kismet09

lately i've been pretending that i can jog. for about 90 seconds at a time. i can only do it with "good" songs. my list is pretty terrible, though, compared to what i listen to at most times in my life. i pulled the bpm numbers off of http://jog.fm, which has given me some new song ideas...

jogging, ish (5.5-5.7 mph on the treadmill):
my life would suck without you - glee (145)
don't rain on my parade - glee (2x93 - it doesn't feel that fast when i'm jogging)
mushaboom, postal service remix - feist
right in front of your eyes - wedding singer soundtrack
voulez vous danser - ace of base
some people - linda eder
jai ho - slumdog millionaire (137)
friday i'm in love - cure (130)
mercy - duffy (130)
get the party started - pink (129)
when i grow up - pussycat dolls (131)
boom boom pow - black eyed peas (130)

in between the jogging, i do the walking (4.0-4.2 mph on the treadmill):
i'm too sexy - right said fred
take it off - kesha (125)
telephone - lady gaga (126)
love game - lady gaga (105)
i gotta feeling - black eyed peas (128)
the time - black eyed peas (128)
rolling in the deep remix - adele (105)
just dance - lady gaga (119)
mambo mambo - lou bega
summer of love - b52s

then i come back to the normal world with a slightly less tragic song:
hello seattle - owl city

at some point, perhaps i'll try to push the jogging above this speed, but for now, it's working for me. more or less. i'm still bitter about the idea of jogging, but i'm more bitter about the thought of having to buy larger sized clothing, so there you go.

This was my first Girlyman show - the venue was small and everyone was so friendly... if One Longfellow Square was closer to my house, I would be there all the time. Coyote Grace opened full of energy - Ingrid howling was my favorite. That and just watching her interact with her cello.

here's the Girlyman set list, more or less -I may have missed one or two. It's hidden under a cut in case raencloud wants to be surprised by what gets played at her show tonight:( Read more... )

wordweaverlynn asked, based on her friend's album project:

10000 maniacs - unplugged
alison krauss - new favorite
ani difranco - little plastic castle
billy bragg & wilco - mermaid avenue
cowboy junkies - studio
essex green - cannibal sea
emmylou harris - red dirt girl
emmylou harris & mark knopfler - all the roadrunning
garden state (soundtrack)
grateful dead - american beauty
hem - rabbit songs
indigo girls - 1200 curfews
indigo girls - all that we let in
james taylor - greatest hits
john denver - wildlife concert
joni mitchell - hits
kings of convenience - quiet is the new loud
melissa etheridge - yes i am
norah jones - feels like home
peter paul and mary title album
ryan adams - gold
simon & garfunkel - concert in central park
sarah mclachlan - fumbling towards ecstasy
they might be giants - flood
tori amos - under the pink

and a bonus: top 10 musicals( Read more... )

Saving this for posterity - my current Want List from lala.com - CDs I'd pay a buck for (the date is when I added it to my want list). Lala has been good to me - 133 CDs have either left or been added to my collection in the past couple of years:

(Title of Show) by Original Cast Recording 11/06/08
1000 Kisses by Patty Griffin 5/18/07
13 by Original Cast Recording 11/06/08
16 Biggest Hits by Johnny Cash 1/11/09( Read more... )

Today's entry has been brought to you by the letter A, and the number 30.

Reply and I'll give you a letter, and you have to find thirty songs that start with that letter and post them to your journal.

squeegman gave me "A" -- I tried to make this fairly indicative of the larger collection of songs on my iPod.( Read more... )

When I got my new Bose stereo, I got a gift certificate for 30 free iTunes. I'm thinking of taking my Wishlist CDs and purchasing a track from each, because I don't know what else to do with this gift cert. So, if anyone has suggestions for particular songs from these albums, or has other suggestions based on what's listed, let me know:

Actually Not by Eddie from Ohio
Bottleneck Dreams by Salamander Crossing
This Train by Wayfaring Strangers
Life In Slow Motion by David Gray
My Better Self by Dar Williams
If Songs Could Be Held by Rosie Thomas
Not the Tremblin' Kind by Laura Cantrell
Mint by Rachel Loshak
Illinois by Sufjan Stevens
We Will Become Like Birds by Erin McKeown
Foxes and Hounds by The Sharp Things
Day One by Sarah Dougher
Three Wishes by Erica Wheeler
perfecT by Sam Shaber
Cry, Cry, Cry by Dar Williams
Songcatcher: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture by Various Artists
Only With Laughter Can You Win by Rosie Thomas

