cnn.com SOTU FAIL
Because what’s equally as important as President Obama’s State of the Union address? Clearly, Herman Cain’s response.
Top 379: Week 3: #365 – #359
I spend at least an hour a day on this. It’s a labor of love. Granted it’s a labor of love that keeps me sedentary and more prone to heart disease and diabetes…
365
Michael Bolton
How Can We Be Lovers
364
Tony Bennett
It Had To Be You
363
Bette Midler
In This Life
362
Jewel
Intuition
361
Billy Joel
Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel)
360
Celine Dion
Live For The One You Love
359
Tony Bennett
Rags To Riches
I wish I could tune out politics
I haven’t watched any of the 17 or 18 GOP debates. I certainly follow what’s going on. I read news stories and commentaries and hear way too much on NPR, who, to my annoyance, give these guys a fair shake. Most of what they say is repulsive to me.
I turned on the CNN debate earlier (via the web).
Romney, defending his Bain record of creating jobs to wild applause, got even bigger applause when he spoke of shoving capitalism down Obama’s throat in the general election campaign.
Santorum then chimed in that Obama was responsible for the squalor that too many Americans were living in.
I turned it off. I didn’t even wait for Newt to make his pandering over-the-top racist comment-of-the-hour.
McCain was the Dalai Lama compared to these guys. At least he’d tell supporters to calm down and that they were wrong when they’d say Obama was a Muslim or a terrorist who’d destroy America.
I don’t even like Obama all that much, but the tone of the GOP is so nasty.
UPDATE I recommend Andrew Sullivan’s commentary. It informs me and validates my disgust at the same time.
Top 379: Week 2: #372 – #366
I will beg this time. Rate some songs for me, please!
You don’t have to like them. My friends generally don’t, though these last seven have been received better than the first seven.
372.
Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle
A Whole New World
371.
Elton John
I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues
370.
Air Supply
Now and Forever
369.
Sheriff
When I’m With You
368.
Chicago
Baby What A Big Surprise
367.
Queen
Love Of My Life
366.
Billy Joel
Just The Way You Are
Top 379: Week 1: #379 – #373
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379.
Meat Loaf
Paradise By The Dashboard Light
378.
Jackie DeShannon
What The World Needs Now Is Love
377.
Peter Cetera & Crystal Bernard
Forever Tonight
376.
Bon Jovi
You Give Love A Bad Name
375.
Savage Garden
I Knew I Loved You
374.
James Ingram & Patti Austin
How Do You Keep The Music Playing
373.
Michael Bolton
Said I Loved You…But I Lied
Maybe I will plug the Top 379 a little bit
…because I like rating stuff and when people rate stuff, and you can rate the songs as I post them. So instead of waiting for a weekly summary, I present the first two entries in the countdown.
I am so sick of my Top 379
That being said, I will soldier on and post my entry for #379 tomorrow, #378 the following day, and so on and so forth. #1 will be posted on January 13, 2013.
I finished my four-month process of rating songs yesterday. The list is done. Really, I could just dump the list on here and be done with it and move on. Since most of the list are pointers to the past, it might be best to just be done with this project.
But the whole point of the project, initially, was to have something else to blog about. This aim was derailed, though, as I spent all this time listening to music and almost no time planning the blog. I’ve had a bunch of ideas of what I’d want on the site but haven’t implemented anything.
Fortunately, I don’t really care about the first 100 or so songs, so if I do little more than dump a post with a video once a day for the first three months, I won’t feel like I’ve failed. I may eventually regain some enthusiasm for the project. However, I’ve really got more important projects to focus on, that are more relevant to bettering myself.
I still can’t decide if I go with a bare bones WordPress theme that I can build on or use a pre-fab theme isn’t ideal for what I’m doing but I can tweak as I go.
So the site is top379.com if you want to visit it, and I hope that you will. Subscribe to the feed in your reader of choice. I won’t mention it on here every single day. Maybe I’ll do weekly summaries.
Oh, so when I say I’m sick of the Top 379, I’m most sick of the music itself. Four months of listening to music that I like but that is, for the most part, critically maligned and that conjures up bad memories.
Maybe this project is a way of gradually weaning myself off of the stuff I’ve liked since I was 14.
Goal for 2012: Discover good music.
I hear Durham has this live music scene. What’s that all about? And are any of them Air Supply tribute bands?
