Diario

Songs my sister and I know by heart and sing back and forth to each other via text while we're away from each other.

My Dougie
Time (Clock Of The Heart)
Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Get Low
Booty Meat

I meant to post this around Valentine's Day, but I had an onslaught of stuff to do. Bummer, eh?

Sooooooooooo, these are songs about love that I like. You know, like like. TAKE A HINT, I WANT TO GO OUT WITH YOU.

Falling in
Just Can't Get Enough-The Saturdays: More ecstatic than the Depeche Mode original. I like both, mind you. The video is just darling.

Head Over Heels-Tears for Fears: Builds up a lot of feelings and refuses to let them pass. I have moments of lucidity when I realize Tears for Fears is so much more than a passing 80s band.

Jeepster-T. Rex: Love is camp. I stand by that.

Chains of Love-Erasure: Fun, just fun.

ToLoveSomebody-Billy Corgan: This song is just exquisite. Billy reaches beyond his ego here. Then there's Robert. And I'm gone.

La Madrague-Brigitte Bardot: Ok, so it's not about love, really, but it's too pretty to pass up.

The Only One-The Cure: Ok, out of all the potential love songs from The Cure's catalogue, why this one? Because it makes me oh so giddy. Because I didn't want to list Lovesong. Come on, people. No point in being ridiculously obvious.

Jumping Out
Poison Arrow-ABC: Manages the whole broken heart thing without being whiny. Instead, it rubs it in your face with how cool it is.

What's a Girl to Do-Bat for Lashes: BADASS. It sounds awesome but the lyrics are such downers. A great combo.

You're so Vain-Carly Simon: I love those angry girls.

Love Will Tear Us Apart-Joy Division: Deceptive in sound, honest all around.

I'll Be Watching You-The Police: CREEPY. Being creepy myself, I can't help but relate.

And there are so many other weepy tracks to add. But I don't want to. Let's be happy today.

After finding two good friends, Jillian and Sarah, were into this business, I had to do it.

I like me some beepy-boopy, so I figured I could handle it.

I started out with Robotique Majestique, seeing as how I tend to test new artists based on their latest work. (Which may or may not be a bad idea.)

My horrible decisions aside, I popped on my music-testing headphones and was pleased.

Heavy Heart is digable. It sounds like these cats were having the best space adventure ever until their ship broke down.

Maybe it's the Cosmos to Earth class seeping into the rest of my life, but this is all quite planetary.

No Place for Me is like intergalactic wolves crawling on Venus.

While listening to this album, I pictured this trashy Lisa Frank lunchbox I had back in elementary school. It was black with silver glitter that looked like stars and unicorns or some other rainbowbarf creatures galloping happily across the galaxy.

I'm by no means saying that's a bad thing.

Halloween is over. The whole month of October (ok, the entire YEAR) was leading up to that day. I didn't have time to check out new music, ok?

Alright, so I'm just making excuses. You can't judge me, you do it too.

Ever since I fell for Goldfrapp, websites and people alike have been telling me to check out Hooverphonic. After avoiding it for awhile, I finally got myself A New Stereophonic Sound Spectacular and made myself listen up.

2 Wicky is an instant love. Those slow burning sexy riffs from Walk on By work so well here. The vocals and lyrics are super.

Wardrope is not a love at all. I hate how it sounds like Sandstorm. I hate Sandstorm. I could try to look past it, but it's hard to avoid.

Someone is terribly pretty and dark. I love this gal's voice.

Ok, so this album has some heavy rotation potential. Hooverphonic, get ready to creep up my charts.

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Promopromopromo!

Top 50, where I found them, first song, song that inspired love, favourite song.

So stolen, oh, so stolen.

50. Uh Huh Her
Found: Leisha Hailey crush
First song: Explode
Song that inspired love: Explode
Favourite song: Mystery Lights

49. Dinosaur Jr.
Found: Last.fm rec
First song: Budge
Song that inspired love: Freak Scene
Favourite song: Freak Scene

48. Tool (What? Why are they so low on this?)
Found: Challenges from other people
First song: Sober
Song that inspired love: Sober
Favourite song: Prison Sex or Parabol/Parabola

47. Prince
Found: Radio, and lots of it
First song: I Would Die 4 U
Song that inspired love: Let's Go Crazy
Favourite song: Purple Rain

46. Melissa Etheridge
Found: More radio.
First song: Come to My Window
Song that inspired love: Come to My Window
Favourite song: Come to My Window

45. Bruce Springsteen
Found: Stepdad likes him a lot.
First song: Born in the U.S.A.
Song that inspired love: Glory Days
Favourite song: Dancing in the Dark

44. Billy Corgan
Found: Curiosity
First song: toLOVEsomebody
Song that inspired love: toLOVEsomebody
Favourite song: toLOVEsomebody (Come on, you get it.)

