#251: Don't Carry It All

Just groovin on this incredible album. ALL THE TIME GROOVIN.

#250: Switchin' to Glide

This ridiculous 80's one hit wonder came on Kink as I was driving home, and the horrendous deejay then said they were switchin' to glide for my drive home! Vomit. But this song is pretty hilarious. Nothing matters but the weekend from a Tuesday point of view!

#249: For Once In My Life

Basically I just realized this wasn't on my 365 and I RIGHTED THAT WRONG.

#248: Echoes

My dear MMG and I hung out and sung Dar, thinking of when we sung to Mr Housley. Which we did later!

#247: Stranger

More from Cobbay. Actually AKerr put this on while we were hanging out in the hole. It's very lively, for Lissie!

#246: You're a Cad

Spoon turned me onto this group. Intoxicating!

#245: Postcards From Hell

This song came on the radio while cavorting about the Eug with my simian. I was intrigued! Also, AKerr went to their (three hour) concert and I could have gone! But I couldn't have gone. I think I was at a Blazer game?

#244: You

While in Eugene, mah simian and his decidedly more human sister and I hiked Spencer's Butte. This song, which we listened to on our drive out, is apparently(!) from BS's workout playlist!?! This is why we get along. [BS - Too much public humiliation? Personally I think it isn't humiliating in the least.]

#243: When the Levee Breaks

My simian turned me onto this brass band cover of "When the Levee Breaks" sometime last year, but only recently did he send me an actual mp3 of it! Suffice it to say, it is inhumanly awesome. Trombones emulating Jimmy Page's sick guitar is maybe equally as awesome as Jimmy Page's sick guitar. Maybe.

#242: Finally Moving

I went to see The Imaginary Invalid at Portland Center Stage with my momma and two of her friends. It was pretty great! Although I was a bit put off by the variety of accents. The main old guy had an old world British accent, but his maid was straight up current American. The daughter was sort of mildly British. And the notary was highly exaggerated French. What? Accents notwithstanding, the actors all put up solid performances. It was an adaptation, and I'm very curious as to how much of it was original Moliere and how much was added. Wh0 knew Moliere made so many fart jokes? I am pretty convinced most of those are original, since scatological humor is as old as pooping.

ANYWAY, we went to Jinx beforehand for drinks and appetizers (cheese filled artichoke hearts? yes please) and I heard this song playing. I later went up to the bartender and asked the name of "that Etta James remix."

"This is my iPod, but there's no Etta James on this playlist."

"Huh. I'm pretty sure it was her. Maybe another female soul singer?"

"I mean, I'll check, but I don't know."

Later that night, the EXACT same song comes on again and I rushed up to her and said "THIS SONG! Who is this?" And she said "Ohhhh, this is Pretty Lights. It's not Etta James."

Um... just... yes it is. Pretty Lights is using an Etta James track. So the person singing is Etta James. I understand that she isn't the person who mixed this particular track, but you'll note I did originally ask about a REMIX. The worst part is this girl pretended to know who Etta James was, even telling me she loved her. Clearly, you do not love Etta James, woman.

Are you intrigued by this track? Want some more Etta? I know. Everyone does. It's "Something's Got a Hold On Me" and sadly, it was on my 365 in 2008(!) so I was not yet blogging about it. But you can listen to it anyway!

Fun fact: Florence (of Florence + the Machine) got her manager by following him into the bathroom of a club and serenading him with this song. Also here's Christina Aguilera doing what I do when I listen to this song home alone. With only slightly more talent. And less shimmying.

#241: Friends

Cleaning and listening to Urban Outfitter's LSTN. This one is very catchy and fun! Unlike most hipster music. Too bad this video is so creepy.

#240: Amoreena

I listen to the oldies station too much.

This week in my planner Princess Soap (I crowned her recently) wrote down all the kinds of girl scout cookies so that my roommates would know what they could order. It took the entire week.

#239: Higher Love

AKerr and I somehow started singing this song while hanging around the living room. And then he sent it to his boss?!?

This video is basically exactly how I imagine the 80s. Maybe more naked though.

#238: Intervention

Another lovely day of lounging in Eugene.

Arcade Fire - Intervention from Zach Slovin on Vimeo.

#237: Nothing's Ever Gonna Stand In My Way (Again)

Eugene! We may or may not have spent most of the day watching scathing, hilarious reviews of the Star Wars prequels, but also sometimes we listened to music and BS put this song on. Also we scarfed down fish and chips on the way to The Social Network which I thought was pretty good!

#236: What Do I Do

Football sent me a text that said "CHECK YOUR EMAIL NOW" and I found an email from him saying I would love this song. HE WAS SO RIGHT. Nothing quite like bluesy soul-inspired pop!

#235: Parachute

This was also from driving around with Football on Monday. I've decided that my biggest pet peeve is when people drive without their lights on in the fog/rain/darkness. Also people that completely disregard traffic laws. Why are there so many of these people in Portland?

Track below! Ingrid Michaelson is so awesome. I haven't heard a single thing from her that wasn't intoxicating.

#234: City With No Children

BS sent me a mix cd that miraculously arrived on the worst day ever. What a magical boyfriend I have! Track below.

