The past couple weeks of my summer have been dominated by THIS guy: Crazy Frog (sample on Youtube). All the children love him, and I can tolerate him. We got the DVD from Netflix, and now the soundtrack to our lives is Axel F, Pump Up the Jam, and We Are the […]

For today’s Recommendation from Me to You, I thought I’d list out some of the music I’ve been listening to during my workouts. I know I’m always looking for the right sort of tunes for motivating me through that last 10 minutes on the elliptical or whatever, so if you want to share your own […]

I had never heard of this Brooklyn indie-rock band until a helpful blog comment alerted me to their existence (unsurprising, I am hardly on the cutting edge of what’s cool in the music world these days) but now they’re on nearly-obsessive iPod rotation whenever I’m in my car. I have their Charm School and The […]

I was surprised to find both an “explicit” and a “clean” version of this CD available, because I hadn’t noticed any Bad Words in my apparently unclean version. A brief look at the album insert reveals 1 s-word, 1 bull-augmented s-word, 1 f-word used as an exasperated adjective, several “oh god”s—and lyrics that are […]

I’m sorry. Those of you who don’t celebrate Christmas are probably like, “OH NO, NO MORE CHRISTMAS PLEEEEEASE, WHEN OH WHEN WILL IT BE OVER!!??” Just a few more days of it. Hang in there.
One Christmas long ago I mentioned I wanted Christmas CDs, and I got them from EVERYONE. The […]