I sit in front of this computer wanting to write a post. So many thoughts go through my mind that I would like to write about. More about The Power of Now, how much I love to sing, but how terrible my singing voice is, work, things from my past. But I feel disconnected and lazy. It seems difficult trying to write anything that will make sense.
Little Anthony and the Imperials sing I think I am going out of my head on my launch cast. I used to love that song when I was a teen. Such angst. I remember special ordering the album from a record store in our area and just dying for it to come in. The day finally arrived for me to pick it up. I brought it home and locked myself up in my room to listen, damn record had a skip in it. That is OK, I played it for forever anyways.
Now listening to All I Want from the one and only Joni Mitchell from the Blue. Looking for something what can it be? Oh I love you when I forget about me... I want to belong to the living... alive alive... I want to renew you again and again... When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws... When I got engaged, I actually wrote to Joni Mitchell and asked her to sing at my wedding. How silly it seems now, but at the time, I thought I would give it a shot. Would have been cool, huh?
I love launchcast...now I hear Barbra and The Shadow of your Smile... I love her old albums the best. I remember when my mom saw her on the Gary Moore show for the first time. The next day she was telling everyone about this wonderful new singer. We followed her career as we grew up. I LOVE the My Name is Barbra albums. I used to lay down with my head next to the speakers of my stero and close my eyes and pretend it was me singing. And of course there were times, especially in the car on long trips I would sing the whole album. I know every lick. I have never seen her in live in concert and I think I should put that on my list in case she ever tours again.
So far away, Carole King's Tapestry.. up now. Number 1 my Sr. year in high school.
Just sitting at the computer... singing my life away.
P.S. Just so you don't think I am an old lady lost in the past, I have The All American Rejects, Dashboard Confessional, Paramore, The Fray, and more on my station as well. lol...
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I think Blue is my favorite Joni Mitchell album. I'll have to pull it out again--haven't listened to it in a long time.
I haven't used launch cast, but I listen to pandora, which I think is similar. I love it.
Have a great weekend!
Mike
Music is so evocative; it can just throw us back into a certain time period. This morning, my husband and I were in a coffee shop, and a song from the late 80s came on: "Next time I fall in love, it will be with you." That song is forever ruined for me because I was in love with this guy who kept giving me the cold shoulder. And he sang that song in my car as we were driving somewhere together, even though he knew how I felt about him. Jerk. I think maybe I need to go listen to a song with happier memories.
P.S. My grandmother had exactly the same reaction to Barbra that your mom had. Talked about her for years.
For awhile I was sick of all that old music - but now it all seems so superior to the newer music - or just copycat versions of the greats. I remember Tapestry playing over and over during high school art class.
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