I was tagged by @ato-the-bean to list four albums I’ve been listening to recently.
Like ato said, I’m also more of an iTunes playlist girl, but here’s what I’ve got. (No links, sorry, trying to link things on tumblr mobile is a pain in my generous posterior.)
1) Hedwig and the Angry Inch Soundtrack!!!! (because I saw it live in the city this week, so I’ve had Wig In A Box stuck in my head for days and days.)
2) Sia – Colour The Small One : I think I got this album in something like 2003 from a friend, and busted it out recently because I was making a playlist, and needed to listen to it again.
3) The Swell Season – Strict Joy (Deluxe Edition) : same reason as the last one. I bought this a few years ago, listened to it some, and liked it ok, but I pulled it back out like a month ago, and I’m really into it this time around. super good.
4) Songs of the Siren : this is a Starbucks mix album from the mid-late 90s, and it is just unbeatable. everything from Billie Holiday to Richard and Mimi Farina to Shawn Colvin. spectacular.
@ato-the-bean OMG I DID NOT KNOW THERE IS A VOLUME TWO 😮 and yeah, I love zero 7- the same friend who gave me the Sia album gave me zero 7 at the same time, lol.
Volume 2…arguably better than volume 1.
@ato-the-bean oommmmggggg I mean I have most of these songs in other forms but now I have a mighty need! also, facts about jimmy is my fav Shawn Colvin song, and the reason I wrote a whole angsty little fic series titled after it, lol.
I’m more of a Steady On/Fat City era Shawn Colvin fan, but I like that song too. Did you see she’s coming to Freight and Salvage? Also, do you like Jonatha Brooke, Melody Gardot, or Rachel Yamagata? They’re all sirens in my book…
the Girl Scouts of Western Washington received a donation of $100,000. They were thrilled – that amount of money comprises nearly a third of the organization’s financial assistance program, and it makes a huge difference to the girls they serve.
Then, they learned that the donor had made the gift on one condition: It was not to be used to support transgender girls, which the Girl Scouts has been doing for years. So the Scouts returned the gift. Every dollar.
To make up for the huge dent in their finances, they just launched an Indiegogo fundraiser to raise back the $100,000 and use it for every girl who needs them, regardless of whether or not the girl is transgender. In one day, they’ve already far surpassed their goal, raising over $175,000 and counting. And there are still 29 days of their online campaign remaining.
The Seattle Met reports that it’s the second time “in less than five years” that a Girl Scout council [led by chief executive Megan Ferland] “has taken a public stand to support transgender girls.”
In 2012, when she headed the organization’s Colorado council, a 7-year-old transgender girl in Denver was denied entry to a troop. Although the council had never specifically said that it accepted transgender girls, the national organization had always made inclusivity the foundation of its mission. So after checking with the council’s attorney, Ferland issued a public statement welcoming transgender girls and explaining that the council was working to find a troop for the girl who’d been rejected. “Every girl that is a Girl Scout is a Girl Scout because her parent or guardian brings her to us and says, ‘I want my child to participate,‘” Ferland says. “And I don’t question whether or not they’re a girl.”
Absolutely incredible. I am the best kind of speechless.
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