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I’ve always liked parts of the original, unrecorded lyrics myself. I suppose it’s the depressed teenager in me.
links for 2007-12-22
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To quote Bill Shunn: ‘I can’t stop watching this YouTube video from The Beatnix, an Australian Beatles cover band. It’s from an alternate universe where the young mop-tops wrote and recorded “Stairway to Heaven” in 1964.’
VH1: Love It Or Hate It… Or Both
These days, it seems that VH1 shows two things: reality TV and retrospective shows. By retrospective, I mean stuff like I Love The 80s (or 70s, or 90s, or whatever). I’m not much on reality TV, but the retrospectives? Those are a freaking time sink. Black hole. I accidentally flip to an I Love The 80s Strikes Back marathon — and the next thing I know, it’s two hours later, and I’m wondering where my evening went.
My latest VH1 addiction is the 100 Greatest Songs of the 90s. Watching this show is like remembering all the highlights of high school and college on random. I started high school in August of 1990, and I graduated college in December of 2001, so the 90s were really where I came into my own. I know probably 95% of these songs (I’m not hip to the more hip-hop or rap tunes from the mid to late 90s), and all of those are associated with some time in my life. The Cranberries remind me of being home from college for a semester. Oasis reminds me of the early years of my relationship with Aaron (who used to say I was his Wonderwall, while he was my one Natural One).
You know what this means, right? Hell, yeah. New iPod playlist.
Luckily, they have the entire song list posted on their website. So far, I already have about 30 of the top 100 in my iTunes, anyway.
Some of the songs are kind of WTF — “Oh, God, I hated that fucking Spice Girls song!” — but I’ll probably put them on my iPod for completeness’s sake. And for the amusement factor.
OK, show’s back on. Gotta go. 🙂
Christmas in Parma, OH – December 22, 1999
I’m not going to make a habit of posting my home videos to my blog, but I did want to post this one. This is the first part of a belated Christmas present for my family, wherein I’m taking the footage we filmed during Christmas 1999 and putting it together into a properly-edited DVD. I managed to take eleven minutes of gruelingly boring footage of me and Philip decorating the Christmas tree and edit it down into three fairly inoffensive minutes with a soundtrack. Granted, my video editing skillz aren’t what they used to be, plus I have to get used to using Adobe Premiere, but I still had fun and turned out a decent home video.
Well, the first part of one, anyway.
links for 2007-12-20
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“From where we’re sitting, it looks pretty chaotic. eBay’s CEO is out playing politics; one of the highest-ranking executives is publicly trashing the business; and customers are apparently planning a revolt.”