Here it is the first of what I hope to be many Music Mondays. I seem to have this pattern, where I find a song, or several, that I like a lot, so I play it over and over and over again. Then I start to like how it sounds with other songs, so I make a playlist. There was a point in my life that I was making weekly playlists. As of lately I have cut down on that but I still feel there are songs that just capture me and leave wanting more.
There are a few criteria for the kidnapping of my musical lust. First as a dancer, the song should have dance ability to it. Now I don’t mean the whole booty popping, shake what your mama gave you dance ability (even though I do have a few of those that I have played to exhaustion) but is it something that I could see myself making into a piece of choreography? Second, do the lyrics shake me to the core, if the song has lyrics and the said lyrics cause me to say something along the lines of “story of my life” then it has a 95% chance of ending up as something I will play on repeat. Again this doesn’t mean I don’t enjoy songs that aren’t lyrical genius (Poker Face, one of my favorites) but usually sense I sometimes can’t express whatever it is that I am going through, I use music. Finally, I have to like it. Simple enough, if it is something that just makes me want to sing (badly) at the top of my lungs, dance around my apartment to the point where I usually end up dizzy, or so good I want to post it as a Facebook status than most likely, I will find a way to put it on repeat.
As of lately there are just a few songs that I am completely obsessed with.
First of Pryo by Kings of Leon. First off I have to say that The Kings of Leon are some sexy, sexy men. Most of their music brings us back to the dirty southern Lynyrd Skynyrd type rock, that makes us want to not shower, smoke Marlboros and drink lots and lots of dirty whisky. This song, while it has some of the dirty rock feel. It is soft and it is the kind of thing that you hope a lover will play for you one day when you go to leave their apartment and they don’t want you to go.
Since this was a long post I will only bore you with two songs, the second appeals to the lyrical aspect of my music criterion, Ray LaMontagne’s and the Pariah Dogs’ Like Rock& Roll and the Radio. The lyrics in this song tell the story of two people who were once very much in love, and after circumstances beyond their control, they are not only no longer in love anymore, but they don’t even talk. They act like the other doesn’t exists, a feeling and an experience that is all too familiar. This song literally brought me to tears the first time I heard it, and it was so moving and brought up so many things I didn’t want to deal with that it took me about 2 weeks until I could listen again. But it has made me realize, is that not the point of music, to shake you to your very core?
Listen, like them, don’t like them, it is up to you. That is the other thing about music, in the end, no matter how famous it may be your taste in it is personal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdYtJ2H2-IU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctzpSnU6OUc
Monday, November 8, 2010
Sunday, November 7, 2010
I'm Baaaaaacccck!
So here it is, after nearly a year (and I am cutting it close) of not blogging I have decided to pick it up again. Let’s begin with two subjects, why I stopped, and why I decided to try it again.
Let’s just agree, I am pretty awesome, especially when it comes to writing, and maybe also just a little bit sarcastic. So why would I take an opportunity to share my writing ability with the masses and shove it up the ummm… butt... of society? Simple, while my other posts verge on the thin line between personal and public diary, I feel that if I am allowing the public into every teeny tiny aspect of my life, then what am I leaving for myself in the end. This made me realize that a blog doesn’t need to be a public diary, just like your Facebook status doesn’t need to be a confessional. Just stop and think which blogs get more hits, the ones that reveal the mundane daily whiny events of the everyday complainer, or the ones that tell a story, of advice, love, ideas and hope. I’ll take option B for 1000 Alex.
If it truly is the latter than it is just that reason that I am bringing my blog back up. In about 2 or so months I will be leaving on a 48 week 48 state road trip. This trip will hopefully be reaching thousands of people, if this is the result than I would rather have people learn about the positives that life has to offer rather than the negatives in my personal life that I myself would rather not deal with.
So here is the new schedule of events for the blog, I will try to blog daily, with breaks on the weekends. To start with Monday will be Music Mondays, an idea I will have to credit to Kelsey Bigelow, Tuesdays will be Tutu Tuesdays. Dance pieces I like and upcoming ideas I have for future ones of my own. Wednesdays will be writing my life away Wednesdays where I make a written observation of the world. Thursdays, Philanthropic Thursdays, even though it doesn’t start with a T I needed a day that I could post about a different charity every week so that way people reading my blog will have an opportunity to help those in need. And finally Fun tastic Fridays, where I will post a feel good article, funny youtube video or a story that will make your week substantially better, that way you’ll figure out that there is always something fun a positive in the week to look forward to.
That’s the plan and I hope that more people will tune in to my thoughts and hopefully those who do will tell their friends.
See you tomorrow, for the first of many Music Mondays.
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
~Walt Whitman
Let’s just agree, I am pretty awesome, especially when it comes to writing, and maybe also just a little bit sarcastic. So why would I take an opportunity to share my writing ability with the masses and shove it up the ummm… butt... of society? Simple, while my other posts verge on the thin line between personal and public diary, I feel that if I am allowing the public into every teeny tiny aspect of my life, then what am I leaving for myself in the end. This made me realize that a blog doesn’t need to be a public diary, just like your Facebook status doesn’t need to be a confessional. Just stop and think which blogs get more hits, the ones that reveal the mundane daily whiny events of the everyday complainer, or the ones that tell a story, of advice, love, ideas and hope. I’ll take option B for 1000 Alex.
If it truly is the latter than it is just that reason that I am bringing my blog back up. In about 2 or so months I will be leaving on a 48 week 48 state road trip. This trip will hopefully be reaching thousands of people, if this is the result than I would rather have people learn about the positives that life has to offer rather than the negatives in my personal life that I myself would rather not deal with.
So here is the new schedule of events for the blog, I will try to blog daily, with breaks on the weekends. To start with Monday will be Music Mondays, an idea I will have to credit to Kelsey Bigelow, Tuesdays will be Tutu Tuesdays. Dance pieces I like and upcoming ideas I have for future ones of my own. Wednesdays will be writing my life away Wednesdays where I make a written observation of the world. Thursdays, Philanthropic Thursdays, even though it doesn’t start with a T I needed a day that I could post about a different charity every week so that way people reading my blog will have an opportunity to help those in need. And finally Fun tastic Fridays, where I will post a feel good article, funny youtube video or a story that will make your week substantially better, that way you’ll figure out that there is always something fun a positive in the week to look forward to.
That’s the plan and I hope that more people will tune in to my thoughts and hopefully those who do will tell their friends.
See you tomorrow, for the first of many Music Mondays.
"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you."
~Walt Whitman
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