word.
And when I complained about the two Rogue Wave songs, it’s not a real complaint as their albums are just such beautiful pop treats. Whenever I’ve got my ‘pod on shuffle, invariably if there’s a song that makes me stop and look to see who’s playing, it’s Rogue Wave. I wish I could describe them better. They’re rather mellow and melodic with a swooopy orchestration that just lifts you up. Please please check out “Descended like Vultures” go get a free download of one of their songs, MY gift to YOU.
I should probably actually listen to the lyrics, though. I’ve been known to hum jauntily along until someone points out how depressing the lyrics are. Wha??? I’m notorious for not paying any attention whatsoever to the words. Ah well. I’ll be perfect in the next life!
Holla back, y'all!
