I am making a Note To Self that if I should ever get pregnant, making a child-appropriate playlist would be a good project.
On my seventh birthday, I wanted a toy fire truck, and I didn't get it, and you were real nice about it, and then the house next door burnt down, and then real firetrucks came, and for years I thought you set the fire for me. And if you did, you can tell me!
Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - May 26, 2009 5:34:55 pm PDT #21282 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
aurelia - May 26, 2009 5:36:00 pm PDT #21283 of 30000
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
msbelle, how about They Might Be Giant's Mr. Xcitement. Not strictly hip hop and a lot of the lyrics are gibberish, but it's catchy.
I like Me Phi Me, but it might not be interesting to a kid.
I was the 4 yr old singing Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.
§ ita § - May 26, 2009 5:36:56 pm PDT #21284 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wanted in on it, because I wanted my eyes to turn blue!
I was rampantly against it for similar not-getting-it reasons. I resented the implication that eyes would turn blue, and thought they meant it was a good thing.
Signed,
Read The Bluest Eye Too Young.
sarameg - May 26, 2009 5:37:26 pm PDT #21285 of 30000
I grew up on Beatles singing about trips and Joan Baez singing about lovers and social injustice. Dad and I discovered U2 at the same time. Make of that what you will.
Allyson - May 26, 2009 5:43:10 pm PDT #21286 of 30000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
I can send Mac a mix of old school rap! A lot of old Kurtis Blow, Run DMC, and such are clean in content. And! And! Kriss Kross (will make you JUMP! JUMP!
Nucleus! WIKI WIKI WIKI SHUT UP!
And there are a couple of neat Beastie Boys songs. I think Sure Shot is clean, but I'll check (I want say somethin that's long overdue, that disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect to the end)
Sophia Brooks - May 26, 2009 5:44:53 pm PDT #21287 of 30000
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Weirdly, when I was in high school, a friend's mom pointed out to us that brown eyes were actually less common (don't know if this is true) and we used to sing "Brown Eyed girl" on the piano roll!!! for her and me, because we were the only two brown eyed girls in our group (the mom and I).
I didn't read The Bluest Eye until college, so I didn't have that association. I thought more that blue eyes were the closest to violet eyes, and we all know that violet eyes are the best!
Sue - May 26, 2009 5:45:54 pm PDT #21288 of 30000
hip deep in pie
Yay ita.
Another science podcast. How to Think about Science. It's actual a series from the radio program Ideas and has a limited run, but it's 24 55 minute episodes, so it will keep you going for a while. [link]
Kristen - May 26, 2009 5:46:31 pm PDT #21289 of 30000
I will have Allyson include:
Kool Moe Dee, "I Go to Work"
Afrika Bambaataa, "Renegades of Funk"
Kurtis Blow, "The Breaks"
tommyrot - May 26, 2009 5:46:47 pm PDT #21290 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I just told my cat she's weird. Because she is. I just spent the last few hours here, giving her lots of attention. Then I left to go to the store and was back a 6-ish minutes later. So I get home and she's all meowing all freaked out that I was gone for a bit.
Once my housing situation sorts itself out, I may get her a kitten to keep her company.
Hil R. - May 26, 2009 5:47:13 pm PDT #21291 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
When I started wearing contacts in sixth grade, I really wanted the colored kind that would make my eyes look blue or green. My mom said no. I'm grateful for that now, but thought it was So Unfair then.