Continuing “80’s Week” or whatever. Anyway, continuing from yesterday’s Blast from the Past, today I present Mix Tape B4. As always, I try to find official videos where possible and link to those.

Only two duplicates today, so Pete and Teeni have less reason to complain. Of course, it’s still vintage 80’s, which will set Michelle off…

And, fresh on the heels of Teeni’s comment yesterday, guess who the first song is by…

SIDE A
“Who Loves Ya Baby” - Debbie Gibson
“Vogue” - Madonna
“Seeds of Love” - Tears for Fears
“Touch of Grey” - The Grateful Dead
“At the End of the Line” - The Traveling Wilburys
“The Glory of Love” - Peter Cetera
“So Happy Together” - The Turtles
“Sound of Silence” - Simon & Garfunkel*
“For the Longest Time” - Billy Joel
“Let It Be” - The Beatles
“Next Time I Fall” - Amy Grant & Peter Cetera

SIDE B
“Doctor Who - Mood Version” - Mark Ayres**
“Doctor Who - Terror Version” - Dominic Glynn**
“Doctor Who - Latin Version” - Keff McCulloch**
“Panopticon Eight - Regeneration Minx” - Mark Ayres**
“Doctorin’ the TARDIS” - The Timelords

Feel free to share your memories of any of these songs in the comments.

*You might enjoy the Gregorian version too.

**Sorry, these aren’t available on YouTube. But, take my word for it, they’re pretty cool. I have them on the world’s first square CD!

Perhaps I should have dubbed this “80’s Week” or something. Anyway, continuing from yesterday’s Blast from the Past, today I present Mix Tape B3. As always, I try to find official videos where possible and link to those.

Only four duplicates today, and none of them on the A side, so Pete and Teeni won’t have much reason to complain.

SIDE A
“Iko Iko” - The Belle Stars*
“Wild World” - Maxi Priest
“Perfect World” - Huey Lewis & the News
“Good Lovin’” - Bobby McFerrin
“Staying Together” - Debbie Gibson**
“This is Love” - George Harrison
“I’m Into Something Good” - Peter Noone
“Like a Prayer” - Madonna

SIDE B
“Time and Tide” - Basia
“La Isla Bonita” - Madonna***
“Danger Zone” - Kenny Loggins
“We Didn’t Start the Fire” - Billy Joel****
“Things We Said Today” - The Beatles
“Axel F” - Harold Faltermeyer
“Runaway” - Del Shannon
“Man in the Mirror” - Michael Jackson
“Only in My Dreams” - Debbie Gibson

Feel free to share your memories of any of these songs in the comments.

*I won’t tell you how many times I listened to this song over and over, because I don’t have a count. Cool song. Here, listen again. There you go, Teeni, that’s one to boost your spirits and get you moving, more so than this one.

**This song probably does not remind you of The Grapes of Wrath, but when you do your summer reading assignment while listening to a Debbie Gibson tape, that sort of thing can happen.

***This one reminds me of Latin II. We had an exchange student from Spain. Her name was Begonia. At the end of the school year, we all wrote down her address and said we’d write. (We didn’t have the Internet back then.) The next school year, nobody I talked to had actually written to her. I wonder what ever happened to her.

****I did a parody of this one called, “I Didn’t Pass Calculus.” Don’t get the wrong idea, I passed Calculus, but I wrote the lyrics with all the calculus functions and all that. Would have been a great learning aid for math students.

Continuing from yesterday’s Blast from the Past, today I present Mix Tape B2. As always, I try to find official videos where possible and link to those.

Hopefully, there won’t be any duplicates so Pete and Teeni will have no reason to complain.

SIDE A
“The Flame” - Cheap Trick
“Never Tear Us Apart” - INXS*
“I Don’t Want to Live Without You” - Foreigner
“A Groovy Kind of Love” - Phil Collins
“Foolish Beat” - Debbie Gibson
“Heart of Mine” - Boz Scaggs*
“Kissing a Fool” - George Michael*
“Don’t Know What You Got” - Cinderella*
“Look Away” - Chicago
“Lost in Your Eyes” - Debbie Gibson*
“Teenager in Love” - Dion**

SIDE B
“One More Try” - George Michael
“When It’s Love” - Van Halen
“Two Hearts” - Phil Collins
“Don’t Shed a Tear” - Paul Carrack*
“Waiting for a Star to Fall” - Boy Meets Girl
“Out of the Blue” - Debbie Gibson
“Don’t Be Cruel” - Cheap Trick
“The Loco-Motion” - Kylie Minogue
“I Wanna Dance…” - Whitney Houston
“Shake Your Love” - Debbie Gibson
“Kokomo” - The Beach Boys

Feel free to share your memories of any of these songs in the comments.

*Dang. There were duplicates from the Tearjerker Song Meme post. There’s duplicates in Mix Tape B3 too. Pete and Teeni will just have to deal. Here, this one wasn’t a duplicate. Listen to it again.

**Actual the version on my mix tape was from an awards program in the 1980’s. I couldn’t find that on YouTube, so you’ll have to settle for an older version.

Earlier, I posted my “Blast from the Past: Mix Tape B1.”

Watch this video at 0:46. There is a clip of John F. Kennedy saying, “We should rebuild our military strength not because we want to declare war but because we want to declare peace….”

Does anyone know when and where that speech was from? I haven’t found anything on Google or Yahoo on it. Also, I looked for other videos on YouTube but didn’t find anything.

If you look at his suit, he has a ribbon. I’m wondering if maybe that was a speech made when he was a candidate running for President. The podium also does not appear to have the Presidential seal.

