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Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Day 346...
My wonderful Theenie sent me this text on Tuesday...
...and you can tell the sun, in his jealous sky, that we walked in fields of gold...
she had heard it while listening to the radio and immediately thought of me.
This made me smile. because, 1...I love my Theenie. and 2...I love Fields of Gold. especially this version.
...and you can tell the sun, in his jealous sky, that we walked in fields of gold...
she had heard it while listening to the radio and immediately thought of me.
This made me smile. because, 1...I love my Theenie. and 2...I love Fields of Gold. especially this version.
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Friday, November 9, 2012
Day 314...
So...
This morning...driving to work...browsing through the stations...I heard a note from one of my all-time favourite-feel-good-happy songs.
Mary Chapin Carpenter. Down at the Twist and Shout.
I turned it up, started singing along, and dancing in my car.
After a few moments...
I noticed the fella in the car in front of me
looking in his rearview mirror and smiling.
and then I was blissfully happy.
because today.
I was one of those people...smiling, singing and dancing in my car.
and making a stranger smile.
This morning...driving to work...browsing through the stations...I heard a note from one of my all-time favourite-feel-good-happy songs.
Mary Chapin Carpenter. Down at the Twist and Shout.
I turned it up, started singing along, and dancing in my car.
After a few moments...
I noticed the fella in the car in front of me
looking in his rearview mirror and smiling.
and then I was blissfully happy.
because today.
I was one of those people...smiling, singing and dancing in my car.
and making a stranger smile.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Day 265...
1. Passe moé l’crachoir - Longue Distance
2. Jump rope - Blue October
3. Inner glow - Blue October
4. If I ever leave this world alive - Flogging Molly
5. Boys from Oklahoma - Cross Canadian Ragweed
6. Skyline Radio - Cody Canada & The Departed
7. Into the mystic - Van Morrison's or Mike McClure band's version
8. Across the Universe - The Beatles, Rufus Wainwright, Fiona Apple (it doesn't matter who is singing this song...I love it love it love it!)
9. Satisfaction - Benny Benassi
10. The Blower's Daughter - Damien Rice
11. Wonderful - Everclear
12. Fuck you - Lily Allen
13. Walking in Memphis - Marc Cohn
14. Twist and Shout - Mary Chapin Carpenter
15. Upside Down - Paloma Faith
16. CB Buddy - Swing
17. The Underdog - Spoon
18. Ho Hey - The Lumineers
19. Bloodbuzz Ohio - The National
20. Heads will roll - Yeah Yeah Yeahs
oh man...I really could just keep going on this list. eventually, you's know every single song I love or have ever loved...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Day 234...
The blissful blending of several of my favourites in one fell swoop...
Johnny Cash.
Fiona Apple.
Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water.
sigh. swoon. weep.
Johnny Cash.
Fiona Apple.
Simon & Garfunkel's Bridge Over Troubled Water.
sigh. swoon. weep.
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Day 202...
Saw Hayes Carll last night at Headliners. We saw him a few months ago in Texas...but this show was even better.
Texas Country always makes me smile. and Hayes has incredible wit and unique vocals to make his music make me smile even more.
Another Like You.
Texas Country always makes me smile. and Hayes has incredible wit and unique vocals to make his music make me smile even more.
Another Like You.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Day forty-nine - I love...fabulous songs with awesome videos
This song...I am completely obsessed with this song. I will seriously play it over and over. and over.
His voice, his passion, the musical layers and sounds.
and the video kind of kicks ass too.
Fun - We Are Young
His voice, his passion, the musical layers and sounds.
and the video kind of kicks ass too.
Fun - We Are Young
Monday, January 2, 2012
Day two - I Love...Dan Fogelberg
It's true.
One of my earliest memories of music touching me in a way that evoked emotion was when I first heard "Leader of the Band," by Dan Fogelberg.
I was 8 years old. My mother and I were in the car driving home after my ice skating lessons at SnoKing Ice Arena (which according to my latest Google search, appears to have been renamed Lynnwood Ice Arena. sigh.)
A song came on the radio. I remember listening very intently. My ears squished up against the speaker so I could hear every word. The song made me cry; it moved me.
It still does. Every time I hear it.
This afternoon - on my way to get coffee :) - I was flipping through the stations on my XM and caught the last few lines of Joni Mitchell's "Chelsea Morning." As the song ended, and I prepared to punch the search button again, the first few notes of "Leader of the Band" started to play, and I smiled, and turned up the volume. I sang along, of course. I always do. My soul eased and quieted for a moment, as that voice, that music, those words, took me back in time. I pulled into the parking lot of my favourite coffee shop, and sat in my car, listening, until the song was over.
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