Summer Music Mix

Had a few hot days already, and memorial day is now behind us, time to make a summer playlist on that iPod.

Lover's Carvings - Bibio

Loro - Pinback

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince

Here Comes Your Man - Pixies

Free and Easy (Down the Road I go) - Dierks Bentley

I Want You Back (Z-Trip Remix) - Jackson 5

Fun Fun Fun - The Beach Boys

Break My Stride - Graham BLVD

Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra

Where the Streets Have no Name - U2

One Headlight - The Wallflowers

Fortunate Son - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Don't Be Cruel - Elvis Presley

House of Cards - Radiohead

Homecoming - Kanye West

Summer of 69' (MTV Unplugged version) - Bryan Adams

New Soul - Yael Naim

Life in Technicolor II - Coldplay

Blue Moon - Billie Holiday

Night Train - James Brown

1901 - Phoenix

Zomer - Andre Hazes

No ones gonna Love you - Band of Horses

Ring the Alarm - Tenor Saw

New York State of Mind - Billy Joel ( from 12 Gardens Live)

Rebel Rebel - David Bowie

Cannonball - Breeders

Brimful of Asha - Cornershop

Rise - Eddie Vedder

Non, Je ne regrette rien - Edith Piaf

Stop this Train - John Mayer (from Where The Light Is-Live)

Nothing but Flowers - Guster

Shelter from the Storm - Bob Dylan

Go Do - Jonsi

Tangerine - Led Zeppelin

Pennies From Heaven - Louis Prima

Every Teardrop is a Waterfall - Coldplay

Pink Moon - Nick Drake

2010 in MUSIC

Some of the better songs released this year;

Ben Folds/Nick Hornby- Picture Window

Best Coast- Crazy for you

Broken Bells- Citizen, The Mall & Misery, (They sound like the Shins)

The Black Keys- Everlasting Light, Next Girl

Cee Lo Green- Forget You (yes, the clean version)

Coldplay- Christmas Lights (Only song released by them this year)

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds (Live in Las Vegas) - You & Me, Some Devil

Drake- Karaoke, Fireworks

K’Naan- Waving Flag

Girl Talk- Jump on Stage (mixing ODB with Radiohead, amazing!)

Jack Johnson- You and your heart, No good with faces, What you thought you need

Janelle Monae- Tight Rope

Jonsi- Go Do, Tornado, Sinking friendships, Hengilas

Kanye West- Lost in the world (best intro of 2010)

Mariah Carey- One child

One Republic- All the Right Moves

Train- Hey Soul Sister

Tallest Man on Earth- Thousand ways (most of the album is good, sounds like Dylan allot)

Vampire Weekend- Horchata, Holiday, California English, Taxi Cab

Walkmen- Lisbon (great electric guitar sound on this song)

*A 2010 discovery of a 2009 album was Coeur De Pirate’s debut album by the same name.

And Florence and the Machine-Dog days are over is another one I missed in 09.

2009 in Music

So 2009 was in my mind not a super great year for music, some good stuff did come out but I can't say that I liked a whole entire album this year. So it's on to a list of songs. Following are some of my favorite songs of 2009 in random order. Listening to these will always remind me of this year.

Artist: Song:

The Avett Brothers: I and Love and You, January Wedding, The perfect space

Phoenix: 1901, Girlfriend

David Bowie: Life on Mars? (from VH1 Story Tellers cd)

U2: Magnificent, I'll go crazy if I don't go crazy tonight

Dave Matthews Band: Baby Blue

John Mayer: Heartbreak warfare, All we do is say goodbye, War of my life

The Decemerists: The hazrds of love 4 (The Drowned)

Eels: In my dreams, No ordinary man

JayZ: Emipre State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys)

Peter, Bjorn, and John: Nothing to worry about

Andrea Bocelli: What child is this? (feat. Mary J. Blidge)

Ben Folds: Cologne, You don't know me (feat. Regina Spektor), Kylie from Connecticut

Bon Iver: Blood Bank

The Lonely Island: Lazy Sunday (Chronicles of Narnia)

Lisa Hanigan: Ocean and a Rock

Grizzly Bear: Two weeks

The Swell Season: Paper cup

Black Eyed Peas: I gotta feeling

Sufjan Stevens: Movement II: Sleeping invader, Postlude: Critical Mass

Madeleine Peyroux: Everybody's talkin'

Feist: Mushaboom (from the soundtrack for "500 Days of Summer")

N.A.S.A.: Gifted (feat. Kanye West)

Marco Borsato: Dochters

Owl City: Fireflies (popy I know, but closest we'll get to The Postal Service for now...)

Mariah Carey: I want to know what Love is

Regina Spektor: Eet, Man of a thousand faces, Us

Moby: Study War

Ben Folds: Magic (from: Ben Folds presents University A Cappella)

I wanted to add two songs by Alicia Keys from her Unplugged album, even though this did not come out in 2009, I hadn't heard it before this year, which is weird cuz I have most of her stuff. Anyway the songs are; How come you don't call me, and Wild Horses. Wild Horses is a Rolling Stones cover, I think Susan Boyle did her own version of that song this year.

What else can I say? Its a life! or... a girl changes everything!

My blog was on its way to becoming a cliche, you know the one where you look for a key word using Google and someone's blog from 2002 pops up and their January post was the last one. 

Anyway, we're having a girl! Yeah it's crazy but I think I can handle it. Even though I had reasons for wanting either gender, its good to finally know now. (Google: tips for raising girls).

So much preparation, and of course in our society, so little time, but time won't wait and neither will our little girl. I become overwhelmed and excited in small intervals at the thought of being a parent, while looking forward to having the title I've wanted most my life. And I see how marriage takes on yet another purpose.

  

New Family Member

Airport Music

I flew on 8 flights in the past month or so. Walking through busy airports, getting on and off planes all require music. There's something about walking in a maze of people listening to music that makes you feel like you're not participating in it all and provides the continuing soundtrack of life.

I walk and watch as a mother struggles to get her kid to sit down in her stroller, I see a family standing in line to get overpriced food, I watch as Tony Dungy & family get on a plane in Tampa, I watch as my wife tries to finish a 32 oz. smoothie, I observe 70% of the people I see on their cell phones, I flip through a commemorative issue of People magazine, I search for seat 11c all while music accompanies the scenery.

My "flight plan" mix:

All along The Watchtower (Alternate)-Jimmy Hendrix
Fidelity-Regina Spektor
Talk (thin white duke mix)-Coldplay
Landed-Ben Folds
Forever Blue-Little River Band
Big Love-Fleetwood Mac
Baba O'Riley-The Who
God Only Knows-The Beach Boys
Welcome to The Jungle-Guns n' Roses
Virtual Insanity-Jamiroquai
Radio Nowhere-Bruce Springsteen
Magic-Ben Folds
The Payback-James Brown
Begin-Brendan James
Life in Technicolor II-Coldplay

Jimmy Hendrix and James Brown were best for walking through the crowd/deplaning.

When you have some time to reflect, what do you think about? I mean, is it ever structured? I recently was thinking...

UNBIBLICAL

When we deem or say that something is unbiblical, what is really meant? Can something be considered unbiblical simply because we feel it's wrong?, or does the term "unbiblical" have to mean that something goes against what the bible clearly states. The fact that we can "derive" from the bible that A, B, and C are wrong can be seen as mere personal interpretation rather than universal truth. So where does one draw the line? What can be agreed on? Should there be a standard? Hopefully there isn't one apart from the word itself. This thought came to me in church on sunday.