Well, la-dee-da

Reader-submitted complaint: I don't agree with very much on your blog. I think that's because I think about things more than you do. My opinions are rational and reasonable, while yours are knee-jerk and fall apart under the piercing light of my scrutiny. Even your jokes aren't funny. I guess they appeal to SOME people, but not to me. Also, I don't like your taste in music. My taste is much better. I would start my own blog to compete with yours, but I don't have the energy.

Uh huh.

Seriously, why even bother? And why have I spent the last year and a half diligently tending to this blog, putting myself out there day after day? If you don't like the blog, please don't come here.

I cannot stop myself

It's a sickness.

My dad called it years ago:

Mandolins are hot.

What's in my MP3 Player?

These guys get points for trying to edit their own music video. I imagine it must be very difficult to make a living as a musician without a slick marketing team.

What's In My MP3 Player?

I have a well-documented appreciation for music from the 1980s (probably more than the era deserves), but these videos are just terrible. Did we really think this was good? I didn't have a TV when I was a kid, so I'm seeing a lot of these for the first time.

Young 'uns: When I was your age, MTV actually played music videos, and Ozzy Osbourne was a washed-up has-been.

Pick your path and I'll pray

Reader-submitted question: You're so afraid?

Hmmm.

Don't think for a moment that I don't know what you're up to. I'm just considering how to respond. You know I only created that label for you fetishists, right? I'm starting to think that giving in to your not-so-subtle requests is not good for you.

It's probably more efficient for you to simply download whatever you want to listen to, or to buy a CD if you're of (ahem) the "older generation". (Hi, Dad! I hope you got to Newfoundland safely!)

On the other hand, I think I understand what's motivating this. Although some of you are bored silly by videos, I always like to see which videos other people have posted on their blogs. Not only do you have a wide variety of songs to choose from, you have to pick a very specific version to post. It's very interesting to see which versions you choose and think about why you might have selected that one out of dozens of others. I'm sure that I'm usually wrong, but it's fun to imagine anyway.

This is, again, an oldie and there are a lot of versions floating around. This one happens to be my favourite: even though my older readers may prefer the original, this one strikes me as having just the right amount of pathos. To further drive a wedge between the fetishists, I don't know WHAT Ms. Nicks is thinking here. She looks incredibly bored, and I think it distracts from the rest of the performance. What, she can't handle singing backup for once?

What's in my MP3 Player?

Naturally. Also, the views expressed here are not my own, but those of CBC/Radio-Canada. (Naturally.)

I have a question for the guitar experts out there (I know I have at least one reader who fits this description): Is Mr. Buckingham really playing two parts on one guitar? I have read that because of his "fingerpicking" style, he can play the rhythm part with his thumb and the other part with his other fingers. I find this hard to believe, but the quality of these YouTube videos isn't good enough for me to be able to tell by watching him play.

Packin' up, shackin' up's all you wanna do

A friend of mine mentioned that she has been waiting for this video to appear on the site. That is just plain weird, because I happen to adore this song and have been thinking about posting it for months.

It has been covered a number of times, so I had great fun going through different versions that were recorded over the past 30 years. I changed my mind over and over, and finally decided to go with this one.

What's in my MP3 Player?

What's in my MP3 player?

This is for the benefit of those who always think the worst of me. Excuse me: I feel like coughing.

What's in my MP3 Player?

What's in My MP3 Player?

Gordon Lightfoot has a reputation as a boring folk singer, but I think he's cool. This sucks as a video, but is all I can do considering that he is not exactly a star on MTV.

A possible JPod candidate

I am such a sucker for a memory.

What's in my MP3 Player?

What's in my CrapPod?

Sorry, I'm a bit sensitive today, I guess.

Although I have yet to confirm this with Uriel, I suspect that this might fit on a JPod. Or maybe not. Uriel's friends turned their backs on Amy Grant when she released an album in the '90s that wasn't overtly religious. They are fickle folk.

What's in my honest-to-goodness iPod?

What would be in my JPod if I had one?

What's in my MP3 Player?

This will come as no surprise, but I don't have a JPod. I was going to post a video I found on GodTube that actually IS in my iPod, but I got a little freaked out when I realized it was a Clay Aiken slideshow labelled "Ask the people who have been touched by Clay". Speaking of which, I have to ask: what is UP with the Aiken slideshows? There are just a few too many for me to write them off as the products of a single disturbed mind.

So I will have to keep looking on GodTube for something that would be appropriate for this blog. In any case, this song is also in my iPod. This is one of my favourite coming-of-age movies, although not for the reasons you might suspect: I never identified with the preacher's daughter in this movie. She is a bit too whorish for Prudie McPrudence.

What's in my MP3 Player?

What's in my MP3 Player?

Sorry that I haven't been blogging as much as usual this week. My three brothers are all in town and the wedding is on Saturday. Traffic to the blog is way down, and I assume this is also wedding-related. For those of you who are still around, please bear with me for another few days. I promise to come back.