Category Archives: Music

TRUE!

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Kate

So, xkcd recently had a comic about how Christmas tradition, in particular the music you hear on the radio, is just recreating the childhood of baby boomers. And whether that’s true or not is irrelevant for me. What I found … Continue reading →

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A song for the cynical

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Kate

I thought there was an official video for this and if there is, I couldn’t find it on youtube. Stephen Colbert is a riot. What is great about this song is all of the traditional aspects of Christmas that get … Continue reading →

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Another Jingle Spells Find

Posted on December 9, 2011 by Kate

This song gets stuck in my head all the time. I’ve not figured out why. Perhaps because it is catchy. Or, perhaps because crazy blonde girls tell me things that must be true all the time. * This is a … Continue reading →

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This song sums up the run-up to the Holidays for me.

Posted on December 6, 2011 by Kate

This is one of my favorite songs from the Jingle Spells collection. While I can’t really empathize with Harry entirely (I’m not spending Christmas in the woods whilst hunting down pieces of a sadistic man’s soul), I do know what … Continue reading →

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This song always makes me smile

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Kate

Many people aren’t huge fans of holiday tunes and I can understand that. If you work in retail or at a radio station you might get a little tired of the constant pumping of holiday cheer over the airwaves. And, … Continue reading →

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Notorious!

Posted on October 6, 2010 by Kate

So, In the class that I teach last week, we were learning about semantics and how senses of a word can change. We had the word, ‘notorious’ as an example. Now, the OED tells us that ‘notorious’ means, “a. Of … Continue reading →

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Amanda Fucking Palmer

Posted on April 13, 2010 by Kate

So, for a good long while I was following Neil Gaiman on Twitter and so I was aware of this “Amanda Palmer” person to which he is apparently engaged. But aside for this fact, that she is engaged to Neil … Continue reading →

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I am a hunter; I’m not a farmer

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Kate

My iPod and my new laptop don’t seem to want to play nice with each other. You really have to work to make them work together. I’ve needed, for a long time, to remove some digital junk from my life … Continue reading →

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March’s Theme?

Posted on March 5, 2010 by Kate

So, I enjoyed putting together the mix tape last month and I was thinking that it might be fun to do that again in March. It wasn’t the best mix tape I’ve ever made, but sometimes you just have to … Continue reading →

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Putting it all together

Posted on February 28, 2010 by Kate

I have put together the weirdest mix CD ever. Tell it to the Volcano Everybody Hurts Both Sides Now Songbird God Only Knows This Tornado Loves you Divorce Song Take it Back Eleanor Holy Now So, usually when you put … Continue reading →

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