Collecting song titles and artists

If you have a minute, or need to procrastinate for a minute, please send me a few song titles and artists. I hope to collect a completely random sample from a wide variety of musical genres. Please submit a popular favorite, a lesser-known favorite, and/or something that makes you find a new radio station.

My main character has just opened a bar, and she is going to have trouble finding the right band to suit the image that she is trying to create for her establishment. I need some good as well as some heinous selections.

Thanks!

365 days = 100 books?

I've often wondered what my lifetime total of books read would be...

One Christmas, my uncle mentioned trying to get 100 books read in a year. I kept that in the back of my head for a couple years, and then finally started documenting my reading list in 2003. I can't quit. I fear that I'm doomed to a lifetime of booklisting.

The additional challenge lies in that most of my November free time is spent in an attempt to write my own novel. (See www.nanowrimo.org) The additional inspiration/competition is that my mother is now keeping track of her annual lists.

So, at ten books a month for ten months, leaving November for one or two books and novel-writing, and December for one or two books and Christmas shopping, it's entirely possible, right?

It's July, and I should be in the 70s, but I'm still in the low 60s. For sharing purposes, I also keep my list in excel files so that it is more easily emailable to my other reader-friends. The book list at the right contains my last ten books. Let me know if you're interested in the list of the first 50!

Welcome to my tiny virtual world...

Words that I thought I would never type...

If I hadn't done so before, I've now entered the realm of official geekdom by learning how to create a blog. So, welcome to my cyber-entity that I have thus far lived without.

It will be interesting to see how much this site is actually used. I had a brief addiction, from which I've recovered, to http://www.writing.com/, where my portfolio has two items. I have published a bad poem, "Candy," and a children's book excerpt, "Maggie". (Can I call it an excerpt when the published piece is the entirety of what I've written because the rest of the YA novel isn't written yet?) I just received another comment for "Maggie" three days ago, and it has been there since February 2006.

But for now, I've added a couple of cool writing links that I use a lot. If we don't have time for my Nanowrimo promotion, maybe I'll write it and post it here.