You and I

Let's get rich and buy our parents homes in the South of France
Let's get rich and buy everybody nice sweaters
and teach them how to dance
Let's get rich and build our house on a mountain
making everybody look like ants
from way up there, you and I
You and I

(Ingrid Michaelson)

New Tunes

It's been awhile since I got some great, new music. I think the last album I bought (which was also the only one I've gotten in maybe 6 months) was Regina Spektor's new album, Far, this summer. But this week I downloaded two new albums from eMusic and I think I'm in love...

Away We Go soundtrack, which is almost exclusively Alexi Murdoch
and
Ingrid Michaelson's Be OK

I highly recommend both. I know Ingrid Michaelson in particular has been around for awhile now. Her music has been in hot TV shows, like Grey's Anatomy, and on Old Navy commercials. But for some reason, I haven't bothered to really listen to her until now. I've been missing out. You might be missing out too.

50 concerts

The rules. Test your memory and your love of live music by listing 50 artists or bands (or as many as you can remember) you've seen in concert. List the first 50 acts that come into your head. An act you saw at a festival and opening acts count, but only if you can't think of 50 other artists.

(This is literally all I can remember - I think there are a few other country and/or Christian rock artists that I'm missing. Oh yeah, and this is evidence of my very wide and varied taste in music. You can also kind of see how my interests have changed, since this is in approximate chronological order.)

1. Peter Paul and Mary
2. Billy Ray Cyrus
3. Davis Daniel
4. Brooks and Dunn
5. John Michael Montgomery
6. Garth Brooks
7. Toby Keith
8. Joe Diffie
9. JoDee Messina
10. Martina McBride
11. Dave Matthews Band
12. DC Talk
13. Newsboys
14. Jennifer Knapp
15. Third Day
16. Bebo Norman
17. Barenaked Ladies
18. Matchbox 20
19. Pat McGee Band
20. John Mayer
21. Sister Hazel
22. Blessid Union of Souls
23. Steven Curtis Chapman
24. Nichole Nordeman
25. Jars of Clay
26. Caedmon's Call
27. Toby Mac
28. Shane Barnard and Shane Everett
29. Counting Crows
30. Indigo Girls
31. Rusted Root
32. Maroon 5
33. Justin Timberlake
34. Gavin DeGraw
35. The Fray
36. Lily Allen
37. Jon McLaughlin
38. Dave Barnes
39. Matt Wertz
40. Switchfoot
41. Eric Hutchinson
42. Aqualung
43. Lily Allen
44. Joshua Radin
45. Rufus Wainwright
46. Regina Spektor
47. Sara Bareilles
48. Eric Hutchinson
49. Death Cab for Cutie
50. Jason Mraz

Me according to Jason Mraz

Rules: Using only song names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to at least 15 people and include me. You can't use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think! Repost as "my life according to (band name)"

Pick your Artist: Jason Mraz

Describe yourself:
The Remedy (I Won't Worry)

How do you feel:
Lucky

Describe where you currently live:
Who Needs Shelter

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:
Clockwatching

Your favorite form of transportation:
Plane

Your best friend is:
Geek In The Pink

What's the weather like?
Bella Luna

Favorite time of day:
Sleep All Day

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:
On Love, In Sadness

What is life to you:
Wordplay

Your fear:
The Boy's Gone

What is the best advice you have to give:
Live High

Thought for the Day:
Only Human

How I would like to die:
Absolutely Zero

My soul's present condition:
Life is Wonderful

My motto:
No Stopping Us

iTunes shuffle

Send this to your friends to see who has similar musical tastes/interests.

Step 1: Put your iTunes or equivalent on random.
Step 2: Type out the first line from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. Send to all your friends
Step 3: Bold out the songs when someone guesses the song/album correctly. (Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!)

1) All your ways and all your thunder, got me in a haze running for cover, where we gonna go from here?...

2) Oh I could hide 'neath the wings of the bluebird as she sings...

3) I follow the night, can't stand the light...

4) Tough, you think you've got the stuff, you're telling me and anyone you're hard enough...

5) When you're dreaming with a broken heart, the wakin' up is the hardest part...

6) Tell me what you need, you know it's on your mind, you say he's usually screwing up your life...

7) River of healing carry me, flow through all my years...

8) Sometimes I fear maybe I'm not chosen, you've hardened my heart like Pharoah...

9) Only daughter you got your ticket too soon...

10) Dearest darlingest momsie and popsicle, my dear father...

11) Gather wine, make a drink of the far distant spring...

12) Come fly down like the singing bird sings your name, I am still the same...

13) I was so high I did not recognize the fire burning in her eyes, chaos that controls my mind...

14) They painted up your secrets with the lies they told to you, and the least they ever gave you was the most you ever knew...

15) Waiting, watching the clock it's 4 o'clock, it's got to stop, tell him...

16) Meet me on the other side, meet me on the other side...

17) Where are we? What the hell is going on? The dust has only just begun to fall...

18) Summer days are gone too soon, you shoot the moon and miss completely...

19) Ten years ago I fell in love with an Irish girl, she took my heart...

20) I'm not alone, I wish I was, cause then I'd know...

Today

Gotta turn up your volume for this one. I was going to post all the lyrics, but really I love his voice and the sound of the melody too much for the words alone to do it justice.

But the lyric I particularly love: "I sat beside you and became myself"