Do any of you remember the skit Mike Myers used to do on Saturday Night Live, Sprockets? He'd play this black-clad, bored German talk show host, very minimalist and disinterested in most everything. Here's a Wiki on it in case you don't know what I'm talking about. I always found it wickedly funny, since he'd usually tell his guests things like "I find you both vapid and uninteresting." At the end of every skit, he'd announce, "Now is the time on Sprockets when we dance," and he'd break into this jerky movement thing that was all angles and hard lines, nothing fluid in the least about it.

What does that have to do with anything? Well, I have spent the past two weeks doing a lot of dancing. At concerts. And the last of the concerts for a little while happened Wednesday night, so I thought I'd be done with the dancing for a bit. But no. Cathy and I got into an email discussion yesterday prompted by her YouTube trip down memory lane with Bauhaus. And we talked about how we both have a little bit of the goth in us, even if you'd never guess it in a million years by looking at either of us.

Well, all that poking around on YouTube, viewing the links she sent me, made me think about other stuff I hadn't listened to in a while. And hours later, I had put together a playlist of some of my favorite songs of all-time. This is by no means comprehensive, although I will say the first five songs are my top songs of all-time, in order. After that, the order is completely random. One band would make me think of another, and then another... Anyway, I made the playlist public so I could share it with you guys (what fun is it if you don't share it?). I'm embedding it here in this post, but I'm also embedding it at the bottom of my blog so you can listen to it anytime you want to. 'Cause it's really great shtuff!

I'm sure I'll have to do some of the same hocus pocus I had to do earlier this week to get the Neil Finn clip to post, but it's so worth it.

Anyway, putting this playlist together was totally making me want to dance (through much of it, except maybe the slower songs). And dancing is good. It's part of my healthy living lifestyle (I got into even smaller pants yesterday, so I'm pretty darn thrilled at the moment).

So I had two awesome shows this week... both were Styx/Def Leppard/Foreigner. The second one was especially fun because Melissa and her hubby Bill came with us. We took them backstage to meet Tommy Shaw of Styx, and when we were walking back out to our seats during Def Leppard's set, we had to walk on the side of the stage to get back out and Melissa said it was like we were onstage with them for a moment. And technically we were.

Wanna see some pictures? Of course you do! (Sorry, don't have time to add the cute white borders and drop shadow I've gotten in the habit of doing...)

Here's Def Leppard the first night:

Here's Tommy Shaw of Styx the second night:

Here's Lawrence Gowan of Styx the second night (he's standing up on his keyboards):

And here's a photo of my better half, Mike, with Tommy Shaw after Styx's set the second night. Tommy's holding a CD Mike had given to him (a Vivian Campbell - guitarist for Def Lappard - solo album):

Good times!

Still no word on my new computer. This is getting old fast! I'm ready to have it already and be done with the whole stupid USB disconnects my current laptop is having. It's such a drag!

Hope you all have a great weekend, and have fun rocking out to my playlist!