words, words, words
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If I begin to detail myself here, will you understand?
P. I am me
Q. I don't always know exactly who that is
R. I am Quaker
S. I like words and playing with them
T. I like genmaicha tea
U. I like the word napkin more than most others
V. I spend time walking my neighborhood
W. I cook rice often
X. I sleep well most every night
Y. I eat large amounts of fruit and vegetables
Z. I munch, sleep, write, create, cook, bike, watch, walk, listen, hope, learn, drink, live, breathe, touch, know, question, taste, copy, read, stare, carry, talk, dance, finger, try.
raisin@gmail.com
albums:
Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs
Erasure: I Say, I Say, I Say
Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
The Beach Boys: Pet Sounds
Marvin Gaye: What's Going On?
David Bowie: Hunky Dory
George Michael: Listen without Prejudice
George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Yo La Tengo: And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside Out
songs:
Wild is the Wind: Nina Simone
Come Undone: Duran Duran
Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini: Rachmaninov
My Funny Valentine: Chet Baker
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate: The Flaming Lips
This Must Be the Place: The Talking Heads
Hyperballad: Bjork
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Thursday, May 27, 2004
mmm, eggs sunny-side up over cheese grits. yum yum.
I've been playing around with Instant Cool, a discussion system some friends of mine are on. A new game they made up is a music mix-off, which is right up my alley. Our first competition is a war song collection, which also, is right up my alley. so i've put one together. of course, war songs are never fun to listen to, and althoguh i like the collection, i don't think i'll be listening to it often. what was almost more fun, was writing about the songs a bit, explaining them and their meanings, etc. i would have loved to have been long-winded, giving full explanations of each song, when i first heard them, how they changed my perspectives, etc. but i was more concise. which i guess is why i have a blog, right, to spew all that stuff out. even if nobody bothers to read it, it's still fun for me.
Sunday Bloody Sunday : U2 : War
I Bombed Korea : Cake : Motorcade Of Generosity
Soldiers : ABBA : The Visitors (Remastered)
Waiting At The Border : Beth Watson : Tom's Album
My Vietnam : Pink : Missundaztood
War : Joan Osborne : How Sweet It Is
Mother's Pride : George Michael : Listen Without Prejudice
Business Goes On As Usual : Roberta Flack : Chapter Two
Drink Before The War : Sinéad O'Connor: The Lion And The Cobra
What's Going On : Marvin Gaye : What's Going On
Back In The USSR : The Beatles : The Beatles (White Album) (Disc 1)
Bombers : David Bowie : Hunky Dory
When Johnny Comes Marching Home : Glenn Miller : The Millenium Anthology
We Will Become Silhouettes : The Postal Service : Give Up
Gun Shy : 10,000 Maniacs : In My Tribe
'Tis Of Thee : Ani DiFranco : Up Up Up Up Up Up
Gunpowder : Wyclef Jean : The Carnival
I'm On The Battlefield For My Lord : Rev. D.C. Rice & His Sanctified : Anthology Of American Folk Music (2-B)
I realize that the songs should be able to stand for themselves, but I'll admit that a few of the songs I used are a bit difficult to deconstruct, so I'm throwing in a bit of explanation. Plus, I've always wanted to write a celebrity playlist where I gush about what the songs mean to me! And since I was in the military for nine years, they all certainly affected me.
Most of the songs are obvious, U2's Sunday bloody Sunday, Cake's We Bombed Korea, Joan Osbourne remake of War, etc, but I love the Cold War songs like David Bowie's Bombers and the Beatles' Back in the USSR. The Postal Service song, We Will Become Silhouettes is harder to grab - Chrisafer explained it to me. The song is about the fear of nuclear war, how teachers literally described to us what would happen during and after a nuclear strike, how our cells would implode, and our ashes would literally turn us into silhouettes. Wyclef Jean's Gunpowder and Ani DiFranco's 'Tis of Thee both deal with undeclared war, like war between two gangs, the war on the poor, the war on drugs (and drug-users), etc. Marvin Gaye's What's Going On - i wish i could post the whole album) made a huge impact on my life as it sifted through my head, the face of war, the mothers and fathers, the sons and brothers. George Michael's Mother's Pride was originally presented to me by another cadet as simply a prisoner of war song, but i eventually listened to it enough to realize that it's quite anti-war "all the husbands, all the sons, all the lovers gone, they make no difference, no difference in the end." Glen Miller's When Johnny Comes Marching Home and the folk song, I'm on the Battlefield for my Lord exemplify the eerie ideas I heard when i was younger, the glorification of war, the comparison of fundamentalist Christianity with warfare for God which both recognized the dangers of war, but somehow pushed a positive emotion for those willing to fight, die, and mostly, kill the enemy.
1:47 PM
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