If I had a favourite season, it would be this in-between winter/spring. Ahh. Just look around you. Sunshine, that stiff breeze, chirping crickets, diamond-bright stars, bright young leaves, sparrows building nests. One sunny day, I saw that my favourite lizard (its name is Greenie and it lives behind a pipe in our backyard) had come out of hibernation. I said hello to it and mentioned I was glad to see him/her. He/she just blinked its golden eyes at me and muttered something about a hard winter and slid back behind the pipe. I agreed with him/her. T'was a cold winter, or maybe I have aged a hundred years and simply feel the cold too much. I am waiting for the weather to get warm enough to run around barefoot. My feet are smooth and clean. I had to wear socks for too long, my feet need air. I hate socks, but I also hate cold feet.
Anyhow, this month I had a sudden longing to listen to some music that I had sitting quietly tucked away for a long time.Stuff you listen to once and then forget about. You take it out sometimes, look a at it, rub your hands all over it and immerse yourself its texture and then put it away. Other times, you take it out, fall in love with it and put it in your pocket, and carry it around with you, and discover more of who made it. So, let's start with....
Dance Magic Dance - David Bowie
I don't really listen to David Bowie's music, and if it hadn't been for Labyrinth, a movie I watched nearly two years ago, I wouldn't have heard this song. The movie is kinda annoying,but I somehow ended up liking this song.
You remind me of the babe
What babe?
babe with the power
What power?
power of voodoo
Who do?
you do
Do what?
You remind me of the babe
This exchange is like a mobius strip. Or a dog chasing its own tail.
You remind me of the babe
What babe?
babe with the power
What power?
power of voodoo
Who do?
you do
Do what?
You remind me of the babe
This exchange is like a mobius strip. Or a dog chasing its own tail.
Criminal - Fiona Apple
This song... I'm never really sure how to describe it. But it's got this smooth-yet-gritty quality to it that I love.
Song to the Siren - This Mortal Coil
Mournful and haunting. It just kinda seeps into all the corners of your brain,and makes you want to tuck yourself in a chair by the window and stare into space.
Keep it Close - Seven Lions ft. Kerli
This song is a beauty. It builds up and then just crashes all manner of hail, snow and sleet over you and finally slowly drips to a stop. Perfect for running through a city on a rainy day.
Protection - Massive Attack
One night, my neighbours were away, leaving their bratty kids at home. And what did the kids do? Play some incredibly loud, incredibly bad music till one in the morning. At first I thought I was going to pass out from the lack of sleep + lack of silence I so badly need before waking up to yet another day at uni, but then I remembered: Headphones. Music. Must save myself. This was one of the songs I ended up playing to drown out the noise and soothe myself to sleep. It didn't lull me to sleep but hey, it helped my brain relax and shift to "Repose", and finally, I heard one of the older kids screaming at the younger ones to turn off that music. Sweet.
That's all for now folks. Time for me to write an assignment on systemic lupus erythmatosus!
-spirare
