except for possibly this: So last year i discovered this amazin guitar duo named Rodrigo and Gabriella. They are originally from Mexico, the Mexican hard rock scene to be specific, but they gained fame when they up and moved to Ireland (yes, from Mexico to Ireland) and began busking with their uniquie style on the streets of Dublin. They say that they combine many styles of latin guitar, but flamenco is not one of them. Give their cover of the timeless classic "Stairway to Heaven" a listen:
This circus is falling down on its knees The big top is crumbling down Its raining in baltimore fifty miles east Where you should be, no ones around
I need a phone call I need a raincoat I need a big love I need a phone call
These train conversations are passing me by And I dont have nothing to say You get what you pay for But I just had no intention of living this way
I need a phone call I need a plane ride I need a sunburn I need a raincoat
And I get no answers And I dont get no change Its raining in baltimore, baby But everything else is the same
Theres things I remember and things I forget I miss you I guess that I should Three thousand five hundred miles away But what would you change if you could?
I need a phone call Maybe I should buy a new car I can always hear a freight train if I listen real hard And I wish it was a small world Because Im lonely for the big towns Id like to hear a little guitar I think its time to put the top down
I need a phone call I need a raincoat
-Now i'll comment on this song. I think its my new favorite song. The Circus metaphor is great. The circus/bigtop i feel is representative of his life, and rain represents life and its stresses. He misses his girl, and longs for just that phonecall. He wishes the world was smaller so that they could be together. I assume he's in Baltimore, and she's in California (i assume california cus that where the Counting Crows are from...)
My friend Cassidy graduated from the Dream Centre 2 weeks ago tomorrow. He has been clean and sober for about 6 months now. He got a full time job, and started working on getting his highschool diploma. So, Saturday night my dad gets a call saying that Cassidy didn't return during the Centre's hours. The next day my dad finds out that Cassidy has been out using cocaine. There wasn't really any reason for it. Cassidy couldn't find one, he just did it. Fortunately they let him back into the Centre, they felt that he was given too much responsibility in too little time. So they took him back. They felt as though part of the blame was on them for this incident. Friday night Cassidy freaked out, and ran away. Everything was going well, but he still ran. And he hasn't been seen since. Why? I think the reason is, that he has never known success. He's been using since he was 12, and life has kind of gone down hill from there. so needless to say life at the Dream Centre was quite a change for him. He became sort of my dads pet project. I was constantly regaled with 'Cassidy' stories. I think he was scared of the let down. He had people that cared for him now, people that he trusted and cared for, and people that cared for him. Maybe he was so scared of succeding, and then failing, that he felt that it would be better to not succed at all, and to just not fall as far. Pray for Cassidy. My dad is attempting to find him.
I'll never be a composer, i don't have enough issues. Also women that love composers must be crazy as well. I've been reading on Liszt, and he was living with this Princess and she spent her entire fortune on him, millions of dollars. Liszt would frequently cheat on her. I guess, list was a douche-bag, and the Princess was just plain dumb.
There is a reason i don't go to bars. I suppose i should say there are a couple reasons i don't go to bars: 1) I don't drink, thus why would i need to be somewhere that serves primarily alcholol. 2) I don't want to 'pick-up' a girl that goes to a bar, thats not really the kind of girl that im looking for
That said, last night i found myself in a The Den, the bar at the U of C, and with one of my friends. We went to see a mutual friends band play. There were not too bad, best band of the night, really tight, but the lead guitar drowned out everything else. At one point during the evening a young lady (25-26 years old)taps me on the shoulder and i turn around. She says "I like your braces, i just got mine off". How does one respond to that? Really, like what do you say? In retrospect i could have responded better, but hindsight is always 20-20. I said "oh i hate them". I wasn't too worried about impressing her, she looked rather, um, easy..? And i fear she may have had on some beer goggles. Anyway, thought i would write about that before i forgot about it.
So apparently there is a videogame based loosely on Chopin's life. It's called 'Eternal Sonata'. Chopin is actually a playable character, and his music is found throughout. The character looks like Chopin as well. I really want to play this game now.
These are the albums that i have added in the last couple days 1) Ian Hunter - You're Never Alone With a Schezophrenic 2) Neil Young - Hawkes and Doves 3) Bedouin Soundclash - Sounding a Mosaic 4) Various Artists - Come Together: America Tributes The Beatles 5) The Kinks - Low Budget 6) The Slackers - Peculiar 7) Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones 8) 11-17-70 Live - Elton John/Elton John Band.
As well i just got the ENTIRE Beatles anthology, and the entire Led Zeplin anthology.
Today will be Hawkes and Doves by Neil Young. Hope its good. Heard lots about it but never listened to it. After that im gonna listen to 'Get Lifted' by John Legend again. Thats a fantastic album, a real throwback to mo-town.
Yesterday i listened to the album 11-17-70 by Elton John. Its a live album recorded in a New York radio station on, you could probably guess, November 17, 1970. Any Elton John scholars will know that Elton Johns first album was released in 1970. So that means that this album is very early Elton. I loved it. The original album released was only 6 tracks but i have the re-released version that has 7 tracks. The album consists is what was to be called the Elton John Band, so just piano, drums, and bass (and i must say that the bass playing was fantastic). What is so fun about this albums is that it is live, and uncut. You hear the small audience's (125 people) yips and cheers to the furious playing before them. Rumour has it that Eltons playing was so frantic that he cut his hand at one point during the show, and that by the end of the show there was blood all over the keyboard! Now that's what i like to hear. I really recommend giving this album a listen. Its so much fun, from start to finish. Anyone that didn't llike the really tame album that he did with the Sydney Symphony should like this.
Stress will come
This is not new under the sun
So when those moments threaten to steal away
All of that peace that you've made
Remember our world where we exist
And in which no pain can persist.
Our Lost City of Atlantis;
Our Tower of Babylon.
Perhaps this place only exists in our mind
A world like no other place;
We set it apart as a State of grace,
For it belongs, and exists to us alone
And it remains our home.
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