Thursday, August 15, 2013

Quotes About Shoes


 
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own, and you know what you know.
And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."  
~  Dr. Seuss



"Give a girl the right shoes, and
she can conquer the world."  
~  Marilyn Monroe



"They went into my closets looking for 
skeletons, but thank God, all they 
found were shoes, beautiful shoes."  
~  Imelda Marcos



"I still have my feet on the ground, 
I just wear better shoes."  
~  Oprah Winfrey



"I had the blues because I had no shoes, until 
upon the street I met a man who had no feet."  
~  Dennis Waitley



"We ought not to treat living creatures 
like shoes or household belongings, which
when worn with use we throw away."  
~  Plutarch



"'The time has come,' the walrus said, 
'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships 
– and sealing wax – of cabbages and kings.'"  
~  Lewis Carroll



"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, 
they gall and pinch us; but if too large, 
they cause us to stumble and to trip."  
~  John Locke



"You know you're old when someone
compliments you on your alligator 
shoes, and you're barefoot."  
~  Phyllis Diller



"These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. 
They won't make you rich like me, they won't
make you rebound like me, they definitely 
won't make you handsome like me. They'll
only make you have shoes like me. That's it."  
~  Charles Barkley



"Practical prayer is harder on
the soles of your shoes than on
the knees of your trousers."  
~  Austin O'Malley



"Did you ever get the feeling that the world was 
a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?"  
~  George Gobel



"The stoical scheme of supplying our wants 
by lopping off our desires is like cutting 
off our feet when we want shoes."  
~  Jonathan Swift



"You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. 
A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other 
hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. 
And there are so many nice-looking shoes."  
~  Allan Sherman



"I never put on a pair of shoes until 
I've worn them at least five years."  
~  Samuel Goldwyn



"I'll tell you one thing you can't do: you can't
put your shoes on, then your socks on."  
~  Flavor Flav



"Imagine me as a kid growing up 
in redneck Texas with ballet shoes,
tucking the violin under my arm. 
I had to fight my way up."  
~  Patrick Swayze



"When people wear shoes that don't fit them, 
it says something about their soul. Generally, 
I think it means they are good people."  
~  Billy Bob Thornton



"Between saying and doing, 
many a pair of shoes is worn out."  
~  Iris Murdoch



"Shoes are strange things. If you 
take your shoes off in a situation in 
which you're vulnerable, you'll 
feel ten times more vulnerable."  
~  Daniel Day-Lewis

Songs About Falling In Love

This collection of "Falling In Love" songs is pretty straightforward, at first glance. However, it's part 1 of 2. The followup post will be "Heartbreak" songs. So get ready to smile here, but be prepared to frown later.  ~  JH




1)  Selena  ~  "I Could Fall In Love"



2)  Landon Pigg  ~  "Falling In Love At A Coffee Shop"



3)  Jason Castro  ~  "Let's Just Fall In Love Again"



4)  Kellie Pickler  ~  "Makin' Me Fall In Love Again"



5)  Céline Dion & Clive Griffin  ~  "When I Fall In Love"



6)  Earth, Wind, & Fire  ~  "Fall In Love With Me"



7)  Estelle ft. John Legend  ~  "Fall In Love"



8)  UB40  ~  "Can't Help Falling In Love"



9)  Alabama  ~  "How Do You Fall In Love"



10)  Eddie Money  ~  "Fall In Love Again"



11)  Brad Paisley  ~  "Two People Fell In Love"



12)  Peter Cetera & Amy Grant  ~  "Next Time I Fall"  (As many times as I've heard this song, I never knew Amy Grant was the female singer! Did you know that?)



13)  Alicia Keys  ~  "Fallin'"



14)  Lila McCann  ~  "I Wanna Fall In Love"



15)  Gloria Estefan  ~  "Falling In Love (Uh-Oh)"



16)  The Spinners  ~  "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love"




17)  Tyler Ward ft. Alex G.  ~  "Falling"



18)  The Kelly Family  ~  "Fell In Love With An Alien"




19)  Carlene Carter  ~  "I Fell In Love"




20)  Whitton  ~  "I Fell In Love"

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

"In" & "Out" Songs

ANOTHER "Opposites" music post? Really??? Yeah, really. And there's still more where these came from. Enjoy?  ~  JH


1)  Milow  ~  "Little In The Middle"



2)  Air Supply  ~  "All Out Of Love"



3)  Stealers Wheel  ~  "Stuck In The Middle With You"




4)  Casey Abrams  ~  "Get Out"



5)  Alanis Morissette  ~  "Hand In My Pocket"



6)  Pixie Lott  ~  "Cry Me Out"




7)  Within Temptation  ~  "Shot In The Dark"



8)  Bonnie Tyler  ~  "Holding Out A Hero"



9)  Marc Cohn  ~  "Walking In Memphis"




10)  Fastball  ~  "Out Of My Head"



11)  Kina Grannis  ~  "In Your Arms"



12)  Creedence Clearwater Revival  ~  "Lookin' Out My Back Door"



13)  Genesis  ~  "In Too Deep"




14)  Gary Allan  ~  "Every Storm (Runs Out Of Rain)"



15)  Nirvana  ~  "In Bloom"



16)  Oasis  ~  "Stop Crying Your Heart Out"



17)  Terry Jacks  ~  "Seasons In The Sun"  (Wow, that hairdo!)




