Babelpop!

Language: Russian If there's one common saying I hate, it's "Be careful what you wish for; you might just get it." I hate it because, of course, everybody already IS careful about what they're...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/08/hot-baby-of-substance-donna-summer.html

Language: Spanish And I am employed again. Barely, but still. I got a job at the greenhouse / garden center in town that I like, and where about a third of my 200-odd houseplants originally ca...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/08/say-it-to-yourself-say-it-to-me-lionel.html

Language: Italian I didn't mean to take such a long break, there, but things have been weird. I'm not sleeping well, for the past few weeks, and my unemployment is about to run out (one more f...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/07/are-you-still-crazy-alanis-morrisette.html

Language: Portuguese The husband and I went to my childhood home (from age 2 to 11) on the 4th of July. It wasn't the first time we'd been there; the first time was maybe two or three years ag...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/07/that-strawberry-wine-deana-carter.html

Language: Spanish When the husband and I moved into our current apartment, he signed us up for DirecTV, among other things, because it was kind of a bargain, the way that Qwest and DirecTV had...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/07/fifty-ways-to-leave-his-lover-paul.html

Language: Portuguese The year 2007 is halfway over, as of today. I'm not a huge fan, but it's been a better year so far than some. Grumpy at the moment because I was just out riding my bike, ...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/07/song-of-superman-crash-test-dummies.html

Language: Spanish And the third song in the Superman trilogy. This didn't wind up all that far from the original song -- sometimes there isn't a lot to work with. That's how it is sometimes. I...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/07/or-superman-laurie-anderson.html

Language: Dutch Part 2 of the Superman trilogy. The song here isn't terribly interesting, because the original repeats itself so much, but oh well. I have yet to hear anything official, but I...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/super-man-r-e-m.html

Language: French It's been such a long time since we had a good trilogy around here, don't you think? So here you go, the first (and most obscure) in a Superman trilogy. Why Superman? Because ...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/superman-sister-7.html

Language: Italian My parents were fans of Christian rock music when I was a kid, though they, like many other Christians of the time (and probably many Christians now, for all I know), conside...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/energy-is-on-your-mind-that-which-is.html

Language: Spanish Another placeholdery post. I could come up with something to say, probably, under normal circumstances, but I just got back from riding my bike not too long ago and my body ...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/joy-to-world-three-dog-night.html

Language: German Nothing much going on at the moment: the weekend kind of went by without anything getting accomplished (or even attempted), so this is just kind of a placeholder song. On the...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/friends-in-low-places-garth-brooks.html

Language: Portuguese Moderately upset right now, because I just found out that the ongoing indoor pest problem I've been having since February or so, which had been limited to a small set of a...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/it-really-makes-me-want-to-wound-it.html

Language: Italian This is the 200th Babelpop! post that's a reworking of song lyrics1, so I wanted to do something special. And this is special, to the extent that it's a song that's even kind...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/you-and-your-hand-control-pink.html

Language: German I think this one came out better than most. Something about the way "another dime comes into the jukebox" works out rhythmically appeals to me. I don't really have any news o...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-love-rock-n-roles-joan-jett-and.html

Language: Greek This is probably one of my top ten favorite songs. I am crazy about this song. I don't really know why. One thing I can point to that I like about it is the structure -- it's ...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/cube-makes-me-wanna-tricky.html

Language: Greek Part of the application process for the job I interviewed for on Thursday is a personality test. This makes me really nervous (in some respects, more so than the interview itse...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/would-i-find-myself-in-you-eurythmics.html

Language: Portuguese Well. The interview was better than I expected, though I was EXPECTING there to be some twitching and drooling, so that doesn't say as much as it might. I have no idea how...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/ill-be-its-shelter-taylor-dayne.html

Language: Italian This song has absolutely nothing to do with what's going on. They don't actually write very many songs about dealing with the Iowa unemployment office, it turns out. So here...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/sky-is-place-on-earth-belinda-carlisle.html

Language: Greek I have a job interview on Thursday. This is, in theory, a good thing. The job itself looks pretty craptacular, but it's only 20 hours a week, and pays as well as my last two jo...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/sensuality-of-big-times-bjork.html

Language: French Went to the Iowa City arts festival yesterday with the husband and some of his family. It was a lot like all the other years. If we had significant wall space, or a yard, or e...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/people-are-people-of-people-depeche.html

Language: Dutch Many, many years ago (about ten), Stan and I would invite people over about once a week to . . . well, I'm not sure what we were inviting people over to do. Drink, I suppose. I...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/well-morphine.html

Language: Spanish (obviously) I am not, by nature, a big joiner of things. I've never had any "school spirit," never given a damn about any particular sports team (save for a brief period arou...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/06/star-star-spangled-flag-francis-scott.html

Language: Portuguese Okay. Well. I don't want anybody to get the impression that I'm going to start putting up new posts all the time again, but today I ran into two pieces of information that...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/05/i-had-time-of-my-life-bill.html

Language: Russian I've been sick for the last day and a half. Some kind of food poisoning thing, I think. So I've slept for about eighteen hours out of the last twenty-four, and when I was awa...

http://babelpop.blogspot.com/2007/05/most-beautiful-peace-devo.html