43. Brian Eno
Found: Looking for new music for my radio show.
First song: Baby's on Fire
Song that inspired love: Baby's on Fire
Favourite song: Baby's on Fire

42. John Lennon
Found: Through John.
First song: Imagine
Song that inspired love: Give Peace a Chance
Favourite song: Power to the People

41. Tubeway Army
Found: Gary Numan crush.
First song: Me! I Disconnect from You
Song that inspired love: Replicas
Favourite song: We Are So Fragile

40. Lamb
Found: Darling Juju.
First song: Gorecki
Song that inspired love: Gorecki
Favourite song: I'm going for Lusty as of now.

39. Elton John
Found: Radio + The Lion King
First song: Candle in the Wind
Song that inspired love: Crocodile Rock
Favourite song: Rocket Man

38. INXS
Found: La radio
First song: Need You Tonight
Song that inspired love: Never Tear Us Apart
Favourite song: Never Tear Us Apart

37. Bob Dylan
Found: Curiosidad.
First song: Rainy Day Women Nos. 12 & 35
Song that inspired love: Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat
Favourite song: Visions of Johanna

36. New Order
Found: Radio
First song: Blue Monday
Song that inspired love: Bizarre Love Triangle
Favourite song: Crystal

35. Beck
Found: Some commercial for a CD.
First song: New Pollution
Song that inspired love: New Pollution
Favourite song: Earthquake Weather

34. Peaches
Found: Last.fm rec.
First song: Fuck the Pain Away
Song that inspired love: Fuck the Pain Away
Favourite song: Downtown

33. Spoon
Found: Some fashion show.
First song: I Turn My Camera On
Song that inspired love: I Turn My Camera On
Favourite song: Sister Jack or The Two Sides of Monsieur Valentine

32. T. Rex
Found: More music for my show.
First song: Ride a White Swan
Song that inspired love: Ride a White Swan (It was instant.)
Favourite song: Maaaaaaaaybe Mambo Sun

31. Depeche Mode
Found: Radio, picked up Violator in NYC
First song: Personal Jesus
Song that inspired love: Enjoy the Silence
Favourite song: Blue Dress

30. Public Enemy
Found: While watching "Do the Right Thing"
First song: Fight the Power
Song that inspired love: Fight the Power
Favourite song: Welcome to Terrordome

29. Duran Duran
Found: Mom
First song: The Reflex
Song that inspired love: New Moon on Monday
Favourite song: Hungry Like the Wolf

28. A Perfect Circle
Found: John
First song: The Nurse Who Loved Me
Song that inspired love: The Nurse Who Loved Me
Favourite song: Magdelena or Orestes

27. Our Lady Peace
Found: Radio
First song: Somewhere Out There
Song that inspired love: Somewhere Out There
Favourite song: One Man Army or Is Anybody Home?

26. Elka and KC
Found: Juju
First song: Pffffffffft I am not going to remember this.
Song that inspired love: Whichever one that was.
Favourite song: Can't decide.

25. M.I.A.
Found: Late night TV
First song: Bucky Done Gun
Song that inspired love: Bucky Done Gun
Favourite song: Boyz or Paper Planes

24. The Beatles
Found: No idea how.
First song: Yellow Submarine
Song that inspired love: Eleanor Rigby
Favourite song: Hey Jude

23. The Creatures
Found: Siouxsie crush
First song: Mad Eyed Screamer
Song that inspired love: Wild Thing
Favourite song: Right Now

22. De La Soul
Found: VH1 Classic
First song: Me, Myself, and I
Song that inspired love: Me, Myself, and I
Favourite song: Jenifa Taught Me (Derwin's Revenge)

21. Explosions in the Sky
Found: Sarah's influence
First song: Glittering Blackness
Song that inspired love: Glittering Blackness
Favourite song: Snow and Lights

20. Arrested Development
Found: Mom
First song: Mr. Wendal
Song that inspired love: Mr. Wendal
Favourite song: Mr. Wendal

19. Bob Crewe and Charles Fox
Found: Barbarella soundtrack
First song: Barbarella
Song that inspired love: Barbarella
Favourite song: An Angel is Love

18. David Bowie
Found: Radio/Parents
First song: Space Oddity
Song that inspired love: Space Oddity
Favourite song: Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

17. Brigitte Bardot
Found: Physical attraction
First song: Tu Veus Ou Tu Veux Pas
Song that inspired love: Tu Veus Ou Tu Veux Pas
Favourite song: La Madrague

16. Gary Numan
Found: Thara sang Cars one day in biology and I thought, "Oh yeaaah! I like that song!"
First song: Cars
Song that inspired love: Cars
Favourite song: Complex

15. George Gershwin
Found: Fantasia 2000
First song: Rhapsody in Blue
Song that inspired love: Rhapsody in Blue
Favourite song: I Got Rhythm

14. Kate Bush
Found: Lots of talk on the Goldfrapp Message Board
First song: Hounds of Love
Song that inspired love: Running Up That Hill
Favourite song: Waking the Witch

13. Bat For Lashes
Found: Don't remember...but it was magical, whatever it was.
First song: I Saw a Light
Song that inspired love: Horse and I
Favourite song: Trophy or What's a Girl to Do?

