Category: Music
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April Monthly Round-Up
4 comments on April Monthly Round-UpThis is partly for me, and partly to show folks a little of what’s going on “behind the curtain”. :) Most popular posts written last month: Jamie Oliver’s “Food Revolution” Kraft Dinner Mix-Ins Weight loss math isn’t as simple as they thought Some May Be Thinner Than They Think! Things I don’t want to share… Taxes as a metaphor Sleep Eating and Fat Dissolvers Most discussed last…
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Music Monday
It’s Monday. I need something to help me re-adjust to work, and music usually fits the bill. Today is Avalon Rising performing Black Davie’s Ride. Left to right: Margaret Davis, Kristoph Klover, Scott Irwin, Cat Taylor, Mark Ungar. And yes, that’s a full harp Margaret is playing.
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Wicked Girls Saving Ourselves
The phrase “wicked girls saving ourselves” was used in a pendant by Mia, who creates pendants as Chimera Fancies (among other things). Seanan McGuire, who is a bit of a polymath, turned this phrase into a song. Lyrics are here. Below she sings it at DucKon with help from Vixy & Tony, SJ Tucker, and Amy McNally. My initial reaction to this song was one of…
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Music Monday
Heading back to work. Went grocery shopping yesterday with an idea of breaking up my “lunch rut” a bit, so I have fresh fruit and veggies to jazz things up a bit. Anyway, here’s the music I’m listening to to psych myself up for work ;) Ever hear This Train Is Bound For Glory? Well…I prefer Land of Hope and Dreams, which is a bit more…
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The Notorious Salad of Doom
In keeping with both the “music Mondays” theme and the “things that make me smile ’cause it’s Monday” theme, I present: SJ Tucker, Betsy Tinney and Vixy & Tony singing Salad of Doom: Nom nom. ;) Edited to add a link to the studio version, now that the album is out. Or just click play:
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Humorous Musical Interlude
…because Monday needs more fun! Have you ever thought about life from your refrigerator’s point of view? Vixy & Tony mostly perform in the Seattle area, but also travel to various Scifi cons. This song’s lyrics are here.
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Sometimes Exercise isn’t Fun
Monday’s walk, for example. I started off creaky and achy and it got worse. No sudden sharp pain, nothing bad enough to tell me that I had injured myself. Just an collection of uncomfortable aches and pains that I felt wimpy to complain about and yet couldn’t stop myself from complaining about. I sped up the treadmill, I slowed it down, I tried a little incline, I…
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Friday Plans
I have tickets to see Jonathan Coulton tonight! :) Most of his stuff is fun or satiric or both, but I do have a special fondness for this bouncy tune. Heck, it’s in my “walking” playlist on my iPod. Lyrics are here. This song was inspired by an issue of PopSci magazine on “The Future of The Body”. What are your plans for the weekend?
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Thankful Thursday
[a not-always-weekly exercise in gratitude] 1) Shared laughter and delight. 2) A friend dropping off Seanan McGuire’s new book, A Local Habitation. 3) I’m continuing to go for short walks every day, supplemented with leg lifts and extra stairs. It’s not getting easier fast, but it’s not getting harder, either. 4) Amazon had chocolate-covered cashewson sale. They’re expensive enough I don’t get them often, but they’re a fun…
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Confession
I am dependent on food.* I truly believe that I need food to continue living.** Further, despite weighing 401lbs (yes, I own a scale) I eat every day. Even multiple times a day.*** Oh: and I think eating food when I’m hungry is a healthy and normal thing. Bwah! Clearly I am the destroyer of worlds! *Yes, I’m making fun of MeMe Roth‘s statement that “we’re behaviorally…
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Musical Interlude: The Girl That’s Never Been
This is just a song I really enjoy. “No-one’s sane behind their mask.” Vixy & Tony mostly perform in the Seattle area, but also travel to various Scifi cons. This song’s lyrics are here.
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Happy President’s Day!
As American holidays go, President’s Day isn’t as frequently observed as, oh, Thanksgiving. But I do get the day off, and I am definitely enjoying the 3-day weekend. Whether you’re at home or work, I thought something to laugh about might be good. So here is Tom Smith singing his song “Spoiler Alert” (lyrics). (Tom is an independent artist who sells his albums online :)
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Oh, Michelle
Michelle at Fat Nutritionist wrote a terrific post today skewering the typical “Holiday Eating” articles. She also, fatally, mentioned both Maggie May* and Michelle. So of course this popped into my brain**: Like many songs, it has a story behind it. Unlike many songs, I actually have heard the story behind this one at a concert. Seanan McGuire (singer/songwriter/blonde) was chatting with Michelle Dockrey (also…
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Just have to share…
I’ve had Seanan McGuire’s “Another Mad Science Love Song” stuck in my head for days. Lyrics are here; an excerpt is here. The other mad scientist part is sung by Tom Smith. Yes, there are definite parallels with Grease’s “Summer Nights“.
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Friday Fun – Talk Like A Pirate Day ;)
Tomorrow is Talk Like a Pirate Day — “That time in September when sea dogs remember / That grown-ups still know how ta play!” :) This video has the one and only Tom Smith singing his song Talk Like A Pirate Day (lyrics) with John “Ol’ Chumbucket” Baur and Mark “Cap’n Slappy” Summers, the creators of Talk Like A Pirate Day. Recorded in In February 2008 when John “Ol’…
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On Being A Geek
I did not go to PAX. I mostly play Tropico and Puzzle Pirates, not Halo and Rock Band. I have never owned a game console. But I am geeky enough that this makes me smile. Jonathan Coulton, Paul and Storm, and Molly Lewis serenading Wil Wheaton:
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Things to Read
I liked this article on solitude vs loneliness. I lived alone, or with a cat, for most of 9 years. I learned a lot about self-reliance during that time, and also about how often the difference between solitude and loneliness is attitude. I worked on alleviating loneliness with friends, my cat, and activities — and enjoyed the solitude. Now I don’t live alone. Avoiding loneliness…
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