On Repeat: The Beatles

This weekend marked the golden anniversary of The Beatles arrival in the U.S. and their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show. Being my favorite band I listen to a LOT of Beatles' music and today is no different. Here's a sampling of my favorites.  

In My Life

- I've already decided this will be what my father-daughter dance will be at my wedding.

Across the Universe

- Although this song is not intended to be a worship song by any means, I can't help but feel closer to The Lord while listening to it. Maybe it's something about how the minutiae of life is contrasted with the phrase Jai guru deva ohm which means "victory to God divine."

Eight Days a Week

- So upbeat and fun to dance to! This is another future wedding song.

Octopus's Garden

- This kid's I nanny and babysit for love this song and I can see why. It's so sweet and almost sounds like it could be a cartoon.

Here Comes the Sun

- Who can't help but smile when they hear this song? I always think the scene in The Parent Trap when it comes on.

Let it Be

- Basically perfect.

Hey Jude

- Again, basically perfect and a great crowd pleaser. It was so fun singing this at the Paul McCartney concert with 40,000 others.

There's so many more I didn't include for the sake of keeping this post a bearable length.

But surprise! Here's a quick clip of that first appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show! I couldn't resist. :)

What are your favorite Beatles' songs?

My Plan

So now that the semester has started and craziness is setting in, I'm making a plan to keep me on schedule on with where I want this blog to go. Here it is.

Weekly:

Each week I'll be having the following posts

- songs I've become obsessed with

- how I organize different aspects of my life

- funny things I've discovered over the week

Monthly:

- favorites of the month

- goals I have for the month

- 2014 Resolution progress

I can see this already helping me create a better blog with more reasonable goals. :)

What posts would you like to see?

On Repeat

When I like a song I tended to find it on Spotify and listen to on repeat until I can't stand it anymore. Too much of a good thing eh? So here's what I've been playing and haven't gotten sick of quite yet.

The Mango Tree - Gareth Bush: I can't remember where I first heard it but this song is a little slice of heaven. Fave line: When your heart and mind just don't agree// Meet me at the mango tree. 

Wake Up - Arcade Fire: I definitely remember hearing this for the first time in The Secret Life of Walter Mitty during the airport/airplane montage. 

Pompeii - Bastille: Again not sure where I heard it, I just really like the chanting.

The Soundtrack to Frozen: Disney is always perfect IMHO but Frozen was really something special and the soundtrack doesn't disappoint. Picking a favorite track is really hard but I'd go with In Summer, Love is an Open Door (which is surprisingly dark in hindsight, but really perfect: four for you Disney, you go Disney), and Vuelie. 

Christmas Cheer

Please, say it with me...

"The best way to spread Christmas Cheer is singing loud for all to hear" - elf

There's an atmosphere from late November to December that never fails to disappoint, it really is the most wonderful time of the year. ;) I look forward to ABC Family's 25 Days of Christmas, to playing my seven hour (and growing!) long playlist of Christmas songs, to baking cookies, to holiday parties, to Secret Santa exchanges, to our Christmas Eve traditions, to It's A Wonderful Life and elf. It's perfect.

To get even more in the mood here's my 10 Essential Christmas Songs playlist. (Quite honestly I would  love to the 150+ song playlist I having going on Spotify though!)

What's your favorite part of the Christmas season?

glee

#Confession I've been on a major glee kick lately, it's my guilty pleasure. 

Like spending a huge part of last night and today watching it on Netflix and Hulu... 

I was a sophomore in high school when the show premiered in the fall of 2009 and, my friends, classmates, even some teachers (I'm looking at you Mrs. Whitehaus) and I were hooked. Something about glee is inherently likable: the characters, the storylines, and my favorite part: the sheer audacity. Each week I tuned in to see what was happening in Lima, Ohio. That was until the job I had caused me to miss a few weeks here and there but overall I caught up on Hulu and saw what episodes I could on TV. Looking back part of charm was many of the characters were my age. When they graduated high school, I graduated too; when they started college so did I. And so I began to watch regularly again last year and over Christmas break I binged on it and backed off over last semester. After hearing about Cory Monteith's death this summer I found myself watching many of his performances again. I also surprisingly enjoyed this season's opener which was a two-part tribute to The Beatles. <3 (another post on my love for the Fab Four later.)

Tomorrow, I will definitely be watching "The Quarterback."

"Be it's very definition, Glee is about opening yourself up to joy" - glee, "Pilot"


Do you watch glee? What are your guilty pleasures?