music is my boyfriend: Lolla

This video is pretty much a commercial for the fest, but it still shows some really great reasons why i love lolla. I'm blessed to live near chicago where lolla has been for the past 5years or so. i've been to 3 of the past 5 and plan to go again this summer.

if you don't look very close, i'm the sweaty looking lady in the hat in the back dancing :)

Music is my boyfriend: MGMT

I totally got the lyrics on this song WRONG. i hope whoever made this video has the right lyrics, cuz they don't make much sense at all. but it's still a good song to listen to.

Music is my boyfriend: Best Coast

makes me wish i lived by the beach in california...not sure about the clown though...not a big fan of clowns.

Music is my Boyfriend: GIRLS

Sirius XM has been playing a lot of Girls lately...not as in females but as in the band named 'Girls'.
The first song i heard by them was called Vomit...not at all what i expected, i don't recall there being any lyrics about vomit or vomit sounds so anything was an improvement over my expectations.

Music is my boyfriend: Aquarium Drunkard

I have XM/Sirius in my car and between 11am - 1pm cst they play blog radio, which is some pretty weird stuff. But i like this guy as long as he's not talking too much. He plays some good music and i've learned about some new bands from him.

Check out his year in review post and enjoy one of my choices from his list.
http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2011/12/12/aquarium-drunkard-2011-year-in-review/

Music is My Boyfriend: zooey

who doesn't like a little Wil Ferrel & Zooey Deschanel in their holiday song?

What's Your Boyfriend Doing?

Whatever Wednesday : don't be that guy

If you've ever seen PCU, you know that Jeremy Piven's character warns Jon Favreau's character :

What's this? You're wearing the shirt of the band you're going to see? Don't be that guy.

I've been to a few concerts lately where people did NOT go by this rule and this wore their brand new HOT TOPIC purchased t-shirt and thus were beaten up by hipster alterna-nerds and banished from going outdoors for life.


no, not really but they were secretly scorned by hipster alterna-nerds who scoffed at their faux-pas.

The snopes msg boards have some interesting things to say about this and some people are trying to find the origin of this "Rule". #1 if you are going to complain about elitist hipsters coming up with arbitrary rules, don't try to figure out WHY they came up with this arbitrary rule. Just scoff and move on. Otherwise you risk turning into a hipster and then become the thing you hate most.


I liked this guy's comment that there are a few exceptions to this rule:

• Wearing to a concert said band's exceptionally well-preserved but old t-shirt
• Wearing a t-shirt of a band that one of the performing bandmembers was once in/formed as an offshoot (note: not ok in the case of Sebadoh/Dinosaur Jr. or old G'N'R/new G'N'R, e.g.)

http://msgboard.snopes.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=75;t=000043;p=0

Just don't do it ok? Wear your Jersey Shore t-shirt and be ironic instead.

For Compost Girl and The Gun Show

Summer 1984

Warrior - Scandal, 1984


Why this song? well the first time i ever went to Six Flags was with my girl scout troop and it's a long drive to Gurnee. I was so terribly excited to be going and see a real roller coaster that i sat forward in my seat the entire 90 minute drive. This song was on the radio as soon as i saw the biggest roller coaster i'd ever seen, The American Eagle. To me this song will always be summer at six flags.




Can't Stand it - Wilco, 1999


This song will always remind me of the summer of 1999-2001. We went to downtown Chicago quite a bit those summers and there were lots of fireworks shows set to this song.




Gangsta - Tune Yards 2011


this song...because it's been stuck on repeat in my brain for the last 4 months.



do you have a quintessential 'SUMMER SONG'?


what's on rotation in your brain this summer?

best wedding songs to dance to

I've been helping my sister come up with a 'must play' list for her wedding.
Her do-not-play is along the lines of no chicken dance, electric slide, macarena and a few overplayed country songs.

here's what i've come up with for her do play list.


80s stuff
thriller (cuz someone at your wedding will know how to do the thriller dance!)
You Spin Me Like a Record by Dead or Alive
1999 by Prince
lets go crazy - prince
Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles
99 Luftballons by Nena
What I Like About You by the Romantics
Hold Me Now by The Thompson Twins
rock the casbah - the clash
under the milky way - the church
anything by depeche mode (personal jesus..
girls just wanna have fun - cydi lauper
footloose - kenny loggins
pour some sugar on me - def leppard
with or without you - u2
true - spandau ballet
video killed the radio star - buggles
blue monday - new order
love shack - b52s
stand - REM

90s stuff
spider webs - no doubt
smells like teen spirit - nivana
bulls on parade - rage against the machine
alive - pearl jam
anything by smashing pumpkins
barbie girl - aqua (hah)
ice ice baby - vanilla ice
it takes two - dj rob base and dj ez rock
young mc - bust a move
ill be there for you - rembrandts
weapon of choice - fatboy slim

classic rock:
can't get no satisfaction - rolling stones
saw her standing there - beatles
twist and shout - beatles
what i like about you - romantics
born to be wild - steppenwolf
pretty woman - roy orbison
brickhouse - commodores
brown eyed girl - van morrison
cecilia - simon and garfunkel
crocodile rock - elton john
dancing queen - abba
domino - van morrison
walk this way - aerosmith
you shook me all night long - ac/dc

r&b:
Hey Ya - outkast
hot in herrre - nelly
pocketful of sunshine - natasha bedingfiled
baby got back - sir mix alot
i gotta feeling - black eyed peas
milkshake - kelis


modern stuff:
here we go again - ok go
hashpipe - weezer
photograph - weezer
why do you let me stay here - she & him
stillness is the move - dirty projectors and /or solange
electric feel - mgmt
modest mouse
death cab for cutie
uprising - muse
little secrets - passion pit
to kingdom come - passion pit
mr brightside - killers
1901 - phoenix
crown on the ground - sleigh bells
i predict a riot - kaiser chiefs
crimewave - crystal castles
heads will roll - yeah yeah yeahs
this love - maroon 5

it's been suggested that people should play more 50s/60s stuff to get the oldsters up and dancing.
anyone have any particular 50s/60s songs?

School's Out For EVER!

What's your favorite spring/summer song from your childhood? from recent memory?
I always liked School's Out by Alice Cooper.  Not because I like Alice Cooper, but because that song is about the end of school :)  And with my current job it still applies.  SCHOOL'S OUT FOR SUMMER!  SCHOOL'S OUT FOREVER!
- Steffy

This is going to sound funny, but Wham! songs that were popular in junior high or so.  My stepmom, Debra, used to play the popular radio station when we were visiting them in Houston, and I thought she was sooo cool! :)
- Cristy

I'd have to say that from my childhood, I'd have to go with Richard Marx  "Hazard" - I always listened to this cassette tape when I mowed the lawn. In recent memory? Hmmm...I love to drive with the windows down and Daughtry or Nickelback  blasting from the speakers.
- Ann

Whenever I hear "I am the warrior" by Scandal I think of going to Six Flag with my girl scout troop and six flags is all about summer. I can hear them playing Scandal really loud while i stand in line for the Eagle.
--Teresa