Da Goddess

…or adventure, if you prefer.

Will Mr Dylan or Mr Duarte take top honors for this song?

I’m enjoying these guys immensely!

I seem to be having some sort of Brit indie fit at the moment. Guess there are worse things that could happen, right?

I just can’t argue with something as lovely as the following:

And as the music surges forth, we begin our montage of my sisters and I moving furniture, cleaning, cutting back plants, hauling out trash, painting the house, etc.

In lieu of actual video of that, we have a video of Annie Lennox and Aretha Franklin singing the song that ran through my head for three days. Now it’s stuck in YOUR head. You may thank me later. Or actually, please thank me immediately in cash (paypal or direct credit payments) the amount of $29.75 for my storage unit that must be paid today, $14.95 + something for my domain renewal, $24+ for my Flickr renewal, $50 for my phone bill, and for anyone who contributes over $50, I will immediately give you a new, gentler song of mutual agreement to be stuck in your head.

Yeah, everything is due at once and I don’t get paid until November 15-ish.

We have let go the dream of contributing to the repair of my father’s car.

In the meantime, let’s get to the video!

I love this song. It makes me want to wander about in Carmel or somewhere similar. I want trees and ocean and golden sunlight in my eyes at the end of the day.

I can’t help myself. After hearing this song during the trailer for The Guilt Trip, I had to look it up online. It’s so damn catchy!

I was listening to my friend’s CDs last night, just enjoying his music after trying to figure out which song was my favorite. I was asked by another friend to tell him which was the best song and I chose my 7 faves. Technically, I had 20, but that seemed excessive. But I noticed on one of his albums that my song list was off. Waaaay off. The titles didn’t match on the majority of the songs. I looked up the album online and it was also mislabeled. So I spent a good hour listening to every song (oh, the horror! lol) and I rediscovered songs I’d not really listened to carefully over the years, often opting to go right to my faves in the past.

Getting things mixed up isn’t so bad when you get to enjoy solid tunes from someone you truly admire and it’s a good thing to do when you can’t sleep.

Oh and it makes me cry a little. It reminds me…

Of a man or three.

It reminds me…

How good it can be.

It reminds me…

What it’s like to lose.

It reminds me…

What it’s like to love.

(more…)

I trust. I think it’s time. Then it’s not. Then it is again. I trust.

I wait and fidget. Believing it’s real. Worried it’s not. I trust.

So I wait. I think it’s time. And I trust.

(more…)

Tom Jones just keeps getting better and better through the years.

I fell in love with him when I was a kid. “What’s New Pussycat” was played repeatedly on my little record player. I’m sure I drove everyone crazy with it. But I loved him so much then.

And I love him even more now.

Exhibits A and B:

And you can hear the version of this last song. If that doesn’t break your heart a little, well, I’d see a cardiologist.

Just a few photos from last weekend. KISS Night at Vamp’d to benefit IMAGINE Foundation (to keep music education in the schools). KISS Experience took the stage halfway through the night and blew our minds!

I’m going to break these photos up into two posts so it’s not so “Arrrrrgggghhhhhh!!!!” and in your face. Sound good?

Part II

…but I’m posting this anyway (the kid in the beginning makes it all worth it as does the guy in the yellow suit in the parking garage who reminds me of LD in a black wig kind of like Ramones’ hair and with some dance moooooves /runonsentence)

I can’t help it. It’s too good NOT to post!

And I love that I’m not the only one who’s misheard the lyrics, although I hear them as “open condom star”.

I’m waiting for this to be parodied politically. C’mon…one of you out there has to be ready to do this.

Best unexpected cover song — evah!

Discovered via Blinded By Sound’s ” Favorite Cover Songs“

Heard this at the end of this week’s episode of Covert Affairs and just absolutely loved it.

Rory Gallagher sang it best:

THE DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT IS WORKING OVERTIME
TRYING TO STOP THE CANDIDATE FROM GETTING IN THIS TIME
THE WHEELS ARE NOW IN MOTION, ALL THE TRAPS ARE SET
UNDER THIS COMMOTION, WILL HE WALK INTO THIS MESS?
THE STATE’S INTOXICATED – THEY’RE AT THE STARTING GATE
HE MAY NEVER MAKE IT TO THE PLANNED T.V. DEBATE
HE CAN’T FIGHT OFF THE BIG BUCKS OF THE OLD BRIGADE
HE’S GOTTA WATCH HIS STEP IN THIS
SMEAR CAMPAIGN
THEY CALLED A SNAP ELECTION IN THE SUMMER HEAT
THIS TOWN IS REELING BACKWARDS
LIKE A DRUNK MAN ON THE STREET
FEED THOSE LIES
BEND THOSE MINDS AT ANY PRICE
FOUL OR FAIR
AS LONG AS HE’S NOT THERE
ELECTION TIME
DON’T BELIEVE THE PAPERS, IT’S NOT ANYBODY’S RACE
HE’S NOT A RANK BEGINNER, IT’S NOT A CHILDREN’S GAME
HE MAY GET THE NOMINATION, IF HE BREAKS THROUGH THE CHAIN
OR THEY’LL SHOOT HIM DOWN ON MAIN STREET IN THIS
SMEAR CAMPAIGN
JUST WATCH THE PARTY FAITHFUL FUEL THE DREAM MACHINE
THEY’VE FUDGED UP ALL THE ISSUES
EAT THAT SCANDAL SHEET
THE DIRTY TRICKS DEPARTMENT IS NEARLY HALF INSANE
TRYING TO STOP THE CANDIDATE WITH A
SMEAR CAMPAIGN

I hate the months leading up to election, don’t you?