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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
koganbot	10:34a	Mother of God, is this the end of the mid market? Frustratingly broad piece in the Economist that both Sabina and Tom linked on their Tumblrs. I posted my own two cents over on Tom's comment thread - a response to his commentary and to a comment by Mark - and I'm pasting the two cents here as well. I do think the decline of the mid market is significant where it happens (and potentially bad; e.g., can knock a Cassie or an Ashlee out of the business), but the questions really need to be: Which mid markets, where, and to what effect? ( A lengthy couple of cents ) Current Music: Deana Carter "Ordinary" (Comment on this)
cleolinda	10:16a	Snow!!!! SO IT BEGINS. Man, the dogs are going to be bored out of their minds cooped up inside today. Current Mood: SNOW!!! Current Music: Heather Nova - "Winterblue" (26 Comments |Comment on this)
atommickbrane	2:28p	fun hatin' bakin' Query: starch syrup. What do YOU think this could be? In my context, it goes in fun-hating cakes. The internet seems to think it's anything between golden syrup, or sugar + soy sauce, or lots of long chemically sounding nameteroses. But what do YOU reckon. Should I just boil up some sugar, or use the golden syrup? Or, is it like when you dissolve potato starch to make everything taste GRATE?? Argh! The thing is, I have THROWN AWAY my butter in a resolution for the new year to finally lose all the weight that I have been carrying around since age 17 or so. I am sure that chubbiness will soon be a THING OF THE PAST with this LIFECHANGING move. FYI, today's biscuit tally = surprise coconut biscuit, chocolate chip cookie. Soon I will be shopping in the childrens department I will be so teeny etc etc chiz. I am exercising (my hands) by making a blanket which will use up all my random bits of wool, before my set of interchangeable needles arrives (so excited!!) and I will make jumpers all in the round without a seam - WITH ELKS ON THEM. Yes! Here is the blanket as of a few days ago - it has a few more rounds on it now: ( And here's a picture of the whole thing ) Some people spend ages thinking of tasteful colour palettes etc but I think why not just bung it all together and think of England?? *Vanilla ♥ Current Music: adam klaus saying "you may now applaud" (24 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
cleolinda	11:35a	Snow: let me explain it The thing you have to understand about snow panic in Alabama is that it's not about the snow. Mostly, it's about us not being prepared for snow; a meager two inches is considered an epic blizzard. It's also about the side effects of snow--I live in a heavily-wooded suburban area full of giant, beautiful, old trees. Very old trees. And they all have dead branches here and there hanging on by a shred of bark, so when you have just enough snow to weigh them down, they break off and fall onto the power lines. Or worse, the entire tree is mostly dead and it falls across the road or onto (and usually through) your house. There was one Epic Two-Inch Snow that ended up with a three-foot-thick, forty-foot-long pine lying across our street (and in what used to be someone's sun room), while live power lines were sparking in the road. In fact, my mother reported last night that, as she was driving home, she saw a number of official-looking trucks on the side of the road, presumably stationed for speedy tree removal. It's also about the ice. None of us know how to drive on it, because we don't get it often enough to figure out how and then retain that knowledge. One time there was a Special News Report on Safe Winter Weather Driving, and I am serious, it was, in its entirety, "Drive slow." And now, over to Jim with the sports! So basically, entire schools, businesses, and highways will be shut down for safety reasons while all of Chicago points and laughs. I am not even kidding: my sister may not be able to get to work on Friday-- Oh God. I just realized that if we are all iced in together for the next four days, a remake of The Shining is going to break out. While we're here, a teensy bit of Twi-spam, because I am getting a lot of email about this, and also, I enjoy the progression of the headlines: Attn. Jackson Rathbone: Missing something? 