From the "Happy Or Else" folder
Sep. 13th, 2010 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squeequegToday kinda sucked. Here in Boston, it was gray, gray, horrible gray, and the day job wasn't much better. I ended up in a really lousy funk during work (and after, since I had to stay late), and this wasn't helped by the realization that I'd been listening to "Brian Wilson" by the Barenaked Ladies on a loop for a little while. Great song; not helping.
As there's only so much I can do in these circumstances, I've been self-medicating with chicken soup, hot chocolate, and aggressively cheerful music. But since a lot of people seem to be going through the same thing, I thought I'd share. Misery may love company, but defiant joy throws better parties.
So here's four from my "Fuck You, I Refuse To Be Sad Right Now" playlist. Post some of your own music that chases off bad moods! Or cat pictures! Or corgi videos! Or anything else that makes you smile or brings back a little of the sunlight!
As there's only so much I can do in these circumstances, I've been self-medicating with chicken soup, hot chocolate, and aggressively cheerful music. But since a lot of people seem to be going through the same thing, I thought I'd share. Misery may love company, but defiant joy throws better parties.
So here's four from my "Fuck You, I Refuse To Be Sad Right Now" playlist. Post some of your own music that chases off bad moods! Or cat pictures! Or corgi videos! Or anything else that makes you smile or brings back a little of the sunlight!
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Date: 2010-09-14 04:02 am (UTC)I can be remarkably cheered up by any of the songs from The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T—"Get Together Weather" and the "Dressing Song (Do-Mi-Do Duds)" in particular.
(Should either song become stuck in your head, I own mp3s and will gladly share.)
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Date: 2010-09-14 04:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-14 04:14 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmhVY2PLc-c
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Date: 2010-09-14 11:44 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7vXP3tHzhA&feature=player_embedded
:)
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Date: 2010-09-14 01:04 pm (UTC)I'm Still Standing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz7ifClpT4g)
(Oddly, I can't find the original video. Is there something that's actually not on YouTube?)
Two videos I watched an embarrassing number of times during Clarion:
Right in Front of Your Eyes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4sPQjwCfsg)
Life on Mars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW0ACEOEq6w)
Two videos on the same topic that never fail to make me smile:
Melange (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79D8SRrqX5U)
Four Chord Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I)
See you Saturday at the reading!
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Date: 2010-09-14 01:19 pm (UTC)have a happy earworm.
Date: 2010-09-14 01:34 pm (UTC)Of course, it's all stuttery and crap on my phone right now, but I will manage. :-)
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Date: 2010-09-14 01:59 pm (UTC)http://plixi.com/p/44217234
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Date: 2010-09-14 02:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-14 02:44 pm (UTC)It's set to a remix of the top 25 pop songs of 2009, so it's the absolute most perfectly crafted earworm of a song, with a "get up when you knocked down" message and A:TLA graphics! It's the perfect storm of a pick-me-up!
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Date: 2010-09-14 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-14 04:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 01:12 am (UTC)I find the Bookie Wookie blog to often be full of goodness and light.
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:35 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:37 am (UTC)what...
If they need to sing this, we need to film it. Can we start having Musical Number night? Plaid suits optional.
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 02:46 am (UTC)For me, this version of Life on Mars (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOdUClEiNGE) seems to be just right. I'm not quite sure why. And the Ukelele Orchestra will forever be associated in my mind with HEATHCLIFF! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF0VaBxb27w)
See you then!
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Date: 2010-09-15 02:54 am (UTC)And now I'm hungry for bananas too.
Re: have a happy earworm.
Date: 2010-09-15 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 03:05 am (UTC)...happy monsters...
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Date: 2010-09-15 03:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 03:15 am (UTC)ahem. That's a great vid -- and I love DJ Earworm already!
also FUCK YEAH TOPH
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Date: 2010-09-15 03:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 03:24 am (UTC)And ooo, books...
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Date: 2010-09-15 03:45 am (UTC)Dailymotion to the rescue! Ugh, sorry about the annoying ads and the inability to embed it.
Elton John -- I'm Still Standing
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Date: 2010-09-15 03:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-15 06:18 am (UTC)* "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Commitments version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cshw-LvHlkM)
* "Purple Rain" by Prince
* "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head" (by that old crooner whose name I can't remember
* "Here Comes the Rain Again" x Eurythmics
etc.
* My first winter here, it rained some portion of every single day in February. I was going fairly nutty by the end of that month.
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Date: 2010-09-15 12:49 pm (UTC)I remember seeing this on MTV when I was a kid and being both entertained and very, very confused.
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Date: 2010-09-16 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-16 01:26 am (UTC)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WgT9gy4zQA
and this... (end of ze world)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2f8grWE7AOw
and oh so NSFW... (webguy vs. salesdude)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4D2rQFN3z0
and lastly, poke the penguin! http://gamesville.com/html_downloads/pokePenguin.php
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Date: 2010-09-16 03:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-16 03:28 am (UTC)Teary Farewell Friday should be good.
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Date: 2010-09-16 03:36 pm (UTC)