- Hometown
- Age
- Occupation
- Song you'd put on a "songs of summer" mixtape/playlist/whatever-it's-called-this-week.
P.P.S. And here's why Watts is awesome - she's compiling the ALOTT5MA Songs of Summer video playlist.
Friday, June 3, 2011
ROLL CALL! It's been awhile since we've done one of these, and after a week like this it's appropriate for us to, once again, figure out and introduce who the heck is reading this site. So, regulars and lurkers alike, please share with us the following, to the extent you're willing to share:
P.P.S. And here's why Watts is awesome - she's compiling the ALOTT5MA Songs of Summer video playlist.
P.P.S. And here's why Watts is awesome - she's compiling the ALOTT5MA Songs of Summer video playlist.
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Philadelphia
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Attorney (private practices)
"Summertime," DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, my hometown jam.
Washington, DC, formerly Atlanta
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Appellate attorney (government)
Summer song (all time): Get Out the Map, Indigo Girls
Summer song (current): The Last Goodbye, David Cook
suburban Philadelphia
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history professor
"It Must Be Summer," Fountains of Wayne
Brooklyn, NY (formerly Pittsburgh PA)
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Singer-songwriter
"Island in the Sun," Weezer.
Green Bay, WI
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Attorney (in house)
"Good Vibrations," Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch n/k/a Mark Wahlberg
<span>Washington, DC
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Attorney (in house)
Summer Song: All for Swinging You Around, The New Pornographers</span>
Norfolk, VA
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unemployed layabout
"Heartland" U2
Toronto, ON Canada
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Operations Analyst (Banking)
Summer Song: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros "Johhny Appleseed"
Columbia, SC (grew up in South Florida)
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Public Defender
All kinds of cheesy pop and 90s rap
Birmingham, AL
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Magazine editor (at a university); artist on the side
Summer Song: "Roam," B-52s
Portland, OR
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College athletics administrator
Summer Lovin, from Grease
Montclair, NJ (formerly Pittsburgh, PA)
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Public Finance Attorney (private practice)
"Send Me On My Way," Rusted Root
NYC
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Attorney (for now)
Rocket from the Crypt, "On A Rope" (sounds really good really loud)
Chicago
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Creative Manager
Sound of Sunshine, Michael Franti and Spearhead (which just came on my office radio as I started typing--weird!)
Middleton (Madison) WI
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Marketing Agency Account Executive
Fourth of July by Shooter Jennings
(daily reader, infrequent poster)
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corporate writer/editor/lackey
Tag Team, "Whoomp! There it is!"
Midland Park, NJ
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"Pursuit Manager" (read: proposal writer at a Big 4 accounting firm)
"Beautiful Day," U2
New York City
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Attorney (in-house, financial services)
"Promises In The Dark" by Pat Benetar.
West Lafayette, IN
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Academic Advisor
baby kept me up all night and my brain is not working enough to think of even one song...
Washington, DC (by way of Toledo, Chicago, Cleveland, and Boston)
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Attorney (private practice)
I can't pick just one, which is why my playlists end up sooo long - "Everybody's Trying" Poi Dog Pondering, "Take the Time" Freddy Jones Band and "City on Down" O.A.R.
Brooklyn (but still a dyed-in-the-wool Masshole at heart)
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Grad student/freelance writer (but hopefully only a grad student for one more semester: defending in October!)
John Wesley Harding, "Summer Single"
Resident of NYC, but grew up in Texas
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Attorney (private practice)
Don Henley, "The Boys Of Summer"
New Jersey (formerly New York and Norfolk and Richmond, Va.)
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Journalist
"Beach Baby" by First Class and "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard" by Blotto as the cheesy summertime songs of my youth; "Summer on Signal Hill" by Killer Joe (a Max Weinberg solo project) and "4th of July, Asbury Park" as my Jersey Shore summer songs. I was going to list Fountains of Wayne, too, but Prof. Jeff beat me to it.
