Monday music, vol. 23: In The Summertime

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

This remains a favorite summer anthem of mine. (Try to ignore the frightening 70s sideburns, though.)


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Monday music, vol. 22: (I've Had) The Time of My Life

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

Nobody puts Baby in a corner.


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See the scene from the movie (which I can't embed... boo) here.

Monday music, vol. 21: Merry Happy

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

I love Kate Nash's sweet voice and honest lyrics... and I love that you can tell she's British. (Isn't it weird that some people, like Elton John, don't sound British when they sing, but other people do? I have always wondered why...)

Anyway, I like that this song is a little sad, but not in an angst-y way — it is actually kind of sweet.


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music philosophy posters

I love this music philosophy project... and I'm sort of mad that I didn't do it first.

Music Philosophy designs by Mico, found via Mint

Monday music, vol. 20: Africa

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

Do you ever have songs that "follow" you? I hadn't heard this song in a while, but in the last few weeks I think it has come on the radio four or five times, so, clearly, I took it as a sign that I had to share it with you. It brings me back to 7th grade geography class :)


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Monday music, vol. 19: St. Elmo's Fire

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

Only 25 years late, I watched St. Elmo's Fire for the first time this weekend. Fashion from the 80s will never cease to amaze me — really, with the unflattering baggy everything and the crimped hair? But... I did enjoy the movie, and what a kick-ass theme song. I was singing it all weekend. (And please check out that glorious mullet.)

Monday music, vol. 18: Summer Vacation

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

You may have thought that Britney, Christina and Justin were the first to record albums after their stints on The Mickey Mouse Club (MMC), which ran from 1989 to 1994... but if you thought that, you'd be wrong. Does anyone remember a little group by the name of The Party? Don't lie. You know you had the tape (and a crush on Damon).... orrrr maybe that was just me.


Tune in, groove on, bust out, people. Happy Memorial Day. Let the summer begin!

Monday music, vol. 17: Paradise City

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

This song never fails to remind me of three things:

1. my husband "air drumming" at the beginning of the song (we do it every time we hear it)
2. the scene with William Lichter in Can't Hardly Wait
3. my brother and sister-in-law's wedding (they recessed down the aisle to this song — it was so "them"!)

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Monday music, vol. 16: Here Comes the Sun

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

Spring seems to have finally arrived in the northeast (after some back-and-forth "is it winter or is it summer?" confusion). Here comes the sun.

Monday music, vol. 15: If We Ever Meet Again

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

Most of my selections for Monday music are older songs that bring back happy memories for me... but this one is a little different. I heard this song a million times last week, and it put me in a good mood each time — t's poppy and certainly nothing groundbreaking, but it makes me want to dance. I'm sure I'll be sick of it in another week or two, but for now, I like it (and the video is delightfully cheesy). Enjoy!


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Monday music, vol. 14: To Be With You

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

I almost forgot about this song... until my friend Colleen recommended it for Monday music. It's the kind of song you put on repeat over, and over, and over again.


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Monday music, vol. 13: Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

I don't know what's better — the song that makes me want to dance, or the "high tech" special effects.


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Monday music, vol. 12: Amie

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

I'll never tire of this song... I've loved it since I discovered it in high school and it's still one of my all-time favorites. If your name is Amie (or Amy, Aimee, etc.), I'm betting you love it, too.


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Monday music, vol. 11: Pop

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

It's just a boy band kind of day. Go with it.


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Monday music, vol. 10: You and I

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

When I get rich, I want to be able to buy our parents homes in the south of France, give everybody nice sweaters, and teach them how to dance. Wouldn't that be nice?


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Why did it take me three years to see this movie? What kind of musical-lover am I to let this one go unseen for so long?? And why didn't anyone warn me that it would make me sob? (If you haven't seen it yet, it's not "sad," per se... just touching.)


Once. See it.

Monday music, vol. 9: All I Want Is You

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

Nick has had this song on repeat lately; if you saw Juno, you'll probably remember it as the cheery song that accommodates the opening credits, designed by Shadowplay Studio, which are equally as delightful as the song itself.


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Monday music, vol. 8: Right Back Where We Started From

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

When I hear this song, I picture Sarah Jessica Parker dancing and letting loose in The Family Stone. And doesn't everyone want to dance like that when they hear this song?


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PS, did anyone see the great segment on yesterday's CBS Sunday Morning about Muzak? It was a great piece about the power of music, particularly in retail environments and restaurants/bars. That would definitely be a rad job... pretty much making music mixes all day long! Maybe in my next life....

Monday music, vol. 7: You Make My Dreams

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

As if this Hall & Oates song weren't already peppy enough, 500 Days of Summer made me love it even more. (If you don't know what I'm talking about, you'll see what I mean in the clip below... and see the movie already, mm'kay?). By the way, Hall & Oates are Philadelphians. Holler.


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Monday music, vol. 6: 9 to 5

Every Monday, I'll be sharing a pick-me-up song with the hopes of helping you begin your week on a positive note. Happy Monday!

In honor of my husband's first day at a new job (yay!!), I thought a little Dolly Parton was in order. I love me some Dolly.


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