15 posts tagged “music”
Finally watched Everything is Illuminated. Loved it. Gotta stop buying movie soundtracks, though.
Yesterday I realized I had not noticed the auto withdrawal for my gym fees from my checking account. It's been nagging at me for the past few months, and in true RPM fashion, I pondered the greater meaning of it, came up with five hundred possibilities and then actually called to find out the truth. And the truth was, my membership expired.
Perhaps this is a gentle reminder to me that all things need not be complicated.
So I went to renew my membership and decided since I had a metric ton of electric energy to expend, I would also get my workout schedule back in play. Ninety minutes later I was feeling less jittery and riding the waves of adrenaline into an evening that was scheduled to include a stop by a friends house, a long steamy shower and 3:10 to Yuma.
Do not go from complete inactivity to ninety minutes of bootcamp. It is the perfect equation for migraine. My perfect evening turned into laying on my bed and praying for the ceiling not to crash on my face.
I'm still recovering. And this serves as a reminder to me not to deny that I have the tendency to go to extremes.
I leave you with grapenuts and chalk sauce. A nasty meal, but a funky groove. It's by Blockhead. No jokes please.
Audio: Share a song you could listen to all day on repeat.
I have too many to list just one, but this morning...this is the song I could play fifty hunnert eleventy times...
You gotta give for what ya take. M'kay?
Addendum...while working, I heard this...and recalled...this one is also on that heavy repeat list.
What's your musical horoscope? (Put your player on shuffle and write down the first 10 songs that come up.)
I will also interpret where possible...
1. Lamento (No Morro) - Sergio Mendes.
This has no words that I am able to interpret, which probably means I've said too much. But since when has that ever stopped me?
2. Loving You (Interlude) - Tony Toni Tone.
Again, brings up no issue, other than this...what the fuck is the point of interludes and such? I always wanted them to either end a lot sooner, or be a track. It's kinda like a kiss and tongue. You're either in or your out. In the middle is just...stupid.
3. Celebration - Kanye West.
While the bloom is off the rose with me and 'Ye...this album I do so love. What am I celebrating? My own joie de vivre. It's a celebration, bitches.
4. Best Man - Faith Evans.
An indication it's time to do some further scrubbing of my music collection. </vomit> No offense Faith, but I either love your songs, or want to torture people with them. Kinda like that tongue thing.
5. Congratulations - Blue October (featuring Imogen Heap).
Okay, that's just mean. That is all.
6. Vals of the Maldrake - Javier Navarrete (Soundtrack to Pan's Labyrinth)
Sinister, like my mood will be if I get any more funny jokes like song 5.
7. Ordinary Pain - Stevie Wonder.
You're dumb to think I'd let you be
Scott free without some pain from me
Heard your song and took a chance
But to your music I can't dance
Go tell your story 'sob-sad'
About you blowin what you had
Since one ain't good enough for you
Man...you better go ahead and tell it. *shakes head*
8. Pay to Play - Lenny Kravitz
I don't believe in what you do, I don't believe in what you say...Okay iTunes, you're redeeming yourself. Nice turnabout.
9. Do It To Me - Usher.
*fans face* In front of everyone? You're not even my type!
10. Gotta Make It Through - 4.0.
Yes we do. I loved the harmony of this Boys to Mennish group. I am still sometimes a sucker for four part harmony...even though R&B has grown increasingly unimaginative to me. I don't mind ending on this one.
I would also like to add that I never use shuffle because it almost always plays stuff I'm not in the mood for.
Video: Show us a music video you'd gladly watch over and over again.
Thee way tie.
Song of the day.
Maxwell...I can't listen to him without thinking of the various times I've seen him in concert, the times my sister and I were so overcome by the moment that all we could do is look at each other with tears rolling down our cheeks. I push some tracks away entirely because they suck me back to moments that ache with sweetness that I don't want to think about.
Lifetime...
There was a time when love wasn't chosen
now I'm just open for more
now I'm just reaching out for something better
that I had before, girl
there ain't a bottom line in your world
Fortunate...
Fortunate to have you girl,
I'm so glad you're in my world,
Just as sure as the sky is blue,
I bless the day that I found you.
Okay...I'm not writing much the past few days. I've actually been doing work writing, which tends to eat my creativity with a lovely glass of Shiraz and dark choco after dinner mints.
While I'm working, I've developed a compulsion for Mute Math. I stumbled upon this because John Mayer says they are good. And I tend to like his tastes. Late as hell, but on the fan bus nonetheless.
Be back tomorrow and hopefully I'll have something marginally interesting to say. Until then, rock with me. Just a lil bit. It won't hurt. I promise.
PS...added the track o' my life from their debut album. *clutches chest and prepares to die on choco couch*
PSS...spent another hour trying to sort out my protected files, to repost the song. Now I'm pissed, but perhaps you can actually hear the track. Now I'm off to find something to slap.
The entire album is a treat.
Happy Monday folkses. I'll be around to annoy you later.
Cheers!
RPM
What was your favorite toy as a kid?
My favorite toy, not sure I had a favorite toy of all time, it varied by age. I know the ones that stand out are my Barbies who taught me the importance of being rail thin, impossibly leggy and the object of affection for a guy with really bad hair. (Thanks Barb). Perfection had to have played a critical part in my current battles with panic and anxiety, and Lite Bright really helped to take me somewhere else when the present state was really not all that intriguing. (Click that link for hours of mindless enjoyment) More than anything I suppose, my most favorite and consistently retrieved toy was likely always a book.
What type of music or band do you love?
According to iTunes, I love: Alternative, Punk, Acid Jazz, Electronica/Dance, Downtempo, Hip Hop, Indie Rock, Jazz, World, Post-Grunge, Progressive Electronic, Pop (say it ain’t so), R&B (I would say Neo-Soul)...
My most heavily played bands this week have been: Goapele, Fleetwood Mac, Elton John, Incubus, Nelly Furtado, Javier Navarrete (who better win an Oscar dammit), The Roots and Shirley Bassey.
What color can't you live without?
Brown. It’s all around me, every day. The color I seem to like close to my skin always. However from a spiritual standpoint, blue is the color that keeps me at peace. It’s the color I’m always searching for behind my eyes.
What is your favorite scent?
Right now it’s Africa Spa oil by the Body Shop. Room fragrance. I don’t really care for perfumes and colognes.
Show us something you love.
This still has me howling laughing, Huge fan of Extras. "Chubby little loser...national joke..." *dead*
I was checking in on George and I was extremely interested to see the article he linked to regarding blipsters. I find the evolution of this "type" fascinating and extremely telling muscially. I know my sister would absolutely be classified as one...and I might have been had I been:
a) younger
b) cooler
c) as diversified in my indie music appreciation as she (her love is vast and includes punk, which I can take in small doses)
Faster than a speeding bullet, there are groans, grumbles and potential caveats of course. Blemo? I don't know, and did I sense a bit of annoyance here? I suppose the thing that makes me cringe in general is when there is a need to define race along with a preference or appreciation for a particular music. I watched my sister suffer greatly in a predominately white high school, and today struggles with some of the callous remarks people give her about her eclectic style, passion for "out of the stereotype" things like music, fashion, etc. So I'm torn.
In one sense, I like that there is a niche, a portion of society that she could immediately identify by [life tag] and know she'll likely be able to relate. On the other hand, why a need to further segment an already segmented society with yet another potentially negative double standard? Not sure how I feel about this...
