Random Ten
10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

It's time to get back into gear and I don't know which is harder: getting into vacation mode or into work mode. It can take me up to two weeks to feel like I'm on vacation, but this year was different. Thanks to Boo I fell right into lounge mode and merrily remained. I'm even struggling to get into "blog mode" because, even though I constantly have ideas about what to share/write, committing it to print is different from mulling it in my head.

~ Luma Wake Up While sitting outside by the fire I heard what to me was the best song for the moment.
~ Donovan Hurdy Gurdy
~ Jethro Tull Living in the Past
~ Mountain Mississippi Queen
~ Moody Blues I'm Just a Singer in a Rock and Roll Band
~ Sheryl Crow Favorite Mistake
~ Don Henley All She Wants to do is Dance
~ Van Morrison Domino
~ The Road Dogz I just wanna make Love to You
~ ELO Evil Woman

Random Ten
10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

During the week I usually come home red eyed and too beat to sit in front of the computer. So this weekend I spent some quality time listening to lots of indie music as I blogged, organized computer files, prepared my Muvo for podcast listening at work and surfed. The weather's turning cold and funky again - damned groundhog! Here's to Spring arriving sooner than later, good health for the kitties and a week full of pulsating music.

~ Stereophile B.A.S.S.
~ Black Lab Lonely Boy
~ Buckfast California
~ Wishbone The Healing Ground
~ Howard Jones Building our own Future
~ The Jerrys Change Your Mind
~ Revery In the Way She
~ Hydrogyn Blind
~ Patrick Hall One for the Ages
~ Cake or Death We Are Not Satisfied

Top 5 On Friday
A different twist on the Top 5 this week.
Part one: Pick an emotion that best describes how you've been feeling lately. Tell us what emotion it is.
Happy

Part two: Top 5 songs that best convey that emotion for you.
Been listening to lots of music from sixties and seventies so…..
Chuck Berry Reelin’ & Rockin’
Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs Wooly Bully
Porterhouse bob Big House Boogie
Three Dog Night Celebrate
The Beatles Twist and Shout

Take Me Back Tuesday

Tell us about your first Musical Obsession! We want to know.

Who was it? Oh boy, I was too young to know any personal stats about them, but young enough to recognize cute and good music – The Beatles.

Why did you like them? They were cute, bouncy and had catchy tunes that my sisters would go nuts over. They seemed so happy and bubbly and made me want to dance.

What were your favorite songs they did? As a child it was the cheesy pop songs: Love Me Do, Eight Days a Week, She Loves You, etc.

As I matured it became Revolution, Sgt. Pepper, Hey Jude, Magical Mystery Tour, In My Life, etc.

Do you still like them today? Why or Why not? Absolutely. Their music resonates in my life like no other band’s. It encompasses my childhood, teenage years and early adulthood. That’s quite an accomplishment when you think about it.

Random Ten
10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)

These are the tunes the iPod shuffled and played and I believe it's another totally 80s playlist. I did have one seventies song from Three Dog Night Black and White, but I really couldn't recall that playlist in windows, so deferred to the iPod.

~ Pet Shop Boys A Red Letter Day
~ Madness Our House
~ The Waitresses I Know what Boys Like
~ Romeo Void A Girl in Trouble
~ Tears for Fears Everybody wants to Rule the World
~ The Romantics Talking in your Sleep
~ Paul Young Every time You go Away
~ Psychedelic Furs Love My Way
~ The Eurythmics Would I Lie to You
~ The Motels Only the Lonely

Top 5 on Friday
Top 5 songs that make you hit the repeat button (songs that you can listen to over and over again)

~ Led Zeppelin The Song Remains the Same
~ The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter
~ Guns N Roses Knockin' on Heaven's Door
~ Duran Duran Come Undone
~ Depeche Mode World In My Eyes

It's been awhile since I've made a mix CD, with the iPod and its ease in creating smart playlists, etc. it's almost rendered mix CDs extinct. I'm working on an eighties mix and want it completed by this weekend. We shall see...

Take Me Back Tuesday
This week is a week of "lasts"

What was the last album you purchased? Nelly Furtado Loose.

When was the last time you listened to a cassette? Whoa, what a brain numbing question. I haven't a clue. Wild guess, pre-1999? I can tell you with certainty that I pitched all audiocassettes in February and May 2006. Just got the whole kit and kaboodle and tossed them out!