Washington, DC (technically, a MD suburb)
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Editor/project manager
Bowling for Soup, "Shut Up and Smile"
also known as LilMisBusy on my blog, lilmisbusy.blogspot.com
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Investment Management
"Back on Chain Gang" by The Pretenders, since that's what I first thought of summer jobs (even though I had it pretty easy as a camp counselor)
San Antonio (by way of many places but I am another dyed in the wool Masshole at heart, too. Blue person in a red state)
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Financial Analyst/Project Manager
Anything by New Order
Chicago
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Nonprofit communications manager/grad student in library studies
Nelly, "Hot in Herre"
*waves to Sheila* I also have a relatively new baby who kept me up all night. Solidarity!
Pittsburgh, PA by way of Atlanta
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Project Coordinator in an academic office
Hmmm. Maybe "Frontier Psychiatrist" by the Avalanches?
Suburban Philadelphia
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Database Manager, medical research center
Summer Song (Local): On the Way to Cape May
Summer Song (that I don't really like but takes me back to summers at the shore): Brown Eyed Girl
Charlotte, NC
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Director of a learning center
Here Comes the Night--Van Morrison
We need a NC/SC get together! It might just be the two of us, but it's where all the cool kids will be!
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Home with kids
'Borderline' Madonna, summer of 1984!
(regular reader, infrequent commenter)
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Office Assistant
Summer Jam: "Down in Mexico" by The Coasters
Lower Merion, PA (Philly burbs), born in Philly, grew up in Tampa
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Attorney (public interest environmental law) and adjunct clinical law prof
Fred App already mentioned "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)," so I'll add the other Bruce songs I most associate with summer: "Backstreets" and "Racing in the Street" (saddest summer song evir). Non-Bruce division: two from Martha and the Vandellas -- "Heat Wave" and "Dancing in the Streets."
Washington, DC (but grew up in NC, Meghan!)
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government attorney
"It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)," theme song of my summer-camp youth
New Brunswick, NJ
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Financial Reporting Analyst (insurance)
"Meet me at Mary's Place" - Springsteen (My personal fantasy theme song)
Los Angeles
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Attorney (Private Practice)
Rilo Kiley, 'Spectactular Views'
Depending on where, you could talk this GA-dweller into coming up - my parents live in Greenville, SC.
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Social marketing (communications for public health)
"Selfish Jean" and "My Eyes" by Travis will always say summer to me b/c the summer it came out was the summer my daughter was born and I feel like that's all I had on my iPod.
Brooklyn
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Attorney (private practice)
American Pie, my summer camp theme song
And I'd love to be added to the Twitter list - I'm lheifetz.
No way! I woke up with that song in my head this morning.
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Digital Marketing Manager (at ad agency)
Current summer song - Black Keys' "Howlin' for You"
Forever summer song - OK Go's "Invincible" or pretty much anything by Sister Hazel
@starshy926
Brooklyn
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gov't attorney
The only song going through my head is Wilson Phillips
NoVa
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attorney (govt)
Taio Cruz, "Dynamite"
Eddie From Ohio "If I Had a Boat" (Lyle Lovett cover)
Currently in (and likely forever will be in) Chicago, but born and raised on Long Island
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law school administrator and lecturer
"Running Down A Dream" - Tom Petty
(I'm probably already on the Twitter list, but I'm @nagorsky if not)
aka Amy Watts on all your usual social media platforms
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the wrong side of 35
Reference Librarian (University)
Song about summer: "Cruel Summer" by Banarama
Song for summer: "Queen of Hearts" by Juice Newton - I'm instantly in the backseat with my brother, waiting on mom to come out of the grocery store in Alabama.
Pittsburg/Frontenac, KS
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managing editor
"Rolling in the Deep" -- Adele
Concord, CA (East Bay)
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Attorney (private practice)
"Groove is in the Heart", Deee-Lite
Hometown: Tallahassee (though I now live in Nashville)
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Occupation: Sportswriter covering college football and basketball (which makes it rather humbling that I correctly picked two of the final four spellers yesterday but could only predict one of the final four teams in the most recent NCAA tournament)
Summer song: I wasn't actually born when Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell was released, but it's one of my two favorite songs of all-time (I Want You Back by the Jackson Five is the other) and, according to a quick Internet search, made its way up the charts in the summer of 1987. So I'll go with that. Please make sure any mix tape includes the Marvin/Tammi recording and not the vastly inferior Diana Ross version.
