Cover Me!
I woke up at 4:10am from a nightmare (no more cop shows for me!) and had a hard time going back to bed. This is pretty par for the course these days that something will wake me up between 3 and 4am and I lie there for about an hour. At least I have Peggle!
In my fuzzy headedness this morning, I considered staying home today (and under the covers for most of it). I managed to rally, so I present a few things I accomplished by getting out of bed today, if for no other reason than to justify to myself that it was a solid decision.
I snagged another great OV license plate in my morning commute for my growing collection. I think warm weather brings them all out.
I received a bunch of new maternity clothes in the mail (crazy Old Navy sale! $4 tank tops!) and all of them fit. They will greatly help in my quest to have clean clothes each morning that don’t squeeze my bladder or look like a tent.
Rich and I went swimming after work in the incredibly warm and conveniently located pool in our back yard. I love that pool!
I convinced Rich to stand with me for a photo, but as usual, this was the best one from the entire set.
Finally, the most productive thing I did today was create a mix for you. I have been mulling this over in my skull for months and Pet Shop Boys inspired me on the way home. So I present to you a compilation of several unique covers for classic and/or familiar songs. A few have sprinklings of naughty words in them (Gin and Juice and I Will Survive, as far as I recall), so be warned.
Cover Me! (an OpenTape creation)
Let me know if there are any other covers you particularly love. It was fun tracking all these down this evening.
If you don’t already know about it, you should check out Coverville – a podcast of new and unusual covers.
http://coverville.com/
Ben loves it. He is somewhat of a cover aficionado.
I enjoyed your cover tape. Nothing Compares to You is going on my Ipod as is Cake doing I Will Survive. My favorite cover at the moment is Spiderbait doing Black Betty. Bam a lam!
Genie Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
Ooh, I didn’t know Coverville existed, so I’ll definitely check it out! Songs like Misty amaze me that they are even the same song as the original, they’re just such a different arrangement.
You are so…NOT pregnant looking! I am envious. Well, not really because I am glad I am not pregnant, but when I WAS, I looked like that at about, oh, day three?
Genie Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I’ve been watching those bizarre shows on Discovery Health of “I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant” and it’s all very strange how they can come up with reasons for all their symptoms other than a person living inside them. I guess I would too if I was still bleeding every month. But a lot of those women just assumed they were eating too many donuts.
I’m listening to The Gourds’ Gin and Juice and laughing myself silly.
Another kickass Cake Cover: Barry White’s Never Never Gonna Give You Up.
Thanks for the mix tape!
Genie Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 12:24 am
Ooh, I’ll have to check out that Cake song (I love Cake – they rock!). And Gin and Juice is one of my all time favorite covers ever. I’m always a little disappointed to hear the original.