When was the last time you listened to a vinyl album? (Do you know what a vinyl album is?) Okay this is easier because I completed storing all the vinyl in 2006 and of course, I had to spin a few before retiring them. So 2006 is the last time I played vinyl.

When was the last time you watched a video (either MTV, Vh-1 or on a DVD or VHS)? Halloween 2006 Michael Jackson's Thriller mini-movie. Still as awesome today as it was back in the day.

What was the last online music purchase you made? Entire CD purchase was made from Amazon December 2006.

What was the last concert you attended? Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young at the Hollywood Bowl in 2006.

For this meme 2006 was a good year! LOL

Top 5 On Friday
Here's a topic that will make you look in your mp3 players and winamps an on your CD and LP covers

Top 5 songs under 3 minutes long

~ Strawberry Alarm Clock Incense & Peppermint
~ Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter
~ Eagles Tequila Sunrise
~ Beatles In My Life
~ Kinks All Day & All of the Night

Hey, the Memoirs gals are coming up with some great stuff in the New Year!

Take Me Back Tuesday

This week we're really taking you back.....

Let's pretend...

If you had a time machine:

What musical event would you attend that you couldn't have otherwise. Oh this is so easy...The Beatles arrival in America and one of their concerts. My girlfriend's husband has a ticket stub from the Beatles concert he attended. Uh, to be able to go back and be there.


If you could save one musician that died tragically, which one would it be and why? John Lennon because his music and message of peace still stands true today and is needed very badly. The FBI investigated him because they feared his popularity and message.

If you could go back and influence either radio/or Mtv to make one song a hit that wasn't, which one would it be and likewise, if you could make sure one song wasn't a hit, which one would it be and why? Rosanna. I don't know who sings it but that song received so much airplay that to this day I still can't stand it! LOL

These were fantastic questions this week and a lot of fun.

Top 5 On Friday
Top 5 musical things you are looking forward to in the new year

~ The musical Wicked arriving in town in February 2007
~ Concerts both free and paid for. I'm hoping it's a better year!
~ Maybe some new music from Sting, Santana, Elton John and the Moody Blues.
~ I'm going to buy more music DVDs and those on the top of my list are:
Madonna, The Moody Blues, Paul McCartney, Sting, Elton John and the Rolling Stones.
~ In 2007 I will begin buying music online. The music will be from indie artists I discover, as opposed to contract artists who release CDs. The compact disc is still my preferred format and likely to remain so for as long as possible.

Random Ten
10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)



After a little shopping, dining and visiting with my mom, we embarked on finding some of the nicest decorated houses and admiring them. We get a kick from the variety of decorations and the color schemes folks come up with it. There are so many cute inflatables everywhere and since I have a thing for snowmen, I'm always on the look out for the cutest and best. This little guy wowed us with his color, smile and candy cane!

~ James Brown Soulful Christmas
~ India Arie & Stevie Wonder The Christmas Song
~ Melissa Etheridge Christmas in America
~ Louis Armstrong Cool Yule
~ Elton John Step into Christmas
~ Chuck Berry Run, Rudolph, Run
~ Aaron Neville Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
~ Ella Fitzgerald Jingle Bells
~ Barenaked Ladies Do They know it’s Christmas?
~ Bryan Adams Christmas Time

Random Ten
10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)


This year's Christmas Tree on Main Street, Disneyland, California. This weekend's music was heavily influenced by the Festival of Lights and the spirit of the season, in general. The rain this weekend brought the temperature down and made night air much cooler and Christmassy.

~ Silver Bells
~ The Emotions What do the Lonely do at Christmas?
~ Elvis Presley If Everyday Were Like Christmas
~ The Jackson Five I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
~ Mariah Carey Christmas
~ White Christmas with cute animation and a rocking sound! How can you not like it?
~ Margie Joseph Christmas Gift
~ The Stylistics When You’ve got Love, It’s Christmas all year Long
~ The Temprees It’s Christmas Time Again
~ Luther Vandross O Come all Ye Faithful

Top 5 On Friday - Week 101
Top 5 songs written by or performed by John Lennon.

