Good music will play eternal in my minivan

i'm a loser baby

2010-02-04T09:03:00.001-08:00

i've totally let this blog go because i'm too busy updating THIS ONE. i hope someday to return...

new obsession

2009-10-06T06:14:00.001-07:00

i recently discovered the great lake swimmers per a children's disc i posted about a few entries down. I LOVE THEM.
you can go HERE to check out their website and hear a few songs.
i recently made a pandora.com station based on their songs and they are just perfect. i am obsessed.

no turning back

2009-10-03T11:50:00.000-07:00

LOVE LOVE LOVE THIS.
beautiful video, gorgeous vocals. makes me wanna nod my head to the beat. wait, i am doing just that!
CHECK IT OUT HERE.

i wanna hug these kids

2009-09-30T16:45:00.000-07:00

and i'm not one for hugs. this is just beautiful.
btw, this is the "circle game" by joni mitchell. tori amos covered it too. great song.

finding time

2009-09-28T09:30:00.000-07:00

so many people ask me how i find the time to blog amidst all of life's other necessities. i do it because i enjoy it. because it's important to me to keep record of my daughter's life (on my personal blog) and i do it here because "music is my motor." it's my passion. and just because i'm a mom doesn't mean i want to give that up. i think it's important to keep up with my passion, in hopes of passing it down to my daughter.
i remember the first time i heard "let it be" by the beatles, my life was never the same. i have many songs that have influenced my life in some way, but "let it be" REALLY REALLY changed it. before the beatles i had boyz II men on tape and not much else. i want luci to have songs like that too.
i blog because i want to always remember and appreciate my love for music. i hope you love the songs i write about here too.
THIS
is luci's favorite song right now. i don't think she's too young to play songs like this, in hopes that the message and song will somehow influence her life. to tell her, you can do anything girl. for now, it's cool to just dance. but later, maybe "i'll see you on the moon."
*i originally heard this song on a "for the kids" compilation. they are great! go HERE to check them out. there are three discs i believe.

cake

2009-09-25T09:58:00.000-07:00

i just feel happy when i listen to cake. "mexico" is one of my fave songs by cake. great to sing a long to. go ahead, try it!

super cute

2009-09-24T10:10:00.000-07:00

something has to be really cute for me to describe it as "super cute." sometimes that just sounds really ridiculous, but not in this instance. the below song, by the do, is simply cute. i love the simple beat and the vocals. the lead singer's voice reminds me of the lead singer of frente. remember that band? takes me back to the mid 90's cruising around in my friend casey's red grand prix before he came out. i didn't think he was gay then, but my god, what straight dude listens to frente? man, i love that dude! and i miss our daily cruises.

and for fun, bizarre love triangle by frente is below:

if I can't change your mind (then noone will)

2009-09-23T12:37:00.001-07:00

i made a cd back in 2000 with the below song on it. i haven't been able to figure out who it is until last night, when i heard it on 88.9 The Impact.
it's by sugar, "if i can't change your mind." (lead singer bob mould ended up going solo shortly after i think and i'm not sure what happened to sugar.)
great catchy tune. reminds me of jogs in chicago when i used to run with a huge portable cd headphone player. not the awesome, tiny ipod i have now. sometimes i miss the old technology. mix tapes and cds just aren't what they used to be. to others anyway. i still love getting them and making them but find my friends aren't as excited to receive them as they used to be. everyone just wants to buy online.
anyway, check out the below song.

call my name outloud

2009-09-22T10:04:00.000-07:00

i love luci's babysitter stephanie. she's a cute little hippie chick who's really smart. she's awesome with luci and she also has great taste in music.
today lu was walking around with her iphone and playing the following song. i've always liked dispatch and really like this song.

regina spektor tomorrow- YES!

2009-09-14T07:02:00.000-07:00

i love love love regina spektor. she is absolutely amazing and puts on a hell of a show. my mom and i are going to see her in AA tomorrow night and i am so pumped.
(yes i just said "pumped)
i hope she plays the below song tomorrow as well as some other faves: us, better, samson, on the radio (the LYRICS http:// depict the meaning of life i swear) and so many more. her music is just perfect to me.

"Just come and open up your folding chair next to me
My feet are buried in the sand and there's a breeze
There's a shadow
You can't see my eyes
And the waves are just a frothier version of the skies"

why can't I be this cute?

