The Winter Mix
It seems every year I'm making a new Christmas mix. From Bing Crosby to The Waitresses to Sloppy Seconds, there's a mix for every holiday mood. In fact I have so many mixes that I've started making mixes of mixes. And that's a sure sign of impending insanity.This year I decided to do a Wintry mix. Songs of chilly nights and warm hearths. It turns out that most songs involving Winter are of a somber tone so the mix turned out a bit more mellow than originally intended.
- The Bangles - "Hazy Shade of Winter"
- Death Cab For Cutie - "I Was A Kaleidoscope"
- Josh Rouse - "Winter In The Hamptons"
- Fountains of Wayne - "Valley Winter Song"
- Belle & Sebastian - "Winter Wooskie"
- The Caesars - "Winter Song"
- Fleet Foxes - "White Winter Hymnal"
- Tales From The Birdbath - "Winterstorm"
- The Pixies - "Winterlong"
- Hüsker Dü - "Ice Cold Ice"
- The Levellers - "Last Days Of Winter"
- A New Found Glory - "It Never Snows in Florida"
- The Stills - "Snow in California"
- The Cure - "Winter"
Props to Art&Ghosts for the snowy weasel image.
Best Episode of a Show You've Never Seen
I won't be disappointed that you've never heard of and/or watched "Stargate: Atlantis." It's a spin-off of a little-known, yet long-running, sci-fi show called "Stargate: SG-1." Atlantis is proof that the nerd demographic is a strong and influential one. At least as far as television shows are concerned.
The other night Dave Foley, from "Kids in the Hall," played a know-it-all, narcissistic physicist in the episode "Brain Storm." He played it well with a little patented Foley comedy shining through with some lines he must have written himself.
"Of course the worst case scenarios are bad. That's why they're called 'Worst...Case...Scenarios.' They are the worst things that could possibly happen."
Bill Nye [the Science Guy] and Neil DeGrasse Tyson (astrophysist and TV personality) were also in the show playing themselves (or at least very amusing versions of themselves). The petty bickering was made me wish they were regulars on the show.
The crowning moment came when Bill Nye shook and slapped Dave Foley's character across the face and told him to get a hold of himself. Somewhere inside me my inner nerd high-fived itself seeing The Science Guy bitch-slap Hecubus on a made-for-Sci-Fi show.
