Birthday Shuffle a Deux #16

I Hate Everyone - Get Set Go



I love Grey's Anatomy.  Or, I should say, I used to love Grey's Anatomy.  Mostly it was the medicine and remembering how it was to be a surgery resident.  A lot of competition, a lot of late nights and hard work, and a lot of camaraderie.  The drama and romances... well, at least not in my residency program.

This song is sometimes the theme music for my day.  I work in an Emergency Department, and there are days when I do hate everyone.  The physician's desk is near the triage window, so I get a "preview of coming attractions" throughout the day.  Sometimes, the presenting complaints just make me cringe and wish I'd gone into something else... back to surgery perhaps...?

Patients that drive me the most crazy:
 - multiple medical problem patients that don't stop smoking, don't stop drinking, forget to fill their medications on time and come in because they're on the verge of collapse.  They get admitted, all of their medical problems readjusted, sent out with scripts and follow-ups and then come back several weeks later to do it all over again.
 - dental pain.  Your teeth are bad, you continue to smoke, you'd rather spend money on meth than a toothbrush and a dentist.  And, they always seem to come in on Friday or Saturday nights or at six in the morning... funny about that...
 - as seen on WebMD.  Stop looking up differentials on your smart phone and arguing with me about diagnosis and treatment.
 - repeat customers.  I know you're a drunk, everyone in town knows you're a drunk.  Sit in the middle of your room away from stairs, porches, your cat, chairs, ladders, and car doors and maybe you won't fall down three nights in a row needing to call 911 and getting so much radiation you glow.  If the liver cirrhosis doesn't get you, cancer from all of the scans and films we've had to do just might.
 - rashes... I just don't like them...

Birthday Shuffle a Deux #15

We're almost halfway through... whew!!

Bendita Tu Luz - Mana

This was our wedding song.  About two weeks before the wedding, we realized we didn't have any of the music ready.  Granted, we only had 4 months total in which to plan the wedding, so songs weren't at the top of the list.

Hubby and I sat down one day via phone (he in Atlanta and I in Buffalo), and we went through song after song trying to decide.  Finally we had everything but the final song, the one we would exit as man and wife to.  I had always liked the band Mana, and I started going through videos of their songs.  Then we came across this one.  The rhythmn, the words, everything about it spoke to the way we had met and fallen in love.  We had it..!  Enjoy...!

Bendito el lugar, y el motivo de estar ahí, (blessed the place and the reason for being there)
Bendita la coincidencia, (blessed the coincidence)
Bendito el reloj, que nos puso puntual ahí, (blessed the clock, that put both us both there at the same time)
Bendita sea tu presencia. (blessed is your presence)

Bendito Dios por encontrarnos, en el camino, (blessed God for finding us on the same road)
Y de quitarme esta soledad, de mi destino. (and for taking away loneliness from my destiny)

Bendita la luz, bendita la luz de tu mirada, (blessed the light, blessed the light of your glance)
Bendita la luz, bendita la luz de tu mirada, (blessed the light, blessed the light of your glance)
Desde el alma. (from the soul)

Bendito ojos, que me esquivaban, (blessed eyes that peeked at me)
Simulaban desde que me ignoraban, (stimulating even though they seemed to ignore me)
Y de repente, sostienes la mirada. (and suddenly you held the gaze)

Bendito Dios por encontrarnos, en el camino, (blessed God for finding us on the same road)
Y de quitarme esta soledad, de mi destino. (and for taking away loneliness from my destiny)

Bendita la luz, bendita la luz de tu mirada, (blessed the light, blessed the light of your glance)
Bendita la luz, bendita la luz de tu mirada, (blessed the light, blessed the light of your glance)

Gloria divina, diste suerte de buen tino, (Divine glory, you gave luck)
Y de encontrarte justo ahí, en medio del camino, (and to find you there in the middle of the road)
Gloria al cielo de encontrarte ahora, (Glory to heaven for finding you now)
Llevarte mi soledad, y coincidir en mi destino, (Taking away my lonliness and putting my fate together)
En el mismo destino. (in the same fate)

Bendita la luz, bendita la luz de tu mirada,
Bendita la luz, bendita la luz de tu mirada,
Bendita mirada,
Bendita mirada desde el alma, tu mirada,
Bendita, bendita, bendita mirada,
Bendita tu alma y bendita tu luz.

