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Baby loves Disco, Llamas, Patrick AND Eugene So you think your baby can disco-dance like a llama...? Well, if you're in NYC next Sunday, you can find out. The popular kiddie dance party, Baby Loves Disco, is descending on (Le) Poisson Rouge...and...

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And Now For Something COMPLETELY Different...And Now For Something COMPLETELY Different... Comedy. _________________ I know the post about Morgan was much heavier than the normal fare served around here...but, it's important. I'm going to leave the badge on the sidebar, and I ask you all...

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Ode to a Candy Hangover, or The Post Made Out of Song Titles...Ode to a Candy Hangover, or The Post Made Out of Song... Halloween, 1997. It was a dark and Stormy Night. Harold decided he was going to Trick or Treat, even though he was technically two years past the age limit. (He was fairly underdeveloped, so he was...

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Did somebody say FUNK…?

Posted by Ri, the MSM | Posted in Music, Other Bloggers, Other Blogs, Shout Outs and Shout Ats, Spontaneous posts that are likely to amuse no one but me, Themed Playlists, Twitter, Uncategorized | Posted on 01-03-2010

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Yes, they did.

And yes, I do take requests. Here’s the proof.

See, just now on Twitter, HootSuite,  I saw that DiPM (that’s the rapper name I gave her) over at Chicken Nuggets of Wisdom sent me the following Tweet:

And so I give you…By Order of DiPM…the Monday Funk-Shakin’ Mix.  I’m sitting here in Panera with my headphones on, trying my best not to make a total and complete moron of myself.  I can’t stop myself from boppin’ and groovin’.  If YOU can…well, then check your blood sugar.  You may need a twinkie.

xoxo

Ri


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Dammit, the peas are thawing.

Posted by Ri, the MSM | Posted in Self Indulgent Posts, Sick, Spontaneous posts that are likely to amuse no one but me, Themed Playlists, Weekend Fun, the post with absolutely no links, vegetables, whining bitching moaning | Posted on 27-02-2010

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Holy schnikes.

I have had the migraine from hell for two days straight.

I’m not ignoring you, I swear – just whining alot, sleeping while the hubs watches Liam and shuffling around the house in in slippers, a robe and sunglasses whilst holding a bag of frozen peas on my head. (No, I am not kidding.)

While I’m marginally able, I thought I’d throw a playlist at you…representing how sorry I currently feel for myself.

The Blues.  Naturally.

(Guest posts up for grabs for tomorrow and Monday – anybody wanna grab the mike, feel free to shoot me an email!)


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Music Makes Strange Bedfellows

Posted by Ri, the MSM | Posted in Coffee, Music, Music that should have no business being played together but works, Spontaneous posts that are likely to amuse no one but me, Unfortunate Hair Choices, just for the hell of it | Posted on 20-02-2010

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Totally spontaneous post here.

It’s a lazy Saturday morning in the O’Laughlin house.  Brian was a sweetpea and let me sleep in while he got up at the crack of 6:00 with Liam, and I came strolling out at nine to get some coffee. (I know – I have it made, don’t I? ;) ) It’s 9:30 now and we’re still all in our jammies; in about a half hour we’re heading out to the country to see the new baby goats on my sister’s farm.

But, NOW we’re watching The Chris Isaak Hour on The Biography Channel.  Chris is interviewing the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, now called Yusuf.

Brian was watching it when I woke up – I heard the strains of Moonshadow drifting down the hall. We love us some old Cat Stevens music around here. A few minutes ago we were singing along with Father and Son when the guitarist playing next to Cat caught my eye.  Something about that shock of highlighted blonde hair and vaguely plasticine face seemed familiar…

ME:  “Who is that blonde dude playing with him?”

BRIAN:  “Hmm.”

ME:  “He looks like somebody from the ’80’s…”

BRIAN:  “With that hair and the sleeves rolled up on his sportcoat, he looks like he’s still IN the ’80’s.  He can play guitar, though.”

ME:  “Oh, good LORD. Could that be a Nelson twin??.”


And, of course, it was. (I am always right.)  It was Gunnar Nelson – twin brother of Matthew, son of Ricky and Grandson of Ozzie and Harriett. Now, The Nelsons are in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only famiy to have produced three generations of #1 Hitmakers  Unfortunate coiffures and style choices of the Grandsons aside, you’ve gotta admit that music MUST be in the blood.

I immediately Googled “Nelson and Yusuf” and sure enough, this press release confirmed it – Gunnar played on quite a few tracks of Yusuf’s Roadsinger CD, as did Chris Isaak himself, who in my mind cannot make ANY bad choices:

But wait – there’s MORE!  Evidently on at least one track, Yusuf and Gunnar brough Sir Paul himself into the studio – Paul freakin’ McCartney of the Beatles!

This whole dichotomy struck me as so humorous that I had to blog and tell you about it immediately.  I guess the bottom line is that style matters less than musicianship in the long run. Otherwise how could one EVER envision Cat Stevens, Chris Isaak, Gunnar Nelson and Paul McCartney playing on the same song?