Washington, DC/Silver Spring, MD
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attorney (government)
Foster the People "Houdini"
Columbus, OH
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Controller
"California Stars" by Billy Bragg & Wilco
Coincidentally, heading to Columbus in 10 minutes; my in-laws live there.
ReplyDeleteDaily reader here for years now, with the occasional de-lurk
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Systems Analyst (IT)
Claiming baby-brain on song titles...
<span><span><span>Hometown: Oak Park, IL</span></span>
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<span><span>Occupation: Private Investigator</span></span>
<span><span>Concrete Blonde, "Still In Hollywood"</span></span><span><span>
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Memphis
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Ballet Teacher/Choreographer, Fractal artist
"Cigarettes & Chocolate Milk" & "Everybody Knows" - Rufus Wainwright, "Awake My Soul" - Mumford & Sons, "Empty" - Ray Lamontagne
Dallas, TX
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Librarian (corporate) Just finished my MLS last month!
"Boys of Summer" Don Henley
(Having problems logging in via Google Friend Connect at work, but I'm unaware of any other commenters named randy anyway...)
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IT Analyst, specifically Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence.
"Music", by Madonna ALWAYS takes me back to the summer of 2000.
<span>Gatineau (Québec) Canada</span>
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<span>Translator </span>
<span>"Pinch me" by Barenaked Ladies</span>
Born Las Vegas, NV, for the last eight years, Chicago, IL
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Assistant director of investor services/head of marketing for a small real estate management company
I like these two back-to-back: "All-American Girl" by Melissa Etheridge and "American Girl" by Tom Petty (but never "American Woman")
New Orleans (originally upstate New York)
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Law Student
"Louisiana Bayou"
@pseudo6man
Dubuque, IA [recently]
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Political Science Professor
Hm... I'll go with "Hey Ya."
I was an RA at a camp for gifted kids and every dance closed with "American Pie." That is a song that you can never unforget!
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Database Administrator
"Steal My Sunshine" by LEN (been stuck in my head a few days now... hoping it will disappear soon)
Columbia MD
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Radio Announcer
"Paris (Ooh La La)" Grace Potter
@jojo1065
Born in Baltimore, currently living in Harrisonburg, VA
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Assistant director of residence life (I talk to a lot of parents and not enough students!)
Too many songs to choose from but I'll go with Pete Murray's "Class A." I highly recommend him to everyone--a not too terrible looking Australian who can write a heckuva song.
Happy Birthday, Kate!
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Employment Law Attorney (Bell & Bell LLP)
Songs of Summer: Jack & Diane, Abracadabra, Thunder Road, Melissa, Into the Mystic, I Walk the Line, Suspicious Minds, Devils & Dust all spring to mind, or should that be Summer to mind.
The most memorable party of my freshman year at Penn was an enormous house party during Spring Fling weekend. One of the guys who regularly gigged at Smokey Joe's that year was playing a solo guitar set (amped) from a balcony, and as with many parties that went late into the night, the cops eventually showed up and told him to shut it down. He prevailed upon them to let him play one more song, and they said OK and retreated. As soon as he launched into the first line of American Pie, all of the partygoers erupted -- we knew we'd have another 15-20 minutes of party time, easy.
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fundraiser for Off Broadway theater
summer song: "Walkin' on Sunshine," Katrina and the Waves
Denver, CO (grew up in and around Dallas, TX)
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Attorney (Elder law)
Varies by mood - "Don't Wanna Know Why" Whiskeytown, "Animal" Miike Snow, or "My Will is Good" Port O'Brien, but for something beachier - "When Did Your Heart Go Missing" Rooney
Who is the man that would risk his neck for his brother man?
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Can ya dig it?
Sacramento, CA
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Stage Manager
Cyndi Lauper's cover of "Stay"
Chicago
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Lawyer
Cruel Summer (Blue Crush Remix)
YES! I know there is another commenter from SC on here as well (Josie) -- don't know if she has put up her info yet b/c I haven't gone through the whole list. Would love to do a get together!
