Month: November 2024

Remember that first middle school “relationship” you had? The awkwardness? The drama? First delve into an incredibly complex concept, relationships, lacking the frontal cortex to even begin to fathom understanding them. Hell, at 42 I’m still figuring them out.

This song brings me back to those days.

Now you ask to hold my hand, and back then there was no buts, and I thought you would understand, that anyone can mess up, hey, hey, are you listening?, hey, hey, we’re gonna crash and burn, hey, hey, maybe I won’t care, hey, I’ll stop whispering, I’ll stop whispering”

Remember that you as you read this. Be kind to them! They probably took a lot of shit for you! Be grateful for them for getting through everything that got thrown at them back then. Whether we thrived or just merely survived, there’s merit and gratitude to be had.

I’m grateful for middle school you. Whoever they were.

Be good, do good.

Absolutely love the stuff Miley is putting out there musically these days. That growly belty voice is dope.

“Do you wanna play house? I could be your wife, go and meet your mom in a dress too tight, maybe I could stay and not break your heart, but don’t forget, baby, I’m a wildcard, I love when you hold me, but loving you is never enough, don’t wait for me, ’cause forever may never come”

Just a badass warning song.

Be good, do good!

Weird song, but there’s something about how he put it together that jives with my brain. At times it’s a kaleidoscope of sound.

Getting back at it after a little mid-November hiccup! Just couldn’t keep up with everything going on. I knew you’d still be here though. You’re cool like that.

Be good, do good.

Man, the organ in this song is incredible. Love it as the strong base throughout, and when the strings accompany it this song truly becomes like a dream. Sheer epicness.

“I am lost, in a rainbow, now our rainbow, is gone, overcast, by your shadow, as our worlds move on, in this shirt, I can be you, to be near you, for a while, in this shirt, I can be you, to be near you, for a while, there’s a crane, knocking down, all these things, that we were”

Such a soulful, emotional song. I love it, even if it causes that melancholia.

There’s a place for that, because it lets us know just how good real joy is.

I wish you that joy.

Be good, do good.

Killer voice on Maiah. I think there’s a tik tok or something rolling around with the headline “can you imagine walking by a club and hear this coming out?” when she really belts at 2:09.

I’d walk in! No doubt about it. Gorgeous, ethereal, otherworldly.

Always love discovering voices like hers. Keeps me coming back!

Be good, do good.

If you sample Bloc Party in your Hip-Hop song, I’m a fan forever. One of my favorite things about music, is that we all like all different kinds. It’s super easy to extrapolate that out to the artists themselves, right? Love to see things bleed into one-another like that. The listening experience is richer when you’re a fan of both!

Be good, do good. I think it’s an ice cream night.

We haven’t heard from Middle Kids on here since May, and we’ve been overdo.

“I came a little closer to the truth that day, I heard it’s call in the alleyway, and the one resounding answer that I could take, is that I don’t know nothing and I got no way, I got all muddled up and journeyed to the edge of town, and then the road cracked open, sucked me in, and I went down, now standing face to face with the king of the underground, some things just don’t add up, I’m upside down, I’m inside out”

Upside down and inside out is ok sometimes. Gives us perspective. That’s important!

Be good, do good.

The piano in this song is like walking on plush carpet. This song uses a interesting structure, but I think it works start to finish. Managed to see him do a song with Angie McMahon in Montreal! Super talented.

Hope you’re doing as good as can be. Here if ya need me.

Be good, do good.

Man oh man, when the waves break on the song and it lets go at the end. Amazingly gorgeous.

Short one tonight. Kind of just had a “well shit, now there’s no reason to wait to start changing things about your life for the better” realization so I’m gonna go to bed a little earlier. Probably finally go for a walk tomorrow too. Friday of a three day weekend always feels good.

Life’s too short. Change what you wanna change. Cut off what doesn’t work for you any more. Not cruelly, just, it doesn’t fit us anymore, so we’re letting it go.

Love you, mean it. Be good, do good.

I feel like somewhere on the internet I encountered the phrase “if you’re between a rock and a hard place, be water.”

Google tells me otherwise, so I don’t have a source.

Initially, I picked this song because I felt like it was uplifting. The melodies and sounds make you wanna move, and dance. I haven’t felt like doing that much today.

The more I times I listened to Ripple, though, the more I started to feel like it related to that quote. It would be easy to let ourselves give in to dread. Spin out, like the song says. I think the water and the concept of ebb and flow can be applied to time periods in our life. Yin and Yang. Hard times make us value the good, the valuable.

I think it’s important to recognize these feelings of dread we might feel. Genuine fear. Anger. Many of us are grieving.

Coincidentally, I wrote a blog post the last time Trump got elected, eight years ago.

https://wordpress.com/post/everything-etc.com/833

I titled it Don’t Choose Fear. I quoted a Will Smith movie. The idea though, was akin to “be the light”. It may feel like it’s pitch dark all around us. Here’s the other thing; 67.7M people and counting agree with us. Have the same worries we do. We are not alone in this.

“We’re all going to have to wake up tomorrow morning and work like hell to move the world toward what we prefer it to be.”

Let’s choose that. No fear. Never fear.

BE GOOD, DO GOOD!