Anyone know from whence it came?

Yesterday, I did the “Hit by the Tearjerker Song Meme” that Teeni tagged me with. I posted 36 songs instead of just one.

That got me thinking. You know, way back when nobody had heard of the Internet, we made mix tapes. Like the Internet, record companies hated them because they were so worried they were losing money, even though many of us owned the albums we made the mix tapes from!

People usually think of mix tapes as something they put together and give to their special someone, but we also made our own mix tapes of songs we liked and in the order we liked them. Maybe we’ll do a moody song and follow it up with something lighter. And, we could skip over all the songs on an album that they put there for filler that no one really listens to. Ever.

We also had mix tapes we might listen to at work, or for studying, etc. Mix tapes aren’t just for lovers!

So, I dug out my dusty box of mix tapes, which luckily are more accessible due to some cleaning a few weeks back. Here is what I had on mix tape B1. As always, I try to find official videos where possible and link to those.

SIDE A
“Electric Youth” - Debbie Gibson
“Fab” - George Harrison
“Imagine” - John Lennon
“Bye Bye Love” - The Everly Brothers
“Don’t Worry, Be Happy” - Bobby McFerrin
“And I Love Her” - The Beatles
“Hands to Heaven” - Breathe
“Do You Love Me?” - The Contours
“Got My Mind Set on You” - George Harrison*

SIDE B
“Don’t Lose My Number” - Phil Collins
“She’s Like the Wind” - Patrick Swayze
“Rescue Me” - Fontella Bass
“Always on My Mind” - The Pet Shop Boys
“Electric Blue” - Icehouse
“Hazy Shade of Winter” - The Bangles
“Say You Will” - Foreigner
“Red Red Wine” - UB40

Feel free to share your memories of any of these songs in the comments.

*There were two videos released for this song. The first, which is the one in the link, features Alexis Denisof, later of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel fame.

The blue-green swirly circle above represents the mass of the Earth.

See that tiny little red dot in the middle? That represents the mass of the entire human population (estimated 6.6 billion). And, actually, to truly represent it in scale, you wouldn’t be able to see the dot at all on this small of a circle. The dot would have to be fractions of a pixel in size!

You see, the mass of the entire human population on Earth is just 1.5 trillionth of Earth’s total mass.

Oh, I know what you’re thinking: What about surface area?

Okay, the Earth’s surface area is about 196,935,000 square miles, of which 30% is land, leaving about 59,080,500 square miles of land surface area.

Now, if we imagine all the world’s population standing together, each of us occupying approximately 2 square feet of space, here is what we would have:

The green represents the land surface area of the Earth, and the tiny red dot represents the entire human population standing together. That tiny red dot is just 1 pixel in size and to be more accurate, it would have to be 8/10 of a pixel in size to be truly representative.

And, just for kicks, how about we give each person on Earth a one-story 2,000 square foot home. How might that look if we put all the homes next to each other?

Just something to think about!

SOURCES:
Mass of All the People on Earth: http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2006/DanielTouger.shtml (site viewed May 14, 2008)
Google Search: “world population“: “Population: 6,602,224,175 (July 2007 est.)” (searched May 14, 2008)
Google Search: “mass of the earth“: “mass of Earth = 5.9742 × 1024 kilograms” (searched May 14, 2008)
Yahoo Answers: What is the surface area of the Earth in square miles?: 196,935,000 square miles, 30% of which is land. (site viewed May 14, 2008)

Peep.

I have a post I’ve been working on, but haven’t felt up to finishing it this evening. As has been my custom in the past when I was lacking for a post, I dig out an old poem to share.

I have lots of old books and there are lots of little treasures that frequently seem to be lost to us, replaced by the more popular names of the day. Poets long ago are forgotten and replaced with the lesser godlings of modern music, such as it is.

Frequently, though, these old poems reflect on death and other morbid curiosities, and finding something uplifting that is not depressing at the same time can be somewhat of a challenge. So, today’s selection is not one that is a lost treasure, but has more of a thoughtful grace that’s not such a downer.

LIGHT

The night has a thousand eyes,
   And the day but one,
Yet the light of the bright world dies
   With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
   And the heart but one,
Yet the light of a whole life dies
   When its love is done.

Francis W. Bourdillon

Have a great day!

Does this one really require an exposition?

There is a chair next to me with a pile of stuff on it. Minutes ago, it decided to come crashing down on me. In that pile is a shirt jacket, which got me thinking of this new meme: 3 Things You Haven’t Let Go. List your three things, then tag three other bloggers. Don’t forget to link to the person that tagged you! And, of course, a link to the originator of the meme (me, so far as I know) would be appreciated as well.

My 3 Things I Haven’t Let Go

1) The shirt jacket that hasn’t been washed (or worn!) since the last time I held and carried Snowflake before he died. Snowflake was a male white cat who developed CRF. He passed away in spring of 2000.

2) The blank page on my Newton from the day Button died. I had been playing games on it while sitting with her in what turned out to be her last night. Button was a female Siamese cat who had been stricken with kidney failure and lived only a couple months after the diagnosis. She passed away on October 1, 2004.

3) The syringe (the kind without a needle) and paper cup that were part of a last ditch effort to save Dasen. Dasen was a female tabby cat who had developed diabetes. She lived with it for several years. She passed away on March 2, 2007. It was a good couple months before I got used to not having to give her medication twice a day.

Hopefully everyone else’s won’t be such a downer!

I tag:

Ann

Joanne

Jon