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I want to tell you about music.... I have sat in the bath for an hour tonight, 55minutes of which were spent sitting, thinking and hummin along to some music that I'd put on. Between smoking ciggies and contemplating my wrinkly fingertips I thought a lot about music and my favourite songs.
Right. I find it impossible to express how I feel, I'm sure most of us here do. One thing that helps me amazingly is my painting. Even with my paintings though, some times it feels like an impossible task to get the old creative juices flowing and one thing that never fails to move me (one way or t'other) is music.
If you came to my house and looked around you'd notice a plethora of song lyrics 'borrowed from' songs and used in my paintings. From here I can see "I dream of the Winter in my heart turning to Spring" (song by HIM). I recently sold "I bruise easily" (thanks to Natasha Bedingfield for that one) and my downstairs walls profess "I know this hurts" and "It was meant to" (from Fall Out Boy). Upstairs I have contributions from Robbie Williams ("Send someone to love me, I need to rest in arms; keep me safe from harm, in pouring rain") and probably 2 or 3, amybe even 4 paintings, attributed to the lyrical master that is Jack Johnson ("seem to me that 'maybe' pretty much always means no", "she wishes she was somewhere else, 'bout 2,000miles from here" and "not dead but definately dying" are a few classic lines)
I've got loads of favourite faithful songs which I turn to in different times of crisis. There are the angry ones; "Buried alive by Love" by HIM, "Broken Toy Soldiers" by The Raconteurs (ha, I crashed their VIP aftershow party & met Jack White!), Metallica's "Enter Sandman" or even "He had it coming" from the Chicago soundtrack for when a fella mucks me about!
You may have noticed that I am a girl. However you may have also noticed that I'm not your typical girlie-girl. The thought of your typical 'girlie music' makes my skin crawl and I would love to kill Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston for crimes against music. My kind of girlie or soppy music is more like Skin's unmistakable solo album; Fleshwounds, my beloved Jack Johnson (Rainbow with JJ and G-Love MUST be played at my funeral), 'Drift Away' by Dobie Gray and a very new addition to my essentials is Newton Faulker. One of his songs contains a really poignant lyric which I want to include in my next painting; "So doooooooooon't take my photograph........ Cos I doooooon't wanna know how it looks to feel like this." - How many millions of people can relate to that?!
There are four 'stupid' albums that I hold dear, which never fail to raise a smile, enable me to dance like a goon and make me throw any worries out of the window; My Generation by The Who (especially Boris the Spider), Jackass The Movie 1, Spit in your Ear by Spitting Image and the ultimate; Tenacious D!!
Now there are more brilliant songs that I have in my collection that I dust off when they are required, but that is all I can remember from my bath time ponderings. Sorry for the random ramble. Just fancied noting it down whilst I had a few fragments of it left in my head!
Right. I find it impossible to express how I feel, I'm sure most of us here do. One thing that helps me amazingly is my painting. Even with my paintings though, some times it feels like an impossible task to get the old creative juices flowing and one thing that never fails to move me (one way or t'other) is music.
If you came to my house and looked around you'd notice a plethora of song lyrics 'borrowed from' songs and used in my paintings. From here I can see "I dream of the Winter in my heart turning to Spring" (song by HIM). I recently sold "I bruise easily" (thanks to Natasha Bedingfield for that one) and my downstairs walls profess "I know this hurts" and "It was meant to" (from Fall Out Boy). Upstairs I have contributions from Robbie Williams ("Send someone to love me, I need to rest in arms; keep me safe from harm, in pouring rain") and probably 2 or 3, amybe even 4 paintings, attributed to the lyrical master that is Jack Johnson ("seem to me that 'maybe' pretty much always means no", "she wishes she was somewhere else, 'bout 2,000miles from here" and "not dead but definately dying" are a few classic lines)
I've got loads of favourite faithful songs which I turn to in different times of crisis. There are the angry ones; "Buried alive by Love" by HIM, "Broken Toy Soldiers" by The Raconteurs (ha, I crashed their VIP aftershow party & met Jack White!), Metallica's "Enter Sandman" or even "He had it coming" from the Chicago soundtrack for when a fella mucks me about!
You may have noticed that I am a girl. However you may have also noticed that I'm not your typical girlie-girl. The thought of your typical 'girlie music' makes my skin crawl and I would love to kill Celine Dion, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston for crimes against music. My kind of girlie or soppy music is more like Skin's unmistakable solo album; Fleshwounds, my beloved Jack Johnson (Rainbow with JJ and G-Love MUST be played at my funeral), 'Drift Away' by Dobie Gray and a very new addition to my essentials is Newton Faulker. One of his songs contains a really poignant lyric which I want to include in my next painting; "So doooooooooon't take my photograph........ Cos I doooooon't wanna know how it looks to feel like this." - How many millions of people can relate to that?!
There are four 'stupid' albums that I hold dear, which never fail to raise a smile, enable me to dance like a goon and make me throw any worries out of the window; My Generation by The Who (especially Boris the Spider), Jackass The Movie 1, Spit in your Ear by Spitting Image and the ultimate; Tenacious D!!
Now there are more brilliant songs that I have in my collection that I dust off when they are required, but that is all I can remember from my bath time ponderings. Sorry for the random ramble. Just fancied noting it down whilst I had a few fragments of it left in my head!
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theatre and I are there already. I'm having a very berry tea with crackers, cheese and cherry tomatoes and she's having a joint with some beer and we're both on really comfy recliners on thick pile carpet. we need some help with the decor if anyone is around??
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I'm trying to exercise daily. I was doing fairly well until I sprained my ankle 2 weeks ago but now I'm getting back on the horse. Today I walked over a mile with my arm weights that are about 22lbs total. I was out of shape and it was hard on my arms. I also did my 30 situps. I'm also going to drink a lot of water and try to eat healthy. I do tend to have a sweet tooth but I'm cutting...
I'm with you on the "girlie" singers, but I'm not up on the ones you mention you like. I do like Juice Newton, Joplin, Alannah Myles, Edith Piaf, BillieHolliday, Bessie Smith, etc.