Rollerskating, NYC, cooking, reading about cooking, enjoying the aftermath of cooking, enjoying the aftermath of others enjoying the aftermath of my cooking, The Annals of Medicine, mastering the art of enebriation sans the inevitable hangover, music in bars, finding shoes to fit my little feet, saying the word 'chi-cken' and 'pudding', and eBay.
Anyone smaller than me.
Hi people. It's me. The girl with the rollerskates. I am about to give you my TOP 21 ROLLERSKATING SONGS OF ALL TIME!!! Holy shit! That's right. Put your ‘blades’ away, put down that board, dust off your Riedells, the white ones with the pom poms, whatever you gots, take this here mixtape and pop it into your Sony Sportsman as soon as you can say Chaka Khan!
1. The Breaks - Kurtis Blow – this the classic, definitive 70’s rollerskating song.
2. White Lines - Grandmaster Flash – everyone knows it, loves it and can recite the words, unless you lived under a rock in the 80s.
3. Doin' It - LL Cool J – Ladies love LL. Nuff said...
4. Skate Away - Dire Straits – This is my sleeper fave – everyone wants their MTV, but I wanna skateaway!
5. Do I Do - Stevie Wonder – This is a personal one, reminds me of skating with my dad.
6. Ring My Bell – Anita Ward – This is my mom, and the 70s, all wrapped up in one song.
7. Hey Mr. DJ – Zhané – just a great rollerskating classic – Zhané just sings for the skating crowd
8. On The Radio - Donna Summer – The theme song from Foxes, makes me wanna feather my hair and rollerskate
9. Around The World – Daft Punk – these guys have channeled the soul of rollerdisco.
10. Got To Be Real – Cheryl Lynn – I lived for this song when I was little, dunno why…
11. Can’t Get You Out Of My Head – Kylie Minogue – When they play this at Roxy, get the fuck out of my way!!!
12. Annie – Heartbeat – Noone who skates seems to know about Annie yet, but this is an instant roller classic.
13. I’m Gonna Love You Just A Little Bit More – Barry White – Partner skate oonlyyy…
14. Groovejet (If This Ain’t Love…) – Spiller – A little euro, a little disco…gimme room! A girl needs room!!!!
15. You’re Makin’ Me High – Toni Braxton – The only Toni Braxton song I like happens to be a rollerskating song…go figure.
16. Hung Up – Madonna – This instantly made me feel like skating the first time I heard it. Time goes by so slowly for those who wait...
17. Crazy In Love – Beyonce – IT’S MY GIRL! IT’S MY SONG!!!
18. Cease2Xist – Ladytron – This song channels old 70’s disco, whether it knows it or not.
19. Get Up (I Feel Like A) Sex Machine – James Brown – Beginners do yourselves a favor and GET OFF THE FLOOR for this one cos you're gonna get hurt!!!!!!!!
20. Beats To The Rhyme – Run DMC – Proof that it is possible to do the robot while rollerskating.
21. Can You Feel It - Michael Jackson - Okay, I know what you're thinking, MJ is a lunatic, but this song is a fantastic example of what good can come from going out of your mind.
Secrets and Lies, Naked, Career Girls, All or Nothing, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Hannah and Her Sisters, Stardust Memories, Once, The Hunger, Crooklyn, Girl 6, The Color Purple, The New World, The Ice Storm, A History of Violence, Crazy Love, Marquis, Iron Man, Hellboy, Breakfast on Pluto, Secretary, Me Without You, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, The Blue Lagoon, Little Darlings, Sleepaway Camp, The Evil Dead, Trilogy of Terror, Lost in Translation, The Anniversary Party, 8 Women, Breathless, The Diving Bell and The Butterfly, anything else French, anything bad, good gay porn or naked Ewan McGregor movies (there's a lot of em- schwing!) I saw Brokeback Mountain 3X in the theater. Stranded on a desert island with a dvd player and 2 directors: Woody Allen and Mike Leigh.
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, America's Test Kitchen, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Dinner for Five with Jon Favreau, Veronica Mars (this is Christa's fault, natch), SATC (I thought I would need an intervention, but I'm good now...I always have Veronica to soothe my aches and pains), The Office, The Brini Maxwell Show, The French Chef, Lidia's Italian Table, Jaques and Julia (you could cut the sexual tension with a dull Wusthof!), Iron Chef, Space Ghost/Cartoon Planet, Robot Chicken, Little House, My So Called Life, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Antiques Roadshow.
The New Yorker, Saveur, Cook's Illustrated, Bust (especially the Justin Thoreaux issue), anything by Irvine Welsh, Anais Nin, Pete Hammill, C.S. Lewis, Nancy Friday, Nick Hornby, The Harry Potter phenomenon (duh) - thanks Jes for lifting the rock I was living under, David and Amy Sedaris (duh uhhhh), Valley of the Dolls, You Suck: A Love Story, The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read, The Golden Treasury of Children's Literature, The Monster at the End of This Book, Patriarchy and Globalization on a World Scale, RE: Search, Karen Finley, William S. Burroughs, Dean and Deluca cookbook, The French Chef cookbook, Nobu cookbook, The Frugal Gourmet Cooks Three Ancient Cuisines cookbook, my new recipe-card book that Jake's mom gave me last xmas.
Julia Child, Anthony Bourdain, Debbie Harry, Jello Biafra, Brini Maxwell and Mary Tyler Moore.