What is Love? A MixTape Answer

In case you didn’t realize it there are a mountain range worth of songs that mention love so I’ve rethought my valentine’s day playlist plan.

So here’s Part 1 which answers the immortal question What is Love?

• Clap Your Hands Say Yeah- Is This Love?[download]
• Cake –Is This Love? (live) [download]
• PJ Harvey- This Is Love [download]
• Jill Scott- It’s Love [download]
• Pat Benatar- Love is a Battlefield [download]
• Amy Winehouse- Love is a Losing Game [download]
• Cast of Grease- Love Is A Many Splendored Thing [download]
• The Rapture-Love Is All [download]
• U2- Love Is Blindness [download]
• Brett Anderson- Love Is Dead [download]
• Starsailor- Love Is Here [download]
• The Magnetic Fields- Love Is Like A Bottle of Gin [download]
• Martha Reeves- Love is Like A Heatwave [download]
• The Magnetic Fields- Love is Like Jazz [download]
• Liz Phair- Love Is Nothing [download]
• The Distillers- Love is Paranoid [download]
• The Allman Brothers Band- Revival (Love Is Everything)[download]
• Kaiser Chiefs- Love's Not a Competition (But I'm Winning) [download]
  
• Rilo Kiley - You Are What You Love (live) [download]
  

It's a sleight of hand, a white soul band
The heart attacks I'm convinced I have
Every morning upon waking.
To you I'm a symbol or a monument
Your rite of passage to fulfillment
But I'm not yours for the taking

But you are what you love
And not what loves you back
So I guess that's why you keep calling me back

I'm fraudulent, a thief at best
A coward who paints a bullshit canvas
Things that will never happen to me
But at arms length, it's Tim who said
I'm good at it, I've mastered it
Avoiding, avoiding everything

But you are what you love, Tim
And not what loves you back
And I'm in love with illusions
So saw me in half
I'm in love with tricks
So pull another
rabbit out your hat

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The Jokes Write Themselves

And the State of the Union is Ripe for Parody
Here are Youtube offerings of people who obviously aren't that fond of the current administration and GweeB





National Lampoon’s (weren’t they, at one time funny?)






(oh sorry. With all the applause lines and what not it often seems very similar to a rally)


(rats. Did it again)

2007 State of the Union by the Upright Citizens Brigade


CNN story by Jeanne Moos featuring the 2007 State of the Union


Nancy vs. Dick: The Blink Off


and this one is probably my favorite- George Bush’s Bloody Sunday


Listen, Bottom of the 9th, Grand Slam, we all win.

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Your Stuck in my Head Song of the Day

I first thought of this song when I heard some advertisement about someone playing at the Orpheum, which of course made my mind wandered to a dream I had about being Alice in a musical Alice in Wonderland that would run at the Orpheum for about two years and about how when it was over I'd end up a STAH. A notion that made me rememeber "In the headlights Of a stretch car You're a star" and so a song by U2 from the Batman Forever, "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" got stuck in my head.
I think when I first heard the song I was drawn to its title, which seemed really cool to me (and I later learned kinda related to Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me), and also its connection to the movie. But now the song stands up own its own just with its amazing musicality and amazingly catchy "Hold Me. Thrill Me. Kiss Me. Kill Me." chorus and it's soaring string orchestra at the end is just so dramatic and I always enjoy it.

You don't know how you took it
You just know what you got
Oh lordy you've been stealing
From the thieves and you got caught
In the headlights
Of a stretch car
You're a star

Dressing like your sister
Living like a tart
They don't know what you're doing
Babe, it must be art
You're a headache
In a suitcase
You're a star

Oh no, don't be shy
You don't have to go blind
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me

You don't know how you got here
You just know you want out
Believing in yourself
Almost as much as you doubt
You're a big smash
You wear it like a rash
Star
(I wanna take it)

Oh no, don't be shy
It takes a crowd to cry
Hold me, thrill me, kiss me, kill me
Yeah...
Hey!

They want you to be Jesus
They'll go down on one knee
But they'll want their money back
If you're alive at thirty-three
And you're turning tricks
With your crucifix
You're a star

(Oh child)

Of course you're not shy
You don't have to deny it love

I really think this was like my favorite U2 era. I don't know, it just seems funner or more playful, things you may be able to see in this video for Your Stuck in My Head Song of the Day- Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me by U2


U2-Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me [download] buy it on iTunes


i'll see ya sometime and if not, have a wonderful weekend.

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Your Stuck in my Head Song of the Day

I'm assuming this song got in my head today because it came on my iTunes so there's no more profound reason than that but Until The End of The World, by U2 got in there and I don't know where this sentence is going. Anyway this is off Achtung Baby, which I think may be my favorite U2 album from top to bottom and comes from a time before I hated, or became annoyed with Bono. At times he does have some pretty lyrics that are easy to relate to and you can take as far as you want in your own mind, like:
In my dream I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows, they learned to swim
Surrounding me, going down on me
Spilling over the brim
(I like the image of drowned sorrows learning to swim)

And according to wikipedia the song is about Jesus' last night:The lyrics describe a conversation between Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot. The first verse discusses The Last Supper; the second is about Judas identifying Jesus with a kiss on the lips in the Garden of Gethsemane; and the final is about Judas' suicide after being overwhelmed with guilt and sadness.
who knew? That really brings a different level of understanding. I just thought it was a tale about a guy and his melancholy partner who was kind of being a mood killer.

Anywhoo I think this may be the official video but I don't like it that much-it kind of hurts my eyes and reminds me too much of the strange part of the early 90s with those colors (that I can't explain but if you lived through those years you'll recognize) so here is a video, made on the ZooTv tour in 1992, of Your Stuck in My Head Song of The Day:U2- Until The End of The World

U2- Until The End of The World [download] buy Achtung Baby

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