Twisted Mixtape Tuesday: The COLD mix

I’m spending a Monday that was supposed to be spent going to the gym, picking up Christmas pictures, and doing some Christmas shopping sitting on my couch waiting for Roto-Rooter.  Boo!  This isn’t what anyone wants for Christmas-sewage in their basement!

So with lots of time on my hands and little ambition, I can focus my (lack of) energy on Twisted Mixtape Tuesday.  This week is Dealer’s Choice, which means I can share anything my little heart wants. In the past I’ve done such things as all acoustic songs. 

This week I’m COLD.  I don’t like being cold.  I figured it was either share songs about cold or songs about poop and sewage.  I’m thinking my choices are much more limited if I did the latter, so I’m going to stick with songs that have to do with cold.  And ice.  And December.  BECAUSE I CAN!

Sadly, it’s not even really winter yet!

So Cold-Breaking Benjamin

First up is this little ditty by Breaking Benjamin.  I’ve shared other songs by these guys.  I love love love this group.  I don’t even know why.  I just do.

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I Am A Rock-Simon and Garfunkel

A song I listened to quite frequently in my college days.  While not my favorite, when I’m in a mood this is one I like to blast.

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Hazy Shade of Winter-The Bangles

See what I did there?  This song was originally by Simon and Garfunkel, but this is my favorite version.  I know I’m breaking my own rule here of never sharing the same song twice.  Oh well, you have to agree it ROCKS, and it’s my all time favorite song by The Bangle.

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Ice Ice Baby-Jim Carrey

This version is much better than the original… I’m going for comic relief.  Vanilla Ice flips houses now. Do you suppose he sings this when turns on the icemaker?

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Silver and Cold-AFI

Another group that I’m surprised I like, but they do some really catchy stuff.  And I think they really like cold weather.

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Love Like Winter-AFI

More catchy than the last, and more cold…

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Frozen-Madonna

I had forgotten about this song.  It’s off my favorite album by Madonna, Ray of Light.

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Cold-Hearted-Paula Abdul

Remember this song?  I believe it was my anthem a few times when I was a teen and then young adult.

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November Rain-Guns N Roses

What?  A playlist of songs about cold without November Rain is like peas without carrots.  Or something like that…

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December-Collective Soul

An interesting fact about this song-it’s great to walk to.

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Cry-Faith Hill

So they talk about cold in the lyrics, k?  And this song is great to belt out when you’re having a bad day.

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Betcha can’t wait to see what people are putting together for this week’s choice.  Do you feel like putting a playlist out there?  DO IT!  Then link up at either My Skewed View or Finding Ninee! 

Twisted Mixtape Tuesday: Dude You Must Chill!

This week’s Twisted Mixtape Tuesday is slow jams.  Music to chill to.  Groovy…

As an anxiety sufferer I am the exact opposite of a calm person.  I need to relax, I need to chill!  I need to find soothing things to slow my brain down.  Am I stressed out?  Take this post for instance-I have spent hours trying to figure out where “Dude YOU MUST CHILL!”  came from.  It’s NOT the quote from Say Anything.  I haven’t seen that movie enough to have that quote permanently etched in my brain.  It’s most likely from some obscure portion of some obscure movie that I’ve seen a zillion times.  But I’m going insane trying to figure it out.  The.Brain.Will.Not.Stop

I try to relax.  Music usually helps. After the other humans that live in this house have gone to bed, I stay up pretty late, reading and writing online.  Often when I’m writing late into the night I listen to Ambient music.  No one wants to hear that stuff, right?

Other times when I have to mellow out and chill, there are a few choices on my playlist:

It just wouldn’t be a list by me without some S and G.

The Sounds of Silence Simon and Garfunkel

A lot of times when I’m feeling stressed I’ll pop in The Division Bell by Pink Floyd.  I was introduced to Pink Floyd in college, a time in my life when I seriously needed to mellow out.  This particular CD is one of two favorites, the other being Dark Side of the Moon.  Most people are familiar with the dark side, but not so much with the bell.  I couldn’t find a lot off of this CD online, this is one song I could find.  Trust me, the whole thing is good…

Take It Back-Pink Floyd

And now for something similar yet completely different.  HA HA!  I love Enigma 2: The Cross of Changes.

Return to Innocence-Enigma

Sarah McLachlan is another musician I reach for when I need to slow down. My favorite song by her has become the signature song to depress people all over the world with images of abused animals.  So instead I share a not so slow but still mellow song.

World on Fire-Sarah McLachlan

And believe it or not, there are even some Pumpkins songs that I chill out to…

In The Arms of Sleep-Smashing Pumpkins

What do you listen to when you need to chill out?  Check out the tunes that do the trick for other bloggers by clicking on the cassette tapes at the top.  That will take you to Jen Kehl and Kristi Campbell’s awesome link up!  Link up your own if you want.  The more, the merrier.

