We have been speaking of mix CDs here lately, and one reason they have been on my mind is that we’ve been hard at work on some for a few weeks. Before we went to New York this fall, Mike kept saying he’d like to make a New York playlist. But, with one thing and [...]
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Christmas time came too soon
The bells rang loud and I’m hitting snooze
Buy some time if I weren’t broke
But I owe I owe I owe I owe
I owe I owe I owe
My credit card is full of doubt
The government won’t bail me out
This year I must take it slow
I owe I owe I owe I owe
I [...]
We’ve been trying to give generously this Christmas season. The canned food drive, of course, and there are these boxes of food you can buy and donate at Food Lion, and we’ve been adding one to our cart every time we go shopping. We had also been thinking about making some kind of Christmas donation [...]
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I realized yesterday that today is the anniversary of John Lennon’s death. I was alive in 1980, but a little young to be a Beatles/John Lennon fan, so I really only know of a world in which there is no chance of the Beatles reuniting. John has never been my favorite Beatle (I’m looking at [...]
Categories: Music, Music that Matters
It is cold and raining. I am going to make chili if Mike will go to the store and get the rest of the things I need. But meanwhile, I am just going to keep watching this delightful video of The Swell Season playing in Houston. They asked for audience participation, and when Glen heard [...]
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This one is for Bethany – I made a back-to-school playlist for her and her husband. He teaches choir. I’m sure you can guess what song I felt I MUST include (tune into Fox Wednesdays at 9 if you have no idea). I apologize for that, but I couldn’t help myself. Some of the songs [...]
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My second homemade gift was for Kara, who, as far as I know, does not have a blog for me to link. Kara likes gardening, which intrigued me since all I ever do is kill plants. She also likes country music, so I tried to give it a bit of a country feel. This one [...]
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Way back in May, I said I would make some homemade gifts. But I don’t make things. So I ended up making mix CDs. I am pretty proud of them, so I am going to post the track lists for you to peruse. First up, April! April got a new sod backyard, so I created [...]
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I made a “Back to School” playlist today that includes some albums that I have been wanting to listen to (The Hold Steady, Jack Johnson, Elliot Smith, Emmylou Harris) and some back to school songs. There are not a whole lot of back to school songs that aren’t, you know, the Beach Boys singing [...]
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Mike and I went to see She & Him at the Cat’s Cradle last night. We realized a few things.
1. We are too old for concerts without assigned seating. Too old, I tell you! When we saw Glen and Marketa, we had assigned seating, and it was basically the best ever. [...]
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Eef Barzelay’s new CD has a song called “I Love the Unknown,” which was also on the Clem Snide CD Your Favorite Music. We are big Eef fans in this house, and I have been listening to his new CD a lot. As I was singing “I Love the Unknown” in the shower [...]
Categories: Family, Introspection, Music
I read (but did not really care for) Rachel Cohn and David Levithan’s newer book, Naomi and Ely’s No Kiss List. I read Boy Meets Boy by David Levithan, and I thought it was cute, though not necessarily my thing. But, for some reason, I keep thinking that maybe I am going to [...]
I am running a 5K here in Greensboro in early May, and I have been trying to get in shape for it. Since changing jobs, my exercise schedule has been a little bit off. It’s crazy how much easier it is for me to exercise, though, now that it feels like spring (and [...]
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I don’t know anything about Tullycraft, but one evening I was listening to the radio station that Mike DJed for over the summer, and I heard this beautiful haunting song. I made Mike call the station and find out what the song had been, and it turns out that it was “The Lonely Life [...]
Categories: God, Introspection, Marriage, Music
Then I’m laying out my winter clothes
And wishing I was gone
Going home
Where the New York City winters aren’t bleeding me,
Leading me, going home.
In the clearing stands a boxer
And a fighter by his trade
And he carries the reminders
Of every glove that laid him down
Or cut him till he cried out
In his anger and his shame
“I am [...]
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This is the track list for a mix CD I made. It is a melancholy autumn CD. You have been warned.
“What Light” by Wilco – I would not consider myself a Wilco fan, but I do like this song.
“Moon River” by The Innocence Mission – I didn’t like this song [...]
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