#LifetimePlaylist
#1980
The Romantics
What I Like About You
https://youtu.be/Rqnw5IfbZOU
The Pretenders
Brass in Pocket
https://youtu.be/0H6re3PCP3E
X
Los Angeles
https://youtu.be/fUiZHt6sqg4
Tom Waits
Heart Attack and Vine
https://youtu.be/lbIi8ZiW5qI
Talking Heads
Once In a Lifetime
https://youtu.be/5IsSpAOD6K8
One thing I keep hearing is that an ethical use of AI for writing is having students use AI to brainstorm ideas for a topic they will then write about without using AI.
But I don't see this as the victory it's purported to be. Brainstorming and topic selection are both cognitive activities that use critical thinking. If you need AI to do either, I see that as another kind of cognitive surrender.
#SongsOfMistAndFog
#TuneTuesday
The Maria's
Fog as a Bullet
https://youtu.be/VDrwXfRLD_A
To make a prairie it takes a clover
and one bee,—
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
—Emily Dickinson
I remember
how the darkness doubled
I recall
lightning struck itself.
I was listening
listening to the rain
I was hearing
hearing something else.
Geese - Marquee Moon
https://youtu.be/ZLrztT8kED0
Aimee Mann
Voices Carry
https://youtu.be/sI1dAjON4Us
Durand Jones and the Indications
Young Americans
https://youtu.be/Mt6v4AfGGsQ
Donkey digs the Beatles
https://youtu.be/SbCgZOwUrXM
The Caped Billboard Bandit of Chicago
In 1990, a single dad began seeing something he didn’t like in his neighborhood. So he took on a secret identity—and changed everything.
https://slate.com/life/2026/07/chicago-superheroes-smoking-cigarettes-black-americans.html
#Privacy
#AI
#Music
#Surveillance
Artists pledge not to perform at venue that use AI facial recognition.
Elysian Fields - Dancing in the Dark
https://youtu.be/HJuMbPrXVDg
Then I woke up
Mom and dad
Are rollin' on the couch
Rollin' numbers
Rock and rollin'
Got my KISS records out
Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio - Move On Up
Curtis Taylor cover
https://youtu.be/JhADJTlRhOE
So I recently discovered a bunch of female garage bands. I'm posting them all day today.
Pleasure Seekers - What a Way to Die (1965)
https://youtu.be/ddDHPWJIfEY
#AlternateFridayMusic
#Energized
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At?
(Live on Top of the Pops)
https://youtu.be/h5HWfUzuL5o
Bonus Content
The Eindhoven Metropolitan Orchestra in #TheNetherlands does an amazing cover:
#MusicWomenWednesday
#IndieFolk
What you at, my gentle spoken friend?
I lack a frame to put you in
When you're an ocean and a rock away
Lisa Hannigan - An Ocean and a Rock
https://youtu.be/K7DeZ2hn8_M
Sharon Van Etten - Serpents
https://youtu.be/WyBZPrS9uQI
The Cantelluc Aqueducts consist of funnels that direct rain water underground for subterranean transportation. Built 1500 years ago by the Nazca people (famous for the Nazca Lines), they are still functional.
This is a 15-minute story of how French sci-fi artist Moebius became Moebius.
