“There ain’t no devil, there’s just God when he’s drunk…”
“Do you know where friendship ends and passion does begin? it’s between the binding of her stockings and her skin…”
“I’m holding on, ’cause you’re my revolver, and I dreamed of ending, in a violent way…”
there just are too many lines in music lyrics to list, but [...]
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a list… or two
Posted in music, words, tagged isobel campbell and mark lanegan, lyrics, music, one-liners, suzanne vega, tom waits on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
“shower of savages”
Posted in music, tagged flogging molly, irish music, lip rings, music in the park, outdoor concerts, redheads, San Jose on July 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
a strange thing. … i just came back from my vacation to the Yucatan [more on that later] and in typical fashion, i attended an outdoor concert two days later. let me say this, for a free show in the heart of San Jose, ‘the heart of Silicon Valley’ and also known as a black [...]
white wine and guitars
Posted in music, tagged audience, Die Alone, guitar, hotel cafe tour, ingrid michaelson, music, myspace, Radiohead Creep, rock star attitude, san francisco, sweater song on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
April 15
i went to a show on friday night in san francisco. i had bought tickets to an ingrid michaelson show at an intimate cafe in the city earlier this year but was sick and couldn’t drag myself out. this was my second attempt at seeing the songstress that captured my heart with an old [...]
i am cured
Posted in music, tagged concert, music, Robert Smith, simplicity, singer, songwriters, The Cure on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
may 29
sitting in the dark, all i see are the bright lights caressing the people below and hear his voice in my ear. if i close my eyes, its like he’s singing in my ear, to me and only me. it’s the concert experience that keeps me coming back for more.
Robert Smith looks down, brooding [...]
learning curve
Posted in music, words, tagged dog bite, guitar, instrument, music, strings on March 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
my fingers hurt as i type this. i have shared an afternoon with an old friend. i picked him up during my youth then forgot about him. he’s back in my life and his strings feel like magic in my clumsy hands.
i had stowed him away years ago, thinking i wouldn’t miss him. that rich [...]
mixed tape
Posted in music, tagged CDs, cliche, high school, ipod, mixed tapes, music, playlists, songs, soundtrack, spin cycle, vague on December 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
remember the days in high school, maybe even before when you would put together mixed tapes, collages of music that summed up a relationship, a disappointment, an accomplishment? what is that connection? why is it sometimes so easy to search your playlists and stacks of CDs or back then, cassette tapes? its like looking into [...]
valley of the ear’s delight
Posted in music, tagged emotion, gym, high fidelity, melody, moment, music, rediscovery, songs, workout on November 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
i’m having a high fidelity moment. for those music afficionados, you know exactly what i mean. the idea of using music to communicate a feeling, an emotion has always appealed to me. someone somewhere has already felt that same experience so why try to reinvent the wheel with the description when there already is one [...]
ingrid
Posted in music, tagged "The Way I Am", heartfelt, indie, ingrid michaelson, piano, romantic, silly, song, sweater commercial on September 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
i had forgotten what it was like to be silly, romantic, an optimist. i guess because of my line of work that one can get lost in the jaded files of traffic complaints and endless violence.
the other day, and i know how silly this will sound once i finish typing it, but i was watching [...]
a few notes
Posted in music on August 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
what makes a good song? its a question i have asked myself recently. my husband and i have a rather large collection of music. over the years, we have amassed a collection of new and old, of acoustic and electronic spanning several decades, several countries, several tongues. we began organizing and uploading it to [...]
