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My Life According to Duran Duran

Helen — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:34:28 +0000

Because Kelly A. tagged me, and I haven’t done this one in a while and for some reason have never picked my first favorite band:

Using only SONG names from ONE ARTIST, cleverly answer these questions. Pass it on to at least 15 people and include me. You can’t use the band I used. Try not to repeat a song title. It’s a lot harder than you think! Repost as “my life according to (band name)”

Pick your Artist:
Duran Duran

Are you a male or female?
Girls on Film

Describe yourself:
Notorious

How do you feel:
Hungry Like the Wolf

Describe where you currently live:
Planet Earth

If you could go anywhere where would you go?
Ordinary World

Your favorite form of transportation:
The Chauffeur

Your best friend is:
Friends of Mine

What’s the weather like:
Hold Back the Rain

Favorite time of day:
New Moon on Monday

If your life was a TV show, it would be called:
All She Wants Is

What is life to you:
What Happens Tomorrow

Your fear:
Come Undone

What is the best advice you have to give:
Reach Up for the Sunrise

Thought for the Day:
New Religion

How I would like to die:
Red Carpet Massacre

My soul’s present condition:
Shadows on Your Side

My motto:
My Own Way

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Helcat on Blip.fm: the Apocalypse Party

Helen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 02:32:03 +0000

Since I’m lame and don’t have a rig anymore, I have to resort to social music sets to get my earbugs out. I love blip.fm — it’s the service I use to embed a tune on the top-right corner of my blog. I haven’t been using playlist.com as much, but that’s more a function of not being in myspace so much ever since most of my missed connections are now on Facebook.

However, I have to dismantle old playlists on blip before I can put together a new one, and since I’ve had a request to restore my Cellar Door set to the current one (those crazy high school friends I’m back in touch with!) I really want to archive the set I chose for my apocalypse party, in case I ever have a chance to spin it real time.

So, without further ado, Helcat’s economic meltdown party from Sept. 16. Actually, it’s been a month, about frigging time for me to post a new one!

Until The End Of The World – U2
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) – R.E.M.
1999 – Prince
Love Shack – B-52s
Groove Is In The Heart – Dee Lite
Love Is Noise (DM/DS Death and Glory Mix – The Verve
No One Lives Forever – Oingo Boingo
Til The End Of Time – DeVotchka
Once In A Lifetime – Wolfsheim
What You Feel – The Cast Of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
True Faith – New Order | play
Welcome Tomorrow – Love and Rockets
All Tomorrow’s Parties – Bryan Ferry
Come Tomorrow – Chicane
Ordinary World – Simon Le Bon & Pavarotti
Save a Prayer – Duran Duran
Let the Day Begin – The Call
Final Man – Covenant
Dead Man’s Party – Oingo Boingo
All You Zombies – The Hooters
Somnambulistic – Information Society
I will survive – Cake

My favorite discovery during this was Come Tomorrow, by Chicane, typically known for being an ibiza trance act. While you can hear the trance influence in the music, it’s considerably more organic.

Join me any time on blip at http://blip.fm/djhelcat!

Pandor—uhhhhhhhhh

Helen — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:03:51 +0000

Usually, among my faithy colleagues, I’m the early adopter for most new toys. Being a DJ in my former life, it’s hard to let the control go, so I’d never given Pandora a look until the Very Rev. Nick Knisely, who’s oh-so-very VERY (heh, had to!) asked me why I hadn’t told him about its musicky goodness. I was caught clueless, and sheepish. See, I use Playlist.com to build embeddable playlists, Blip.fm to microblog my various earworms, iLike.com (via Facebook) to get updates from bands I like, and Last.fm to explore music (and I still use gnod, so there). So, I really didn’t think I needed another music tagging service to keep track of.

Nick+ had mentioned Pandora had iPhone integration so I decided to give it a whirl. Oh, Lord. See, I’m a woman of many genres, and finally I have a way to broadcast all of them on separate channels, tune into whichever I want, and share the results in all their crazy mishmoshedness.

So far I’ve set up Radio Helcat 80s, Radio Helcat Industrial, Radio Helcat Bluegrass and Radio Helcat Modern. And I’m quite sure I’m going to have to set up a Baroque channel, a movie score channel, and .. hmm. Eventually they’re going to have to cut me off.

But they, like every other social music service, totally lack any songs by Modern English other than that one we shall not name. That’s going to be the barometer, for me, of how fabulous a service is, because I will not rest until “Someone’s Calling” gets the love it deserves. (And for that matter, becomes my ring tone.)