I love this song, and this is an excellent cover of it.

This is what it’s like inside my head nearly every day of my life. It’s a pleasant place.

Brian & Eileen’s Wedding Music Video. from LOCKDOWN projects on Vimeo.

inertial dampers are offline! from Diana on Vimeo.

It bothered me that I couldn’t get this to upload with sound on Flickr, so I made an account with Vimeo. Ahh, much better. Of course, now you get to hear my dorky voice, but that’s kind of the point with this one.

There’s a reason any jewelry you find on my wishlists is handmade.

In an effort to figure out why Flickr did not get the sound part of the video I sent from my phone the other day, I sent the same video to my email account. Flickr didn’t give me trouble with my other phone, so maybe something changed.

I got this text along with the file, which had a peculiar .3g2 extension:

This message was sent using the Picture and Video Messaging service from Verizon Wireless!

To learn how you can snap pictures and capture videos with your wireless phone visit www.verizonwireless.com/picture.

To play video messages sent to email, QuickTime® 6.5 or higher is required. Visit www.apple.com/quicktime/download to download the free player or upgrade your existing QuickTime® Player. Note: During the download process when asked to choose an installation type (Minimum, Recommended or Custom), select Minimum for faster download.

I haven’t downloaded QT yet, but I haven’t been able to play the sound with any of the other media players I already have, including VLC. Wikipedia seems to think VLC should work, so I’m probably just missing a codec.

I assume that this is an issue for other Flickr users, but I wonder if fixing it is at all a priority for them.

Dude, this clinches it. I am not crazy for liking Michael Jackson. Just because he’s a freak, that doesn’t mean he can’t make good music.

Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to buy more clothes from this lady, but for now, my beer wench costume will have to suffice.

I finally made it to payday, with a few cents to spare. I’m really not sure how I did it, besides not pooping at home and eating lots of cafeteria food off the clock. Seriously, Augusts suck. Car registration, licensure, and various other annual fees come up in August. Plus the wedding. And whatever else. I don’t think I’ve blown serious cash in a while, and I’m resisting the urge to do so now. I went to the grocery store after work tonight and got some foods for this weekend, because I plan on staying home and cleaning, and splurged on some eel rolls. $6.50 ain’t bad, and they’re pretty tasty, too. Not as good as Ichiban, of course, but not bad.

I’ve been spending a lot of time in Cardiology lately, and appreciating it. It’s an entirely different environment down there. In ways it’s more political, but in a lot of ways it’s less so. I can go down there, take care of my patients, and rock out. We spent one day listening to the radio discussing which would be the best songs to karaoke to. Another day I mentioned the link I posted that gives the Billboard hit for your birth day, and I got to hear about all the awesome concerts my supervisor down there had been to. Seriously, I was born in the wrong decade. I also wish that I’d listened to more music growing up. I also wish my parents had listened to more music, so they would have exposed me to more of it. But I’m catching up now. Or trying to.

But my cheesy pop kick reminds me of a link that I must have posted a long time ago, but I am going to repost in case I was negligent. Because seriously. This. Is. Awesome.

I present to you: Yacht Rock!

Yacht Rock, Episode 1: What a Fool Believes

A friend of mine decided it would be hilarious if we all posted videos to the songs that were #1 according to Billboard charts on the day we were born. Little did she know that the song that was awesome on the day I was born is STILL AWESOEM.

I love this man.

Nate and I went to Portland to hang out with his friends this weekend. It was awesome, as usual. Friday was drinks at Novare Res (for everyone else, of course. I might have tried the raspberry mead I hear was on tap a week earlier, but otherwise I don’t care for beer).

Saturday was breakfast at BreaLu, then loaf around the house until it was time to go back to Novare Res. I got myself a black cherry soda, and we played Lunch Money. Right as it was time to leave, there was a torrential downpour, and we got back to Rory’s totally soaked. I’m glad we had more clothes to wear, but I wish that either I hadn’t been wearing my converses or I’d grabbed my sandals out of my backseat when I realized we were taking Nate’s car down to Portland. I had wet shoes for the rest of the day :(

For dinner last night we went to Gauchos, which was incredible. I might be a vegetarian now, though. I seriously was doing okay until the sword-o-chicken-hearts came by, and I realized that one chicken had to die for each of those bite-sized morsels and then I remembered the piles of meat I had just eaten and I lost my appetite. I didn’t want to even see meat anymore, but we had to wait until everyone was done to leave and ughhhh. A combination of feeling sick and overstuffing my gullet led to my going to bed early (or rather, passing out on Rory’s couch while everyone played Wii next door), but at least I felt better afterwards.

This morning we had breakfast at Bayou, then headed back up to Bangor, but not without stopping at Fort Williams Park. We climbed on all the kinds of rocks I was never allowed to climb on as a kid, found pretty snails, and teased the seagulls with empty crab legs. I’m glad my shoes had dried out :P

Anyway, enjoy the pictures. I carried my camera with me all weekend, but got self-conscious about it and didn’t take any pictures until it was just me and Nate, and it was almost all over. Next time I’ll do better.

Kaity showed this to me when I told her Nate was helping a friend move this weekend. It made me go HA!

Guess what, I still have never figured out way of neatly embedding videos, so under a more tag it goes!

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About a thousand years ago, Ian wrote a post about daydreaming and dishes, and I’ve never forgotten it. They’re two activities that go very well together, and whenever I do either, I think of that post.

Today while I was washing dishes, I was rocking out and a couple songs came on that reminded me of when I first started watching music videos.

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I know I’ve said it before, that I’m terrible at deciphering lyrics. I just found this Sean Paul interpretation, and that reminded me of the Fall Out Boy one I found a year or seven ago.

I was going to embed them, but it looks like crap. I’m all about things not looking like crap. LINKING TIME. Watch them, though, because they are funny.

Sean Paul  – Temperature

Fall Out Boy – Dance, Dance

Reggie Watts might be the most entertaining person I’ve seen all day.

Apocalyptica – Quutamo

StumbleUpon is great for reminding me of music (or anything, really) that I liked several years ago and completely forgot about.