I wasn’t tagged directly… but I felt tagged in spirit by Marko’s music meme. So here goes:
The 411:
1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For every question, type the song that’s playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button
6. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool!
Opening Credits: Over My Head — The Fray
Waking Up: When I Said I Would — Whitney Duncan
First Day At School: Make Someone Happy — Jimmy Durante
Falling In Love: Homeless –Paul Simon
Fight Song: No More — Boaz
Breaking Up: Listen to the Music — The Doobie Brothers
Prom: Angel — Sarah McLachlan
Life: Faithful — Steve Fee
Mental Breakdown: Every Little Things She Does is Magic — The Police
Driving: Pick up the Pieces — Brae
Flashback:
Hometown Glory — Adele
Getting Back Together: Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd
Wedding: 42 — Coldplay
Birth of Child: Who Says You Can’t Go Home — Bon Jovi
Final Battle: Bye, Bye Love — Ray Charles
Death Scene: I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For — U2
Funeral Song: Mona Lisa — Nat King Cole
Remembrance Song: You Alone by David Crowder Band
End Credits: Open Skies by David Crowder Band
I’m tagging Billy, Todd, Tim, Jeremy, Sara, and Kim.
Ah, Memorial Day. It’s hard to have an “unofficial start to summer” when your kids have 6 weeks left in school and the temperature pretty much hovers around the same 20 degree variable 10 months a year. Alas, it’s summer and I’m excited about that.
We’ve had a hectic for a kick-off to a 3 day weekend. Last night we decided to take the trolley down to the Gasplamp district of San Diego to enjoy our family date night. While we got settled onto the trolley I got a text that my long-awaited iPhone app had finally released. (You get to submit and wait for Apple, no choice on a release date.) Tucking that distraction into the back of my mind we had a good evening of walking around downtown and eating at the Old Spaghetti Factory. [Just OK food, but the kids liked it.]
This morning I woke up and did a bit of PR to get things moving with the app. Then I dashed of to Del Mar to film a podcast segment with a comedian… who was funny despite it being 10 in the morning. From here we actually don’t know what we’re doing until Tuesday morning. I’m sure we’ll figure it out.
For now, I’m just chilling and listening to some music.
Here are the next 10 tunes flowing to my cranium. As always… completely random with my ratings included:
1. Fix You by Coldplay ***** (Love this free album!)
2. The Swing by Kimya Dawson ****
3. Make Someone Happy by Jimmy Durante ****
4. The Glory of It All by David Crowder Band ****
5. Stuck to You by Nikka Costa ****
6. I’m Sticking With You by The Velvet Underground ****
7. One by U2 *****
8. Can You Feel It? by David Crowder Band ***
9. Joyful, Joyful, We Adore You by Charlie Hall ****
10. Hard Times by Ray Charles
Easter weekend 2009. As Kristen said on her blog, Easter is a completely different experience for us. For the first time in our kids lives we aren’t attached running around the church. The highlight of our Easter celebration, so far, was Thursday night’s Messianic Seder. If ever there was a kinesthetic learning time for a community group, this was it.
Yesterday I had the day off. Another first in my adult life! Kristen went to work in the morning and in the afternoon I drove up to LA to pick up Cathie, Patti’s daughter. She is here this week thawing out from a long winter and helping us watch the kids on their Spring Break. A win-win! We got back about 8:30 and I think everyone had crashed out by 10:00. This morning, everyone… less Cathie… has crawled out of bed and is quietly going about their business. When Kristen gets back from her hike up Cowles Mountain I’ll be taking Stoney to dog beach for his weekly therepy of ocean and butt sniffing. I’m already looking forward to a great Easter service, a picnic with our refugee friends, and a great week next week.
So that’s my corner of the world this Saturday morning. Here are my next 10 tunes. As always, completely random… ratings included.
#1 Rain Down by David Crowder Band ****
#2 I Can’t Stop Loving You by Ray Charles *****
#3 Everything Glorious by David Crowder Band *****
#4 My Funny Valentine by Miles Davis *****
#5 Everything is Beautiful by Starfield ****
#6 This is Certain by Jake Smith ****
#7 Hollywood by Collective Soul *****
#8 All the Earth by Charlie Hall ***
#9 Elevation by U2 *****
#10 Slide by The Goo Goo Dolls *****
This was an incredibly fast week. A week of big ups and downs. I’m actually thrilled to get to the weekend and start relaxing. Today we have some fun planned. The kids have been begging us to take them bowling… and since I’m not a fan of the game I’ve put it off for a long, long time. From there we plan on doing some furniture shopping. When we left Romeo we were going from 2000 square feet to about 1000. The new place is more like 1500… which means the kids rooms are virtually empty. So we’re off to find them desks and bookshelves and things like that. Then mom and dad get to have some fun. The contracts on our phones are finally open, so we’re going to head to the Apple store and finally jump on the iPhone 3G bandwagon. I had gone back and forth with the Blackberry vs. iPhone… in the end, the App store takes it over the edge.
This morning is quiet. Coffee brewing, birds chirping, music playing. Here are the next 10 songs playing on my (for sale) iPod. As always, completely random and my ratings are included.
#1 My Hope by David Crowder Band ****
#2 Sitting, Waiting, Wishing by Jack Johnson ****
#3 Everytime You Go Away by Paul Young ****
#4 A Woman’s Worth by Alicia Keys ****
#5 Walkin’ Blues by Eric Clapton ****
#6 Hallelujah, I Love Her So by Ray Charles ****
#7 Becoming by Three63 ****
#8 World by Five for Fighting ****
#9 Green Eyes by Coldplay ****
#10 So What by P!nk *****
Here we are. Another Saturday. We’ve all awoken in a new place this week and it’s been fun. One thing we can’t get over about the new house is how quiet it is. No more noisy cars zooming by, no loud noise when the furnace kicks on, and we’re not so close to our neighbors that we can hear them sneeze.
This morning we are off to Anza-Borrego State Park to see the desert flowers. Yesterday, Tic told us we had to go this weekend or we’d be sorry. With advice like that we can’t go wrong. I’m sure we’ll have a ton of pictures to share of our adventure later.
In the meantime, I’m chilling in my super quiet house listening to music. Here are the next 10 tunes flowing this morning. Completely random, ratings included.
#1- Don’t Give Up by Sanctus Real ***
#2 Deliver Me by David Crowder Band ****
#3 Leader of the Band by Dan Fogelberg ***
#4 It Just Takes One by Addison Road ***
#5 The Wrestler by Bruce Springsteen ****
#6 Gotta Have You by The Weepies
#7 Shine for You by Hillsong United ***
#8 Free Fallin’ by John Mayer *****
#9 What’d I Say by Ray Charles ***
#10 Burn for You by Steve Fee ***
Eh, hopefully today will be better than these 10 songs. My ipod hates me.