'Eclipse' Script Wasn't Leaked, Says Summit.  Nikki Finke: Yes, That Leaked Movie Script Is 'Eclipse.'  1. I don't want to read it. I'm to a point where I don't even watch clips of movies I know I want to see anymore. I get so bored in the theater if I feel like I've already seen the movie. 2. I suspect the wink emoticon in the script (as seen at the first link) is forced product-placement sarcasm from screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg. 3. My dazzle is somewhat chagrined that (people tell me) the werewolf-vampire nose-fist bump is not in this version of the script, because, quite honestly, the Edward/Seth stuff is the only thing I find remotely likeable about Book!Edward. Also: COME ON! WEREWOLF-VAMPIRE NOSE-FIST BUMP! If there is anything funnier than that, I can't think of it right now. Meanwhile, I am trying to work--I got a good bit of novel note-sorting and categorizing done yesterday--but am having a hell of a time. Lots of interruptions, and I can't concentrate for shit. Also, my new calendars (50% off!) came in from Amazon yesterday, but without the books I had bought for research, and then I realized I had forgotten to order a couple of other researchy things anyway, fnarr. Also-also, I bought another pair of fingerless gloves because I was concerned that my homemade recycled ones were fraying a bit from being worn so much, and I am really hoping they arrive before the cold snap is over. This is Alabama, after all. OH OH OH I ALMOST FORGOT I have two questions to ask you: 1) How do we get e-books from my stepfather's Kindle onto my parents' computer? They can't figure out how. 2) Those identity protection/theft-prevention services, are any of them actually any good? Current Mood: wearing a new, not-ragged sweater, yays (167 Comments |Comment on this)
dubdobdee	4:33p	eek cow-irker T's bf M was given for xmas an OWL PELLET containing MOUSE BONES plus DISSECTING TOOLS. Purpose of same: extricate bones from w0lp0o, rebuild small rodent We argued in the office whether this was a good present. P said YES if yr a 12-yr-old boy. T said I am not actually dating a 12-yr-old boy. LJ to decide! Poll #1508031 bubo whut-bo now? Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 21 Is a mouse-skeleton-in-an-owl-pellet dissection and reanimation kit View Answers best wobs gift evah 7 (33.3%) worst wobs gift evah 1 (4.8%) combination best and worst wobs gift evah 9 (42.9%) not as good as an-owl-skeleton-in-a-mouse-pellet dissection and reanimation kit 4 (19.0%) not as bad as [personal anecdotes in comments plz] 0 (0.0%) (8 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
dubdobdee	10:33p	the age of manowar is over ""It's fascinating for me that at this stage in my life, people are beginning to look upon me as a metal singer" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
cleolinda	2:27p	~Brrrrrrrrr~ I forgot to mention! New episode of Made of Fail is up. "It's like... fudge... made of out PEANUT BUTTER." Meanwhile! Right after I posted that last entry--seriously, I hit "post" while putting on my shoes--I went out and saw Sherlock Holmes again, this time with my mother. ( More Holmesian nerditry ) (For those of you wondering when I'll ever shut up about Sherlock Holmes: IT'S NOT TWILIGHT, OKAY? So shut it and count your blessings.) Meanwhile: omg so cold. I love it. It's already one o'clock, but it's still only 26°F, which means it only gets colder from here. In fact, we've got snow predicted for Thursday. The dogs are bored out of their minds because I won't let them stay outside longer than ten minutes at a time; I'm under a fleece blanket (NOT A SNUGGIE) in the den at my laptop, and I had to put on my huge floor-length coat and my gloves just to take them out front. (I do have a pair of full-coverage gloves, but I put on my favorites just because they are pretty: fingerless gloves recycled from toesocks, because a hole got into one of the toes, and they were too awesome to throw away. Bonus photo feature: My stubby little hobbit hand.) (Speaking of accessories: the purse I decided on, because it's simple, and the grey-on-black paisley is interesting but casual. I'm going to try to fix my faux Fendi for more stylish occasions, but this looks like a good everyday bag. And it's from Etsy, yay.) And I think I had something else to mention but I can't remember what but I'm sure I will later. Very busy, tons of work, trying to alternate footnotes with novel-writing, yay. Current Mood: cold! yay! (98 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, January 4th, 2010
