Musically Speaking

Music is integral to my life. I always have something playing. We have a couple little portable speakers that are stationed around the house so we can plug in an iPod anytime we want. I have my "favorite" speaker in the kitchen because I spend a lot of time there. Duh. I usually put a playlist on shuffle for the element of predictable surprise. Sometimes we get wild and I put it on 'all shuffle'. That mode brings out some wild mixes. Jumping from 'Nulla en Mundo Pax Sincera' * to Green Day's 'Welcome to Paradise' does tend to unhinge the atmosphere.

I *love* Pandora. It is a new luxury to me; Pandora didn't used to be accessible overseas. But the problem is, I'm not always within earshot of my computer**. I do have the Pandora iPhone app, but I listen to music all the time! I have a little radio and there are a few good stations here {surprisingly}; but if there's a boring string of songs & advertisements, I don't like to go fiddle with the station multiple times. So I have also created Mood Mixes. Here's one we've been listening to lately, during dinner & after-dinner clean-up.

Winding Down: Slower songs, some with more of a catchy beat than others, some mainstream & others off the beaten path, but mainly stuff that's not going to rile up the natives.

Somewhere over the Rainbow - by Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
Falling in love at a coffee shop - Landon Pigg
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
Landslide - Dixie Chicks
Mad World - Michael Andrews
Can you hear the prayer of the children? - Insideout a Cappella
I'm Yours - Jason Mraz
Hey there Delilah - Plain White T's
Lightning Crashes - Live {Throwing Copper album}
Remember When - Alan Jackson
Oh l'Amour - Erasure
Tempted - Squeeze
Look away - Chicago
Lullaby - Dixie Chicks
Celebrating the Light - Michael McLean
For the Beauty of the Earth - Mormon Tabernacle Choir {this is a unique arrangement}
Billy - James Blunt
JALS - Colors

A recent phone pic of Grant that I love.

*p.s. about the album Shine. It is a movie soundtrack from Shine. Wonderful movie & equally wonderful soundtrack. And it is a steal on Amazon! $9.49 for 34 arrangements. Just my two cents, but sadly, those cents can't be used to purchase the album. ;)

**p.p.s there is a solution to the 'want to listen to music on my computer but i'm not always right by it' problem. The Bose SoundLink wireless music system. It wireless-ly relays you your digital media & internet radio from the computer to a speaker you put *anywhere* in your house. And it doesn't plug in, so you just move it wherever & whenever you feel like it w/o stopping the music. {bonus for me b/c i hate the 220v/110v plug problem.} But . . . . it's super expensive; almost $500. *sigh* Someday.