2018 Christmas playlist

Here's my 2018 Christmas playlist! I mostly listen to this in itunes instead of Spotify, since Spotify has a glaring lack of The Killers seasonal tunes and that's just unacceptable. But unfortunately you can't embed an itunes playlist, lol, so if you want a true taste of what I'm listening to this winter -- play this playlist and then go on youtube and listen to Joel the Lump of Coal, Cowboy's Christmas Ball, and Dirt Sledding. Oh, and my favorite version of Blue Christmas, by Danielle Dax! :)

My favorite new-to-me finds for this Christmas are I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter by Connie Francis and Looks Like A Cold, Cold Winter by Ingrid Michaelson. My mom is obsessed with that one and we've been playing it on repeat since before Thanksgiving!

meowy christmas

I should have taken a close-up photo of this dress because the print is so cute! It's covered in little illustrations of cats in Christmas wreaths! Cats and Christmas -- two of my favorite things! :) I can't believe Christmas is only three days away now!! I'm excited about it but I'm also prematurely bummed about taking down my decorations and turning off the Christmas music. I know that part of what makes the lights and tunes feel so magical is the fact that they're only around for a couple months each year, but I still get an urge every December to just leave my tree up for 365 days lol.

And I'm pretty sure that I'll still be listening to Christmas music for at least another month or two. Here's my playlist if you want to listen along with me :) I always start Christmas playlists with Christmas Wrapping by The Waitresses... it gets me in a festive mood instantly!



Spotify wouldn't let me include some of my favorites, so here are some links for youtube videos for those instead:

Blue Christmas by Danielle Dax
Joel the Lump of Coal by The Killers
We Three Kings by Blondie
The Cowboy's Christmas Ball by The Killers
Winter Wonderland by Goldfrapp

dress - modcloth | shirt - vintage | shoes - bait footwear | wig - keke wigs

my summer playlist

I used to share monthly playlists here when I first started my blog, but that wore off quickly when I realized that I pretty much listen to the same songs over and over again, haha! My favorites haven't changed a lot over the years but I have added some new songs to the mix and I'm really loving my itunes playlist at the moment! I uploaded it to 8tracks so you can have a listen too if you'd like! Here's the link to listen, and here's the tracklist:

1. Crush on You // The Clash
2. Satin Chic // Goldfrapp
3. It's All Over Now, Baby Blue // Bryan Ferry
4. Fallin // Connie Francis
5. Worker's Song // Dropkick Murphys
6. I'll Be Seeing You // Francoise Hardy & Iggy Pop
7. Dark Streets of London // The Pogues
8. Paris 1919 // John Cale
9. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes // Serge Gainsbourg
10. Atmosphere // Joy Division
11. The Crane Wife // Marianne Faithfull
12. Lullaby of London // The Pogues (my favorite song ever!)
13. If There is Something // Roxy Music
14. Sunday Girl // She & Him
15. Back to Black // Bryan Ferry
16. Apeman // The Kinks
17. Breaking No One's Heaven // Peter Murphy
18. After Hours // Velvet Underground
19. Wait for me Down by the River // Marianne Faithfull
20. Ceremony // New Order

The Back to Black track is really low for some reason, I can barely hear it unless I turn up my volume.. but it's so good I had to include it anyway :) Also the drawing at the top is from my etsy shop :)

Pi Day Playlist

I put together a little playlist using the first nine digits of pi! Enjoy!

1. Honey Pie // The Beatles

2. We THREE // Frank Sinatra

3. Number ONE // Goldfrapp

4. FOUR Strong Winds // Marianne Faithfull

5. Just ONE of Those Things // Bryan Ferry

6. FIVE Minutes More // Frank Sinatra

7. Beethoven's NINTH (Ode to Joy) // Jingle Cats

8. Takes TWO to Tango // Annette Funicello

9. SIX to Go // The Pogues

10. FIVE // Joan Jett

You can listen to the playlist on 8tracks, here!

may playlist

I have no idea what this playlist is.. I just randomly added songs I've been listening to lately, and ended up with a mish-mash. I'm really hooked on Eliza Doolittle right now.. I downloaded her album after hearing one of her songs on Pamplemousse a couple weeks ago. She reminds me a lot of the Lily Allen songs I like (I don't really like her hip-hop stuff) and has that British accent that makes any song 10% better right off the bat ;)

Do you want to comment, but have no idea what to say? Trust me, I've been there! So to make things a little easier, here is a question you can answer if you can't think of anything else to say! :)

What's on your playlist right now?

a glorious dawn - playlist for april

A still more glorious dawn awaits


Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise


A morning filled with 400 billion suns


The rising of the milky way

April's playlist is one song, simply because for the last month I've just been listening to this one song on repeat. It's been all consuming.

I found Glorious Dawn on youtube whilst searching for Carl Sagan clips, and immediately fell in love. It's an autotuned song (stick with me.. it's actually good!) using Carl Sagan's voice (with a cameo by Stephen Hawking!) and it's just beautiful. He had such a deliberate, quiet way of speaking, and the words he spoke were often beyond poetic, so his voice is an ideal one to set to music.

One of my favorite things about Carl Sagan was the childlike wonder he retained throughout his entire life. In a documentary I watched recently, "God, the Universe and Everything Else," Sagan laments the way we treat children who ask questions. If a child asks "why is the sky blue?" we're inclined to answer, "just because." or "what color did you expect it to be? yellow?!" when instead we should be explaining to them what we do know, admitting what we don't, and encouraging them to pursue answers to the unknown when they get older. He wanted children to experience the same thrill that he felt exploring the uncharted waters of the world. This enthusiasm that he had for historical, new and future discoveries is what makes Glorious Dawn so beautiful. You can hear that childlike wonderment in his voice, and whether you're listening in broad daylight or in the middle of the night, you'll find yourself staring out your window, gazing at the sky and wondering...

ps. you can buy a 7" vinyl of the song from Third Man Records!

march o'playlist

It's March, and that means St. Patrick's Day is coming up soon! yay! I'm with George Carlin, in that I don't say I'm "proud" to be Irish since I didn't really have any say in the matter.. but I'm definitely very happy to be Irish! I love hearing stories from my mom about my grandfather's Irish family gatherings.. they just seem to really enjoy life... and beer, but that's another matter lol.