Oh! And some Madeleine Peyroux.

teehee. i rejoined columbia house on a whim. here's what they're sending me:

Barry Manilow / Ultimate Manilow
Nickel Creek / Nickel Creek
Original Soundtrack / Vanilla Sky
Carole King / Tapestry (remastered)
Eric Clapton / Clapton Chronicles
Tori Amos / Strange Little Girls
Tori Amos / To Venus and Back
Dwight Yoakam / Under the Covers
k.d. lang / Live By Request
Nanci Griffith / Winter Marquee
Joan Armatrading / Lovers Speak
Phoebe Snow / The Very Best Of
Billy Bragg/Wilco / Mermaid Avenue
Indigo Girls / Retrospective

All new stuff, except the IG, which is to replace my scratched up copy. I don't own any of many of the artists, and thought it'd be fun to have some new people to listen to. Most of what's on my amazon wishlist isn't available through Columbia House, though, so I'm not making too much progress towards those purchases.

It’s rather painful to be back at work today. My body had just gotten used to not doing anything, which means I’ve been going to sleep at 12 and 1, and getting up at 8:30 or 9. Got up for work at 7:15 with the alarm today and thought I was going to die. Ironically, the traffic was so bad that my carpool didn’t arrive until 9:15, so I could’ve easily slept until 8:30 or so. Of course, if I had, she would’ve been right on time. The upside is that it’s already Thursday, which means only one day until the weekend.

We had a wonderfully successful dinner party last night with Tim’s running partners and their respective partners. I think everyone had been so stir crazy, having not nearly as much human interaction as we’re used to, and so conversation flowed really easily despite the fact that we’d never all really hung out together before, and two of the people were totally new to the group. It also probably doesn’t hurt that we made it through four bottles of wine between the six of us. I’m working on the hydration this morning. Good thing we had pasta and lots of bread with a fondue appetizer, or I probably would’ve had a much longer, more painful night. We cooked, ate, and then played games – Battle of the Sexes and Cranium.

I don’t like “Battle of the Sexes.” The premise is that the boys have to answer questions about ‘girl stuff’ and vice versa. Without even getting into the implications of gender identity, the questions were just ridiculous. Most of the boy ones were about obscure fishing, sports and automobile factoids (e.g. ‘What is a small, curved, metallic fishing lure called?” and “What vehicular necessities are sold under the brands Mercury, Evinrude and Johnson?” – I mean really, who knows that spoons are a kind of fishing lure, or that boat motors even have brand names). Most of the girl ones were about homemaking and cooking type stuff that really, anyone should know (e.g., ‘What do you call the small, toasted pieces of bread served on soups or salads?” and “On what household object would you find hospital corners?”). Does anyone want to help me re-write the “girl” questions? I’ve already started writing some in my head, mainly about girly movies and other pop culture references (e.g. "Name four romantic comedies in which Meg Ryan played the female lead?" and "What former children's television star won a Grammy for her album 'Jagged Little Pill'")?

Okay, using correct punctuation above? Totally beyond me at this point. Sad.

The girls won Cranium, so at least we were a little bit vindicated.

New mix CD project: songs that make you think of actual images. List so far: Take the Money and Run (Steve Miller Band); Lightning Crashes (Live); Traveling Soldier (Dixie Chicks); Red Red Wine (Neil Diamond); America (Simon and Garfunkel); Bleecker Street (Jonatha Brooke cover); This Shirt (Mary Chapin Carpenter); The Old Apartment (barenaked ladies); Deep Dish (ani). Songs I would use if I didn't put them on every mix CD I make: Tiny Dancer, Vineyard, Circle Game. If you have any that stick out in your head, let me know.

Over the five-day weekend, I watched the following movies: Spiderman, Matrix, big, Princess Bride, Can't Hardly Wait, Ocean's Eleven, and Daredevil (on the day we finally got so stir crazy that we braved the snow to go to the movie theater); and the following bad TV: Celebrity Mole (last three episodes on Fox Family), Joe Millionaire, The Simpsons 300th episode, Pet Star (on Animal Planet) and lots and lots of Personal TLC.

A student just came by and asked if classes were canceled. He drove all the way from by me to find out that they were, poor thing.