ReplyDeleteSo noted.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE Queen of Hearts!
ReplyDeleteI'm compiling a youtube playlist of songs mentioned here - I use YouTube playlists for music while working. Work in progress, not all songs are on YouTube, blahdeeblah...
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I don't think it liked that youtube link, here:
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Wilson Phillips? Did you just watch Bridesmaids?
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quilt store shop girl, teeny tiny theatre company manager, sometime actor, quilter, cloying cat parent, homemaker
Doo Wop (That Thing) Lauryn Hill
Queens
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Children's book editor
"Sweet Dreams (Of You)" sung by the great Patsy Cline
Green Brook, NJ
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Clerical (accounting firm)
Lovin' Spoonful - Summer in the City
Christy - where are you in Queens (if you don't mind sharing)? I'm in Sunnyside!
ReplyDeleteWho performs "Louisiana Bayou"?
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Programmer
The Fraggle Rock Theme
<span>New York, NY
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Attorney-ish
The Hold Steady, "Constructive Summer"</span>
Thank you Sue!
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PhD Candidate (English Lit--Med/Ren)
"Holiday in Spain," Counting Crows; "I'll Stop the World," Modern English; "Forever Young," Jay Z
Someday I hope to go to PEI.
ReplyDeleteLove it! wish it weren't freezing in Buffalo, because this playlist makes me want to run outside and lounge in the sun!
ReplyDeleteNot only can I not seem to delete the double-post I created when I tried to go back and fix a typo on The Hold Steady, but I also failed to represent my actual hometown of BROOKLYN, NY, rather than the island where my body (but apparently not my mind) is right now.
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Law/Public Policy Student (Have been reading through iterations as a Penn undergrad, teacher, and non-profit worker)
"27 Jennifers" by Mike Doughty
Not on Twitter (yet) but can read more from me at adultelescence.blogspot.com.
Katie, same camp! Want to compare years/sites? I was a camper at Hamilton in 97 and JHU in 98.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Amy! Excellent way to get through the day.
ReplyDeleteI was a CTY residence counselor at JHU in 1993 and 1994, and deejayed the Friday dances. We did the Joe Cocker "A Little Help From My Friends" the first year (as a new site), but were pressured into adopting "American Pie" thereafter.
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Unemployed construction industry slug, public radio volunteer and hopeful crochet designer
"Sly", The Cat Empire
Could NOT find this song on YouTube despite several different search queries/terms... I like Harding, too, bummer.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't find the Eddie from Ohio cover, but I love the Lyle original. I took my dad to see Lyle Lovett in concert earlier this year; when they sang that one, everybody in the audience sang along and then shouted the "Kiss my a**" line. My father looked over at me with raised eyebrows and mouthed, "Oh dearie me." I rolled my eyes because this is a man who was in the Navy.
ReplyDeleteThat's one of my karaoke standards. Loooove me some Queen of Hearts.
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Newspaper copy editor
"Only Wanna Be With You," Hootie and the Blowfish
Is the baby inside or outside? Congrats either way!
ReplyDeleteThere are some songs that are on YouTube but either have lousy audio or questionable video content; they're not included.
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Attorney/Law School
"Pumped Up Kicks", Foster the People
Wow, there's three of us? And another Triad! Carrie, do I know you?
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Nanny (by choice by way of El Ed teacher) and soon to be adoptive mommy!!
Shameless, Ani DiFranco
I am lauren2tweet on twitter but to be honest I mostly retweet you guys, avclub and tpm
<span>Washington DC (work) and Fairfax, Virginia (home)
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Partner at a small/mid-sized telecommunications law boutique
"Pumped Up Kicks," Foster the People; "Electric Feel," MGMT
Twitter: @rhanser</span>
Outside, and 10 months old! So not newborn baby brain, but I still wake up a heck of a lot earlier than I'd like!
ReplyDeleteThis was back when, A. While grocery shopping, you would/could leave your 5- and 7-year old in the car while you went inside and B. with the keys so they could listen to the radio.
