…No, it shall never be.  And to prove it, just in time for the Fourth of July weekend, several minutes of pointless video that might only be of interest to a small subset of my friends and relatives*:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrDbrlIofWE

“This is not how I am” indeed, Simon - get yer paws off of the coffee table.
Happy holiday [...]

Have a glance at my cousin, fronting the Compaq Big Band.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuzH51AX9Ig

I have some cool relatives.

…Making Light posts a link to the YouTube Video of The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain doing one of my all time favorite power-pop songs, Life on Mars*:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxCj2MO02AE

I rather love this - especially since the first singer bears a passing resemblance to John Simm.  It’s also clever in that glee-club/harmony/deadpan way when they start to [...]

I was sitting home yesterday letting my laptop serve up what it wanted out of the 9.7 days’ worth of music it has in its innards, and Bleu’s "DDBDD" came on.
This, of course, brought me right back to the summer of 1993, the last summer I lived in Minneapolis.  I didn’t know it was to [...]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTQwP2gFxU

Take two utterly insane things, mash them up, and you have Wookies dancing.

"She told it to me, and… like Genghis Khan or Alexander the Great, I occupied it.  It was real estate that I wanted to be part of so I just marched in and became part of it."

A cat playing a theremin.  God, but there are some days I just love the Internet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ONJfp95yoE

My favorite bit may be the end, though watching the moments when the instrumentalist plans his next move are pretty fabulous also.

I listened to my new running playlist this morning on the way in to work, and realized another thing about it (and playlists like it in the past).
I start my runs (in general) with the dark, the sarcastic, the angry.  The first three songs on this new playlist are each, in their own way, a solitary middle [...]

I had to take a hiatus from running when I was dealing with the respiratory ick (and then a bout of flu - or something like it - does one really care what it’s called when one feels as if they were run over by a truck?  No, I thought not).  To celebrate my return [...]

I have been accused of being difficult.
Control your shock, please.  I’m speaking of something specific.  Both my husband and mother have told me that purchasing gifts for me is fraught, since I tend to buy the things I want for myself, with some alacrity.
So it was with great forbearance that I put James Taylor’s “One [...]