Grey's Anatomy, The Musical

Can't wait to see this tonight; if the episode is a good as the iTunes album just out today, then's it going to be good!:)

Though I absolutely hate the Callie/Arizona/Mark storyline (hate it!!), when I listened to the album online I found myself remembering the good old days of GA (a.k.a. the first two seasons!)...

...because all of the music featured tonight was played during the early years and have pretty much become iconic for hardcore fans::)

The first three soundtracks are available in compact disc. Since then, if you watch an episode and like a song, it's up to you to figure out what it's called and go online to buy it.


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the next day:


I'm not sorry I bought the iTunes album for Grey's Anatomy: The Music Event, but I will say I enjoyed the music much more before seeing the episode.

While actually watching everything unfold last evening, I found the singing jarring and just very hard to swallow as far as believability goes.

And, really, why do Owen's facial muscles always consort so during stressful events in the E.R. or when he's making out with Cristina? Overall, it was vocally appealing, but when it came to the plot and emotional impact, I'd say: eh, so so!

Here's one professsional review:


read here

You Broke My Heart, But I Love You Anyway

I first heard "Animals" when I bought the music magazine "Clash" late last summer and downloaded its free music sampler. The song's beauty haunted me for weeks and then I stopped listening because its power was so amazing it almost broke my heart. Tonight, for some reason, I went to listen again and then discovered the Gem Club's EP (with all six songs) sells very reasonably for $5.94

All of the tracks are breath-taking. I listened and my breath actually caught in my throat. This is the kind of music you could never survive listening to if you've just gone through a very sad time. Heck, even on a good day, you might be reaching for that box of tissues on your nightstand.

Lovely, lovely, lovely stuff! Besides "Animals," three other equally gorgeous songs are: "Flax," "Acid and Everything" and "Spine."

Don't say you weren't warned: some music can only be measured in small doses, the more beautiful, the harder to take.

Gem Club WILL break your heart, but they will also quietly comfort you!

I've looked everywhere online for pictures or reviews of the new pack of pens I just bought and can't find a thing about them, so you'll just have to take my word for it:

Smart Living Comfort Grip Stick Pens write amazingly well. And they don't smear! Plus, they are comfortable to grip and only cost 99 cents for a pack of 8...cheaper than Bic or Paper Mate.

Seriously! I know it's probably odd to blog about good pens, but these are worth writing about!

more on that "regret study" mentioned in an earlier blog entry:

read here

Though the above is actually a stock photo, the hallway pictured looks a lot like my school, even enough to be my high school.

Many a person out there in the world (or so I've heard)  still dream about such trivial things as locker combinations, forgetting to study for a test, showing up to class in underwear...pretty much anything high school-related. Some of us probably dream about it more than others.

But those aren't really regrets, just moments or things from some of the most challenging four years of life.

Of the regrets mentioned in the study, some were related to high school, specifically former crushes and lost loves. Why so long ago, I wonder?

Most likely, as Marilyn Vos Savant once said, because in no other time in our lives do we have the least amount of common sense and the most amount of hormones. Surely those times stick in our memories (and maybe even subconscious) and take on an importance they wouldn't have if they had originally appeared in some other points in our lives??

So: is our mind playing tricks on us or do we really regret having lost out on love (or what we thought was love) so long ago?

I haven't even been out of bed (and out and about) for three hours and already I've witnessed three different acts of cruelty committed by one stranger to another...parking lots, on the road, inside the library.

What the $^&*! is wrong with people? Why can't we be nice to each other? Stranger to stranger or family to family or friend to friend?

Mr. Business Suit, why is your desperate need for a parking space so bad you would actually almost mow someone down to get it?

Lady in Neon Green Sweatsuit, why tell your child "you're gonna get it real bad if you don't shut up right now?" and especially when you are way, way louder and more disruptive than your little girl, who, by the way, hasn't said a peep as far as I can tell?


If "Everybody Hurts" why aren't more people kind and compassionate? Days like these, I just want to hunker in my apartment and never venture out!!! Yikes!!!

Come on, people! We share this big planet; let's be nice to each other, no matter how much we're hurting!

No matter what the situation, kindness should always win. Jeff Bridges once said, "Be kind! For everyone you meet is fighting their own battle!" (Okay, maybe he didn't say it with exclamation points, but you get the picture, right? :)  )