all that glitters is gold...

So I created this "My Station" radio station via Yahoo! Launch and I can listen to it whilst logged in to Yahoo! Messenger all day. The beauty of it is that since I can add and delete the artists, every time a new song comes on I think to myself, "What a great song!" One of my all-time favorites, Led Zeppelin, has already played twice today. GRIN. First up was Stairway To Heaven, often referred to as "the greatest song on earth," and one that always makes me think of my first couples roller-skating moment. David Head (yes, that's what I said) asked me to skate. Ugh. See, he had the kind of birth mark that shows up as a different colored patch of hair. Wonky. It's mean! I know! But still ... I thought he was so weird with his dark brown hair and one spot of WHITE on the top/side. (Think of that host that used to be on Talk Soup). You gotta remember, this is before I was aware of "punk" - I was like 9, so his hair was just weird. And his hands were clammy and dammit if he didn't ask me to skate to Stairway! Longest. Song. Ever. (excluding any Grateful Dead jams, which I was equally unaware of at the time). It's an *especially* long song when going around & around in a circle holding the clammy hand of a boy with creepy hair and a puppy-dog eyes for you. But it's sweet to look back on. Yet I give NO credit for my love of Led Zep to Mr. Birth Mark -- he didn't even KNOW the song. At least I was cooler than that. I had hippies for parents. But I digress....

Yeah, so after My Station played me a nice live version of Stairway, a little later it played Ramble On. ROCK! Come on, how can you NOT love a song with direct references to The Lord of the Rings!? Zeppelin were hip before hipsters were born.

Mine's a tale that can't be told,
My freedom I hold dear;
How years ago in days of old
When magic filled the air,
T'was in the darkest depth of Mordor
I met a girl so fair,
But Gollum, the evil one crept up
And slipped away with her.
Her, her....yea.
Ain't nothing I can do, no.
Ramble on. . .

I'm down with the L-Z (yeah, you know me). If you use Yahoo! Messenger and you happen to be logged into it for a good portion of time, I suggest hooking yo'self up with this Launch biznazz. It's a good time, brotha. holla.

Currently playing, you ask? Oh why it's... Next Lifetime (live), Erykah Badu. niiice.
Take a listen for yourself!