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Electrical Engineer
Stones - "Brown Sugar" has great summer memories
Nope
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Hospital pharmacist
Paul Simon - "Graceland"
Hillsboro, OR (formerly Seattle and San Diego)
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Accountant (for a high-tech firm)
Venus, Bananarama. Also, I think from the same summer, Edge of Heaven, Wham!
Philly, obviously
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College access professional-- I work for a non-profit that helps kids prepare for and succeed in college
Bruce Springsteen, "Girls in Their Summer Clothes"
(Sidenote, my mom called me yesterday to tell me that it was a Girls in their Summer Clothes kind of day. Then she said she wasn't sure if Born to Run or Magic was her favorite Bruce album. Love it!)
Atlanta GA
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graphic designer
Moving Pictures, Silent Films by the Great Lake Swimmers
Looks like we need a Brooklyn event!!! Who's in??
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Regulatory/Compliance attorney (in-house/pharma)
"Fourth of July," X and "Sometime Around Midnight," Airborne Toxic Event
I'm there!
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Children's & YA Editor/Publisher
"Cruel Summer" Bananarama (not a new one, but it's the best I've got!)
Please add me for Twitter: @jsgabel</span>
Washington DC (grew up in NY)
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attorney (private practice)
"These are the Days" - 10000 Maniacs
Silver Spring, MD
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Accounts payable for a property management firm
"Heaven" by Los Lonely Boys and "Saturday In the Park" by Chicago
Silver Spring, MD (in Claremont, CA for school)
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College Student
"Something in the Water," Brooke Fraser
Hmmm, seems like my comment isn't showing up.
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College access professional- I work for an educational non-profit
Bruce Springsteen "Girls in their Summer Clothes"
Oh, and my Twitter is @heldincontempt.
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PittsBUUUURGH! :)
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Attorney
"Free Fallin'" Tom Petty
Congratulations on soon to be baby!
ReplyDeleteOakland, CA, but originally from Rhode Island, aka "The Donut State"
ReplyDelete36 for another few weeks; query: is 37 mid or late 30s?
Attorney
Anything by 10,000 Maniacs, because then I'm 17 again, driving around all summer with my bff Deana, singing our hearts out.
West Coast represent! Yeesh, y'all get up early. Because I can't log in from work...
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Los Angeles, CA
37 (ugh)
Sometime TV Producer, victim of a terrible economy, current temp
"Don't You Want Me" by Human League, which I distinctly remember hearing on the way to and from swim lessons every summer for YEARS. Or maybe it was just once. Who can tell? "Don't You Want Me BABY?"
Lurker, infrequent commenter, and peripheral stalker via Christy in Philly
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I run a Sperm Bank
All time Summer song: Indigo Girls Get Out the Map perfect for car rides to the beach
Current summer song: The new Coldplay Every Tear is a Waterfall
DMB's Louisiana Bayou? Because if so, awesome call.
ReplyDeleteSunnyside :)
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Urbana, IL, but originally from Chicago suburbs
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Grad student
"Joy to the World" Three Dog Night
You win the most interesting job award.
ReplyDeleteBorn in Edmonton, AB. Living in small town in southern Alberta
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Admin Support - Health Care
"Rocky Mountain High" - John Denver. From many, many summers spent in the Canadian Rockies. (and listening to the 8 track over and over again on family road trips while hanging my feet out the back window of our station wagon) :)
I was on the phone with some Providence officials recently and tried to establish my bona fides by confirming I already knew what coffee milk was.
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Events programming manager -- basically I book and program talent
Songs: Summer in the City by the Lovin' Spoonful, Freedom '90 by George Michael, and Birdhouse in Your Soul by They Might Be Giants
Austin, TX is my declared hometown. Grew up in the military so don't have an actual hometown but I moved to Austin the minute I graduated from college and have now been here (yikes!) 22 years.
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Executive Wingman (which at any other company would be called an admin)
"Livin' On A Prayer" thanks to the most fantastic summer during my college years when we spent many hours at the pool listening to the new Bon Jovi tape. (Yes, cassette tape)
Peapack, NJ
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Social Studies Teacher
Foo Fighters "Walk" - I like to try newly released music in the summertime.
