Tonight You Belong To Me

Steve Martin and Bernadette Peters


Patience and Prudence


Fiona Apple and Nickel Creek


Joshua Radin and Ingrid Michaelson


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For those boys you just can't change

Treat her/him right.

This guy is not attractive. But the song is very sweet. Reminds me of this Thai song. Basically says, don't desert her like you did me. Fahrenheit's not great looking either!

I LOVE JOSH TURNER

Happier?

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At the end of a relationship, there's a lot of convincing going on. To stay, to leave, that it's better this way or that there's hope for a better future.

I'm not a parent, but...

This song speaks mountains about the quick passage of time and change in perspective. It's a reminder to enjoy the moments now and not worry to much about the crises. I'm not a parent. I don't have a husband who's a parent but I'm bawling. I'm a daddy's girl and I love babies. More than babies I love parenthood. And men who love babies. I have so many friends who are SUCH AMAZING PARENTS. They maybe don't looove every minute of poopy diapers or naughty toddlers, but they wouldn't trade the pace or unending sacrifice for anything in the world. I read articles from time to time about how people who are childless aren't any less happy than parents, or rather parents often rate their happiness as less than those without little snots. I think that's absolute crap. Happiness comes from loving something more than yourself and children are a surefire way to get to that. So procreate people!

Heart beating like a bomb in a birdcage

I'm awful at communicating my emotions, or even identifying my emotions and figuring out what they mean really. When a boy is thrown in the mix it gets worse. Bake him a mudpie and kiss him like a King or run away and run for cover? Good question.

I feel good

If you don't feel good, listen to this song and you will.

Tonight I want to groove

A YouTube search 'John Legend Slow Dance' and you'll get pages of videos of John Legend making a young lady's night with his seductive slow dance. An understandable concert hit. Here's the PG version:

Two of Us

Watched the movie I Am Sam a bit ago. Blown away by the soundtrack. I'd heard it before and was impressed by almost universal success in not messing up already good Beatles songs (minus Sheryl Crow. Mother Nature's Son was an awful remake). Watching the Behind the Scenes of Aimee Mann and Michael Penn this song became my favorite as it matches the movie just perfectly.



Eddie Vedder's You've Got to Hide Your Love Away is a close second. He recorded the song in less than two days with the remark that he'd be singing this song around campfires since he was 14. Cake.

Auld Lang Syne

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What does this even mean? Turns out auld lang syne translates roughly to 'long, long ago' or 'in times past.' Okay. Still doesn't make a ton of sense. How did this oft-sung New Year's Eve ballad become the song of the new year. The only song of the new year, really.

Turns out the poet Robert Burns was writing about old acquaintances and the past. He inquired how we should deal with them. Forget them? Move on? It's a question I've been asking myself lately as my pile of old acquaintances are growing and my days of auld lang syne being mushed together.

So what do we do with these piles of old acquaintances? Robert Burns gives a hint, in the chorus of his poem:

For auld lang syne my dear For auld lang syne
We'll take a cup of kindness yet For auld lang syne.

Take that for what it's worth. Think about the past thoughtfully (The only other New Year's Eve Song [thank you Dan Fogelberg]), make plans for the future, for old time's sake.

Happy New Year!