Earlier today, I seriously considered going the lazy route and posting a Christmas song, but it wouldn't even be Christmas in July, so instead here is a song that reminds me of meeting my husband. We met at a temp job where we were the only two out of five people who were originally called out to be kept on for more than a couple days. It wasn't ( Read more... )

Music doesn't often remind me of places, so I had to think hard about this one. Then I remembered, Michael Bolton. Here's a little conversation from about six years ago:

Angela: What is this music? It sounds like some cross between Kenny G and Michael Bolton.
Me: It is Kenny G and Michael Bolton.
Angela: How did I guess that? And how did you ( Read more... )

Mercy over. Today's song is decidedly country. I don't listen to country radio much anymore because it reminds me too fondly of my dad. My dad and I would always talk about the newest country songs and enjoy them together. He loved music, especially guitar, and he liked songs that were about something. Lyrics that told a story. He liked bands ( Read more... )

There exists a particular sort of song that makes me sad, love-filled ballads about death. Now, according to my internets, some confusion exists about what a ballad is, so I'll define it. I learned in British Literature class that a ballad is a simple poem with a refrain, usually sung, which tells a story about some important event in human life ( Read more... )

This is a tough one. Hundreds of songs make me happy, and it would probably be more accurate to say that thousands of songs make me happy. One song that is especially happy making, though, is Don't You Evah, by Spoon. When it came time to pick a song for my ultimate celebration - the recessional for my wedding - that is the song that my husband ( Read more... )

If you were to ask someone who has known me for a long time about my favorite song, they'd probably tell you something like, "I don't know if Jess has a favorite song, but her least favorite is Bohemian Rhapsody."

It's not that it is a bad song. It's a rather great song. An impressive song. If you don't know what makes it monumental, Wikipedia' ( Read more... )

I love all my songs equally, like children ( Read more... )

I've decided to revive my LiveJournal via blog meme. Seems like a good idea. The point is to blog every day for 30 days with a post about a song fitting the day's description.

I don't have the least idea of what songs I'll use for most of the descriptions, but I suppose I will figure that out as I go along.

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In front of our local movie theater, there is a little two shop building. One side is a Bruchi's, and the other side used to be a little place called "A La Mode". Ice cream shop, right? No, no, that would have made sense. Often I would drive past it and think, "That should be an ice cream shop." It was a jewelery store. Who puts a jewelery ( Read more... )

My scheduled mobile phone upgrade date happened to nearly coincide with my birthday this year (just one more week to a quarter century!), so I am celebrating my age with the hallmark of my generation - a Google powered smart phone focused on social networking applications ( Read more... )