Sunday, October 18, 2015 at 11:11 amLeaf me alone.
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Saturday, October 17, 2015 at 5:01 pmSurprise rubber ducks in the mail today. Thank you very much, Richard in Texas!
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Blobby threw a few ideas at me for October. Of them, I was intrigued by this one: “original versions of songs that were taken and made famous by other people.” But I needed a little more definition, as it’s a fine line in my brain between “covers” and “songs made famous by others”. (I’m easily confused like that!) So Blobby clarified it as “songs that were originals that weren’t well known (or known at all). It’s almost like covers Opposite Day.” And our theme was born: ‘covers Opposite Day’!
That could be a wee bit challenging. Or will it? That means I’ll need to flex my music history muscle. Which is smaller than most of my other muscles.
“Tainted Love”. So much taint. Or love. Or dirty love. Or something and another.
Most people know of the Soft Cell version of this song that came out in 1981, and was played like crazy in alternative dance clubs everywhere. Forever.
I always thought it was a messed up song, lyrically, in the 80s. But did you know it was originally performed by Gloria Jones in 1964? That makes it even a little more weird to me.
Until next time...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 5:50 pmThis is in the parking lot. Again. And I still love it.
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I’m not sure what happened to my blog. But those of you who came to visit the last few days were greeted with the “under maintenance” screen. Something happened to the database for my blog, and it started returning errors that I was alerted to in the middle of the night. It took me a few days to find a backup that worked properly, but I did this morning. And here we are up and running again. Hopefully.
Until next time...
My 46th “12 of 12.” A Monday. My “Sunday”.
The 12 of 12 Challenge was created by Chad Darnell and picked up from a number of random bloggers who then linked back to him and vice versa. Chad stopped doing the 12 of 12 links in December of 2011, but passed the torch to someone else who sadly hasn’t been keeping up with it. So as always, I’m giving my shout-out to Blobby of Blobby’s Blog as he is the one who inspired me to do it. And still does.
All pictures were taken with my iPhone 6.
Until next time...