18)  Stephen Speaks  ~  "Out Of My League"



19)  Kate Miller-Heidke  ~  "Caught In The Crowd"



20)  "Weird Al" Yankovic  ~  "Do I Creep You Out?"

Monday, August 12, 2013

Songs By Los Angeles-Born Artists

Okay, so I heard this Beck song on the radio the other week, and I wanted to post the music video of it, but couldn't figure out how to incorporate it into a music post. (I'd already included a song by Beck in my "Mononymous Male Singers" post a few weeks back.) So I looked him up on Wikipedia and found out he was born in Los Angeles, and quickly decided that there was my angle. I would do a post of songs by artists born in the city of Los Angeles. It's a lame idea, I'll admit, but it did the trick. So here you have it, a song by Beck and 14 other people who were born in Los Angeles.  Enjoy!  ~  JH



1)  Beck  ~  "Where It's At"  (He's got two turntables and a microphone...)



2)  Belinda Carlisle  ~  "Heaven Is A Place On Earth"  (Actually, it isn't...but that doesn't mean the song's not good)



3)  Natalie Cole  ~  "This Will Be (An Everlasting Love)"  (I like her dad [Nat "King" Cole] a lot – I didn't know Natalie came out with this song)

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4)  David Crosby  ~  "Delta"  (Who needs Stills, Nash, or Young?)

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5)  Zooey Deschanel  ~  "Don't Look Back"  (Technically, the song is by She & Him, but the "She" is Zooey)



6)  Leif Garrett  ~  "When I Think Of You"  (Apparently, this fella was quite the heartthrob in his day...whatever)



7)  Josh Groban  ~  "You Are Loved (Don't Give Up)"  (Is there any song this guy can't sing well?)



8)  Etta James  ~  "Something's Got A Hold On Me"  (She was a sassy somebody in her youth...and in her old age, actually)

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9)  Katharine McPhee  ~  "Say Goodbye"  (It's so hard to say goodbye, though...)



10)  Liza Minnelli  ~  "New York, New York"  (A native Angeleno singing a song about New York...makes perfect sense)



11)  Keb' Mo' ft. Bonnie Raitt & Jackson Browne  ~  "Just Like You"  (One of the most important songs I've heard in quite a while)



12)  Randy Newman  ~  "You've Got A Friend In Me"  (Anyone who's ever seen Toy Story once – or a thousand times – will recognize Newman's distinctive singing voice...and this song, too)



13)  Elliott Yamin  ~  "Wait For You"  (Good song – I'd sort of forgotten about this one, but I like it)



14)  Gwyneth Paltrow  ~  "Country Strong"  (Country strong, but Los Angeles-bred)



15)  Emily Osment  ~  "You Are The Only One"  (Pretty generic teen-pop-crap by the sister of that creepy kid from The Sixth Sense movie)

Thursday, August 8, 2013

"First" & "Last" Songs

More "Opposites" songs to distract you from this dreary Thursday. Some really good songs here. Take a listen.  ~  JH



1)  Barry White  ~  "You Are The First, The Last, My Everything"



2)  David Guetta ft. Taped Rai  ~  "Just One Last Time"



3)  Kylie  Minogue  ~  "Love At First Sight"



4)  Creed  ~  "One Last Breath"



5)  Roberta Flack  ~  "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"



6)  Michael Bublé  ~  "Save The Last Dance For Me"



7)  Lifehouse  ~  "First Time"



8)  Vanessa Williams  ~  "Save The Best For Last"



9)  Sade  ~  "Never As Good As The First Time"



10)  Electric Light Orchestra  ~  "Last Train To London"



11)  SOKO  ~  "First Love Never Die"



12)  Keane  ~  "This Is The Last Time"



13)  Fiona Apple  ~  "The First Taste"



14)  Céline Dion  ~  "The Last To Know"



15)  Foreigner  ~  "Feels Like The First Time"



16)  Etta James  ~  "At Last"



17)  Surface  ~  "The First Time"



18)  Steel Magnolia  ~  "Last Night Again"



19)  The Kelly Family  ~  "The First Time"



20)  Jeff Buckley  ~  "Last Goodbye"