Music: Favorite Songs/Artists

http://www.playlist.com/playlist/22218138123

Elevator love letter-Stars

            Heels so high, hopes so low

Airplanes-Local Natives

            Encyclopedia!

Lost in my mind-The head and the heart

Mango Tree- Angus and Julia Stone

            I LOVE MANGOS sweet sound

The Blower’s Daughter-Damien Rice

            Hauntingly beautiful, can’t take my eyes off of you heath leger 10 things I hate about you

Blindsided-Bon Iver

Mercy-Duffy

            Catchy

Rumour Has It-Adele

            Makes me want to dance

A Little Love-Meaghan Smith

            50s sound with electronic background… love her from 500days of summer

Sweet Disposition-Temper Trap

            500 days of summer

Haunting-Anberlin

            LOVE anberlin,

Most Of Me-Mandy Moore

            Everblue is a favorite…

Darling buds of May-Brother

            Her birthday is in May

New Low-Middle Class Rut

I only see you-Benton Paul

            Paris is more a favorite, but his voice is great

We Can Try-Between The Trees

            Spain or Darlin or She is

We Used to Wait-Arcade Fire

            Love this group, so unexpected…

Breathe In-Frou Frou

            Dumbing down of love sold me on frou frou… this is a great song that isn’t as serious

Crash Into Me-dave Matthews Band

           

Girls-Beastie Boys

            CLASSIC

Pin Your Wings-Copeland

Lazy Eye-Silversun pickups

           

Fever-Meiko

            Love this version…

Iris-Goo Goo Dolls

            Amazing..

Stay-Lisa Loeb

            Fall 2008. heartbroken… amazing

Stare-Marjorie Fair

           

Black Sheep-“The clash at demonhead” really brie larson’s cover of metric.

            Loved scott pilgrim vs the world.

Misty eyes-ohbijou

            Canadastalker… the one good thing that came from the date that would never end.

Ruby Blue-Roisin Murphy

            Genious…

Staplegunned-Spill Canvas

           

Bennie and the Jets-Elton John

LOVE

I’d Rather Dance with you-kings of convience

            Great band

Turn to stone-Ingrid Michaelson

            Sytycd

Midnight Highway-Daphne Loves Derby

            Went to efy with bass player… great high school romance song

Edge of the Ocean-Ivy

            Underwater sound, love

Anything-Mae

            LOVE MAE. No arguments… I just love them.

Here with Me-Dido

            Roswell…

The Way you make me feel-Michael Jackson

            WCS FAVORITE

Saints and Sailors-Dashboard Confessionals

            Classic..

Salt Sweat Sugar-Jimmy Eat World

            Prefer believe in what you want

You Make My Dreams-Hall and Oats

            500 days of summer

Clap your hands-Sia

            Good feel

It’s Oh So Quiet-Bjork

            Don’t turn your speakers up too loud… great music video…

Tightrope-Janelle Monae

            Clever

When You Say Nothing At All-Alison Krauss

            A little country is good for the soul

Such Great Heights-Iron and Wine

            Probably one of the first indie songs I had heard…

Human-The Killers

            Not a huge killers fan, but are we human or are we dancer? Well, dance alliance 2008-2009 Russia tour is dancer. Dance mission!

The Scientist-Coldplay

            Also Yellow. Just classic.

*Oh My Love-John Lennon

            AMAZING

Mid-week melodies
the postmarks


This song is james-bond-esque, and could possibly be the song you see me auditioning with for So You Think You Can Dance!

I think it would be an amazing Tango, and there is a sound that I would always try to emphasis with my dancing... (its that snapping something at the end of the song. it repeats throughout, but you'll know what i mean.) it would either be a brush tap tango move, which makes you snap your head further to the left and away from your partner, trying to make your head, neck, and chest parallel to the ceiling. That or I would do a hand movement I can not quite describe... ah well. You'll all just have to wait to see it, eh? :) one day...

I heard this song one time after work as I was driving home, loved it, so I remembered some of the lyrics, came home and googled them to no avail. Then remembered that radio station has a playlist kept online, so I just looked it up according to the time I heard it, and viola!

