Re-Gifting
Jamie Kohns on February 2nd, 2006
First off, Happy Birthday to Megan, who turned 25 last night. Hope you feel better this morning.
Re-Gift #1 - From New Leave In March:
My freind Melissa sent me this in an IM well over a week ago, and I put it on my last car-mix CD, where it’s not only made me spontaniously laugh out loud occasionally while driving- but also really grown on me. It’s so bad, it’s great. (Megan, this one’s for you!)
Jonathan Coulton - Baby Got Back
The guy’s site is pretty cool - his ‘Thing A Week’ is hit-or miss, but always makes for interesting reading. He’s on myspace as well, for those of you who want to be his friend.
Re-Gift #2 - From Jonathan Coulton:
Jonathan was gift from mel, and he posted this gift from waxy.org, which I now re-gift to you: FASTR the Flickr tag guessing game. It’s simple, join a round, and as the pictures appear, try to guess what the common tag (theme) is. It’s so addictive- a true time waster, if you had any to waste. Yes, I know it’s not music, but one shouldn’t look a re-gifted horse in the mouth.
Re-Gift #3 - From i Guess I’m Floating (iGIF):
Another of my regular reads, iGIF has tracks from the new Jack Johnson Curious George sountrack up. I love Jack, even if he’s way overplayed, and does things like soundtracks for bad movie versions of favorite childhood books. I’m not gonna steal his links to post here, so you’re gonna have to go over there to actually pick up the songs.
on his blog; Upside Down, We’re Going To Be Friends (White Stripes cover), and Broken
Re-Gift #4 - From I Am Fuel, You Are Friends:
This one popped up on Hype Machine today, and it had two things I really liked in one post: Better Than Ezra and the sappy sentimentality of childhood memories. Schoolhouse Rock! Rocks has been around forever, but I’ve not actually listened to it in, well, forever. Good memories. Released in 1996, it was a collection of the original Schoolhouse Rock! songs performed by bands of the time. BTE, Blind Melon, Pavement, Ween, Moby and Skee-Lo all take shots at the original Saturday morning edu-toon songs. Again, you’ll have to go there to get the songs, but it’s worth your time.
Re-Gift #5 - From BBC Radio 1 via Me
I was clearing out space on the computer, and came across these stream captures from winter 2004. Stuff from Jo Whiley’s Live Lounge segments that I had fogotten about. Teen ’star’ JoJo turns in a surprising acoustic rendition of the Foo Fighters‘ Times Like These. Keane did an unreleased track at the time (I think it eventually made it to disc) called A Heart To Hold You and a cover of U2’s classic With Or Without You. Snow Patrol did a live version of their song Run, and the Zutons covered Scissor Sisters‘ Take Your Mamma Out quite brilliantly.
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