Songs for a New Day
One of the first CD mixes I made to give my sweetheart, Stephanie, filled with songs that made me think of her.
What Do I Know Dumpster Diving playlist
One of my favorite blog sites, What Do I Know, has a great iTunes Playlist of guilty pleasure songs from younger days, entitled the Dumpster Diving Playlist. It’s now available in the iTunes store as an iMix. What a great list!!
Oh my god… I’m totally buying these.
I’ve Never Been to Me (Remixed Single With Dialogue) – Charlene
The Warrior – Scandal
A couple of years ago, Doug and I put together a similar list from the 70’s entitled “Cheesy Hits from the 70’s.” I never posted the entire playlist to my site because it’s nine CDs worth of music. Someday, when I have more time, I’ll have to bite the bullet and put it on my site and link off to iTunes. But a number of the tunes on the Dumpster Diving list are on our compilation, too.
Familiar Strangers
Interesting article I found on Boing Boing about blue-tooth mobile phones that recognized other blue-tooth enabled devices around them and keep track of their IDs, eventually building a list of “familiar strangers” or people who are often in your immediate area.
Odd Holiday Alert: National Straw Hat Day – May 15th
National Straw Hat Day has been the traditional day of the spring season that men officially put away their winter felt hats and put on their new straw hats.
Visit Hats In the Belfry and buy yourself a nice straw hat. You deserve it.
Geek Bling
So I was watching Ellen, and she had a rapper on and they were talking about bling, and how he had to remember to put on all his bling before he left the house, and I realized that I have to do the same thing… only my bling isn’t jewelry; it’s my iPod, digital camera, cell phone, car stereo face, laptop, watch, pedometer, burglar alarm remote control, and sunglasses.
No Pants Day
A recent addition to my iCal broadcast of Odd Holidays: No Pants Day., which is the first Friday in May, this year on May 7th next week. Please make a note of it.
Depressing Songs
I don’t know how you feel about these songs, but these always bring me down, so I refuse to play them.
01 Bitter Sweet Symphony – The Verve
02 If – Bread
03 Wildfire – Michael Murphy
04 Desperado – Johnny Cash
05 Time In a Bottle – Jim Croce
06 I’ll Have to Say I Love You – Jim Croce
07 Photographs and Memories – Jim Croce
08 Seasons In The Sun – Terry Jacks
09 Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is A Season) – The Byrds
10 Billy Don’t Be a Hero – Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods
11 Angie Baby – Helen Reddy
12 The Night The Lights Went In Georgia – Vicki Lawrence
13 Delta Dawn – Helen Reddy
14 Cats In The Cradle – Harry Chapin
15 Captain Of Her Heart – DOUBLE
16 Owner Of A Lonely Heart – Yes
17 Bliss – Alice Peacock
Teen Death Songs
In the fifties, there was a whole trend of sappy songs about young love misunderstood and cut short by the tragedy of death. I tried to track down many of the titles, but they were pretty hard to come by. This is the CD of sorrowful tunes I was able to put together. If you know of any others, please comment.
1 Think of Laura – Christopher Cross
2 Patches – Dickie Lee
3 Ebony Eyes – The Everly Brothers
4 Last Kiss – J. Frank Wilson and the Cavali
5 Endless Sleep – Jody Reynolds
6 Running Bear – Johnny Preston
7 I Want My Baby Back – Mark Chesnutt
8 Teen Angel – Mark Dinning
9 Leader Of The Pack – Melissa Etheridge
10 Moody River – Pat Boone
11 Give Us Your Blessings – The Shangri-Las
12 I Can Never Go Home Anymore – The Shangri-Las
13 Leader Of The Pack – The Shangri-las
14 Johnny Angel – Shelley Fabares
15 Green, Green Grass of Home – Tom Jones
16 Tell Laura I Love Her – Valance, Ricky
17 The Night The Lights Went In Georgia – Vicki Lawrence
18 Laurie, Strange Things Happen – William Ward
This is the kind of thing that makes me lose faith in my fellow man
Really, I wonder about the world sometimes. This kind of thing, and bad interior design really shake me up.
Knitting For The Troops
One of the things my mom has been doing lately is knitting hats for the Ships Project, which distributes hand knitted hats and socks to soldiers stationed in Afghanistan, Iraq and around the world. I didn’t realize how cold it is in some of the places the soldiers are stationed, even in the Middle East. The pictures of all the troops modeling their hats are really cute.
She’s also been knitting tiny little hats for the Stitches From the Heart program, which gives the hats to newborns and premies in hospitals all over the country. Before that, she was making american flag quilts that got sent to each of the family members of the 9/11 victims.
I don’t say enought that I think my mom’s a really wonderful person.
If you want to participate in the Ships Project, visit their website for more information on how to join the program.
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