8 posts tagged “music”
Video: Show us a video that makes you want to dance.
Audio: What's your favorite carol or holiday song?
Because it's BOWIE. With BING. What's not to love?
Oh ye gods, am I falling into the Christmas-before-it's-even-freakin-Halloween vortex?!?
Or maybe I just like Aimee Mann...
So maybe only librarians would really get a kick out of this. We had compact shelving like this at the University of Illinois, and I loved going down there and making entire shelving units move around. Set to music, it's even MORE fun!!
(thanks to Amelia for pointing this out!)
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your music player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.) Inspired by Stephanie.
I'd just like to say, I'd love to have my iPod just permanantly implanted into my brain. I adore it.
1) The Birds and the Bees by The Real Tuesday Weld
2) Once in a Lifetime by Talking Heads
3) Jacqueline by Franz Ferdinand
4) You will be my ain trulove by Alison Krauss (Cold Mountain soundtrack)
5) It Could Be Love by Camouflage Nights
6) The Dark Night of the Soul by Loreena McKennitt
7) Mr. Roboto by Styx
8) Spark by Tori Amos
9) Crawling by Linkin Park
10) As I Lay Me Down by Sophie B. Hawkins
Neil Gaiman raved about it on his blog, so of course I immediately bought it.
Pirate songs!! Compiled by Johnny Depp, apparently. Or something. It's a bunch of different artists, including Sting, Lou Reed, and Rufus Wainwright. It is GLORIOUS. My iPod is v. happy. (I bought mine from iTunes, where it is $19.95. This link will take you to Amazon.com, where it is only $14.98. I figure the extra is worth it for the immediate gratification.)
So Neil Gaiman likes this singer. Apparently. Now I'm gonna have to check her out. I love getting recs from people who have impeccable taste. Because then I can pretend that my own music/book/movie knowledge is just as cool.
Peoria is home of lots of good music. I'm absolutely clueless as to what is available, too, so I'm sorta on a trek to discover what's available. There seems to be a lot of jazz, a lot of blues... but then there's also musicians like Erin Ivey, whose "flavor of folk rock has been described as organic, evocative, and sensuous". She's even got a website! Looks like she's giving a few performances soon at Kelleher's and Sullivan's... might just have to gather up some friends and give her a listen...
