Currently listening...

1. ATB - Ecstasy
2. Jose Gonzalez - Crosses (Tiesto mix)
3. Ferry Corsten - Beautiful
4. Peter, Bjorn and John - Young Folks
5. The Engine Room - A Perfect Lie (Gabriel & Dresden mix)
6. Armin Van Buuren & DJ Shah feat. Chris Jones - Going Wrong
7. Peter, Bjorn and John - Paris 2004
8. Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence (Oakenfold mix)
9. Kaskade - Move For Me
10. The Beach Boys - California Dreamin (Benny Benassi mix)

I love the people that introduce me to new music. A friend of mine decided to play Ecstasy over and over and over one Sunday morning and even though I had heard it literally 12 times in a row, I've still been listening to it for the last week and a half. On that Sunday morning, my friends were laying on the living room floor and that song was playing and of them asked me if I knew who it was. He happens to be much more of an ATB fan that I am, but I told him I was pretty sure that's who it was, and of course, he didn't believe me so I googled it and turns out, I was right!

So when I do my monthly "Currently listening..." post, I find myself listening to at least one song that I've listed before. Obviously, I like the music I listen to and want to share it (hence the posts) but I try not to repeat listings and as I was looking over past posts today, I realized that I had never listed Crosses. The Tiesto remix of that song is my favorite song from 2007. Whenever my friend Christian plays, I always ask him to play it for me. Unfortunately, you cannot get this mix on any album. It is simply unavailable. If you'd like to check it out, here's the link to my favorite video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wejDP_OtbdE

or you can get it here:
http://www.savefile.com/files/947963

If you watch the video, at one point it shows newspaper headlines and the translation is that there were 200 THOUSAND people on the beach in Rio for this show. I saw Tiesto at Harry O's last summer, and it was the smallest venue on his tour, but I just can't even comprehend that kind of crowd. Anyway, the point is that this song touches me and I wanted to share it.

Young Folks I heard almost two years ago from a friend of mine, long before it was heard on the radio. Listening to it just makes me happy. I can't whistle, so I can't really "sing" along with it, but I love it all the same. For about a year, it was my favorite song, you know the one that you can listen to on repeat and not get tired of it? That was this song for me until Crosses.

The new Kaskade album is awesome. Move For Me is the first track and I dig the opening of it so much. It's a bit syncopated and it gets inside you. I can't get enough of this music. This song has been stuck in my head for WEEKS. We went to see BT play at The Hotel a few weeks ago and listened to Kaskade's album all night long afterward and it made for a fantastic night! Move For Me has a great beat, melody and lyrics as well. Plus I haven't really liked Kaskade's more recent stuff, until now, which is nice because he's always been one of my favorite DJs.

So this one has been a very long "Currently listening..." but I like to share what makes me feel good. These songs get inside me.

Gay Pride

I love Gay Pride weekend. I love partying and eating and playing and staring at the crazies and everything else that it entails. The only difference this year was that I actually made it to the parade...I have missed it every year and think that missing it again would not have been too much of a tragedy. However...

We walked over to the pride grounds right after the parade and were there until they kicked us out at 6:30ish. How many hours of hula hooping and sunning are too many? I still can't answer that question but 7 1/2 seems to be pushing my limits in that department. Of course, there is the inevitability of tiring from the fact that several days of partying catches up to you sooner or later so perhaps the exhaustion at the end of Sunday was not from too many hours in the sun but merely a result of my body screaming at me to stop abusing it in the manner I am accustomed to.

I am still trying to recover but I started working full-time this week and getting up at 6:45am is not conducive to the recovery process. In conclusion, I leave you with this:

To all the gays (or at least the ones that are my friends): I love you, I love you, I love you. That's all!