koganbot	8:15p	More '09 tracks lobbying Cassie "Summer Charm" Current Music: Cassie "Summer Charm" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
koganbot	7:48a	K-Pop alert The Some Videos thread is developing into an interesting discussion of Korean pop (and a little bit of Japanese pop), featuring a couple of people - petronia and askbask - who know more than I do. (Also, we ref back to this thread a little.) Does anyone recall if conversations about Korean pop ever occurred on ilX? Current Music: BoA "Amazing Kiss" (Comment on this)
carsmilesteve	12:08p	Not Long Now Before Lollipop Men Are Called Darren... Top Ten Actual Listens of 2009 from last.fm: 1 Half Man Half Biscuit – Totnes Bickering Fair 60 2 Steely Dan – My Old School 42 3 Drew – ZERO TO PHANTOM (song fight) 39 4 The Lemonheads – Alison's Starting to Happen 38 4 Mark Ronson – Outversion 38 6 The Smiths – Cemetry Gates 29 7 Kevin Rowland – Thunder Road 28 7 Madder Rose – Pocket Fulla Medicine 28 7 The Lemonheads – It's A Shame About Ray 28 10 The Lucksmiths – The Sandringham Line 27 10 Belle and Sebastian – Dirty Dream Number Two 27 ETA GRAPH, as promised to ms_bracken I'm not sure how right it is, it seems to double up some stuff from my itouch, which eventually started scrobbling after 3 years of fiddling... only new entry in top 20 artistes: DUCKWORTH-LEWIS METHOD, which i thought was aces, but seems to have missed most of the end of year lists... (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, January 3rd, 2010
dubdobdee	8:23p	explosion rocks shrewsbury :( 12 injured -- building in flames -- heard five miles away -- it's by the welsh bridge, diagonally opposite where the old multi-storey carpark was (Comment on this)
cleolinda	12:26p	Parenthetical Holmesian miscellany As a follow-up to the Sherlock Holmes movie discussion entry, I feel like I should clarify that I don't actually think Holmes and Watson were doing it although I can absolutely see why you might. (And the movie might agree with you. Commenters pointed out that there were lines from Irene in the trailer ("They've been flirting for hours" and "Will you two just kiss and make up?") that got cut from the movie, as well as a line in the original script where Mary tells Holmes that Watson's "heart is generous. He has room for both of us." Also, Robert Downey Jr. apparently pissed off Doyle's estate by suggesting that Holmes might be "a very butch homosexual.") I am simply saying that they are in love, love, looooooove. It is not for me to specify the nature of that love; I can only point to the GIGANTIC BLATANT IMMENSITY of it. (I should also note that the words "Satan," "Satanic," and "devil" are never mentioned in the movie, as far as I remember. ( Spoilers? ) I also spent a good bit of yesterday afternoon rereading the first two Holmes novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Sign of the Four. ( Reading recommendations ) ( Back to the movie ) (128 Comments |Comment on this)
dubdobdee	10:03a	eek :( attempted break-in at dad's house last night -- first one since 1972 when we moved in they didn't get in -- they were scared off by the neighbour's dog barking, which i hope is a sign they won't be back, and had vanished by the time the police came dad was cool about it, but the carer was very scared: she says he was calming her down -- will talk to him later today when he wakes the house looks more er pregnable than it probably is but this is no fun UPDATE: false alarm! it was some kids going to a party elsewhere in the village, who got lost and got out to peer through the windows to see if this was the place with the party (very sensibly the carer rang the village gossip, who is an awesome clearinghouse of information) (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
