Chanson du Jour

A little break from learning about the adrenal gland. Fascinating stuff. Today I bring you a fairly good song with a pretty awesome video.

The Weakest Shade of Blue by Pernice Brothers

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Every once in a while supergroups form and treat the world to fantasticness. The Eagles are not such a band. Today's group is. Let's do a quick rundown of the accomplished members of today's band:

Jim James from My Morning Jacket
Conor Oberst from Bright Eyes
Mike Mogis from Bright Eyes
M. Ward from M. Ward and She & Him

Put them together and you get Monsters of Folk.

Enjoy The Right Place by Monsters of Folk

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3 weeks til spring break. Thing we're excited? We get to clean the house uninterrupted. Now, that's a party. In the meantime, I better find out what happens to T3 and T4 when there's a hot nodule on the thyroid gland and how that differs from when there is a cold nodule. Got a thyroid quiz tomorrow at 8:15. Peace out.

X-Pat by Octoberman

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Can't believe it's Wednesday already. It has been a good week so far. I owned my two tests on Monday, the presentation got moved to next Wednesday and we are just having so much fun learning about the endocrine system now.

Today's song is Bob Dylan meets wife beaters.

Roll On Arte by The Felice Brothers

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Well we didn't get our 1-2 inches of snow today as predicted. We got 6 inches instead. It snowed all stinkin' day. School was canceled today and tomorrow. My test tomorrow got pushed back to Monday evening, so now that makes 2 tests on Monday and Student Grand Rounds on Wednesday. But, I get to stay home with the wife and kid and ...puppy.

Enjoy this tune from Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail. The Puppy Song by Harry Nilsson.

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This is the last song from Julie & Julia during Nora Ephron week. Little AK loves this song and especially loves it when her mama sings it to her. Pretty cute.

Meanwhile we are awaiting some snow (maybe 2 inches) here in Dallas overnight. Maybe school will be canceled tomorrow. That would be excellent. Give me extra time to study for my test on Friday, my test on Monday, and prepare for Student Grand Rounds (a big presentation that I have) on Wednesday. Then again, I would miss out on the exciting lab that is prepared for tomorrow where there are three stations where we learn a clinical skill for an hour a piece. Tomorrow is phlebotomy, X-ray reading, and listening to different heart and breathing sounds. I know Anonymous will be volunteering for the phlebotomy lab. He loves that stuff.

A Bushel And A Peck by Doris Day

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Let's continue with Nora Ephron week. This song too is from Julie & Julia.

Psycho Killer by Talking Heads

PS - The chick plays the bass like I play Guitar Hero...and that is not a compliment. How rigid. How amateur looking. How funny.

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We passed up these artists, The Skygreen Leopards, Malcolm Middleton, Megatawn, Imogen Heap, and Arctic Monkeys to bring you today's song, straight from the soundtrack of Julie & Julia.

Stop The Train by Henry Wolfe

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We are going to try out a new band for today's competition. Neither of the videos are official videos, but the songs are good. I don't like everything these guys do, but I like a lot of it. Enjoy The Magnetic Fields.

I Don't Want To Get Over You


All My Little Words

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I have been listening to this group/guy nonstop for the last few days now. I am really enjoying his stuff, despite the fact that he performed at a few Obama rallies during the campaign. We have previously played this video of his on the blog, but here are the videos for today's competition. Enjoy today's artist, Bright Eyes.

Easy/Lucky/Free


First Day Of My Life


Road To Joy (pardon the bleeped words, don't worry about watching the interview afterwards if you don't want to, and enjoy the trumpet man smashing his trumpet)

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The rest of this week we are going to have head to head competitions. The fact that these songs are greatness is not up for debate. We are only curious as to which is the greatnesser. Enjoy.

First up, a Weird Al duel (clearly inspired by yesterday's CNR)

White and Nerdy

If you want to hear the song spoofed, click here to listen to Ridin' Dirty by Chamillionaire (expect rapper lyrics - although edited - and video vixens if you watch this)

Or, Trapped In The Drive-Thru

If you want to hear the song spoofed, Trapped In The Closet Parts 1-12 by R.Kelly, you are going to have to find them on your own because the content is not that which is condoned on this blog. But, suffice it to say, Weird Al nails it again.

A True Gift

We can always count on the hadzic clan for some great songs and videos. This is no exception. Here is the antidote to Mount Eerie. If you are offended easily, find a new blog to read (although I keep it pretty clean here), but this has some off the wall funny lines that may rattle our feebler readers. Beware.

CNR by Weird Al

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Another week. This week we start the renal system. Yippee. I will tell you the entire pathway of your pee shortly. Stay tuned.

Two by The Antlers