Song of the Day - Robyn f/ Royksopp - The Girl and the Robot

What can I say, I love Robyn. I really wish I saw her when she was here in Seattle :-(

Song of the Day: Rihanna S&M

She so naughty! >:-)

Foster the People - Pump up the Kicks

I love/hate this earworm. It was catchy and i really got into it, but then i actually listened and looked a the lyrics...whoa!

Chromeo - Hot Mess

Heard this on C89.5 and admittedly made me dance in my car seat.

Song of the Day: The KLF as The Timelords - Doctor in the Tardis

Yes the KLF who did Justified and Ancient did this gem of a Dr.Who tribute. I heard it on c89.5 on their 80s flashback morning show on Thursdays and had to find out who did it. I was thrown off guard that it was the KLF, but I'm a fan of both the KLF and Dr. Who, so I'm liking it. Enjoy!

Christmas Song of the Day - Stop the Cavalry

Let's call this a reluctant Christmas song. The song only comes across during this time of year, but it's more of a war tale than a Christmas song. There are two versions: This one is the by the original artist Jona Lewie. Another which is has more of a band arrangement is by The Cory Band and Gwalia Singers. I first heard the latter, but I enjoy both versions equally and distinctly.

Christmas Song of the Day - Carol of Bells

okay i was so gonna put up the one where the house lights turned on and off to "Carol of Bells" by the Trans Siberian Orchestra, but in my search i stumbled upon THIS. Enjoy, you pervs LOL

Christmas Song of the Day - Merry Christmas Darling

Oddly enough, it was Glee that helped me recall this Christmas song I loved. Below is the original Carpenter's version and then the Glee version. Glee did a great version of the song and this is why I'm posting it LOL

On a side note, I know I haven't been doing song of the days for a while. Sometimes I just need to step away and recoup. This week will be all about the Christmas songs, but I will return to doing normal song of the day post again. Hopefully, i won't burnout again. I think I'll do a twice or three times a week thing, rather than try to push it out every day, we'll see.

Merry Christmas all!

Song of the Day: Kylie Minogue - Better Than Today

Squee! new Kylie Video!

and as Andy Towle put it on his site:

populated by Pac Man characters and Murakami-style flowers.

Cute!

Song of the Day: Shriekback - Nemesis

So... I've been listening to a lot of new stuff and dancy stuff, Robyn, Far East Movement, Richard Vission, but now I've switch over to Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Smiths, and now Shriekback. What can I say, I have an eclectic taste.

Song of the Day - Halloween Edition

For some reason Halloween reminds me of this song. Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead.



Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead (1998)
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It's been over a year....

So there I was over a year ago at 242 pounds.

And here I am now at 212 pounds.

I still want to get to 200 and go from there. I just recovered from a bad cold so I'm starting anew in my workout. Oddly, I thought my time being stationary would make it a bit hard to come back, but I got back into my run/jog/walk pretty good. . I've also changed the time I work out. It's getting difficult to wake up early and the new schedule is forcing me to get to my commute earlier, so I figured I'll workout at night.

Thanks for all who have supported me and encouraged me.

Song of the Day: Elastica - Stutter

delving back to my high school days... post grunge, brit pop band. Short, sweet, four chords! ah simpler times :-) LOL

Song of the Day: Erasure - A Little Respect

I dedicate this song to @frogboy229, who loves Erasure so much >:-)

Song of the Day: Robyn - The Girl and the Robot

So Robyn is my latest acquisition, if I haven't tweeted or tumbld it enough. I really enoyed the eponymous album and Body Talk Pt 1. I'm getting into Body Talk Pt 2 right now. The Body Talk albums are going to be three album set with the third coming soon. Some may be a bit put-off that some songs on Body talk were on Robyn, but I enjoyed it, "Handle Me" has been on there three times: it's original, dance mix(sorta), and acoustic. All three versions have their subtle changes making each another experience.

So here is the Girl and the Robot from the Robyn Album. This is one of those vids that i thought wasn't made and so never looked into it until now. Sometimes I wonder how US-centric we are, because there are so many talented artists out there that are out of country, but they get very little air play here. Even on MTV on the VMAs Robyn was there performing, but we only got a short blip of her... sigh. Is good music really that hard to find now?


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Song of the Day: Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out

I thought this would be appropriate, since today is National Coming Out Day.



Just a bit about myself. I came out when I was 23. I actually didn't know i was gay until about 18 or 19. I truly was a late bloomer. I didn't date in high school, I just wasn't into that. It wasn't until I left home, (left San Francisco - odd I know) that I started to question my sexuality. I went through the whole thing of trying to understand my feeling, the moral implications, how it would affect my family, the worry of never being accepted. I did this as an adult, I can only imagine the pain teenagers go through.

Well here I am 32 years old, and okay at where I am in life :-)

Song of the Day: Johnathan Coulton - Still Alive

The Nerd in me had to post this and ofcourse @filmbear started playing it on his banjo *swoon* :-)

Song of the Day: Lady Gaga - Bad Romance

Congrats to Lady Gaga on her wins at the VMAs yesterday. If you didn't see she was looking amazing in her dresses, each time she came up to accept an award she had a different dress.


and ofcourse my favorite:


Say what you will about the meat dress, it takes a lot of balls to pull that one off. It was amazing to see Cher there giving the award to Lady Gaga and the whole thing about Cher holding Lady Gaga's meat-purse, memorable. Above all I loved Gaga's acceptance speech, not only the fans, her "little monsters", but also the gays (heh) for their remakes of her vid and also bringing the discharged soldiers under DADT. She knows her fan base. Last night was yours Gaga, you earned it.

Song of the Day: Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock

Doesn't the early days of Hip hop seem innocent compared to now?

And even though I'm not a fan of today's incarnation of hip hop, I like it's history. It was underground, it was different, dare i say... alternative? Rap, of course, is a direct result of hip hop. But without those early hiphop artists we would not have the forms of dance, electronic and pop music we have now.

Song of the Day: The Gossip - Pop Goes the World

They are so flying under the radar of pop music!

Local and great, I so want to see the Gossip go big, but right now I'm glad just knowing this band is out there. I've heard their shows are just high energy, love to see them one of these days.