Month: August 2012

Random 10 8-3-12

Last week went like this, with very few lyrics guessed. Will this week prove to be any different?

  1. “Games People Play” by Joe South, guessed by Occupant
    They’re gonna teach you how to meditate
  2. “I Could Never Take The Place Of Your Man” by Prince
    It was 10:35 on a lonely Friday night
  3. “Heaven Is My Home” by Sam & Ruby
    Never been handed no welcome mat
  4. “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” by Scott McKenzie, guessed by Occupant
    There’s a whole generation with a new explanation
  5. “All This Time” by Sara Watkins
    You’re still in my cupboards, get out of my cupboards
  6. “I Only Want to Be With You” by Dusty Springfield, guessed by Kim
    I don’t know what it is that makes me love you so
  7. “That’s the Way it Goes” by Joe Brown (orig. George Harrison), guessed by Kim
    He’ll acquire it with some Krugerrand
  8. “Massachusetts” by the Bee Gees, guessed by Occupant
    Something’s telling me I must go home
  9. “Daydream” by the Lovin’ Spoonful, guessed by Kim
    A pie in the face for being a sleepy bull toad
  10. “Livin’ Thing” by Electric Light Orchestra, guessed by Clayton
    What a terrible thing to lose

Good luck!

Lighten up

If there’s one thing I like about Wednesdays, it’s how much lighter my bag is at the end of the day than at the beginning. Most Tuesdays, including this past one, I work from home, which means taking my laptop home with me every Monday night and returning with it to the office the next day. It’s not ridiculously heavy, even with the battery, but my bag does feel wonderfully lighter at the end of the day.

Also lighter — check out the dismount on that segue! even the Russian judges are impressed! — is my musical mix for July. Only four songs total:

  1. “Guggenheim” by the Ting Tings
  2. “Calabria 2008” by Enur
  3. “When I Write the Book” by Nick Lowe
  4. “Abide With Me” by Emeli Sandé

I think that “Abide With Me,” from this year’s Olympics opening ceremony, is just too beautiful not to share:

NBC, of course, didn’t agree. They cut it out from their (overall pretty lousy) coverage of the opening ceremonies in favor of an interview with Michael Phelps. As I wrote on Twitter: Anyone who could listen to Emeli Sandé’s stunning “Abide With Me” and think, “let’s replace that with Ryan Seacrest” has no soul.