I like that.

What collaborations have you seen that made you do a “WTF?” doubletake?


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Facebook Fan Mood Altering Playlist

Posted by Ri, the MSM | Posted in Moods, My wacky friends, No I'm not trying to depress you, Shout Outs and Shout Ats, Spontaneous posts that are likely to amuse no one but me, Thank Yous, Themed Playlists, just for the hell of it, playlists to clean house by | Posted on 18-02-2010

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So, today I woke up on the WRONG side of the bed.

No… seriously?  It was more like UNDER the bed, with my face shoved into the springs.  Yep, that’s how bad my mood was.  FOUL, people, totally foul.

Being the inherent whiner that I am, I asked for help on Twitter and Facebook.  Well, while I was patently IGNORED by my Tweeps, (ahem), the gang on the Music Savvy Mom Facebook Fan Page has come through for me!  Witness the awesome, snuggly feel-goodedness that is this kick ass list of songs they rattled off when asked to shoot me some “mood changing” music.

It’s like fine Belgian Chocolate with a gooey Xanax center. (I totally ripped that off from John at HellaSound.  It pays to have witty friends.  He may have a point, though.  I do have Xanax…and Lindt Truffles…)

I’d love to make this a group playlist, but it appears that playlist.com has eliminated that option.  (Or, I’m a moron.  Either way.)  But feel free to keep the good times rollin’ today -  tell us in the comments what music you’d choose to melt away stress and the grumblies.

(And if you haven’t yet joined the Music Savvy Mom Facebook Fan Page of Winclicky, clicky!  Cause, that would DEFINITELY put me in a good mood…just sayin…)


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Wordy Wednesday Lyrics Shuffle

Posted by Ri, the MSM | Posted in Ri Shuffles, Spontaneous posts that are likely to amuse no one but me, memes, the post with absolutely no links, you're gonna kick yourself | Posted on 09-12-2009

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UPDATED:  I’ve crossed out the ones that have been guessed already.  Will post the answers and playlist in a couple hours.  Y’all are gonna KICK yourselves, I swear…

Get to guessin!

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So, I’m going “Anti-Meme” today.  No Wordless Wednesday here – just the opposite.  LYRICS.

Here’s the first line (or two) from some tunes spit forth from my iTunes this morning.  I tried to avoid the obscure and lesser known ones, and of course pitched the ones with the title in the first line.  Some of these you should ABSOLUTELY know by the first line.  If not, well shame on you.

Wanna play?  Comment with your guesses.  I’ll post the playlist and answers tomorrow, so you can kick yourself for not recognizing them. ;)

1.  Lookin’ at your watch a third time, waitin’  in the station for the bus.  Goin’ to a place that’s far, so far away and if that’s not enough

2.  I can’t believe that it’s real – the way that you make me feel.  This burning deep down inside – a love that I cannot hide.

3.  Everybody knows which way you go – straight to over.  No one wants to see you inside of me – straight to over.

4.  I’ve been lovin’ you a long time.  Down all the years, down all the days. And I’ve cried for all your troubles – smiled at your funny little ways.

5.  Early one morning with time to kill, I borrowed Jeb’s rifle and sat on the hill.  I saw a lone rider crossing the plain – I drew a bead on him to practice my aim.

6.  You see it all around you – good lovin’ gone bad.  An usually it’s too late when you realize what you had.

7.  When he reached the gates of Heaven, he didn’t understand.  He knew that friends were coming over – was it all a dream?  Was it all a crazy dream?

8.  Don’t tell me you don’t know what love is, when you’re old enough to know better.  When you find strange hands in your sweater and the dreamboat turns out to be a footnote, I’m a man with a mission in two or three editions.

9.  Yeah when I was only seventeen, I could hear the angels whispering.  So I drove into the woods and wandered aimlessly about until I heard my mother shouting through the fog.

10.  It’s getting to the point where I’m no fun anymore.  I am sorry.

11.  Well I heard there was a secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord, but you don’t really care for music, do ya?

12.  See the curtains hanging in the window in the evenin’ on a Friday night?  And the light that’s shinin’ in the window lets me know everything’s allright.

13.  Take me out tonight.  Where’s there’s music and there’s people and they’re young and alive.  Driving in your car,  I never ever want to go home, because I haven’t got one.  Anymore.

14.  So the saying says “An elephant never forgets”.  Standing in a concrete cage, sway inside and sing…

15.  Well I came upon a child of God, he was walkin’ along the road, and I asked him “Tell me where are you goin’?”  Yes, he told me…

16.  Find yourself a girl, and settle down.  Live a simple life in a quiet town.

17.  Whenever I’m alone with you you, make me feel like I am home again.  Whenever I’m alone with you, you make me feel like I am whole again.

18.  People say I’m crazy, doin’ what I’m doin’.  Well they give me all kinds of warnings to save me from ruin.

19.  The screen door slams; Mary’s dress waves.  Like a vision she stands up on the porch as the radio plays.

20.  What was that scar situated from afar?  And what was that lie integrated in your mind?