koganbot	9:15p	Who and what brought me to the music, 2009 Over on his own Pazz & Jop ballot, Josh Langhoff recommends that we list the "gatekeepers" who introduced us to our favorite music. Someone named "Chuck Eddy" recurs on his list. In any event, here's my P&J ballot again, this time with the added info of who or what first led me to the music. (I don't think "gatekeeper" is the right term, really.) Singles 2009 1. Shystie ft. DJ Deekline "New Style" - Kat Stevens on poptimists 2. The Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow" - Lex Macpherson on his lj 3. Love And Theft "Runaway" - Chuck Eddy on the ilX Rolling Country 2009 thread 4. MC Lars ft. Brett Anderson & Gabe Saporta "Hey There Ophelia" - Moggy on her lj 5. Timberlee ft. Tosh "Heels" - Lex on his lj 6. The Lonely Island "I'm On A Boat" - Dave Moore, either on his Cure For Bedbugs blog or his Tumblr or his lj or by email 7. Das Racist "Combination Pizza Hut And Taco Bell (Wallpaper Remix)" - Kat Stevens, either on her lj or on poptimists 8. Rich Boy "Drop" - MySpace music front page (and my previous fandom of artist, whom I'd first heard back in '05 on Denver's reggaeton station when it was playing the shit out of the remix of "Get To Poppin'" featuring Pitbull) 9. Girls Aloud "Untouchable" - ?? I think it was through the Singles Jukebox 10. Röyksopp ft. Robyn "The Girl And The Robot" - Dave Moore by email, but I didn't start liking the song until it came up for review on the Jukebox and I revisited it Albums 2009 1. Taylor Swift Fearless - My own vast insane fandom brought me to this one, with the help of Big Machine Records and various radio stations and other outlets (first heard Taylor on the radio in summer '06 but it was Jimmy Draper who insisted later in the year that I listen to her first album) 2. The-Dream Love Vs. Money - I think it was Lex who was talking this up first, but it might have been Dave. My interest already existed because of "Ditch That" (recommended by Luc Sante) and "Umbrella" 3. Ashley Monroe Satisfied - A Columbia publicist sent me the promo back in early 2006, probably at the instigation of Chuck Eddy, who was still music editor at the Voice (alb was shelved, finally released on iTunes this year) 4. Rihanna Rated R - The world at large 5. Scooter Under the Radar Over the Top (The Dark Side Edition) - Chuck Eddy, on my own lj (but I'd gotten him interested in Scooter in the first place, and I think it was Jeff Worrell who'd gotten me interested in Scooter) 6. Lily Allen It's Not Me, It's You - The world, again, with special input from Erika Villani; but it was Mitya who first talked up Lily to me in March '06 on Rolling Teenpop, with enthusiastic support from David Orton and William Bloody Swygart; Mitya'd heard about her from Popjustice 7. Martina McBride Shine - The Ross-Broadway branch of the Denver Public Library (but it was Chuck Eddy who got me interested in McBride back in '99 or so) 8. Electrik Red How To Be A Lady: Volume 1 - This must have been Lex, again, on lj, with Dave right on his heels 9. K'naan Troubadour - Heard "ABC's" by accident when the record company was promoting it as its single of the week on its YouTube site which I was visiting for some other artist's track; finally got back to the album because Chuck and Xgau had praised it 10. Brad Paisley American Saturday Night - Chuck Eddy on ilX's Rolling Country 2009 thread Current Music: Avril Lavigne "My Happy Ending" (11 Comments |Comment on this)
koganbot	12:08a	Some videos, 2009 I had an ongoing list of videos I liked, then back in May I forgot to keep up with it, so here are some vids from early '09. For further viewing pleasure visit Kat's tumblr. ( Will Young ) Untouchable ft. Hwa Young "Tell Me Why": petronia wrote, "What I'm getting is that the 'interrogation scene' takes place in the head of the male protagonist. His fiancée rejected him, fell into an obvious deep depression and attempted/committed suicide in such a way as to make it seem the relationship was the problem (tearing up photos, etc.), except the guy was basically blindsided - so the rest of the vid is a reification of his warring emotions of anger and confusion (TELL ME WHY YOU DID THIS TO ME) and helplessness at not being able to save the Korean Sylvia Plath from herself (stuck on the balcony watching the proceedings). Why he had to call in a pop group to aid him in the effort I don't know though - presumably Untouchable speak to his emotions during this difficult period in his life?" ( Plus vids by The Lonely Island, Enrique Iglesias, Nikki Awesome, Timberlee, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, and a new one by I Blåme Coco ) Current Music: Untouchable ft. Hwa Young "Tell Me Why" (34 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, January 1st, 2010
