JULY 2015


I kept putting this off...it's another thing on the schedule.  MORE time at the computer.  I need a break - I need frivolty: watching movies, driving around for the helluvit, getting a pizza at midnight....

I am just so busy, as usual.

A cousin got married recently.  It was nice to see family from other states and provinces, for the first time in years.  I always feel dull, and that no one really wants to talk to me that much.

Little do they know how interesting I am - I just am not the conventional citizen as they are.  They are mostly all nice people, but just...typical.  I just do not feel I am typical.  My dreams are for music and acting....honestly, they are.

Here is this month's Top 5.  Mastodon just kicks ass, what more can be said.  There is weakness among the big hits, though, now that I can devote more time to my saved playlist of current favorites.

I missed Jane's Addiction, by the way.  I was not feeling well, and super busy - so I am glad I did not buy tickets ahead of time.

The new entry is a weird little song from an artist I know nothing about.  Kaley Victoria Rose has some type of storyline going with her videos, it seems. I hadn't really looked into them too much, but I will have to make a point of it.  There is a concept there, or some kind of saga, maybe.  Not sure.  This song at #4 is catchy, and eerie, if not a little haunting.

I really gotta get out "1000 HP" again to give it a listen.  The title track did not slam the Top 5 like just about every other song of Godsmack's that charted did.  A paltry high of #3?  Why, that is preposterous!

Until next month.....hasta la vista.



JULY 2015

1. "The Motherload", by Mastodon 1, 1, 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wz56aruweJY

2. "Aunt Lisa" by Mastodon 2, 2, 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVrl6c4I8qs

3. "Habits (Chainsmokers Remix)", by Tove Lo 3, 1, 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1Xv0cNcsoY

4. "The Garden and the Liddle Girl", by Kaley Victoria Rose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM5Ex7JO2lo

5. "1000 HP", by Godsmack 4, 3, 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rL4em-Xv5o


JULY 2014

1. "Hurricane", by MS MR
2. "Meltdown", by Love and Death
3. "Phantom Limb", by Alice in Chains
4."Bones", by Young Guns
5. "Wishful", by Stars


JULY 2005

1. "Vertigo", by U2
2. "Home", by Three Days Grace
3. "Somebody Told Me", by The Killers
4. "Lose My Breath", by Destiny's Child
5. "Float On", by Modest Mouse

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