12. Ladytron
Found: GMB, again
First song: Destroy Everything You Touch
Song that inspired love: Destroy Everything You Touch
Favourite song: Ghosts

11. Pink Floyd
Found: Dad
First song: Another Brick in the Wall
Song that inspired love: Eclipse
Favourite song: Comfortably Numb or Us and Them (it hurts)

10. Joy Division
Found: Everyone was blabbing on and on about how Interpol was like them.
First song: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Song that inspired love: Love Will Tear Us Apart
Favourite song: Transmission or Dead Souls or Atmosphere

9. Radiohead
Found: Radio, probably.
First song: Creep
Song that inspired love: Creep
Favourite song: How to Disappear Completely or Planet Telex

8. Siouxsie and the Banshees (they should be much higher!)
Found: My radio show
First song: Kiss Them for Me
Song that inspired love: Kiss Them for Me
Favourite song: ARABIAN KNIGHTS!

7. 2005 Broadway Revival Cast
Found: Saw Sweeney Todd in NYC :>
First song: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd
Song that inspired love: Joanna
Favourite song: The Ballad of Sweeney Todd

6. Meat Puppets
Found: From John
First song: Split Myself in Two
Song that inspired love: Split Myself in Two (I fell hard.)
Favourite song: We're Here

5. Nine Inch Nails
Found: After years of avoiding it, John threw me in.
First song: I don't remember, I was preoccupied during that first listen.
Song that inspired love: Terrible Lie
Favourite song: 10 Miles High

4. Sonic Youth
Found: John, again.
First song: The Empty Page
Song that inspired love: Karen Revisited
Favourite song: Dirty Boots at the moment

3. Goldfrapp!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Found: A Nintendo DS ad
First song: Strict Machine
Song that inspired love: Strict Machine
Favourite song: Cologne Cerrone Houdini

2. The Smashing Pumpkins
Found: Lots of radio
First song: Bullet With Butterfly Wings
Song that inspired love: Today
Favourite song: Ugh, this is too hard right now.

1. The Cure
Found: The young closet goth I was cried out for this.
First song: Friday I’m in Love
Song that inspired love: Close to Me
Favourite song: This is hard too. Umm. Plainsong or The Funeral Party.

If my life is going to be a movie, it is going to be called "Jungle Love." ("Beverly Hills Chihuahua" was already taken.)

Opening credits: Revolution Rock-The Clash
I was always such a rebel, after all.

Waking up: A Forest-The Cure
Are my mornings that dreary? No. But for this movie, yes.

Average day: Children Play with Earth-Arrested Development
My average days are awesome and groovin'.

First date: Me! I Disconnect from You-Tubeway Army
Guess that one didn't go well. Hot jam, though.

Falling in love: Gorecki-Lamb
No way. You all cry at this part. You're not ready for that much pretty. Thank you, shuffle, for blessing me with this.

Love scene: Le Soleil-Brigitte Bardot
I can handle it.

Fight scene: I Would Die 4 U-Prince
Not a bad fight, I assume.

Breaking up: Crimson and Clover-Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
I picture myself drinking and clumsily trying to charm people.

Getting back together: The New-Interpol
Always one of my favorites. It could do.

Secret love: Accuracy-The Cure
Strangely hot. "I could kill you without trying/That's accuracy/Accuracy!"

Life's okay: Jeepster-T. Rex
You bet it is, girl, I'm just a Jeepster for your loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove!

Mental breakdown: Destroy Everything You Touch-Ladytron
Works for me.

Driving: Landslide-The Smashing Pumpkins
I assume I'm crying while driving. This song, cover or not, sucks that lump from my stomach and into my throat.

Learning a lesson: Something I Can Never Have-Nine Inch Nails
Life's hard, huh?

Deep thought: The Bat's Mouth-Bat for Lashes
I can't imagine what I'm thinking of while this is on.

Flashback: Earthquake Weather-Beck
Thinking back to those times when I danced around and it was hot outside.

Partying: Reflex-Duran Duran
My parties are so hooooooooooot.

Happy dance: Modern Love-David Bowie
Oh, can I please be dancing poorly down the street to this one?

Regretting: Panama-Van Halen
I guess I regret taking her home.

Long night alone: Complex-Gary Numan
Long night, indeed. I guess this is the part where I become a hermit.

Death scene: Annie-Dog-The Smashing Pumpkins
Sad, sad, sad. You're all going to miss me.

Closing credits: Magdalena-A Perfect Circle
Ok. Such is my life.

Not tagging these. I don't feel like it.

My great-grandmother died today.