2009-09-03T17:16:00.001-07:00

and have some musical talent while we're at it? Well I'd take the talent over cuteness. I think?
Anyway, check out this fun song below by Hello Sunshine. I think Luci will like this one:

"all is love"

2009-08-27T05:56:00.000-07:00

i guess i'm really excited for the movie adaptation of the book "where the wild things are" because this is my second post about it. i think i'm more excited for the soundtrack, a definite must have and i'm not even sure everything that's on it. arctic monkeys and karen o? sold.
read about and listen to karen's awesome "all is love" HERE. a great kiddie song to rock to!

my love affair with wilco

2009-08-26T12:36:00.000-07:00

it's no secret to friends that i love wilco. love them. they aren't at the beatles level for me, but they are close. as weird as they can be, to me they can do no wrong. their new album is no exception.
i fell in love with them listening to their album SUMMEREETH on repeat when i was 21, just out of college, partying all night, smoking too much pot and just a little depressed because i couldn't find a "real" job. it's no wonder they wrote and recorded the album a little strung out and depressed themselves. that album just resonated with me and always will.
i walked down the aisle to "remember the mountain bed" an exquisite song written by woody guthrie that still gives me chills. it's a song in which you can feed off the emotion and really immerse yourself in the lyrics, just a sampling:

There in the shade and hid from the sun we freed our minds and learned
Our greatest reason for being here, our bodies moved and burned
There on our mountain bed of leaves we learned life's reason why
The people laugh and love and dream, they fight, they hate to die

The smell of your hair I know is still there, if most of our leaves are blown
Our words still ring in the brush and the trees where singing seeds are sown
Your shape and form is dim but plain, there on our mountain bed
I see my life was brightest where you laughed and laid your head...
listen below.

papa was a rodeo

2009-08-24T05:34:00.000-07:00

awesome bright eyes cover of a magnetic fields song. i love bright eyes. once i was listening to his cd and trav asked "who is this whiner?!" i can't deny his music might be a little whiny sometimes, but i still love him.

getting ready for girl's weekend

2009-08-20T18:10:00.000-07:00

thinking of college days and our "hangover days" and our "frosted glass in metallic greens."
i'm sure i'll have a hangover day this weekend!

"hangover days" by jason collet with guest feist.

did anyone see the sky tonight?

2009-08-18T18:11:00.000-07:00

it was pink and grey and beautiful. i was running and it made me go a little bit further so i could just stare at it and breathe in the summer air.
it's things like the pink sky that make me step back and really count my life's blessings.
and it of course made me think of the two exquisite songs by nick drake "pink moon" and "northern sky."
and then i thought about my real true life's blessings, luci and trav.

from "northern sky"
"I never felt magic crazy as this
I never saw moons knew the meaning of the sea
I never held emotion in the palm of my hand
Or felt sweet breezes in the top of a tree
But now you're here
Brighten my northern sky."

"And the greatest gift of life is to know love"

2009-08-18T09:52:00.000-07:00

sometimes all it takes is a song to make you feel better. calmer. good.
just heard one of my favorite, more obscure indigo girls songs "all that we let in."
great, telling LYRICS.
it's no secret i'm a huge indigo girls fan. they are just so great.

don't worry, bout a thing

2009-08-17T16:50:00.000-07:00

i love THIS cd. it's one of the best for kids i've found.
i've taken to singing two songs from it to lu when i put her down at night.
1. "three little birds"- their remake of bob marley's classic (love it)
and
2. "powder blue" - just simply beautiful.
check out this sweet little video for another song "it's a big world."
i promise if you buy this cd you will love it as much as i do.

the promise reincarnate

2009-08-12T16:39:00.000-07:00

took my mom to tracy chapman last night for her birthday. amazing show. i've seen her five times now i think and she's just great each and every time.
she's famous for "fast car" and "give me one reason", but her catalog of songs goes so much deeper than those songs alone.
my two fave cd's of hers- her debut "tracy chapman" and "new beginning" can be listened the entire way through. just perfection.
although i love her song "the promise," i'd buried it away in my memory because it was a song i shared with an old boyfriend. you know, "our song." however, i was 19 and that was a long time ago so it's about time i brought it back to the front of my mind to appreciate. it really is a beautiful love song. and that ex boyfriend was a nice guy, so no need to press stop on the song forever.
tracy plays for minivan moms and for an array of personalities in between. love her.

