from Today's Big Thing

Goth Single Ladies shared by a facebook friend - totally funny.

Alice in Chains

Day after tomorrow, at the House of Blues in Cleveland.

iheartradio

Labor day is over and it's back to work. The mountain of stuff to do, however, is lightened by a link sent to me by one of our PM's, to GenXRadio in Louisville. My age group must be obvious. I clicked the link and tuned in to REM, Losing My Religion. Timely and appropriate, as I sit here next to my stack of books to read, The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins next in line after Free to Choose by Milton and Rose Friedman, and before Last Child in the Woods, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and finally Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. Ah, the intellectual life of the GenX-er, harmonized with our intellectual music. We're the lost generation, the under-employed and over-educated, according to pop culture definitions...

So following through from the GenXRadio link, I found my way to iheartradio where reside all my favorite stations from my 90's in San Francisco. Be still my PC GenX heart!

Labor Day Weekend

Family parties are generally music-less affairs around here. So the mental radio is running random items. I think the Canfield Fair being in session and the trip with the kids to see the cows, ponies, bunnies, roosters, ducks and sheep are the reason for Lime Juice Tub by the Aussie Bush Band to be on repeat play in my head.

They Might Be Giants

When I was a little girl I wanted to be a paleontologist when I grew up. Adults seemed to think this was weird. I had a Land of the Lost lunchbox because in 1977 that was the only one we could find with dinosaurs on it. Other kids seemed to think this was weird.

But now dinosaurs are cool! And TMBG is even cooler for this song!! I am a Paleontologist.

Rootz Underground

The first time I played "my new favorite song" for the kids, I said "raise your hand if you hear a lion." Now they raise their hands every time they hear it. In The Jungle has become a favorite - my daughter asked me to play it repeatedly in the car yesterday evening. After about the 6th play she fell asleep to this groovy tune.

I completed my album the day after buying the song. Also great are 20 Centuries and Hammer.

Bob Marley on Noggin

I was sitting at the kitchen table, surfing around for commentary on the new Snow Leopard OS, while my 4 year old daughter watched Noggin on the small tv on the counter. My head popped up in surprise when I heard Bob Marley's Three Little Birds. On Noggin?

The song has special meaning for me. We heard it numerous times in the stressful days (due to a forced move and evil landlord) leading up to our wedding, and called a local KFOG dj (Buzz Lightyear, or a name that sounded like that...) in San Francisco who spent 10 minutes on the phone with us trying to figure out which Bob Marley song it was, based on the lyrics. In the end he couldn't figure it out, but he told us to go buy Legend because if it was a well known song that disc would have it. He was right. To this day we still have the 2 inch tall Buzz Lightyear toy from a local fast food joint during that time, which we keep in memory of his valiant and kindhearted effort on our behalf.

So I knelt down by my daughter's chair and sang the entire song along with the Noggin video. It was lovely, and she pointed to a baby bat and its parent in the video, sitting on a tree branch, and told me the little one was her and the big one was me.

Three Little Birds is my favorite Marley song of all time and this video is a great way to introduce it to little children. There's a reason this song was in the fresh fish iMix from day one.

With a little bit more googling, I found a blog with this commentary (Zooglobble) suggesting that the song is a shortened version of a track from a Ziggy Marley compilation. Ziggy Marley has a new children's cd? Apparently B is for Bob came out this May. It's Bob all the way, but Ziggy compiled the album and re-mixed the songs. They're beautiful and lighthearted. I may be behind the times, but I'm certainly enjoying catching up now!

Bugs Bunny Music, Part 2

So back to those operatic favorites we all know and love (in some form or another... my playlist isn't called Bugs Bunny Music for nothing). Scanning youtube for videos of Largo Al Factotum yielded some comedic versions. The first is amusing if for no other reason than the hairstyle of the swinger, oops, I mean singer. And of course, we have that classic Tom and Jerry cartoon. The Barber of Seville is a comedy after all, so I figure it's all good if what amuses you happens to be some stylish feathering.