Jukebox: Material Girl’s golden birthday edition August 16, 2008

Tomorrow Madonna turns 50. To celebrate a half century of the Material lady’s existence on the planet, I’ll be rockin’ her tunes all weekend. Probably longer. (My BF is en route to Beijing for 10 days, so I have the run of the entertainment system! And luckily, my dog loves Madonna too. His favorite track [...]

Jukebox: Going home August 7, 2008

What does one call a place that is:
-allegedly the most dangerous city in the country;
-where the mayor is currently in jail; and
-where the the city council president pro tem is allegedly about to be indicted (for being “gangsta” as my mom puts it. My mom is so cute!) (Oh, and that same city council president [...]

Jukebox: Diamond is a girl’s best friend August 2, 2008

UPDATE: As I listened to Neil’s Glory Road double CD over the weekend, I realized I made three glaring Jukebox omissions. Not that the list was meant to be exhaustive, but these three can’t not be on it. So now the list is a nice, round 20 songs.
Excited! Excited! The Neil Diamond concert is Tuesday! [...]

Jukebox: Black Kids and 80s music edition July 26, 2008

So I’ve already professed my love for the Black Kids’ album, and I realize that the reason I love the cuts so much is because they all remind me of other artists. Artists who I adore. Mostly from the 80s. So I made a playlist of all the songs that I thought of this week [...]

Jukebox: Ode to Chaka July 18, 2008

Ok, as painful as my singing experience was yesterday, it totally inspired me to rehabilitate my voice. So I’m loading up the iPod with all the songs that I love to sing, and all the vocal artists who inspire me.
Doing this made me realize I made a huge, glaring omission in the list of women [...]

Jukebox: Awesome random edition July 11, 2008

I haven’t had time to think up a post-vacay playlist, so I again set my iPod to random and had it select songs for me. And I must say, they are awesome. I totally saved them and will listen to them. Good job, my little electronic buddy!
Cum On Feel The Noize, Quiet Riot. So sad that [...]

Jukebox: Vacation edition June 27, 2008

I’m a mess.
Work has been really killing me, and some personal stuff has been difficult to deal with. So luckily starting tomorrow morning, I am on vacation for 10 days. It can’t get there fast enough. I am mentally exhausted (love my job, but it kicks my brain’s ass sometimes), emotionally exhausted (don’t ask) and [...]

Jukebox: The sad edition June 14, 2008

I was already feeling rather melancholy this week, and today’s news about Tim Russert only made it worse. I had been feeling down over a personal issue that I’m dealing with - or more accurately - not dealing with. I will not go into detail - suffice it to say I’ve been a little sad [...]

Jukebox: All hail the Prince! June 8, 2008

Today Prince turned 50. FIFTY!! Isn’t that absolutely insane? Oh, and he looks exactly the same. So in celebration of a half century of purple majesty, here’s this week’s Prince-themed Jukebox. And since picking just 10 Prince songs is like eating just one Lay’s potato chip, it’s an extended edition (there are 70 Prince tracks [...]

Pride June 7, 2008

[So, I am still a refugee. Our house has been without power since Wednesday, and the power company said not to expect it to come back on until at least tonight. So I write this from a hotel room a coupla miles away.]
I had vowed to avoid politics as a topic of convo on this [...]