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Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson: "My Rifle, My Pony and Me"

My favorite Dean Martin is the country & western Dean Martin (see also: "Houston").

Mark Ronson & The Business Intl. feat. Boy George: "Somebody To Love Me" (live)

I like Mark Ronson's Record Collection, but I love "Somebody to Love Me", featuring Boy George; it's probably one of my favorite songs of the year.

(Another live version, this with Alex Greenwald instead of Andrew Wyatt, is here. They're pretty different, and I like both of them for different reasons.)

Def Leppard: "Women" (live)

Hysteria was the first album I ever bought, and I still love it. And a live performance of "Women"? Yes.

Marnie Stern: "Transformer"

Matthew Harris: "She sings her sadness as if it were joy." So true.

David Sedaris on rudeness, fans, and his new book (via The Awl):

So I met this woman and she worked at a country club over the summer, and she was a college student. So she’s in the dining room at the country club and a woman in her 60s beckons her over to the table, and the woman in her 60s says, “Hold out your hand” and the girl held out her hand, and the woman spit a mouthful of food into her hand and said, “There’s a bone in my chicken salad.” That’s gold.

Michael Ian Black:

The lesson I take away from it is one I hope I’ve been learning over the years: have gratitude for what you have and forgive yourself for what might have been. We are all failures in one way or another, but failure is more than the end of something. It is the opportunity to begin something else. Enjoy your successes, accept your failures. Move on from both. But keep moving on.

Janelle Monae: "Tightrope" (live on Dancing with the Stars)

via perpetua.tumblr.com

The editing/production on this is really weird! But Janelle, as always, is great.

Yes. I haven't watched Top Model religiously for years, but having watched episode 2 of the current season last week, Tyra's dramatic interpretation of "predatorial" (and the promise of Rich's weekly recaps) may just bring me back.

Let's get a little mellow.

It's magic: in 2005, I couldn't find this episode of Beavis and Butthead anywhere other than our TiVo; today, it's trivial to find this segment on YouTube. And it's still funny!

My Chemical Romance: "Na Na Na"

I love it when I hear a song at exactly the right time, and that's what this feels like. (via KROQ via Maura)