~ Stand By Me
~ Starting Over
~ Beautiful Boy
~ Mind Games
~ Imagine

Take Me Back Tuesday
With all the christmas music that the Music Whore, my partner in crime, has been blogging about, it's not unusual that I have christmas on the brain.

So that's Week 100's topic.

Three Christmas Songs that get you in the holiday spirit.
~ John Legend Winter Wonderland
~ Mariah Carey Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
~ Lionel Richie Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Three artists with signature christmas songs.
~ Bing Crosby
~ Dean Martin
~ Elvis Presley

Three holiday albums.
~ The Carpenters Christmas Portrait (one of the most beautiful Christmas albums ever with fabulous orchestration and Karen Carpenters beautiful voice.)
~ Mariah Carey Merry Christmas
~ Frank Sinatra A Jolly Christmas

Random Ten
10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)



On our drive to the Happiest Place on Earth I was feeling very Christmassy and cheerful, so I played an old mix CD about five years old. Some mixes never lose their purpose and this one kept us singing and laughing. Surprisingly, the longest wait to get on a ride was 25 minutes and of course, we got a pair of ears for 2006. Now I feel like the holidays are upon us!

~ Brenda Lee Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
~ The Beach Boys Little St. Nick (Oh so Southern California and fun!)
~ Bobby Helms Jingle Bell Rock
~ Eartha Kitt Santa Baby
~ The Drifters White Christmas
~ Frosty the Snowman
~ Luther Vandross The Mistletoe Jam
~ Alan Jackson A Holly Jolly Christmas
~ The Jackson Five Santa Claus is Coming to Town
~ Mariah Carey All I want for Christmas is You

Top 5 On Friday
Top 5 songs that make you feel like celebrating

~ Kiss Rock and Roll All Night
~ Cyndi Lauper Girls Just want to Have Fun
~ All She Wants to do is Dance
~ The B-52s Rock Lobster
~ The Doors Love Her Madly

Random Ten
10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)



I feel like everything lately is such a blur. I'm going through the motions and pretty much running automatic. So long as I have all gifts in place and things done "on schedule", I guess it will be considered a success. I feel like I'm the parts that jiggle in a kaleidoscope.

~ Train Skyscraper
~ Poe Control
~ Lionel Richie What You are
~ Crystal Gayle I’m Beginning to See the Light
~ Lynn Bush What a Way to Go
~ The Isley Bros. You’re My Star
~ Coldplay The Scientist
~ Shirley Horn I Just found out about Love
~ Paul McCartney Coming Up
~ The Police Invisible Sun

Top 5 On Friday
Top 5 long songs (songs over 5 minutes)

~ Led Zeppelin Stairway to Heaven
~ Elton John Funeral for a Friend
~ Enigma Principles of Lust
~ Iron Butterfly In a Gadda Da Vida
~ GNR Knocking on Heaven's Door (live version)

Random Ten
10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)



A visit to the L.A. Coroner's gift shop Skeletons In the Closet is always good for causing me to reflect and influencing what music I listen to.

~ Lionel Richie It may be the Water
~ Weezer Knock Down Drag Out
~ Sasha Alexander Something Stupid
~ Madonna Vogue
~ Carmen McRae A Sleeping Bee
~ Depeche Mode The Landscape is Changing
~ No Doubt Hello
~ Dido White Flag
~ Nat King Cole Scotchin’ with the Soda
~ Helicopter Helicopter The Devil

Random Ten
10 songs that sum up your weekend...or were on your weekend playlist...and one picture that relates back. (oh, and if you feel like it, tell us why you picked the songs you did)



Halloween was a mere thirteen days past and the stores and malls are decorated for Christmas. Forget Thanksgiving. Let's skip right over it and go for jugglar. I love Christmas, really I do. I just wish we could take it more slowly and enjoy the holiday that has Thanks in its name. I don't think it's a lot to ask and I actually enjoy Thanksgiving Day.

~ Dobie Gray I can See clearly Now
~ Zero 7 Out of Town
~ Bryan Adams Lonely Nights
~ Morcheeba Never an Easy Way
~ Lionel Richie Sweet Vacation
~ Train Drops of Jupiter
~ Tyler Hilton Missing You
~ Pet Shop Boys Suburbia
~ Dave Matthews Band Ant’s Marching
~ Jane Monheit Blame it on My Youth