Thursday, September 02, 2010

Rest Your Head, You Worry Too Much: How to Love Your Husband, A Playlist

What's with all the playlists this week? I like making playlists. It is my favorite thing to do. There are only a few things I like as much: wrapping Christmas presents, talking to Christian without being interrupted (by the kids OR his cell phone), and watching my kids ride their bikes. This week's topic is timely. Consider this: I've been married for 17 years today. Love you long time.  I always feel very weird after I post these playlists. They are probably more personal and revealing than anything I've ever written on this blog. Take, for example, my fetish for singers who fantasize about knowing their wives when they were babies. Yes. It's weird. I'm not sure what that's about.

Anyway, this here is songs to sing to your husband. He'd prefer to have Susanna Hoffs sing them to him, but you'll do. And that's not nothing. 



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11 comments:

  1. Great playlist (as usual). And...Happy Anniversary

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  2. Congrats on 17 years!

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  3. happy, happy aniversary! coincidentally, i got emails from 2separate pto moms telling me they are missing tonight's meeting because it's their anniversary. thaz cool, i guess, if u don't want 2 spend your special night at the school with us planning fundraisers, whatevs. i was right in the middle of my deiverance mish when you got married, serving with sister black in rockingham nc.

    also, another all-time fave song on this list, simpatica..."outside there's a boxcar waitin' outside the families stro-ho-oll..."

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  4. I'm sort of creeped out. This is really too personal for me. I mean, Happy Anniversary and all that, but sheesh.

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  5. I love when you use the phrase, "that's not nothing."

    Happy anniversary.

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  6. Happy Anniversary! So did school start later then?

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  7. No. We got married a week after school started. Over Labor Day weekend.

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  8. Billy Squire = awesome for an anniversary. I can just imagine what happens when all your kids are not at home and the phones are turned off. I have to close my eyes when I imagine it, but there you go.

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  9. "I'm Sticking With You" was rather quaint, wouldn't you say? "...'cause I'm made out of glue..." How can anyone top that? I think Velvet Underground tends to bogart the mood of whatever playlist it's on by setting the tone, which may take 20 or 30 songs to recover from, so it outlasts most playlists. As a consequence, the other songs start sounding more like Velvet Underground songs. It's a peculiar phenomenon. In fact, that Pixies song may have organically germinated from them without any conscious effort on your part.

    Nice little ethereal R.E.M. tune there also. It's like it's trying to escape the clutches of velvethood and bring the list back toward sublimity. All in all, a curious blend of sounds.

    You should play a game with future playlists and see if people can guess which track is intended to be the most unlike the others, without saying what the criteria is. It wouldn't necessarily have to be the sound.

    The Beachwood Sparks covering Sade sounds like what would happen if she went to a monotone contest in Nashville for people on medication. It's as if they stripped it of all its emotion and inflection and replaced it with emptiness.

    Also interesting that these sixteen would've fit snugly on a 60-min. cassette — the original playlist.

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  10. I'm Sticking With You by VU was iconoclastic in my youth. I both love and feel a little violated that it is here on your playlist for all the world. Mostly love.

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  11. Okay, I just discovered your site through Gabby and have spent the last 2 hours having your playlists blasting through my craft room! They are SO GOOD!

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