Music Monday: Glitter in the Air

Long time, no post, I know. I guess I should make it official that I'm not going to be blogging a hell of a lot until the mid-semester holidays. I haven't had this many hours of the week filled since high school. Not complaining really, but it is taking its toll on my interwebs time. Being lazy doesn't help either. :-P

Glitter in the Air - Pink. The album it's on (Funhouse) is fantastic - a good mixture of fun songs and sweet songs and sad songs.



I really like this song but it does have one lyric that bugs me every time: "the thunder before the lightning." Spot the mistake? There's a Sheryl Crow song that does it too: "every time you hear the rolling thunder, you turn away before the lightning strikes." Nice lyrics, just not meteorologically correct.

I could eat alphabet soup and shit better lyrics. Johnny Mercer. (Not directed at either of the songs mentioned here, just funny and mildly relevant.)

10 honest things meme

I'm not a big fan of this kind of meme, but a tag's a tag, so here it is. Courtesy of Holly.

1. Right now I'm listening to a song called 'Keep Your Jesus Off My Penis.' (Here you go.)

2. Today I got two books about Fairies out of the library. Y'know how, according to the tales, fairies sometimes steal human children and replace them with changelings? Well apparently, sick or deformed babies were sometimes suspected of being changelings. One of the ways to get rid of a changeling baby is to torture it until its fairie parents decide to rescue it and switch back. So babies would be whipped, thrown in fires, etc. as late as the 19th century. :-(

3. I had a really good night's sleep last night. I should have started closing my curtains at night again ages ago.

4. I've been wearing the top I'm wearing now for *does the math* almost 40 hours (except for when I had a shower). I will not still be wearing it tomorrow.

5. I wrote this sentence last.

6. There are planet and star stickers on the ceiling above my bed. They glow in the dark. :-D

7. I'm not very good at sustaining interest in something over a long period of time. I'm more of an obsessive-interest-that-lasts-a-week kind of person. That is why I leave so many books, especially long ones, unfinished and why I'm not going to start knitting a jersey any time soon.

8. I'm hungry.

9. One of the things that amuses me most at work is the strategies kids use to try to cover up the fact that they farted. One started making fart noises with his mouth, as if he'd been doing that all along. Another, after thinking for a moment, turned around and said, "That was you!" These kids seem to think I was born yesterday, which is weird given that I spend most of my time at work imparting to them my demonstrably ineffable wisdom.

10. Now I'm listening to Bette Midler - 'The Rose.'

If you're lucky you'll find something that reflects you,
helps you feel your life, protects you,
cradles you and connects you to everything.
This whole life I remember has led back unto itself.
Never turned me into someone else.

Dar Williams, 'The Hudson'

Music Monday: Sometimes

My latest earworm. You know you like it.

Lovely day

The weather has been lovely the last couple of days. This is the view from my bedroom window today.

BTT: Best book you've never read

We’ve all seen the lists, we’ve all thought, “I should really read that someday,” but for all of us, there are still books on “The List” that we haven’t actually gotten around to reading. Even though we know they’re fabulous. Even though we know that we’ll like them. Or that we’ll learn from them. Or just that they’re supposed to be worthy. We just … haven’t gotten around to them yet.

What’s the best book that YOU haven’t read yet?

According to my dad, the best books I haven't read are Mervyn Peake's Gormanghast trilogy. The first thing that came to my mind (okay, second, after Mansfield Park) was James Morrow's The Philosopher's Apprentice. I've had it out of the library a couple of times (and paid to reserve it) but haven't read it yet. I feel a little twinge every time I remember it. Not only have I really liked other stuff by Morrow but I'm a philosophy major! I don't know what's stopping me.

There are heaps of other books I wish I would make the time for: really popular ones like My Sister's Keeper and The Time Traveller's Wife, quite a few classics, a handful by some of my most beloved authors... I'm just so lazy.

This question has been a bit depressing, but motivational too. :-) I'm going to get my hands on The Philosopher's Apprentice tomorrow!

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. P.J. O'Rourke

Music Monday: Travellin' Soldier

'Travellin' Soldier' by the Dixie Chicks. It's a bit of a tear-jerker but good for singing in the shower.



Shower-singing: do you and, if so, what?

Country music is three chords and the truth. Harlan Howard