Category: Music
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Interviews, Interviews
2 comments on Interviews, InterviewsI’ve been getting more job interviews lately. Researching the companies I’m interviewing at and other interview prep is taking a fair amount of time. One place I interviewed at Monday has called to arrange a second round next week, which is a hopeful sign. I am still not getting full lung function, but albuterol, Mucinex, and the humidifier are helping. Doing an aerobics tape in the…
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Things to Read
This is kind of a mishmash ;) If you’ve seen comments about “dickwolves” and PAX and wondered what it was about, JetWolf has a nice summary. Author Seanan McGuire addressed why fixing the US healthcare system is so terribly, terribly important this week. Seanan has discussed why she needs health insurance here and here. Seanan’s new CD, Wicked Girls, is available for ordering at CDBaby. Alternet has a well-done…
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Dancing to “Baby Got Back”
From Ragan of Dances with Fat comes this competitive dance number set to Jonathon Coulton’s version of “Baby Got Back”: Whether you are going dancing tonight or not, I hope you enjoy the video. Best to all for a happy new year!
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Partridges and A Pear Tree
You may have to be a certain era (The Partridge Family) to get this, but from the computer of Alison Bechdel comes this little video.
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I seem to have a theme this week…
From the Vancouver BC Aquarium comes this video.
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Thoughts on the solstice
North star guide my love to me Through times spent in good company Smouldering eyes around the fire With stories tall and spirits higher … Stoke the fire up bright and strong Verse to verse and song to song The day grows shorter by the hour Close the circle Feel the power Winter solstice tends to touch me stronger than summer. I’m grateful to both, since…
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Music Monday: Merry Christmas from Chiron Beta Prime
Chiron Beta Prime was commissioned for a corporate Christmas card with a “futuristic theme”. Lyrics and a free MP3 are available. Here Jonathon Coulton performs the song live with help from Paul and Storm and a guest from the audience. (During concerts, victims volunteers from the audience come up to do one particular line – in this case, the lady in green.)
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Dancin’
In a recent Fatcast, Lesley mentioned visualizing the hippos and elephants dancing in Fantasia when she’s stressed. Which got it in my head. So now I’m sharing the visual with you. ;)
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Music Monday: Save Yourselves!
Okay, I’ve posted Seanan McGuire’s song Wicked Girls before. (Pre-orders for the album? Available. Posters of the lyrics? Also available.) If you haven’t heard it, this is how she performed it with friends at Orycon. Left to right: Sunnie Larsen, Michelle “Vixy” Dockrey, Seanan McGuire, Tony Fabris, Autumn. What you may not know, if you don’t read Seanan’s blog, is that she’s into horror. Horror movies,…
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Quick: Men get Photoshopped too; Diet Wars; Where the Heck Have I Been?
This short shows before/after shots for a fictional bodybuilding product that were shot on the same day. The man in question really does look heavier in the before — due to lighting, positioning, makeup, and Photoshop. Epictetus was born in 55AD. I looked him up when a “quote of the day” site came up with his “Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as…
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Morning Wake-Up: Kashmir Floral Leggings
Yes, this is the folk/filk group Vixy and Tony (with Sunnie Larsen playing violin, Betsy Tinney playing cello, Heather Dale playing bohdran, and Ben Deschamps with the mandolin) performing Led Zeppelin. I finally opened the package from the UK that arrived Saturday and found my size 32UK (“28US”) leggings are a bit loose. This may signal good for ordering other things from Evans, but it’s still a…
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Thankful Thursday
[a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] The man of the house baked a chicken with some rosemary this evening. He accompanied it with broccoli with cheese sauce, green beans steamed with red potatoes, corn cooked with onions, cold sliced beets, and French bread. As we were eating he said, “So did I make the Thankful Thursday this week?” So. Um. Today I’m thankful for: The man of the house…
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Ditto: Standing In The Way Of Control
Beth Ditto, lead singer of the band Gossip, is in the news again, this time taking on the belief that thin=healthy and fat=not healthy. “I’m not an unhealthy person and… one of the most tiring parts of being fat and being proud of it is… you do a lot of proving yourself all the time.” She added: “It’s really interesting to me that people will look at a…
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Music Monday: Hermione Granger the Pirate Queen
Talk Like a Pirate Day was yesterday, Sept 19. Per JK Rowling, Hermione Granger‘s birthday is Sept 19. Enter Tom Smith: (If the above doesn’t work, you can also listen, read the lyrics and get a free download here. Along with lots of other good music.)
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Music Monday: Midichlorian Rhapsody & Wastin’ Away Again on Tatooine
I didn’t mean to make a post last Tuesday and then not post at all. But Tuesday and Wednesday were crazy at work, capping off with a midnight release. Thursday I slept in and ran around helping setup a concert for an indie artist (and it seemed every mic cord had multiple knots in it…grr) and got home from the afterparty around 3am and wide awake and…
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Wicked Girls Pre-Orders
You can pre-order Seanan McGuire’s next album, Wicked Girls. Details are here. The pre-orders will help finance finishing the album, and only 300 will be taken. Please note that she doesn’t have a definite release date yet. If it would bother you to not know exactly when it will be delivered, or to trust an artist who’s working on her own without a label, I’d wait to…
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Music Monday: Sound Wave
Yesterday I went to a Sounders game. Besides the game, there was over a mile of walking to/from the stadium. Plus, our seats are on the 100 level, where everyone stands the entire game – so if you want to see the game you end up standing. Or, if you’re me, you sometimes migrate up to the not-always-sold-out disabled seats. Saturday the seat I usually sit in…
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