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I’ve decided to try something new. I thought I’d start a series of posts about my favourite music that has a “genre” theme - music about mythology, science fiction, fantasy, fairy tales etc. I have a pretty wide taste in music, so expect everything from Enya to the Flaming Lips to Mozart. I think I’ll try to do it weekly.

Why not start off with a ( Read more... )

if you’re chopping chillies, and are a complete idiot like me, and you rub your eye - even though you’ve already washed your hands- bathe your eye with milk. Just fill up a glass and stick your face in it, blinking gently. It works instantly, and you no longer have a fireball where your eye used to be.

It still stings a bit, though…

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“My father said the truth is a rabbit in a bramble patch, and all you can do is circle round it and point and say it’s somewhere in there.”

I first saw Pete Seeger on an episode of Reading Rainbow when I was little (Pete Seeger and Levar Burton, on the same show! What could be better?), and he’s been an important artist in my life ever since. His ( Read more... )

Hello, internet! How's things? I missed you. 2013 was a quiet year, a very internal year, a year of Working Through Things and not talking about them much. It was better than the previous years, but it was still pretty...challenging.

Here's a round-up of the Good Things about 2013:
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day 03 - a song that makes you happy

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Barenaked Ladies, "If I Had a Million Dollars"

I was really into BNL when I was 15. This song still makes me laugh with its extremely dorky, stoner humor.

If I had a million dollars
We wouldn’t have to walk to the store
If I had a million dollars
We’d take a Limousine ’cause it costs morelyrics here

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30 Days of Song: day 02 - your least favorite song

I grew up surrounded by my parents' oldies music, and while there is a LOT of crap in that era, I think Gary Puckett and the Union Gap's "Young Girl" wins hands down. It's both creepy, and an earworm. Pure evil.

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I've decided to do the 30 Days of Song meme -- and finish the Tori meme at the same time!

30 Days of Song -- Day 01: your favorite song
Okay, I literally cannot decide what my favorite song is, so I'm going with the one with the most plays on my iTunes, which is Tori's "A Sorta Fairytale"

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I'm not dead, I've just been working 6 days a week for the last 3 months. So, I'm mostly dead, but that's still slightly alive.

Luckily, my work schedule returns to something approaching sanity this month, so hopefully I can return to normal now.

But first I need a long, extremely hot bubble bath. 

So, I turned 30 this month. Holy cats.

It was a nice birthday, and I got lots of great stuff:


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A song that reminds you of an unhappy moment/event

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Lately I’m sure it’s you there waving 
in the distance, closer. The closer I get… 
Disappointment tears. Yes it tears 
They just have the same color of your hair 
you’re not there

Worst. Christmas. Ever.

Your favorite song from Y Kant Tori Read

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i’m much stronger than you know
sometimes
i’m not afraid to let ( Read more... )