butterfly nets

2009-08-11T09:43:00.000-07:00

when i first heard this song a few years ago on 88.9 fm the impact, i paused. then i immediately drove home and downloaded it and put it on my annual christmas mix. that was in 2006.
"butterfly nets" was the first bishop allen song i fell in love with. it's quite different than some of their other stuff. it's all really great though.

if you like "butterfly nets" you have to check out "things are what you make of them," "rain," "like castanets" and "ghosts are good company." all AWESOME songs.

for the deady in ya

2009-08-05T13:52:00.000-07:00

i just received the most amazing gift from a new friend.
"the monkey and the engineer" is a children's book based on the classic grateful dead song of the same title.
a must have book for all you deadheads and music fans raising cool kids.
check it out HERE

here's my heart, o take and seal it

2009-08-04T18:50:00.000-07:00

if you don't follow designmom.com- you should. she's really brilliant and often makes me feel like i'm not that cool. which i'm not.
anyway, i had to repost THIS.
beautiful hymm with lovely images to go along with it.
plus it's sufjan stevens and he's just awesome.

where the wild things are

2009-08-04T06:23:00.000-07:00

i saw the below trailer for "where the wild things are" an awesome, beloved book being made into a movie. if lu was older, i would take her when it comes out in october.
what also really got me, was the meaningful arcade fire song "wake up" that the trailer is set to. BEAUTIFUL. you must watch!

a sweet love song

2009-08-03T06:44:00.000-07:00

i love this song. slightly stoopid is a great, fun band and g love always makes a song better!
great lyrics. a sweet love song for your husband.

friday jam

2009-07-31T17:30:00.001-07:00

excuse me, but i love this song and video. i'm a huge fan of kanye, kid cudi and common. combine them and it's really an awesome thing.
great video with interesting visuals. having common in the video doesn't hurt. i think that man is so sexy. i saw him perform on a hip hop honors show for tribe called quest and i about melted. mom on fire! lol
i'm not a fan of lady gaga, but somehow the sampling of her song "poker face" works in here. in actuality, the lyrics are a bit filthy, but sometimes you just have to ignore them and dance.

forever young

2009-07-30T09:48:00.000-07:00

i have always loved bob dylan. i've seen him several times live but stopped after a show in 2007 where he was almost inaudible. it was rather ridiculous. however, i will always love him and his music. he is the man.
one of my favorite songs of his is "forever young." i found THIS amazing children's book on amazon and have been giving it as a gift since.
great message and illustrations.

memories of a boy

2009-07-29T16:54:00.000-07:00

i love when i rediscover songs i had forgotten about. i was at my parents this weekend and forgot my ipod, so i borrowed my moms for a run. this song came on and i'd put it on a mix about three years ago. i'll post the mix as another post sometime.
anyway, the first time i heard this it was one of those songs that literally stopped me in my tracks. and then it was on the movie "the last kiss" and I LOVE THAT MOVIE AND SOUNDTRACK.
it really reminds me of a boy i knew in college. i think i always liked him more than he liked me.
anyway, it's called "paperweight" by joshua radin and schuyler fisk.

current obsession

2009-07-28T09:22:00.001-07:00

heart by the stars
love them!
their voices mesh so well and i'm always a sucker for soft female vocals.
i love mellower music but this one has a medium beat. good stuff.

utero mix

2009-07-27T18:05:00.000-07:00

it's only natural that my first post on my new blog is a listing of the first "mom" mix i made while pregnant with lucia. i listened to this mix almost every day and i still love it. probably because it brings back such great pregnancy memories.
i remember searching for "music for moms" and coming up with nothing much other than a few gross country songs. so i came up with my own stuff. why didn't i think of that first? i hope it serves as inspiration for you to burn some of these songs for your babies or your friends.

enjoy!

these are days... 10000 maniacs
fireflies... lori mckenna
the one who knows... dar williams
lullaby (goodnight my angel)... billy joel
ripple... grateful dead
california stars... billy bragg and wilco
closer to fine... indigo girls
sweet child o' mine... guns n roses
let my love open the door... pete townsend
you are the sunshine of my life... stevie wonder
dream a little dream of me... mamas and the papas
gold to me... ben harper
if i needed you... lyle lovett
sweet baby james... james taylor
yellow... coldplay
on the radio... regina spektor
blackbird... the beatles
you are so beautiful... joe cocker