Duxford Girl

In spite of my five-year-old son's assurance that "Christmas is NEVER going to get here!", the holiday season has indeed arrived. Click on the Instagram link to the right and you can see various holiday and winter themed photos posted with random song lyrics that I associate with the season (some actual holiday music, some not).

I didn't intentionally set out to make a fall mix for my (at the time) Sportage but this disk has now been my go-to fall music collection for when the leaves start to change. Partly, I suppose, because it's full of melancholy songs and partly because of the time that it was made, fall of 2008 (which was kind of a weird year, all around).

I don't listen to top 40 which has the benefit of protecting me from crap like Nicki Minaj's 'Anaconda'. Unfortunately, it also means that I miss out on awesomeness like Adele and Amy Winehouse.

Friday nights seem like good nights for Amy... and maybe a vodka martini or two.

Also, I love this video. Who wouldn't want a bunch of brass players just hanging out?!

A friend at work told me to watch the new Nicki Minaj video because it was "basically a porno". How could turn up an offer like that? It was so awful that I'm posting some Nina Simone to get the awful out of my head.

It's comforting to know, that without fail, I will eventually turn everything I touch to shit...

... usually due to my own stupidity and self-destructive ability to do the most fucked-up shit possible.

This is a great song that was recently introduced to me by a friend and then someone else I know posted the video.

I think that a lot of people find themselves in this position. It's hard to leave and a lot of people just can't. Staying somewhere you know that you shouldn't be is what makes a person painfully dead inside.

So I was watching Sea Patrol You Tube videos the other day and I found this great song used in a montage of clips featuring my two favourite characters. I never keep up with the latest music so forgive me for not knowing who this group was before I saw the video and did a little websearch on Daughtry (http://www.daughtryofficial.com/ca). Here's the fan video it was used in:

I'd forgotten how pretty the song "The Promise" by Tracy Chapman is. I don't think I've listened to it in more than 15 years.