cleolinda	9:24p	Sherlock Holmes, FINALLY So, as my longtime people know, I am a huuuuuuuuge Sherlock Holmes fan. I have all of the short stories and the novels, annotated, and I was obsessed with the Granada series as a young teen, and I worship at the Holy Church of Jeremy Brett, so on and so forth. In fact, Brett is so thoroughly the perfect Holmes to me--and the one-hour format was so nicely suited to the cozy little short stories where not a whole lot happens--that I just said, what the hell. The movie looks like so much fun, I don't even care. It's got great people--believe it or not, Jude Law is actually really good casting for the younger Watson of the early stories. And he was IN an episode of the Granada series!--and Guy Ritchie'll bring something interesting to it, if nothing else, so: I have already had the "perfect" Sherlock Holmes experience; let's have a fun new one.   ( Spoilers, my dear Watson ) (248 Comments |Comment on this)
koganbot	9:10a	Microwaving A Tragedy (radio edit) My decade's end piece in the Las Vegas Weekly, though after I'd pitched it I rebelled against the idea of trying to fairly sum up, hence no mention of Timbaland or Max Martin, whom I'd peg as the two most important figures in '00s music. (The Club Mix has brief mentions of "Behind These Hazel Eyes" and "Since U Been Gone," though not in regard to Max's input.) In about a month I'll post an Extended Freestyle Mix, and I'd welcome any suggestions as to what you think it should contain. Microwaving A Tragedy: The marriage of romance and romanticism in '00s pop (Links to my old Las Vegas Weekly column are here, if you're interested.) Current Music: Rihanna "Fire Bomb" (1 Comment |Comment on this)
dubdobdee	11:20a	quiet start the bright morning sun is arriving on my desk through clouds of steam, from outlets of the central heating systems of nos 22 and 24 in the block across from my kitchen -- beautiful and soothing to watch i love the stillness of this flat: it works nicely with people in it, it's a good social space for lots and for just two, but there's a resolute restorative calm to it also which kicks in once there's just me in it boy does it need redecorating though... (Comment on this)
koganbot	12:41a	Top 6 Singles, 2010 (plus New Year's resolution) The Top Six Singles So Far In 2010 I don't know what the status of "Night & Day" is, actually. If it's simply a leak by the artist it's a single; if it's also a future album cut it or if it's an unauthorized leak it isn't a single, unless it starts getting the attention due a successful single, in which case it is a single. 1. Lloyd "Night & Day" [single?] 2. I Blåme Coco ft. Robyn "Caesar" 3. Sade "Soldier Of Love" 4. Selena Gomez & the Scene "Naturally" 5. Nicki Minaj "Saxon" [single?] 6. Martina McBride "Wrong Baby Wrong Baby Wrong" Resolution for the New Year: to write "ft." for "featuring" rather than to write "f." Current Music: Lloyd "Night & Day" (5 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
koganbot	11:59p	Top 100 Singles, 2009 A few quick comments: Asher talks slow with ace timing on "College" and he does something different with a party track by giving it a 3 AM and spent feel, and these people don't bother me. It's music, it's art. Speaking of art, my favorite of this year's GaGa tracks has some guy on it telling us that his name has a second syllable pronounced "AY," and "Till I got a buzz like that nigga Chris Mullin" is hilarious; of course, I know who Chris Mullin is. "Welcome To The Future" has a much richer sense of color than I'd ever heard from Brad Paisley, feels like something new in country; thick, bright paint. Top 100 Singles, 2009 ( 1 through 10, which you've seen already ) 11. Jim Jones f. Ryan Leslie "Precious" 12. Nicki Minaj "Beam Me Up Scotty" 13. Jamey Johnson "High Cost Of Living" 14. Hilary Duff "Any Other Day" 15. Jim Jones "Na Na Nana Na Na" 16. MC Hammer Vs. Britney Spears "Can't Touch 3 (Bedbug Mix)" 17. Depeche Mode "Wrong" 18. Champion DJ "Baako" 19. Asher Roth "I Love College" 20. 