#233: Houseboat Babies

AHHH THIS BAND IS CALLED REPTAR. AS IN,

#232: Around the Block

Football took me for a drive so that I could get out of the house (and leave my security blanket behind - a difficult task for me when I'm sick. My couch blanket is a wonderful fleece blanket Paige made for me and when I am even a little sick I just live inside it) and then I felt sick again and got back in bed. Wow. Was there ever a story here? Yes. We listened to this band in the car. That's all.

In case you are in Google Reader, there's a track here.... Alex.

#231: Sick of You

As previously mentioned, this is a single from Cake's new album. Another day of fever fun! This video is crazy.

#230: My Body

If the first 30 seconds of this song don't convince you to keep listening, I can't help you. Sometimes I wonder if I'm wildly unoriginal because I only find new music on the radio, and the fact that it's on the radio means plenty of people are already into it. Then I kick myself for trying to be a hipster. But ALSO, no one I know listens to the radio - so there's that. Anyway, this is a 94.7 staple right now. I heard it during the precious few hours I was out of the house before being confined to bed with a super fun fever.

Sorry, my file uploader isn't working, so you're stuck with a video for the time being.

#229: Stay Too Long

Heard this on 94.7 this morning. Also, "Sick of You," a super excellent song from Cake's new album that is suddenly available for download on iTunes?!? Anyway, you should check out both.

Every song should have a bunch of girl back up singers. Just throwing that out there. This song is a surprising mix of energetic rock (power chords!!) and - wait for it - rap? It comes out as soul-inspired hip hop, and it is crazy great.

Sorry for my seemingly random switching between media players - I really prefer the other one but it won't play anything but mp3s and I have quite a few m4as and AACs and whatever else.

#228: $12 Specs

I'm just really pumped about Oceanics and I wish I had more of their music. Also I became king of hipster music for about 12 seconds when I had to email a band asking for their music because you can't even download it in the US... I mean, it's no big deal. You probably haven't heard of them because their first US airplay was in December, but it's not like that makes me better than you. Except that it does.

In other news, I got to hang with my favorite Rwandan clinical assistant and it was really super great.

#227: You Will Leave a Mark

AH. Have you heard any of the new Decemberists album? 94.7 is playing "This is Why We Fight" all the time and I am WAY into it. Unfortunately the album won't be out until the 18th. But according to their facebook, you can (I haven't yet done so) listen to the entire thing on NPR's First Listen. I just would like to say for the record that I am not usually much of a Decemberists fan. I mean, I like them, but I don't throw my panties on stage like a lot of Portland.

Anyway, today's song is not the Decemberists for two reasons: 1. this song is better and 2. I can't buy The King Is Dead yet.

Also I had a great day! I went to the Daily Cafe for only the second time ever (what? I am not a Portlander) and had cupcakes for the kiddos' neighbors' dad's birthday. Many apostrophes. AND WENT TO THE GYM? Can you believe such a day?

UPDATE: Oh holy god, I'm listening to it right now on NPR and have loved every single track.

And now, since I spent this entire post talking about the Decemberists instead of A Silent Film, here's the track:

This player is weird for me in Chrome, so if you're just getting a Q, give it time! It may show up?

#226: I Need a Lover

I was listening to KGON and realized - this song is hilarious. I like to imagine the past girlfriends of the writer hearing this and hanging their heads in disgrace for ever dating such an ass who would write that they need a lover who will "thrill me and then go away." Or just a song that so ridiculously reinforces the commitment-phobic male stereotype. AKerr is trying to make "that's what he said" a thing - but not in the way that "that's what she said" is a thing. It goes a little more like this: "I'm not sure if I can commit to that yet" "That's what he said!" Unfortunately, there aren't as many phrases in the world that have a double meaning involving something a dude stereotype might say in a relationship as there are sexual innuendos.

#225: Ready

I admit, a six year old told me to listen to this song. But in my defense, I already had it and knew it and did not need the reminder of a six year old. Still, I hadn't listened to it in quite some time, and was glad to have the reminder! Cat Stevens is pretty excellent. Another one of my great accomplishments is making Soap a full-on Cat Stevens fan. She even sings it to her friends, thinking they'll think she's really super awesome for knowing all of the words to "Can't Keep It In." Unfortunately for her, they prefer to sing "dj turn it up up up up up up up" in Ke$ha's autotuned stylings. But I think she's really super awesome. In fact, I would go so far as to say she is my favorite six year old in the whole wide world ever of all time. Which is how Bean described her tonight.

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So you may have noticed that I just added five months of songs in a day. This was part of a quest to be caught up with my 365 before the new year began, which failed. But I did it before the first work week of the new year began! So that's good too.

I'm planning to start some different blogging. I want to chronicle 30 Rock - with reviews of each episode, and tracking inside jokes and references, and of course ridiculous fan art and such. It would take a while to get all of them in, but maybe I'll start doing an episode per weekend or something.

Anyway, it's cool that you still look at this blog after months of inactivity, friends!

#224: Love Gun

E-Merks asked if the rest of Cee-lo Green's album was good and I realized I had no idea. Well, turns out it is! It's sort of James Bond themed - the whole thing sounds like the soundtrack to a 70s spy movie. This one could be performed by Pussy Galore herself.

#223: A Better Son/Daughter

First day of 2011 was spent almost exclusively with BS. As it should be.