The Dude Abides…

Twisted Mixtape Tuesday Bathtub Time Machine: The 70s!

Twisted Mixtape Tuesday is the creation of the one and only Jen Kehl where each week participants choose music according to whatever theme comes out of her devious and highly creative mind and then link it up!  Currently she’s been taking us back in time to different decades.  Come along and take a ride in my time machine, which just happens to be a bathtub…

What else would a 70s bathroom have for a shower curtain???

Where does the Bathtub Time Machine stop this week? Ah, the 70s!  I think of a few things good and bad when I think about that era:  Bad fashion, the Muppet Show, John Travolta, Star Wars, and of course disco.  Of all the eras, this is probably my least favorite.  But I WAS born in the 70s so I have to give it some credit!

Sorry ladies, he’s all mine…

Speaking of bad 70s fashion, the above picture is my husband’s attempt to bring back the 70s pornstache earlier this year.  According to popular opinion it was epic.  That stache is long gone, and now he’s working on more of a Tom Selleck look…

When I wrote my guest post I Go Back, Way Back for Jen Kehl last week, I mentioned LaToya, our Toyota Tercel station wagon.  In the 70s my family had the iconic vehicles-a Volkswagon Beetle and a Volkswagon Bus!  Talk about a way cool factor that negates a lot of the uncool things about the 70s!  Unfortunately I don’t really have any pictures of these and my memory of them is too vague to find pictures that are close on the internets.  What I do have for you however are some of my very favorite songs from the era:

Imagine-John Lennon

Hotel California-The Eagles

Time in a Bottle-Jim Croce

Cool Change-Little River Band

Bridge Over Troubled Water-Simon and Garfunkel

While there isn’t a ton of music I love from this era, these are the ones that I can listen over and over to and not get tired of hearing them!  This week I picked my favorites.  Next week I’ll introduce you to what I refer to as “70s Earworms”.

I leave you with one last little ditty from the 70s, just for fun.  Come on, you knew there had to be some sort of Muppet clip in here!

Movin’ Right Along

Be sure to click on the cool cassette tape button at the top to go to Jen’s blog and see what 70s songs other people loved!

For the record, I was just a little girl in the 70s and this would have been my record player…  Get it, for the record????  HA HA!

Twisted Mixtape Tuesday Bath Tub Time Machine: Back to the 60s

DJ Jazzy Jen has commanded that we travel back to the 60s for the next couple of weeks for Twisted Mixtape Tuesday.  Is this a challenge for me to find music?  Heck no.  I have an Ipod with all of the music separated by both genre and decade.  I’ve spent an inordinate amount of time making sure everything on there is correct.  I’ve spent even more time finding pictures of the proper album covers for each song. Yes, it’s a sickness…

So come along and join me on my little voyage back to the 60s.  Let’s pretend that my bathtub is a time machine.  That’s right, a Bath Tub Time Machine!  I’m totally ripping off the movie, but I don’t own a hot tub.  I also don’t hang out with John Cusack, which is really a bummer to me.  Now I can’t actually do this the easy way:  the bathtub I’m referring to is up in the attic of our garage (yes our garage has an attic…).  We’ll have to do a bit of Mission Impossible type acrobatics to get up there.  No pain, no gain, right?

Now that we’ve made it, let’s go back the 60s…

Nooooooo! Not the Bath Tub Time Machine!

First stop?  1965…

I Got You Babe-Sonny and Cher 1965

I used to have the Sonny and Cher dolls in my Barbie house.  Cher had a key that you turned and it made her hair grow.  That has absolutely nothing to do with this song, and yet I had to tell about it anyway…

California Dreamin-The Mamas and Papas 1966

I have loved this song as long as I can remember.  I’m a sucker for anything with good harmony.  The Mamas and the Papas are a favorite of ours in this family.

For What It’s Worth-Buffalo Springfield 1967

No 60s list would be complete without a nod to this controversial song.

Break on Through-The Doors 1967

Let’s take a break from the folksy stuff for a moment and listen to some ROCK! This is my favorite Doors song.

Mrs Robinson-Simon and Garfunkel  1968

Coo coo ca choo… I can’t resist singing along with this one!  I’ve never seen The Graduate.  I would love to find it in a video store someday so I can finally see what all the movies are making fun of.

I actually could have made a whole list of nothing but Simon and Garfunkel, but for variety’s sake I restrained myself.

Now that you’ve seen my list, click on the cool looking link at the top and go to Jen Kehl’s blog and see what other people have picked from the decade of peace and love.  Coming next week on Twisted Mixtape Tuesday-it will be the 60s part II… What else will we find in the Bath Tub Time Machine????

The kitty is already waiting for the next time travel adventure…