i just managed to get mlb.com live audio running for free and am now currently listening to the phillies play live in the grapefruit league game against the rays.
baseball season is back. all is now right in the world.
phillies won 12-5!!!
while i try to figure out how to embed a song, click here for a link to download Bobby Burnett singing "Goin' Back to Philadelphia, PA" which they play whenever the Phillies are winning.
So I've been in somewhat of a twilight zone lately, being sick with something or other for the past few weeks and spending most of my time meanwhile watching LOST from the beginning. I'm now 6 episodes into season 3 and I am beyond addicted. I've had many freakout moments and I have many, many questions. But I'll save my LOST talk for my LOST friends when we can freak out and ask questions in person, as we now tend to spend a great deal of time doing. While I'm all depressed and holed up in the winter, watching LOST is great for filling the time, and every time that Mamas and Papas song comes on, it just wipes all my troubles away. Listen and smile.
Nobody can tell ya; There's only one song worth singin'. They may try and sell ya, 'cause it hangs them up to see somone like you.
But you've gotta make your own kind of music sing your own special song, make your own kind of music even if nobody else sing along.
So if you cannot take my hand, and if you must be goin', I will understand.
You're gonna be knowing the loneliest kind of lonely. It may be rough goin', just to do your thing's the hardest thing to do.
But you've gotta make your own kind of music sing your own special song, make your own kind of music even if nobody else sings along.
So if you cannot take my hand, and if you must be goin', I will understand.
You gotta make your own kind of music sing your own special song, make your own kind of music even if nobody else sings along.
Thinking positively towards the future, I've been spending my non-LOST sick time making sure many awesome things are planned for the near future. Julia just planned the most kickass bday weekend ever for me by securing Disco Biscuits tickets and Phillies tickets for the weekend of April 17th. A few days after that, Ratatat with Olivia. Then later that week I will hopefully head to CT to kick it with Katherine. And then, it's the Weekend of Cosby. Julia and I will head to somewhere near Scranton to see Bill Cosby live; there are really no words for our excitement. We have lots of Cosby things in store, so stay tuned. Also coming up: 2020 Soundsystem, MSTRKRFT & Bloody Beetroots (together in 1 night), and Les Claypool. Lots of dancing in the next two months.
June will also be an amazing month because I'll get to see Phish for my phirst time with some of my best phriends. I know that, to some people, Phish touring again means more than anything in the world and they would give up everything just to have tickets in their hand. But I am really glad that for me, it simply means having a lot of fun with people I love, because that is really the greatest thing on earth.
Then about 2 weeks later I head to Portland, OR for 11 days for Katherine's wedding! The flight is booked. The maid of honor dress is in my closet (it's my favorite color and has pockets!! Thank you Katherine!) Lots of awesome things on my calendar.
I feel the depression of winter lifting. It's still freezing in my apt. but I hear birds chirping when I wake up in the morning. Baseball season has begun. I'm starting to feel productive. My friends are happy and making positive changes (new boyfriends, apartments, weddings...). I feel like the new year is really beginning now. We're all wiping toxic things out of our lives and making fresh starts, feeling stronger (harder better faster). Maybe the more LOST we watch, the more we find ourselves? Or maybe I just want a good excuse for watching 8 episodes a day every weekend... either way, things are looking up.
I didn't watch the Grammys, but I actually agree with some of the awards this year. Though I have yet to hear it, Album of the Year went to Robert Plant and Alison Krauss for Raising Sand. Will definitely be checking that out tonight. Al Green finally won an R&B award - two, actually - for two songs off Lay It Down. He's won Grammys before, but never in the R&B category. Radiohead's In Rainbows received a much-deserved win in the Best Alternative Music Album. And Daft Punk's 'Harder Better Faster Stronger' won Best Dance Recording. Now daft what I'm talkin' about.
*update* Justice won a Grammy in the best non-classical remix category for their remix of MGMT's 'Electric Feel.' Sweet!
50 years ago today, Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and Big Bopper James Richardson died in a plane crash while touring the midwest. What's known as 'The Day the Music Died' is remembered today in various ways: Iowa's Surf Ballroom, where Holly, Valens, and Bopper played their final gig, hosted a tribute concert last night; NPR pays homage with a news story complete with audio clips; and South Florida's beloved festival Langerado kills the music in its own way. It is indeed a sad day in history.
We can forever look back to the tragic event and remember the trio with thankful ears, knowing that although Buddy Holly would probably still be selling out MSG today, he inspired countless musicians in his place, not to mention the lyrics to everyone's favorite Weezer singalong and the Don McLean song you know you're singing in your head right now (cha cha told me it was the most annoying and overplayed song of all time, but extensive and torturous research has convinced me otherwise). We may not all want to hear La Bamba too many times or recognize the poetic genius of Chantilly Lace, but Ritchie Valens and James Richardson both contributed to the rock and roll movement that has led to pretty much everything we know and love today.
So with a respectful nod to the past and a hopeful look to the future, just remember what we were all doing on the day the music died: we were singing...
i didn't have any super bowl plans this year, so i'm kickin' it at home alone today, cooking, cleaning, eating, not cheering for either team in any way whatsoever but watching the game as i end up doing every year. i could care less about football and find the game itself mostly boring (with the exception of the occasional insane play or injury), but i dig the commercials and halftime show (like most girls), and i do appreciate a good sports announcer. jennifer hudson just sang the national anthem and sounded great - game on. i did watch about a half hour of the puppy bowl and caught its national anthem, sung by a parrot, which was cool but decidedly overall less exciting than the super bowl.
i pigged out most of yesterday and continued with BLC (bacon, lettuce, cheese) sammiches for breakfast this morning - yes, plural - and decided the rest of my day should involve some exercise and decent food. so i walked around a few blocks and vacuumed. should have probably enjoyed the warmish 50-degree day more, but the promise of the FL sun and my sunshine in a few days keeps me from feeling too guilty. and so, instead of eating a bucket of fried chicken by myself as i considered, i had a delicious roundish meal featuring leftover roasted carrots & parsnips and a chicken cutlet, plus some wild rice (packaged) and brussels sprouts gratin with bacon. the brussels sprouts were kind of a hybrid of two different alice waters brussels sprouts recipes and they came out amazing. i have allowed myself to believe that eating brussels sprouts and bacon together cancels out the bacon (please don't try to convince me otherwise). one notable bit of music news is that (i'm a little late getting to this) hype machine, aka music bloggers around the world, voted fleet foxes the #1 album of 2008. this makes me happy not necessarily because its my #1 choice but because every music magazine (well, at least spin and rolling stone) voted TVOTR's album #1. truthfully, i've listened to the TVOTR a lot more than fleet foxes, but i think both are equally amazing and that fleet foxes deserves some recognition for creating what was arguably 2008's most beautiful and original indie album. here hype machine offers a podcast show of their top 10 albums in full. the full list is here.
2009 looks promising musically as well, kicking off with the release of andrew bird's 'noble beast' which i cannot get enough of - it's seriously amazing - and, of course, success in getting phish tickets to camden in june, and thanks to my very good friend eytan, a promise to go to the friday jones beach show as well. despite many efforts, i've never seen phish live, so i'm pretty ph'ing stoked to finally live my 18-year-old dreams. lots to look phorward to.
