I broke down and bought my very first Ipod touch...so excited at how much more room there will be for music!! And there are so many fun apps to use...including some fun bowling and air hockey games...and best of all, I can still use Amazon if I make sure the Downloader setting is on "itunes."

Last night I was at the Wegman's in Hunt Valley. I love Wegman's for so many reasons: the food bar, the produce, the surprisingly reasonable prices, the croissants, the seafood counter (the list goes on...). But yesterday I found a new reason: the quirky selection of cds in the spindle near the magazine section.

Though I don't quite know why they do it, I'm still glad they do because they carry a variety of old Time Life cds you don't see advertised on tv that often anymore...lots of 70s and 80s compilations with songs you won't find on other music anthologies.

Going online when I got home last evening I discovered this cool site:

seen on tv music

There are far more choices and interesting items to check out than on the regular Time Life website!

Here's an article that might interest anyone who loved Tiger Beat during the 60s, 70s or early 80s...can't believe it's still around today and apparently thriving well:)

I just noticed the date on the article is from the early 00's, but it links to current sites that are pretty nifty if you have a fondness for David Cassidy and other teen idols from his generation...

link

groovy site:)
(make sure you check out the "yard sale" section...that's the neatest part!)

Over the weekend I found myself listening to AOL's awesome 80s alternative radio station....unfortunately, listening to it got me in LOTS of trouble because I impulsively went on the Amazon MP3 store and bought beautiful stuff like The OMD Singles:

and this amazing single I'd somehow forgotten about:

("Rain in the Summertime")

and also this:






I must have been musically asleep through much of the 80s because I didn't remember a lot of what AOL played on Saturday and Sunday...so many great sounds.

You should try it sometime:

aol radio

...the feeling...






For some of us there's this thing that starts when we're young and we see our first romantic comedy or hear a wonderful love song or see someone special for the first time...we're not cynical yet...we haven't learned that most of that stuff is nothing but a bunch of lies...a BIG bunch of lies

...when we get older and realize that love probably isn't in the cards for us, if we're romantic at heart, we still don't let that get to the core of who we are and spoil us.

...we still smile when we see elderly couples walking in the park, holding hands...we still let out a burst of joy when our friend tells us she's getting married...we still cry at movies where the two people in love finally tell each other how they feel...

...we still (no matter how many years have gone by) just hope.