30 Day Song Challenge Day 10 – A song that makes you fall asleep

To be honest, there aren't any. Music does not help me fall asleep. So this is kind of cheating.

There are, however, two movies that make me fall asleep and those are the Shining and Tiny Toons How I Spent My Summer Vacation. I am not kidding. I dated a guy and we would try to sit down and watch the Shining and no matter what time of day, ten minutes in, I would fall over asleep. I think it's the snow.

Blood Bones and Butter.

Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


Gabrielle Hamilton must be one of the world's first hipsters, because she doesn't like anything; her husband, her mother or her forced trips to Italy every year.



The first part of the book is engaging and funny. It tells about her growing up with her French mother and then being abandoned by her and her subsequently tough teenage years. The best parts of the book happen when she discusses the differences between her life in the kitchen and in the academic world.



This book goes downhill once the author meets her husband. She tells a *charming* story about going into labor for the first time and going by her husband's apartment to pick him up. He proceeds to take an hour meticulously shaving and getting dressed. As a writer, I think she needs to work harder in explaining exactly why she chose to be with him in the first place. She doesn't talk to her mom for twenty years, she says, because she was happier without her.



The end of the book becomes very whiny. She complains that the husband she married out of his need for a green card doesn't hand make pasta or take her on long motorcycle rides through Italy now that they have kids. Boo hoo.



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30 Day Song Challenge Day 09 – A song that you can dance to

No comment needed.

30 day song Challenge Day 08 – A song that you know all the words to

Well, this is a weird one. I know the lyrics to lots of songs. Who only knows one song? Probably not anyone taking this challenge, I would bet.

So I thought about all the songs that I may not have WANTED to know the words to, but do. This was the first musical I did when I was in high school and try as I might, I cannot replace the knowledge of these lyrics with something useful.

The show is ridiculous, but this particular staging of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat looks particularly atrocious.

30 Day song challenge Day 07 – A song that reminds you of a certain event

The Fray's Look After You will forever remind me of the only Ben Folds concert I have gone to so far.

My friends Chris, Jen, Chase John and I drove out to Nokia for an evening of pianoriffic crooning. Our first surprise was that our seats were the worst ever, not because they had the distinction of being in the LAST row of the massive complex, but the SECOND to last...behind a pole, I believe.

The Fray opened up for Folds before many people really knew who they were. They were just bombing with the crowd. Most were polite, but it didn't seem like anyone was into it. Then they play this number, but beforehand, they try to get us involved in a little Folds-style audience participation. They tried to get the audience to sing along to the WHOA portion of this song. And it really fell flat. It is a pretty tough move as an opening act to try to get a sing along going even if it is only one word.

Maybe it was the $20 parking and the $12 Smirnoff Ices talking, but this seemed to be an extended version of the song that lasted twenty minutes...totally falling on an audience that did not give a shit. They kept trying though. God bless 'em, but every few minutes, my friends and I kept looking at eachother like we could NOT believe this crap was still going on.

Anyway, I heard that shit at Krogers the other day and could not stop laughing.

30 Day Song Challenge Day 06 – A song that reminds of you of somewhere

I took this one very literally. But any time anyone mentions Houston I think about the time I was there for a few days and had this song stuck in my head the entire time. God, I miss Soul Coughing.

30 Day Song Challenge Day 05 – A song that reminds you of someone

My life and my friends' lives turned into a musical for a few minutes because of this song. We were having a birthday party for my friend Chase. This song came on the ipod and we automatically danced around him yelling his name. So this song always reminds me of Chase and I can't hear it any other way in my head.

30 Day Song Challenge Day 04 – A song that makes you sad

Carole King So Far Away. It reminds me of my friends who have moved on from Denton.

30 Day Song Challenge Day 03 – A song that makes you happy

This one is easy Dogs Die in Hot Cars "Lounger." Empowering. Danceable. Jumpable. Singable. Look at how much these gentlemen are enjoying themselves.

It also uses the word "gobblesegeek" or is it gobbletygeek? And there is some talk of Nero and Charles De Gaulle.

30 Day Song Challenge Day 2: You least favorite song

I really had to dig deep with this one. Even songs that I really hate, I can find value in.

The other day, I was in a restaurant with a friend and a song that was just a minute of air raid sirens came over the P.A. system. I almost named that one, but I know it was supposed to be a concept album, but seriously WTF? Who wants to hear that while they are eating a burger at Five Guys?

I think it must mean I am a little high strung because I was the only one looking around worried. Either that or I was the only one unfamiliar with the entire Pink Floyd catalog.


I needed to come up with a song that was so bad that I would have a physical reaction to it. I actually had to listen to this song to make sure. And yes, it fits the bill.



Let's never speak of this again.

30 Day Song Challenge Day 1: Your favorite song

They'll Need A Crane by They Might Be Giants.
A Sunny favorite; happy sounding sound + incredibly depressing lyrics.

(On a side note, I went back to NYC last year and was excited to go to Central Park because this was filmed there and not because it's, you know Central Fucking Park.)

30 Day Song Challenge

Taking a page from the neener. Today I am starting the 30 day song challenge.

Day 01 – Your favorite song
Day 02 – Your least favorite song
Day 03 – A song that makes you happy
Day 04 – A song that makes you sad
Day 05 – A song that reminds you of someone
Day 06 – A song that reminds of you of somewhere
Day 07 – A song that reminds you of a certain event
Day 08 – A song that you know all the words to
Day 09 – A song that you can dance to
Day 10 – A song that makes you fall asleep
Day 11 – A song from your favorite band
Day 12 – A song from a band you hate
Day 13 – A song that is a guilty pleasure
Day 14 – A song that no one would expect you to love
Day 15 – A song that describes you
Day 16 – A song that you used to love but now hate
Day 17 – A song that you hear often on the radio
Day 18 – A song that you wish you heard on the radio
Day 19 – A song from your favorite album
Day 20 – A song that you listen to when you’re angry
Day 21 – A song that you listen to when you’re happy
Day 22 – A song that you listen to when you’re sad
Day 23 – A song that you want to play at your wedding
Day 24 – A song that you want to play at your funeral
Day 25 – A song that makes you laugh
Day 26 – A song that you can play on an instrument
Day 27 – A song that you wish you could play
Day 28 – A song that makes you feel guilty
Day 29 – A song from your childhood
Day 30 – Your favorite song at this time last year

St. Patty's Day outfit

St. Patty's Day outfit by whereismyrobot featuring a cotton cardigan

Other Adams? WTF?

Lest I ever get too high falutin' with that fancy Master's degree I'm about to have (what the hell kind of sentence is this?), you can point to this blog post. I tried to name all the presidents I could in a minute. Note the "other Adams."

I'm an idiot.