2022.12.02
| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Everybody Wants To Rule the World Lorde |
Good cover right out of the How To Make A Blockbuster Movie Trailer playbook... |
| 30,000 Lbs. Of Bananas Harry Chapin |
Was listening to Strong Song's deep dive into Weird Al's Biggest Ball of Twine in Minnesota and now I really think of it as basically a parody of this song... |
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| St. James Infirmary Louis Armstrong & His Savoy Ballroom Five |
JP Honk was playing this for halloween and I got interested in different versions... always one of my favorite standards. |
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| DATURA [paroxysm] Crywolf |
via tumblr |
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| Someday I Suppose The Mighty Mighty Bosstones |
I was really getting into the idea of their dancer Benn Carr and wanted at least one song that wasn't The Impression That I Get.... |
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| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Last Wave They Might Be Giants |
So I guess this song was originally a bad lip reading of the Run DMC/Aerosmith "Walk This Way"??? |
| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Lady Mine (feat. Chad Kroeger) Josh Ramsay |
My friend JZ sends me songs he thinks I'll like... this is one of the few straight forward rockers that hits, a lot of 80s/90s feel to it. |
| ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ | I Really Want to Stay at Your House Rosa Walton & Hallie Coggins |
5 star! I really love the juxtaposition of wistful title and great funk tinged percussion... |
| Exactly Like You Rebirth Brass Band |
Another song JP Honk does. |
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| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Mind Your Manners (feat. Icona Pop) Chiddy Bang |
Forget where I heard this modern hip hop, like the chorus sound. |
| Give Me Rain Spoonbill |
A fire spinner at a party JP Honk was hired for did some of her routine to this song-- |
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| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Girlboss Tuba Solo Nora Nalepka w/ Lucky Chops |
Little excerpt I'm trying to learn from... she really knows how to command a crowd with her tuba... |
| Is It Wicked Not To Care? Belle and Sebastian |
Heard at "Squealing Pig" after our trip to the MFA.... love the title, kind of like "Is It Evil Not To Be Sure"... |
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| Like a Virgin - Blond Ambition Tour Madonna |
The new Weird Al "biopic" had a weird amount of Madonna... I ripped this fron youtube from her stage performance, on the bed with the male dancers in cone bras... |
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| ★ ★ ★ ★ | Freestyler 2019 Bomfunk MC's |
House music... Another one I had to rip from youtube... kind of a classic, the 2019 version seems pretty close to the original... |
| Super Mario Bros. Theme Scott Bradlee |
Fun ragtime cover of Super Mario Bros. |
Good Conversations Have Lots of Doorknobs Great reminder to create affordances for your conversational partners!
I was struck by the reference to how "We overestimate the awkwardness of deep talk and so we stick to the boring, affordance-less shallows." I know I love getting into deep conversations- right now I'm especially interested in how people feel about the management of their own emotional landscapes.
(Conversely, and maybe ironically, I have less patience for mutual "well how do you feel about ____" exchanges, like just gauging people's temperature about stuff. I don't think my preferences and opinions are that important for their own sake...)