What I love most about Irish culture is the music. It's just so beautiful, even (or maybe especially?) when tinged with some punk. The Pogues are one of my very favorite bands, so this playlist is definitely a bit Pogues heavy, but I don't think that's a bad thing ;-D Oh, and I think that Unicorn song is for children, but come on. It's an Irish song about unicorns.. how could I not include it?!

february playlist

Either mixpod got rid of the "add song by URL" option, or it just wasn't working today, so I had to use playlist.com again. I really, really prefer mixpod now. It's much easier to add songs (well, provided their url option is actually working) and I love that you can customize the colors of the playlist, and edit the titles of the songs. I obviously would prefer songs not begin with "YouTube -" or "22." lol. Oh well!! Anyway, I hope you enjoy the songs! I'm already planning my March one.. it's going to be all Irish. I've been super hooked on Irish music lately so I'm really looking forward to making that one. :)

the first song - january's playlist

For some reason my playlist would not accept the fact that Marianne Faithfull's last name has a "full" at the end. I kept editing it and re-editing it, and each time I saved the playlist, it dropped the "full" again -- from both of her songs, too! It's bizarre. It also keeps calling Bobby Darin simply "Darin." I'm sure there's another computer generated typo that I just haven't picked up on yet...

Well, I hope everyone's having a great new year so far!! Mine has started splendidly. Just some little things ..

- I reorganized my room, and brought my couch back in so it's much more comfy and cozy now! And neat, which is a rarity for me ;-D

- Someone on tumblr taught me how to add gifs to my posts. Previously whenever I tried to add one it would show up as a little empty box, and you had to click on it to see my animation. Used to drive me nuts!

- Millie made me realize that I can rip segments of movies to my computer, instead of always ripping the whole thing. This means I'll be making MANY more tribute videos this year! I used to rip a whole movie, even if I only wanted a two minute clip..

- My breakfast this morning was phenomenal. Eggs, toast with grape jelly, home fries and fake bacon. With grapefruit juice. YUM!

- I made this playlist and I'm having a ball listening to it ;-D

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This has to be the best version of Little Drummer Boy I've ever heard ..
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a trip down music memory lane

I think my parents are pretty awesome. There's a hundred reasons why, but one of the biggies is the music they introduced me to as a kid. My dad owned a record shop for the 1st decade or so my parents were married, then they opened a music t-shirt/poster mail order business around the time I was born. Music is super important to both of them, and they made sure it would be to me, too. I could probably buy one record a day for my entire life, and wouldn't come close to matching my dad's collection.

I remember when I was around 8 or 9 I was singing along to a Peter Murphy song (the lyrics of which I only understand now, as a grown up) and my mom apologized to me in advance for exposing me to that kind of stuff. "When you're an adult, you are going to hate us," she said. That might have been true if they hadn't also been busy making me into a progressive open-minded person who'd totally play the same music for her own kids.

When I was about 13 I became interested in older music (Sinatra, Crosby, etc.) and never really listened to the songs I'd loved as a kid, except on road trips when my parents would make mix-tapes for the car. It was only recently, within the last six months or so, that I finally started listening and appreciating their tastes in music again. Not only are the songs little trips down memory lane, but I'm really enjoying exchanging youtube links with my dad, who, needless to say, is beyond thrilled that I'm listening to his favorite music again (except T-Rex. I just can't get into them..) and keeps sending me songs I might like! :)

When I have kids, they're going to be little music aficionados who sing inappropriate lyrics and hopefully they won't grow up to hate me for it ;-D

for he's a jolly good fellow

I don't seem to mention this much online, for some reason, but I've been a HUGE Frank Sinatra fan since I was 13 years old. He and Audrey Hepburn were the two people who triggered my larger fascination with old Hollywood & vintage/classic things in general. Most of my family would probably say I was obsessed (when you can riddle off facts about someone like their birth weight I think that may be an accurate description) and until quite recently he was pretty much the only singer I'd listen to.

Each year on Frank Sinatra's birthday, I watch a double feature and a concert -- two of his films & one of his live concerts -- and make pasta with his signature sauce recipe. If you're interested in snatching the recipe for yourself and honoring Sinatra spaghetti-style tonight, here's the link to my post from last year :)

christmas playlist

Here's the playlist for December -- all Christmasey tunes :) This one was actually really hard to put together because almost none of my favorite seasonal songs were in the Playlist.com directory, I had to upload them to my server & add them by url. Anyhow, I hope you enjoy, and maybe find a new favorite! :)

would you like a pretzel too? - november's playlist

My birthday is this month, so I had to include my family's favorite birthday song, by Altered Images. It's a family tradition that someone in the house has to have the record playing when the birthday person is coming downstairs in the morning. None of us have ever missed a birthday, ever! When I was little I always thought they said "would you like a pretzel too" in the lyrics, so that's the way we sing it now :)

lost in the supermarket - october's playlist

I make myself a new playlist every month, and I thought maybe it would be fun to share it from now on :) I know it's almost the end of the month now, but this was my October playlist. I really liked this one so I might repeat a lot of the same songs in November ;-D I get hooked on some songs for years on end (like On The Road to Mandalay) and they end up on almost every single playlist I make.