Y'all have today off work, don't you?

[hellziggy]

The internets are dead today. I'm at lunch and I didn't even have to go back on my friends page before hitting my posts from last night.

We got last Friday off instead of today.

If y'all haven't started listening to Coverville yet, the last few shows are good ones to jump in on since Brian had his listeners vote on their favorite covers. We could nominate one song, and then when the nominations were in he put together a ballot and we could vote on 5.

There were 5 shows with 8 songs each for the top 40 covers voted on by his listeners. #1 was Johnny Cash doing NIN's Hurt.

www.coverville.com

So go, listen, enjoy.

The song scramble contest that he had that I entered, I didn't win. But I was apparently one of only TEN people to get all six right. So yes, when he says Sharon Snyder when listing them, that is me.

Another cool thing... at the end of the show he's thanking people who've let him use their music, donated money or stuff, or just supported the show in some way. I was listening & completely surprised when he included me in the thank yous. That was pretty cool, cuz I don't really consider maintaining the uber-database of the show playlists to be work. Especially since updating it now consists of just copy/paste from the Coverville site.

So, if you ever wanna know if a specific song has been played on Coverville, or if an artist has either been covered or done a cover and Brian has played it, just let me know.


In other news, as you can see in teh pictures of lucky13charm's Jayne iHat, hellbob has his Nano. We ran to the Apple Store yesterday and exchanged the 2 GB I got him for a 4 GB (he was originally going to be getting a 4 GB, but they didn't have them in stock 4 days before Xmas...)

We just barely got to the store before closing, and while checking out I got to chat with s4 for a while.

Then we went and bought our copy of 40 Year Old Virgin, because Mark hadn't seen it yet. Funny funny stuff!


Pretty Gay Cowboys:
Southdale theater has Brokeback Mountain!! We need to go this week!! I don't know when. What works for you?

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[chebutykin.livejournal.com]

I am also at work today. Thus, no LotR goodness for me at the Riverview today...

[lucky13charm.livejournal.com]

Anytime works for me....I have no plans!!!!

[genevra.livejournal.com]

Anytime that hubby is home to watch the kidlets, I can go. And remember, we have a certain nephew's b-day party at 2 on Saturday.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

And remember, we have a certain nephew's b-day party at 2 on Saturday.

We do?
That would be easier for me to remember if I had ever gotten an invitation of any sort! Jen has not given me a date or time or anything! So if you talk to her maybe mention that, because if I'm in a pissy mood I would choose not to go if she doesn't actually tell me about it!!

[genevra.livejournal.com]

She never gave out actual invitations, just kind of mentioned it at xmas. Yeah, if she wants people to go, she might want to actually invite them!

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Well when she just kind of mentioned it she never gave me any kind of date or time.
You don't happen to have Xander's SSN info, do you?

[genevra.livejournal.com]

Nope

[kajicarter.livejournal.com]

Here's a Coverville question for you (and I'm going to send it to him too, just in case). Has he ever played 'Video Killed the Radio Star'? I was just told by a reliable source that the Buggles version is not actually the first, which is blowing my mind.

[hellziggy.livejournal.com]

Nope. Doesn't look like it. I searched on "video" "radio star" and "buggles" and it didn't come up on any of them.
Interesting. I'd never heard that before.

Just curious, were you listening to coverville before I pimped it out?

[kajicarter.livejournal.com]

For about two weeks I think, courtesy of a friend who only just realized that I like covers. I think I just found the answer, though...it may not be so much a cover as a "simultaneous".

From Wikipedia:
"Video Killed the Radio Star" is a New Wave song by the British group Buggles that celebrates the golden days of radio. With broadcast-quality vocals and a bouncy rhythm, the song plays like a jingle, as its story of a singer whose career ended as a result of TV comes out. Appropriately, considering its subject matter, the music video for the song, directed by Russell Mulcahy, was the first to be shown on MTV, when the ground-breaking music channel debuted on August 1, 1981 (at 12:00 AM).

Written by Trevor Horn, Geoff Downes and Bruce Woolley, the song reached number one in the UK charts, while only barely making the Billboard Top 40 in the US in 1979. It appears on the album The Age of Plastic. A different version was recorded by Woolley (with Thomas Dolby) for his album Bruce Woolley And The Camera Club. The complicated arrangement and production of the song, which includes a chorus sung by a group of very high pitched backup singers, foreshadows Horn's later career as a producer."