Month: May 2024

I’m turning in early tonight…didn’t leave myself time to write!

So I’ll advertise for a fantastic group.

HIGHER GROUND, SOUTH BURLINGTON VT, TUESDAY JUNE 4, 2024

The Halluci Nation

See you there?! First blog field trip?!

Be good, do good.

I skipped through so many song tonight trying to find “THE VIBE” that I wanted to share for the next post, and this is what I landed on.

I hope this song inspires in you the superchill quietude that it did in me.

That’s the energy I want to impart after my hectic afternoon at school. Let’s slow things down in our mind as much as we can today. I’m setting a goal of doing a Headspace in the AM, midday, and before bed. What are you gonna do for you today?

Be good, do good.

“And now I’m pulling out of your driveway, finally, I’m living, not surviving, and it’s funny you said I’d never have the guts, well, suck it up, I’m gonna bottle up this feeling, now, with the windows down, I am reborn, in the ever-fading light, you know you once were a someone I adored, well never mind”

No witty commentary on this one, just a cool song from Holly Humberstone, whom I like even more the more I listen to her. Great ditty about moving on from a bad relationship. She’s got a great voice, and it shows in this song. Enjoy!

BGDG.

I love that the beginning of this song uses a viral YouTube video in it’s intro.

That message really goes hand in hand with the message shared by the song.

“All of us (all of us), grow up (grow up), trying to find our space (our space), trying to find out piece (our piece), of a pie, of a friend, of a love, on-the-go, some days you can feel out of place, like you can’t keep pace, don’t it feel like we in a race, like it’s me vs. you, or, it’s us vs. them, acting like, if you win I lose, like, we both can’t win, so one of us might as well just give up, cause around here we don’t give out helping hands, you can’t believe that though, cause it’s just not true, cause I know by myself I can go 85 or maybe do 150 with some help from you”

Food for thought today. BGDG.

London Grammar perfects atmospheric (and sometimes outright epic) sounds. This remix that I discovered last year turns it into a different direction. I honestly prefer the jilted lover remix over the…oddly-placid-in-the-face-of-infidelity original?

After writing that last sentence I had to listen again and really study the lyrics to try and get a feel for the original.

I never was able to understand that first lyric in the intro. Turns out it’s:

“Imagine if I’d have had a baby”

Which…fuck. Tough, tough, TOUGH, sentence. As I listen to the rest of the song, I feel more and more that it’s about a love triangle. Is the voice we’re hearing the voice of one of the points of that triangle that’s waiting for the other to leave the third? The line in the beginning about “I saw the words she wrote that broke my heart” kind of leads me there.

The more I listen to the original I see that my “oddly placid” judgment was hasty. Our voice is definitely sad and I think questioning their own decision/part in the triangle. It’s almost an existential questioning of self.

Our remix though…

I love how we start out with beautiful strings and shimmering chimes. Things were good then for our voice.

Starting at 1:06, those low synths are menacing. Even though it’s the same lyrics of the song, I think the remix has more venom to it. The voice is angry about their involvement in this triangle. Less questioning existentially and more admonishing existentially. They are cynical and wiser to the game now.

That’s my assessment anyway. Both are beautiful in their own way. Just like all of you.

It’s been a while since I’ve told you, but, love ‘ya.

BGDG.

Maiah has such a beautiful voice!

“When I left you in New York
I knew it was the end
Then the road began to fork
I walked down your path again
You say that I’m so perfect
A dream so red and true
So really was it worth it
Always telling me what to do
I know what you wanted more”

Bit of a heartbreaker but a pretty one, and at least she is trending up by the end and on the road to better.

I hope you have a wonderful day and enjoy how lovely this song is!

BGDG.

First post from my phone! Let’s hope this works correctly. I’m in Addison after finally getting my Joanie going for the riding season! Michael and I have been hard at work putting new tires on and getting her buttoned up and today was the first ride!

Looking forward to putting some miles in this summer/fall.

Anyhow, Michael’s partner Erin is like, the biggest fan of The National and their spoken word sound. She’ll be super stoked about this post.

“Your imagination is in an awful place, don’t believe in manifestation, your heart’ll break, don’t you understand, your mind is not your friend again, it takes you by the hand and leaves you nowhere, you feel it in your nerves, it’s choking out the sun, you try in vain to be persuaded that it’s nothing”

It’s easy to go down that rabbit hole of negative thought spiral. In The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck, author Mark Manson talks about The Feedback Loop From Hell.

Essentially, because we have the luxury to be able to think thoughts ABOUT our own thoughts, we can catch ourselves being anxious about something and then get even more anxious because we are thinking about how bad it is that we are anxious in the first place. It’s a bad place to be.

So, no one wants to be there. You can train yourself to avoid it, but it’s not easy and will take a while to understand how much control you really have over your own daily happiness. Once you do though…so much can change. Take control!

BGDG!

Great little jaunt through some electronic-pop here! Gorgeous voice on lead singer Olga.

“Oh your hands, I cried when I lost them, tears falling, touching the surface, oh I’m afraid of losing the time, oh I can’t stay, oh can’t I stay, she has got me running, faster than the wind blows, sorrow without silence, built the walls that hid you”

The whole song, despite some of it’s intention dissonance, just feels smooth to me. I picture an oscilloscope? I’m picture then green screen computer thing that you see in movies measuring rhythm or even that old visualizer music player on PCs. YES! That’s it. This is the quintessential song to play on one of those visualizer screen-savers!

A kaleidoscope of sound.

BGDG.