Daily Archives: August 7, 2008

Cover It Up, Baby.

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Oh look, I just found a half-written entry from September 13, 2007. I think I’ll publish it now. Just for fun. As one does.
My friend Megan recently posted a list of favorite covers.

Here are some of mine:

  • “Only You” Joshua Radin (covering Yaz)
  • “Baby Got Back” Jonathan Coulton (covering Sir Mix-a-lot, don’t ya know)
  • “Build Me Up [Buttercup]” Rhymefest & ODB (covering…some old song?)
  • “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” Everlast (covering Neil Young)
  • “Faith” Boy Least Likely To (George Michael)
  • “Crazy” Raconteurs (Gnarls Barkley)
  • “Jessie’s Girl” Matt the Electrician (Rick Springfield)
  • “Take It on the Run” The Folk Yous (REO Speedwagon & my favorite karaoke song!)
  • “The Glory of Love” A New Found Glory (Peter Cetera?)
  • “Walk Away” Eliza Carthy (Ben Harper)
  • “True Love Will Find You in the End” Beck (Daniel Johnston)
  • “Tiny Dancer” Ben Folds (Elton John)
  • “Thin Line” Indigo Girls (Gerard McHugh?)
  • “Take Me Out” The Magic Numbers (Franz Ferdinand)
  • “Since U Been Gone” Ted Leo (Kelly Clarkson)
  • “Ms. Jackson” The Vines (Outkast)
  • “Helplessly Hoping” Ride (CSNY – sounds so much like the original, it’s barely a cover!)
  • “Give a Little Bit” GooGoo Dolls (Supertramp – hmmm, same issue as above)

À la Super Eggplant, currently, I am…

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Eating: Goldfish. (Original flavor) They just never get old.

Making: One secret thing. Sometimes. Rarely. When lying on the floor gets too boring.

Reading: Neither Dad nor I have finished last month’s challenge book yet (it was too damn big to carry around so I was only reading it at home except when do I read at home? Not often, turns out), but we decided to move on to this month’s for now and go back and finish the other after…. so that means I’m reading Volume 1 of “The Man Without Qualities” by Robert Musil. It’s not laugh out loud funny but there’s sort of a dry sardonic undertone. So I’m enjoying it.

Watching: Firefly, for the zillioneth time (and then Serenity but of course). Since both Carrie and my future husband are watching it right now, I needed a refresher in case they feel like talking about it.

Listening to: Stuff I bought in June like Fleet Foxes and Shearwater and Jakob Dylan and The Fratellis and James Hunter and Lil Wayne and Port O’Brien. Yeah I have this dream that I will review all June & July albums by month’s end and be ALL CAUGHT UP in time to start fresh with the “school year” so to speak. But don’t hold your breath, I wouldn’t want to be the cause of any untimely deaths.