3OH!3 "Don't Trust Me" 21. Taylor Swift "You Belong With Me" 22. Britney Spears "3" 23. Lily Allen "The Fear" 24. Paleface f. Kyla "Do You Mind (Crazy Cousinz Remix)" 25. Ne-Yo "Part Of The List" 26. Demi Lovato "Don't Forget" 27. Busy Signal "Tic Toc (GreenMoney Liquid Re-Rub)" 28. Scooter "J'adore Hardcore" 29. K'naan f. Chubb Rock "ABC's" 30. Jeremih "I'mma Star" ( 31 through 100 ) ( Chris Mullin ) Current Music: Shystie ft. DJ Deekline "New Style" (4 Comments |Comment on this)
koganbot	11:11p	Singles '00s Singles (as opposed to nonsingles). OK, here's where the decade barrier gets in the way: for me the arc of modern music starts in approximately '97 when Timbaland begins hitting with Missy and when Max Martin scores in the U.S. with the Backstreet Boys, and the Dirty South is bubbling up nationally, though I didn't connect to most of this other than Missy until '99 when Chuck enticed me back into the public eye. '99 is one node, with "...Baby One More Time" and "Back That Azz Up" and "Nann Nigga" and the flowering of the Ruff Ryders sound. Incredible year. '03 is another node - the top three on my list! - among other things for the dominance by the Dirty South, crunk coming to the fore. Then '04 and '05 are the peak of the rock confessional, what we've been calling "teenpop" but it's really young-woman pop that teens and tweens were lucky enough to be the prime consumers of, shepherded by men and women like John Shanks and Kara DioGuardi and the Matrix etc.; it brought my heart back into the business in a way that no one earlier in the decade except Eminem had done. I really needed Ashlee et al.'s lyrics, 'cause there's only so far I can care about whether someone gets low or not. The end of the decade doesn't have a node, exactly; country bumps in and out of the other stories, dallying with hip-hop in '04 and then Taylor Swift leaps into the rock confessional gap with her Taylorness, which is pretty much its own genre. Despite having written what I think was one of the significant bits about Destiny's Child, and liking Mya etc., I didn't start really clicking with - or on - r&b until '06, reaching back into the late '90s from there and then Lex has been a big help in my feeling it now. Top Ten Singles Of The '00s 1. Panjabi MC ft. Jay-Z "Beware Of The Boys" 2. Lil Jon & The Eastside Boyz ft. Ying Yang Twins "Get Low" 3. 50 Cent "In Da Club" 4. Hilary Duff "Come Clean" 5. Missy Elliott "Get Ur Freak On" 6. Jay-Z ft. UGK "Big Pimpin'" 7. Eminem "The Real Slim Shady" 8. Kelly Clarkson "Since U Been Gone" 9. ATC "Around The World" 10. Kelly Clarkson "Because Of You" Current Music: Panjabi MC ft. Jay-Z "Beware Of The Boys" (Comment on this)
koganbot	10:14p	Nonsingles '00s "What is a nonsingle?" I hear you ask. A nonsingle is an album cut that never becomes a single and never acts like a single (so, doesn't get a lot of airplay or get talked about by more than one set of friends and doesn't chart for more than a couple of weeks), or it's a leaked track that wasn't leaked by the artist and doesn't act like a single (see previous parenthesis). So, for example, Jay-Z's "Takeover" was an album cut that was never pushed as a single, but it's not eligible in the nonsingles category, the reason being that it was chatted about and responded to all over the place, was the subject of an answer song, etc. Top Five Nonsingles Of The '00s 1. t.A.T.u. "Kosmos" [English-language version is "Cosmos (Outer Space)"] 2. María Daniela Y Su Sonido Lasser "Duri Duri" 3. Margaret Berger "Robot Song" 4. Fannypack "Smack It Up" 5. Lindsay Lohan "Nobody 'Til You" (Didn't do a 6 through 10, but if you want a top ten, just insert your five favorite Cassie leaks.) "Kosmos" is the standard t.A.T.u. exploitation of their supposedly forbidden supposed love, and in all its transparent obviousness it is just utterly, exquisitely, beautifully moving. "Robot Song" does the same trick, forbidden romance as a gag, "I'm in love with a robot," and then fakes out the gag with its own exquisite beauty, is as intense for me as Murnau's Tabu or Ophuls' Earrings Of Madame de...; I