Tuesday in tune

I went and saw Extraordinary Measures with my mom, and it was a really good movie! I hadn't heard much about it, but it is mostly the story of how far a man will go to save his family. Very touching, based on a true story... tear jerker for me and my mom--but it is acceptable because there is a dog in the movie.
My mom and I had smuggled in some treats like the Vault Red Blitz which we had tracked down! Then I also brought in some of those new Wendy's spicy chicken nuggets with sweet and sour sauce, and finally, these super yummy chocolate chip and peanut butter cookies... mmmm!
After that we went to Fred Meyers, where I found some cute clothes on clearance for fifty percent off, then I dropped my mom off and I went to Target and moseyed around and found some more sales... turns out I love to spend money and get things.

While I was gone my mom was preparing dinner...
Warm Lentil Salad with a side of Oven Roasted Beets and Goat Cheese and Homemade Italian Dressing


I couldn't remember ever having lentils before, but man! I was wanting seconds, thirds, fourths, to eat this salad for the rest of my life!!

As for music for the day, I found myself enjoying the song by Lady Antebellum, Need You Now, but it is quite twangy and that throws me off quite a bit.
I also really liked some of the music I heard when I watched According to Greta. I can't find a soundtrack anywhere, so I don't know the songs yet... but I want to find some of them! As for the movie... it is of an angst-ridden teenager who is very brooding and making a list of things to do in life as well as a list of how to die. It is an interesting role to see the little cinderella-diner girl to be playing, but it does show that she has a range, and can make movies without her sister by her side (Material Girls)... but I wasn't too impressed with it... mostly because I thought her character was trying too hard for attention doing such negative things, and she was also so scrappy and wore such large hoop earrings and dark makeup, dark roots and grown out blonde hair dye... she made me thing too much of a girl from high school I can't stand... haha.
But the ending message is pretty good.. even though it came super quick...

Post Script: I carefully typed in to google some of the lyrics from a song from according to Greta, (which on imdb is only credited as Greta) and turned up a result! The Acid House Kings song called This and That. They are categorized as being IndiePop and that is my favorite style!! haha I am actually really digging all of their stuff!! just listening to the thirty second song bites http://www.amazon.com/Sing-Along-Acid-House-Kings/dp/B000QQVOTE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1264578203&sr=8-1
I love how typically indie groups are not about high fashion album covers, like this group posing as a late sixties early seventies kind of style! You can hear a clip of this and that from this link : http://www.amazon.com/Advantage-Acid-House-Kings/dp/B00006G9ZE/ref=sr_1_13?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1264578203&sr=8-13 though, it is not the same portion from the movie that made me fall in love. It is surprising to know that they made that cd in 1997, and this style has become to be a very popular style now. Also, it is not surprising to hear that they are from Sweden!

Boy oh boy has this made me excited for Wednesday's music!

Per request, I will tell you what I am listening to this week!
Sunday January 24th I had songs from the musical Xanadu stuck in my head from going to the fabulous show at the Paramount in Seattle on Saturday with my parents and sister. (Wow, that is a long sentence.)
Here is a picture of the stage


My favorite/the song most stuck in my head was "Magic"

I felt she looks best in this video, although it isn't as clear visually, and it is slightly muted. I couldn't seem to find a clip of it from the movie itself, but hey, this one isn't bad at all.
For a glimpse at what the movie is like, what this video of the song Xanadu :



Now, it is a silly movie and I have heard people say the writer/producers may have been on acid. But, the play version was hilarious, my parents love the movie, I enjoyed it when I was younger, and the play made jokes about the movie being silly, but I loved that even more!
The premise: A young artist is feeling discouraged about his work, and his most recent creation was a chalk painting of some Grecian muses. He walks away suicidal (at least in the play) and then the painting comes to life. The muse played by Olivia Newton John decides to inspire him to keep going, to realize his potential. So, in the play, the actress decides she needs a disguise, and she says something like this "I know! I will pretend I just moved here from Australia and use a terrible Australian accent, wear roller skates, and leg warmers!" So, for the rest of the play she talks in an absolute terrible Australian accent... and I loved it! Oh, and towards the end of the play she has a solo song and she is skating around and then some guy comes out with a huge fan and she stands in front of it and the wind is blowing, like we always see in movies, I just thought it was very well thought out to use jokes like that. ...anywho, if you can, go see the live production. SO FUNNY!

Monday Music
I was farming on facebook and wanted some music, so I turned on my pandora... I do not remember what playlist it was on... but My Moon My Man by Feist came on, and I loved it. I loved it so much I went straight to youtube and when I saw the music video, I loved it even more!!



I think it is a very clever music video! I love all the dancing on the moving sidewalk, and the lighting... and how it ends with her just walking away. Love. It.