Tu mirada, oh, oh, oh,
Digo es tan bendita tu luz, amor, amor,
Bendito el reloj y bendito el lugar, (blessed the clock and blessed the place)
Benditos tus besos cerquita del mar, (blessed your kisses close to the sea)
Y tu mirada, amor, amor, (and your glance, love, love)
Que bendita tú mirada, tu mirada amor.

BIrthday Shuffle a Deux #14

How Bizarre - OMC

Just a fun song.  Another one of those you can sing along to.  Rumor has it the lead singer was a juvenile delinquent and the song is about being on the run from the law.  Or, it's just about a road trip on a crazy kinda day.  Either way, it's on my iPod as just a fun song...

Birthday Shuffle a Deux #13

I couldn't find the scene in English, but you get the point.

Oh, Yeah by Yello

I love "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," and I know I have written about it before.  This song is just musician's having fun, and it's been used widely in movies and commercials.  I'll always remember it from the "Ferris Bueller" movie.  The Ferrari scene for sure, but also for the ending.  It's probably one of the first movie endings I remember being told to actually watch until the end of the credits. And, I did. And, I enjoyed...!
This is another one of those songs that didn't appear in the soundtrack and which I had to track down to add it to my collection. Again, thank you Napster...

Birthday Shuffle a Deux #12

Today is my birthday so I spin the big iPod wheel and come up with... Surprise! Veronica by Elvis Costello Hey, it's my birthday, and I can cheat if I want to... When I posted about this song last year, it was the song I started the month off to. This year I thought using it as my song on the day if my actual birthday seemed more apropos... N'est pas? Enjoy!

Birthday Shuffle a Deux #11

The Kinks - All Day and All of the Night

It's funny the memories a song can bring back, and to me this song was one of the quintessential songs of high school dances.  I think that every high school band I ever heard at a dance played this song.  It was loud and raucous and all you really had to do was basically jump around to dance to it.  Not that I did much dancing at high school dances.

High school dances for me were a time to hang out with friends and be "out" for the evening.  We piled into a parent's car, got a fresh layer of make-up in the bathroom, inhaled the scent of cloves which the "older girls" smoked, and then hung out like wall flowers watching everyone else until it was the assigned time to be picked up.  I watched other people dance which is probably why I couldn't dance when I got to college.  That took a summer of going to 18 and Over clubs with my friend PAB to be able to accomplish.

Now I could dance to this song.  Now I sometimes do dance to this song... at home... in the kitchen... while I'm cooking.  Hey, don't laugh, you just gotta move your feet when the music moves you... 

Birthday Shuffle a Deux #10

Getting this one in just under the wire...

Cha Cha Cha by Jimmy Luxury and the Tommy Rome Orchestra

I think I might have mentioned somewhere that I love music from movies.  A lot of the music on my iPod is from movie soundtracks.  Sometimes I will research a snippet of a song I heard in the background of a movie or TV show until I find it.  That's what happened with this song.

It's played for just a few seconds in the movie "Ocean's Eleven."  If you remember the scene where Brad Pitt is sitting staring in a bar.  The one where he tells the bartender, "I'm sleeping with your wife."  You hear just a few bars of "Cha cha cha..." and that's it.  That's all there is in the whole movie.  But, as soon as I heard it, I knew I wanted the music.  I had to wait until it came out on DVD to get the full movie soundtrack listing.  Then, once I found out the name and the band, how to get it for download...?

Luckily, at that time, I was a member of Napster, and.... enough said.  Of course, now you can enjoy the video which was on YouTube... you can get just about anything on YouTube... except that bar scene which I was looking for... but here is the trailer... Enjoy!  I can watch this movie over and over...