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" Hey lovely people, I&amp;#039;m listening to &amp;quot;Pocketful of Sunshine&amp;quot; by Natasha Bedingfield right now on the radio. I rarely like what&amp;#039;s playing on the popular radio stations, but lately, I&amp;#039;ve found myself enjoying to an unusual extent the songs that are considered &amp;quot;overplayed.&amp;quot; However, this time, I don&amp;#039;t change the station when the catchy beginnings come on.  It&amp;#039;s happened before with Rihanna&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Umbrella,&amp;quot; and now it&amp;#039;s Jason Mraz and Natasha Bedingfield that have become my guilty pleasures. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m Yours&amp;quot; is such a brilliantly crafted, mass appeal song. I love how the lyrics are full of promise and innocence and sprightly young love-themes that everybody wants in his or her life. Haha... call me critical and far too analytical, but I can&amp;#039;t help noticing why these songs are so awfully popular.  I called one of my guy friends recently a &amp;quot;pocketful of sunshine&amp;quot; and he laughed and laughed. I didn&amp;#039;t think it was that funny. Anyway, on the topic of music, the Gainesville music scene isn&amp;#039;t bad at all. I mean, it&amp;#039;s incomparable to Austin or Nashville, but there are a couple bands that I follow and get excited every time they have a show. A few names: Umoja and Kings of Pain. Oh my god, and on the rare occasion, we get amazing artists in town. In March of next year, The Venue downtown is hosting Girl Talk! (I already have tickets.. haha.) Girl Talk is the stage name of Greg Gillis, a musician associated with the &amp;quot;mash-up&amp;quot; DJ movement, but wow he is so much more than that. He is a technical genius at incorporating the beats of far-reaching genres, such as overlaying Red Hot Chili Pepper&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;City of Angels&amp;quot; with Lil Wayne&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Lollipop.&amp;quot; His tracks range from explosive to pensive. What&amp;#039;s more, what I think is especially cool is that Greg Gillis is a bio-medical engineer by day for some high-end company, where none of his co-workers know of his double life. He&amp;#039;ll fly out to Paris or Brussels on weekends for a blow-out, raging concert, and then come back Monday to his collar-and-tie job.  Entertainment backed by the &amp;quot;nerdy&amp;quot; artist has always been the trend for me. When I look up the background of an entertainer I like, I&amp;#039;m always pleasantly surprised to discover that he went to NYU law school on a full-tuition scholarship from Yale University, then dropped out one year before graduating to become a comedian in red-brick comedy clubs, slowly scaling from scratch his way to success... aka Demetri Martin. Haha he is known for his non sequitur one-liners, for example: &amp;quot;The worst time to have a heart attack is during a game of charades.&amp;quot; His jokes are just hilarious observations of the mundane, and simply his stage presence makes people laugh.  What about you? Have you guys heard of Girl Talk or Demetri Martin? Don&amp;#039;t hesitate to contact me if you want .mp3s of Girl Talk because he released his new album for free online a few months ago! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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