Daily reader, infrequent commenter
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Academic Librarian
"Stickshifts and Safetybelts"--Cake, "Open Road Song"--Eve 6 as summers are my time to roadtrip to visit friends
Mid, spacewoman. Next year, you'll have a tougher argument to make.
ReplyDeleteAnother Dubuquer?? Small world.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, that's a sentence I've never heard or read before.
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Project Designer - Architecture
4th of July (Sandy) - Bruce Springsteen
Carrie
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Northern Virginia
Former legislative assistant on Capitol Hill turned stay at home mom (ask me who is harder to deal with -- a grumpy Member of Congress or a grumpy two year old)
Song of summer: "Army" by Ben Folds since it always makes me smile. Though my four year old is obsessed with The Decemberists "Down by the Water' at the moment and that is all we are listening to.
Boston
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financial administrator at an investment firm
song that makes me think of summer 'Saturday Afternoo' by Outrageous Cherry
Todd County, KY right now. San Diego originally
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Minister
"Centerfield"
Twitter Handle @DadofTwins02
CTY! CTY! Leah, I'm afraid I missed you since I was at JHU in 1995. CTY is actually why how I found ALOTT5MA since I had the pleasure of working with Adam's brother, Todd. I have a lovely picture of Todd running me over with a golf cart.
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School Psychologist
'Rosalita' by Bruuuuuuuceee
<span>Bergen County, NJ
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admin. assistant </span>
tarkio - "keeping me awake"
Thanks so much. It has been a long and sometimes very sad road, but we are so excited!
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Attorney
Two recentish songs that really must be played loudly for emphasis: F you by Cee Lo and F__in' Perfect by Pink.
San Diego
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Local Sales Manager at a local radio station (102.1 FM, Adult Alternative, check it out if you are ever around these parts)
Loving Florence and the Machine, Adele, Grace Potter, and Cee Lo right now!
Carlisle, '92-'95. To this day, I cannot hear the song without adding a robust "Die! Die! Die!" People either think I am a nut, or that I went to CTY, not that the two are mutually exclusive.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I was trying to link to it when I replied, but even the MTV link for it is dead. I have vague memories of it featuring him on a surfboard in a studio.
ReplyDeleteP.S., Watts -- I got my master's at where I assume you work if you live in Athens! Man, do I miss The Grit!
Bucks County, Pa. Now in Brooklyn.
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Attorney
"Setting the Woods on Fire," Hank Williams / Gershwin Prelude No. 2 / "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard," Simon & Garfunkel / "Crazy Feeling," Lou Reed.
LA
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Law-adjacent for the federal govt
"Sexyback"
Central NJ
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Software Engineer
Frank Ocean - Novacane
cool!
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stay-at-home mom / former HS math teacher
Lupe Fiasco, "The Show Goes On"
By any chance were you the person that did the SYTYCD commentaries a season or two back?
ReplyDeleteIf so, I would like to formally request you do them again as this season gears up! They were great.
Clifton, NJ
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Freelance writer/editor
"Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes" by Jimmy Buffett
@mamatude
<span>Los Angeles, CA
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Student
"Young Blood" by The Naked & Famous </span>
<span>I don't know what it is, but for some reason you old people speak to me.</span>
New York, NY
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Pianist/conductor for musical theater, and two-time defending American Crossword Puzzle Tournament champion
...um, I don't really listen to music. Yes, I'm a professional musician.
Washington, DC (on the Hill, near Eastern Market)
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Studying for the bar (I'm one of those poor unfortunate souls with no post-bar employment lined up as of yet)
Placebo's "Running Up That Hill" the History Channel has been playing on it's Gettysburg promos
Watertown, MA
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Software guy
Various power pop: Red Dragon Tattoo sounds like a good idea right about now
The Grit's still going strong, despite the sad demise of its owner.
ReplyDeleteI am. And thanks! I'm looking forward to this season!
ReplyDeleteFranklin and Marshall, 1988-1991. To tell the truth, I think we thought we (CTY at F&M, not me personally) invented the American Pie tradition, but now I'm starting to wonder.
