Too Goood to DENY It.....No Big Deal, it's Innocent.

So I get WAY super depressed sometimes. Up down, Up down. I'm starting to wonder if I'm Bipolar and I'm NOT even being snarky here. Seriously.....CAN I JUST BE STABLE? This is horrendous. Whatev.....I can't change the circumstances surrounding my serious instability issues....so I get way super down...then I get way super up. And usually -it comes in the form of a super way awesome pep talk. I talk to myself way down in my soul and then it hits, -A song pops into my life to back up my pep talk and I can march on another week or two (until I totally wear the song out and fall back into my mass depression.) I think the relation between music and my moods must be linked somehow to endorphins. Because after all - I find a way happy cool song that I love and spend all day, every day dancing to it on repeat. I can't even freaking help it. Whatev........dancing is my life yo.

So what I'm loving the most is the screamo that takes place in the middle of this punked out version of "I Kissed a Girl and I Liked It." Seriously...TELL me this is not a [dang] good song. Go ahead.....I dare you. You'll be dancing around YOUR freaking kitchen in point two seconds to this bad boy. And when you do....come shower me with love baby. I know....I so totally can't help that I've got great taste in music. The end.

I Kissed A Girl (cover) -Attack Attack

Ode To Ozzy

So basically, I love Ozzy. I think he is one bad ass s.o.b, who totally rocks. Who else could bite the heads off of bats and not get rabies? NO ONE!!! Rabies is scared as HELL of Ozzy. I totally remember my dad listening to Ozzy when I was little and him and my mom were clam baking me in the back of the black Volkswagon Beetle. How can I remember it if I was getting baked you wonder. Well, ahem *cough* *snort*....(that's me getting ready to do my very best Tommy Chong impersonation.) "It totally opens the mind man. It makes you clear about.......stuff and stuff."



My next step in my Ozzy evolution was this little gem. It showed us that he has a sensitive side to go along with his psychotic exterior. I was in the 7th grade, and frankly, I wanted to be Lita. I loved her ripped up jeans and her fantastic 80's hair. Plus, she rocked the guitar and that just made her so much cooler.



And now we have come full circle. As teenagers, Cleo and I had the opportunity to become friends with a couple of strapping young lads who insisted that this was the theme song for the work they were doing in the Richmond Virginia area.
Now, you have all seen Cleo and I as adults so try to imagine if you can the hotness we exuded as teenagers. I know, you can't. It would blow your mind. It was to hard for these young men to resist. They wanted us to "wait" for them and we were like," HELL NO!!! There is to much fun to be had. We ain't waiting for no one." The rest is history. But that is exactly how it went down. If you don't believe me ask Cleo, she'll totally back me up. I wonder what ever happened to those guys. Oh well, who cares.



Sort of makes me sad that now he's a crazy old man.

SHARON!!! Get me a burrito!!!!

The Killers Feat. Lou Reed- Tranquilize

Oh yeah baby. You know I love this. I am ashamed that this song has not been featured on this blog thus far.

See, I was thinking that I lost my mind.... but it's been getting to me all this time.

The Killers - New Music - More Music Videos

Baby don't talk that much- baby knows that baby don't tease me.


I still hear the children playing.... (someone needs to make them shut up)


We're lookin' for a page in the lifeless book of hope...


It's a shame- we coulda gone sailing.

Euroweenies and the Knights of Cydonia

I’m not afraid to admit that I buy into the stereotype that the men of Europe are, how to put this delicately, more metrosexual than the average joe of the US of A. Think about it. The Europeans play “futbol.” So do we, only our version involves men the size of tanks running directly into each other, tackling without the requisite slide, and an almost excessive use of hands.

The same is certainly true when it comes to music. Think of the biggest, baddest European rock band. In a cage match would they stand a chance against Metallica? Could anyone take down Glen Danzig? Who would you send up against Henry Rollins? Rob Halford? Freddy Mercury? Seriously?

And with that as a backdrop, I present to you Muse’s Knights of Cydonia. First the music is incredible, with some amazing guitar work and a chorus that will stay with you longer than any Wilford Brimley hawked oatmeal.

Second, Muse is made up of Euro girlymen, but they know it and so here is their wink and nod to the American ideal of manhood. Combining the best elements of Kung Fu, Westworld, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, here Muse outdoes any three American action movies in six minutes of bliss.

Admittedly, they wus out a bit where the hero doesn’t even use a gun to defeat the bad guy, but you have to make some allowances. After all, they are European.

So Long So Long....Dashboard Confessional

I'm going on hiatus.....



This is a great song to bid you Au Revoir! For now!

Manly Music Monday

Last night I sat down to write todays Manly Music Monday and just couldnt get out of first gear. I had a couple of bands that I have been wanting to share with you guys and even had a couple funny (d'apres moi) stories to go along with them. But I just wasn't feeling it. I wrote a couple of opening paragraphs and deleted them and for the first time since I started blogging I was kinda dreading "haftin" to write todays post. Today at work I had even settled on just findin a couple of songs by "Spoon" and leaving it at that. But on the way home some gray clouds rolled in and started to fall down on me. And when I got closer to home the smell of a far away campfire came blowing in and this came up on my playlist.







And for some reason I was immediately taken back to 7th grade and my first trip by myself to the county fair. No specific memories came to mind at first, just the feeling of being an awkward teenager and shifting in and out of the groups of kids that made up my friends at the time. The excitement of being grown up and alone and at the same time finally starting to feel like you fit in somewhere other than your family and being accepted for who you were as a person. Scared that someone might notice you used some of you mom's concealer to hide that zit on your chin and thrilled that Mellisa from Biology noticed you and smiled while you waited in line for the Vominator. Ok, maybe a couple specific memories.... but you get the idea. Anywho.. Camera Obscura is not my favorite band in the world, but today they hit that perfect chord of melancholy joy and longing for a simpler more exciting time when everything was fresh and you could be whoever you wanted and the world was big and discoverable. 

So if you get a minute, and its not too cold where you live, walk outside, close you eyes and spend a few seconds remembering spring nights spent just sitting on the swings at the park with your first crush. And if you let go enough, maybe you can still remember what flavor her lip gloss was.....

Mmmmm... cherry.

Gingers pick of the week......Dashboard Confessional

When I do my weekly picks there is one of two factors at play. Either I have found a song that I have really connected with because of things going on in my own life or I am just really impressed by the artist and have decided to play them to DEATH and drive everyone else in the house insane. Today, it's both of those things.

I have always been a Dashboard Confessional fan. I think Chris Carrabba is not only HOT, but an amazing singer and songwriter. He has a very unique, distinctive voice that sets him apart from a lot of the other male artists today. I love the passion that comes from him through his lyrics as well. And that passion is reflected in his voice. Very raw, untrained , powerful....I love it. Here are a few of my favorite songs from them. Most of them come from the Dusk and Summer album, which is my favorite. But my suggestion, get the entire discography. It's fantastic.


The Secrets in the Telling....



Stolen....

Dashboard Confessional - New Music - More Music Videos

Screaming Infidelities (Live) ....You can find this on the MTV Unplugged album...or the original version on The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most.

Dashboard Confessional - New Music - More Music Videos

And the most popular song by them..Vindicated...on the Spiderman 2 soundtrack



Hope you enjoy the crooning of Chris as much as I do. :-)