music – Everyday Adventures

Mercy

“Yeah, yeah, yeah!” Aside from being an excellent chacha that I’m pretty sure was on the list for so many medal tests I scribed for, danced, ran the music for… and so on, this song is really excellent for its fabulous seventies styling in the music video. It also contains one of my favourite everContinue reading “Mercy”

It must be love

When this song came on, I had an immediate flashback to being about fourteen, and being so very cool. And by cool, I mean, not at all cool, not even connected to the right century of music for my classmates. Dad introduced me to the music of his youth, including Madness (Our house… in theContinue reading “It must be love”

Creep: Bardcore edition

So, my excellent sister-in-law sent me a very excellent bardcore song a while ago. What a wonderful genre of internet weirdness that you kind of have to just let wash over yourself, absorb, go ‘that was weird, let’s listen to more!’. I mean, I was a good target for this, considering I spent two yearsContinue reading “Creep: Bardcore edition”

A good hearted woman

This song is delightful, and a good picture of the versatility of LeAnn Rimes as a singer – I also love her take on Sixteen Tonnes, which we have danced a foxtrot to many times around the Enerchi dance studio in Claremont. Much love for that situation and all it has meant to me overContinue reading “A good hearted woman”

Mrs Robinson

Simon and Garfunkel reminds me a lot of when I was about sixteen, and basking in music that my parents loved when they were teens and students, but that my friends and I really thought we had discovered entirely on our own. It’s odd how teenagers really think that they are the first to discoverContinue reading “Mrs Robinson”

PoP! goes my heart!

Ah,another cheesy soundtrack from another Hugh Grant rom-com; and by no means, his best one. It does however, contain the epic line: “I googled you, and you are good!” in his most peculiarly English upper-class inflection. This has become a standard pronunciation of the verb “to google” in my family – to the extent thatContinue reading “PoP! goes my heart!”

Holding out for a Hero

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where’s the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds? … I need a Hero! So I’ve been thinking a lot about how to get started with writing my book that I have the cool idea for. It’s kind of a bit intimidating,Continue reading “Holding out for a Hero”

My Beloved Monster

This song was used in Shrek, and I LOVE that. I know the internet has taken to ironic Shrek love as a way of bashing this early-millennium gem, but it is so full of humour and wisdom, and really survives the rewatch (and the rerewatch and the rererewatch – you get my drift). Same goesContinue reading “My Beloved Monster”

I knew I loved you

While this is a fabulous cheesy love song (and a fabulously cheesy rumba), I don’t want to write about love this evening. Instead, I want to reminisce about the time when Savage Garden was cool. And not ironically. When I was younger, we went around to my aunt and uncle’s house often; they lived nearby,Continue reading “I knew I loved you”

Let’s hear it for the boy

My human is the best human. I mean, I suppose all wives must be biased in favour of their husbands, but I look at my human every day and go “wow… how did I get this lucky?” The man has great hair, a great butt, a charming smile, a naughty sense of humour, and theContinue reading “Let’s hear it for the boy”