ReplyDeleteLos Angeles, born outside of Pittsburgh PA
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Web Editor
Sugar Ray - When It's Over
Seattle (now), Baltimore (growing up)
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Patent lawyer
"Umbrella" by Rihanna, because my 2-year old son loves it
In fact, I think it would make a fun discussion topic to talk about good music choices for little kids. We spend a lot of time (and have a lot of fun) looking for non-kid-specific music to play and it would be nice to hear other people's thoughts. Recent successes for us include Shakira, "Single Ladies" by Beyonce, "Brimful of Asha" by Cornershop, "People are People" by Depeche Mode, and a Rusted Root song. (I can't remember which one, but it was somewhere in the middle of the When I Woke album).
You are awesome, thank you.
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Web Developer/Database Developer/DBA
Don't have a song for this year, but if I was forced to pick, I'll go with Kosciusko by Midnight Oil since it used to be the song we'd start our summer trips with in HS.
I'm @fire4hairlady on twitter (and already on the list)
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-Law grad, now studying for the California bar. Haven't the slightest clue what's going to happen after that. Won't someone please think of the poor, downtrodden children of the Class of 2011?
-"Doin' Time" by Sublime
Or, alternatively July 13 1985 by John Wesley Harding. Adam knows why.
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Grad Student
"Summertime" by Kenny Chesney
I ADORE that Cake song - between junior and senior years of high school I got my first ever car of my own, a 1975 Dodge Dart Swinger. Then, a couple of years later, my first serious boyfriend got the Dart's cousin, a Plymouth Valiant. No bucket seats in either of our cars. I spent a lot of that summer riding the redneck love shotgun seat.
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ReplyDeleteI'm in Los Angeles (and LOVING that we finally had an LA meet-up, go team west coast!)
30 (30!)
Film/TV exec (please watch Charlie's Angels, airing this fall on ABC ;) )
Summer song of forever: "Semi-Charmed Life" (reminds me of my summer camp boyfriend...)
Summer song of right now: I second "Rolling in the Deep"
And I'm @akschweitz on twitter - am already on the list but just in case people were confused...
We've gotta drag Nick out soon for drinks/aunt-ing. (Yes, I just created that word).
ReplyDeletePS - I want to request a guest post from the many children's/YA book editors we have reading the blog. I want dirt on what's new and exciting that I should be reading (okay, and also trying to make into movies...).
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Student/Writer/Tutor
Anything by Bowling for Soup. they're very summery.
Philly 'burbs (Glenside)
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Stay at home mom
@elizhagopian
Most of my summer songs have been mentioned, but I'll add "Sing Me Spanish Techno" by New Pornographers (A little trivia about me: My son was about 3 when the song came out and we would listen to it over & over again, so my husband and I started calling the band the New Oceanographers. After 5 years of calling them by the wrong name, I'm not sure I'll be able to call them the New Pornographers ever again...)
And on Twitter: @emilygwynne
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writer / ski instructor
"Living in Colour" - Frightened Rabbit (last year's summer song)
possible 2011 summer song - "Windshield" - Acid House Kings
Annandale, VA (Just outside of DC)
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SharePoint Developer
"Mexican Wine" by Fountains of Wayne
@EricJ
I had been told that it started at either F&M or Carlisle. I don't know which. Ben Reynolds really encouraged us to develop new traditions; the whole residential staff was of folks who hadn't worked for CTY before.
ReplyDeleteKatie, email me that picture if you can: acbonin (at) hotmail dot com.
Feh - call me "old" again and I'll speak to you with my fists, you whippersnapper.
ReplyDeleteFew DailyKos diary titles have made me as happy as when Jake McIntyre did a piece titled "Brimful of OSHA."
ReplyDeleteYeah, it was my roomate and my go-to song driving down the county roads in Iowa during college. Oh the joy of living 30 minutes from civilization.
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Alumni communications for a large local university
"Summertime" by The Sundays
South Jersey
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ex-lawyer, currently IT
Go-Gos "We Got The Beat"
Watch it, Buster. Also, get off my lawn!
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