Five songs on a day off

More on that in a jiff.

Jay Sean w/Lil’ Wayne “Down”
Amy from sales called this a “fun summertime song”.  Good enough.

Justin Bieber “One Time”
The two strikes against this song include a name that I’m never sure I’m saying right even when I am, and he sounds like a chick in some inappropriate parts of the song.  The big label push and lots of screaming tween fans cancel that out, more or less.

All American Rejects “I Wanna”
AAR had little luck with their last single, which sounded like a slam dunk ballad.  This one is much weaker, but it’s on pace to do better.  This is why I don’t work for a record label.  That and there are no Taco Johns in Los Angeles.  That and I never tried.

Cascada “Evacuate the Dancefloor”
After an exhaustively quick check of wikipedia, this song is not a remake, nor does it borrow part of another song.  This is 100 % pure Cascada.  Well, it’s 100 % Cascada like Juicy Juice is 100 % juice.  No matter what flavor of Juicy Juice you buy, it’s mostly apple juice.  No matter what Cascada you hear, it’s mostly Euro-pop-techno.  Our market is weird in that the occasional Euro-pop-techno song does very well for us.

Jay-Z w/Rihanna & Kanye West “Run This Town”
For the love of Biz Marke, I could produce a song with those three and it would be a hit.  You’d have to try and make a bad song to keep that trio from scoring with a song.

Pick to click: Jay-Z w/Rihanna & Kanye West

How is your day going?

Yesterday I finished another blog that I had due Thursday early, so my next goal was to get this one done before 5 PM for once.  While I’m pretty close, it didn’t go down like I planned.  I’m at home right now.  This morning at about 6:30 AM I woke up with the charley horse from hell.  After hopping around, I heard the baby was awake.  I decided to go use the bathroom, then come back up and get him to start the day.  As I was walking down the stairs, I started feeling like I was about to throw up.  The closer I got to the bathroom, the worse it got.  Once I was in the bathroom, I became dizzy, disoriented, and I broke into a cold sweat.  I somehow managed to take care of why I was in the bathroom, and I remember looking in the mirror above the toilet and thinking that I didn’t look ill.

The next thing I remember I’m on the bathroom floor, and Kate is asking what the loud thud was.

I tried to cover up, but I was still dizzy and nauseous.  Once the truth was out, I was on my way to the ER.  They did lab work and kept me for two hours, but all my tests came back “exemplary”.  I was told to take the day off from work.  I’ve been relaxing most of the day upstairs.  It really didn’t sink in until Kate noticed that part of my fall involved the bathroom sink, which now has a large crack in the faux-marble counter-top.  I woke up in such a way that I have no idea how I could have even hit the sink during my fall.  It’s probably nothing, but it has shaken me considerably for what are probably stupid reasons.  Once in a while my brain zeroes in on thinking about death, and lately it had been on one of those kicks.  I know the chances of this being something that is indicating a larger problem are probably small, but even a small reminder of one’s mortality is a reminder nonetheless.  It’s a far cry from the drive to the ER, where I was so not worried about the incident that I was jokingly thinking that it was just my luck to die just before the G.I. Joe movie came out.

Originally, I was going to post a bunch of YouTube videos that involved the movie and talk about that.

Now, I’m just going to bring this entry to a close, while trying not to ponder things too much.  Hopefully this is all a distant memory next week.