What the World Needs
Less unruly town hall meetings (ahem, Missouri) and more silly self portraits.
(What the World Needs…via Cjane)
Transmission Interrupted
Back soon…until then, please enjoy the following video. And please note the jazz hands at the end. I taught her everything she knows.
More Music Friday: A Dirty Little Secret
Guys, I have a secret. Now, when I tell you this, please don’t shun me. Please don’t call me a hypocrite (even though I surely am one). Just hear me out.
Today I am packing up the sunblock and the blow up rafts to head to my parents’ lake cabin for the weekend. There is just something about heading to a lake in the-middle-of-nowhere-Kansas that has me reassembling playlists and getting all nostalgic. Lately I’ve been using the Genius in my iTunes to create playlists that flow together easily, ones that evoke whatever mood I’m in and enhance whatever it is that I’m doing. And so I sat down to start my playlist for the trip this morning, and felt shame sweep over me.
My first song. Was. A. Country. Song.
I know, right? I feel sorry for me too.
I feel a little ill. Especially when I realized I actually had enough country music on my iPhone to continue said scary playlist!
I rationalized my ownership of country music by claiming that these were both collaborations with other artists. I mean, come on, James Taylor and Robert Plant! That certainly evens out the country-ness of it all, right? Right?!
But then I found this lurking in my old Napster playlist:
Good god, the SHAME! Shield your eyes! There be mullets and pencil thin mustaches here!
Please don’t tell anyone. I’ll never live it down.
More Music Friday – The John Hughes Edition
When Trent got home last night the first words out of my mouth were “Did you hear…?” and he quickly cut me off with “Yes, I know, John Hughes died. Are you going to get all angsty now?”
It’s no secret that I’m a huge John Hughes fan. Maybe it’s because my sister is fourteen years older than I am, so at the age of five I thought I was an troubled teen like her. I remember watching The Breakfast Club over and over in high school and being amazed that hardly any of my friends knew what I was talking about. My only solice was my high school boyfriend, who, like me, spent most Friday nights watching Pretty in Pink or St. Elmo’s Fire (and sometimes Howard the Duck, but that’s a whole other story).
And as I’ve watched all today’s teen a-holes get famous, I couldn’t help but hope good ole’ Johnny would make another teen hit and show us again what real kids are like. Not packaged pop stars who send naked photos via text message, but normal, everyday kids with problems that are relatable. John Hughes was different. He wasn’t Hollywood, he wasn’t just another studio big wig. He really cared. About his fans, about his actors, about his family and friends. It showed in his work, and in the people who worked with him. (If you haven’t read this story yet, you should. Even if you’re not a Hughes fan, you’ll be touched.)
We should celebrate the happy, and since it’s More Music Friday and Mr. Hughes had so many iconic musical moments in his films, I figured I’d share some with you all. But then I looked around the web and all the great moments I wanted to share are either invisible online or have been copyrighted so they can’t be shared here. So instead I’ll leave you with Ferris, on a float, singing Twist and Shout and my favorite Brat Pack mashup of all time, by the wonderful band Phoenix. Feel the happy, people. RIP John Hughes, you are already very missed.
More Music Friday
Lately I’ve been posting quite a bit of music through Blim.fm, a site that works with Twitter to post songs and videos found online to your Twitter followers. I love it, because when I hear a song I love on the radio or wherever, it takes me a bit to commit to buying it via iTunes. I’m fickle with my music, and I can hear a song that I love the first time around, just to find out that I loathe it after two or three listens.
But since some of you stubbornly refuse to tweet (Mikayla! Trent! Unamed reader!), I figured I’d post a video or track every now and then to lure you in to my indie music web. Or maybe just so you can take a break from listening to Thriller on repeat (ahem, Mikayla, cough, cough).
First up! This band is Beirut and the song is called Nantes. I can’t really describe the music style, so I’ll let Wikipedia do it for me:
Beirut is an American band. It began as the solo musical project of 23-year-old Santa Fe, New Mexico native Zachary Francis Condon, and later evolved into a band led by Condon. Their first performances were in May 2006, to support the release of their debut album, Gulag Orkestar. The music combines elements of Eastern European and folk with Western pop music.
Now if that doesn’t lure you in, take a listen.
Beirut vid via Girls Gone Child.
[Guess what?! You can find my playlist anytime you like! Just click the link in the right sidebar that says Crazybananas Tunage. You know you want to…]