like to program "Robot Song" and "Cosmos (Outer Space)" back-to-back: come to get me when the stars die, another time, another place, another world, you're the only one who makes me feel a thing, guilt for the second best, feel no more, feel no less, our home forever is outer space, black stars and endless seas, outer space, new hope, new destinies, outer space, forever we'll be in outer space. "Smack It Up" is a bratsmack, and "Duri Duri" is a Mexican Italodisco '80s classic given it's own '00s smackiness. "Nobody 'Til You" is - what? - the second most beautiful John Shanks song, a gorgeous flood of guitar chords. Current Music: t.A.T.u. "Kosmos" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
koganbot	8:20p	Top 35 Country Singles, 2009 Facing the worst slump since the Great Depression, country responded with hard-eyed realism, producing great track after great track about booty, transvestites, and Saturday night blowouts. This is my best country list since I started doing them in '03. Lotsa dance beats. Top 35 Country Singles, 2009 1. Love And Theft "Runaway" 2. Jamey Johnson "High Cost Of Living" 3. Taylor Swift "You Belong With Me" 4. Sarah Buxton "Space" 5. Lady Antebellum "Need You Now" 6. Taylor Swift "White Horse" 7. Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles "Do It For Free" 8. Caitlin & Will "Even Now" 9. Miranda Lambert "White Liar" 10. Brad Paisley "Welcome To The Future" 11. Taylor Swift "Fifteen" 12. Jack Ingram "Barefoot And Crazy (Double Dog Dare Ya Mix)" 13. Brooks & Dunn ft. Reba McEntire "Cowgirls Don't Cry" 14. Rascal Flatts "Summer Nights" 15. Kenny Chesney ft. Dave Matthews "I'm Alive" 16. Randy Houser "Boots On" 17. John Rich "Shuttin' Detroit Down" 18. Jamie O'Neal "Like A Woman" 19. Kenny Chesney "Out Last Night" 20. Billy Currington "People Are Crazy" ( 21 through 35 ) Current Music: Love And Theft "Runaway" (Comment on this)
cleolinda	12:51p	~Bluuuuuuue moooooooon~ Party peoples of the internet! What are you doing tonight? Why hello there, Twilight Zone marathon. So that's pretty much all I'll be doing today and tonight, and I am perfectly content with this. One New Year's Eve, I had to work the late shift at the video store; a couple of years later, I ended up being driven "home" to school by a bartender at 5:30 am, through (of all things, here in Alabama) a heavy snowfall, back to a dorm that was technically closed for the holidays so that my friends and I could sneak back in. This, after one friend spent the latter part of the evening throwing up into a party hat. I'm just saying--New Year's Eve at home: not such a bad thing. (I will also be on the hunt for a new purse, as the handle on my old one, the frustratingly complicated and bepocketed Fendi spy bag knockoff, broke a while back. I want something a bit smaller, black, simple but cute--"stylish," if I can manage it. Oh, and inexpensive. I went to Etsy, got 20,000 search results, and ran away. Suggestions?) I have absolutely no resolutions, by the way. I like the initial pep-talk excitement of making them, but they never, ever go anywhere. I mean, you've seen me do this before with self-imposed deadlines--I talk a good, rousing talk, and then nothing ever goes anywhere. I know this about myself: setting hard goals works for a lot of people, but it just does not personally work for me, probably because I psych myself out so easily. The only way I ever accomplish anything is by not trying and not expecting. "Follow your bliss," as the man said. So I know there are things I would like to do or improve within myself, but... the only way to do that is pretend they're not there, like a child playing peekaboo. Hey, whatever works. P.S. There will be Woodchuck. (112 Comments |Comment on this)
koganbot	6:41a	Another Year In America December 31, 2009 Miley's "Party In The USA" jumps back into the top ten and Justin Bieber's "One Time" jumps back into the Top 40, possibly for some current-events reasons I'm not up on. And while poptimists ignored the UK charts this week (which was all re-entries anyway), Another Year In America keeps on shovelin'. ( Orianthi ) ( Selena Gomez & The Scene ) Current Music: Selena Gomez & The Scene "Naturally" (Comment on this)

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