I love Figure Skating...
I have since I was a little girl. It was one of those things that my mother could prop me in front of the tv after a day of talking her head off, and I would just sit there. Quiet. In awe of the grace and beautiful of this dance on ice happening before me.
I have been watching it for years and years.
Not that many people know that because it's rarely on and I'm too lazy to track it down most of the times.
My favorite part is the music. I love the music they use when they are doing something outside of the box. Usual music from remixes to classic rock to new wave.
This usually takes place doing free skate programs, where they cut the leash of the skater and let break out of the box with something different.
And I sit there like a dork, happy as little pig, if they happened to play an obscure track from an artist I love or adore. Hopping in my chair, talking to myself, because no one can happen me when I watch figure skating. (I talk back to the tv a lot and this makes me appear crazy.)
And so far with the Winter Olympics, no one has stood out for me.
Most of them have given way to the stress of the event and have taken to the floor. Slipping on jumps and having some issues getting through their short programs.
It was a miracle if anyone didn't fall on the floor yesterday.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Monday, February 8, 2010
Give Me Five on Monday
Give Me Five reasons you can be thankful this year.
001. My Family. My real family.
Giving birth doesn't make you a good parent, nor does avoiding your family members when they need you the most.
Credit goes to those people who stayed, when they probably shouldn't have. The family members who fought to make me smile when all I wanted to do was die; hugged me for no reason; somehow made me laugh when I wanted to do was cry my eyes out.
To my wife who has stood around through stupid fights that went no way; through me cutting myself; hugged me for hours and hours as I cried and cried over people and things that I was not strong enough to change. I am blessed to have someone so utterly beautiful who loves me through all my crap. And I shovel a lot of it.
To wake up next to that beautiful smile and mind numbing snoring is one of the most treasured things I have.
002. Working in a Recession.
It may not be everything I was hoping for; but it's a start. And a start is all we have sometimes to work with.
***No longer have this job... LONG story***
003. To have a place to live.
004. Writing.
Something so little helps me deal with all varied things that I am going through.
It doesn't matter if its straight doodling in a journal; or writing a story, it acts as a creative outlet for me and I am thankful for it. That I am able to channel my fears, frustation, angry, love all into something other then hurting those around me or myself.
005. Music, for being the thing besides writing that smoothes my savage beast.
I'm thankful for all the artists and bands I have discovered through the iTunes store; car rides in other peoples car's; the fm radio; commericals; movie trailers etc...
Give Me Five reasons you can be thankful this year.
001. My Family. My real family.
Giving birth doesn't make you a good parent, nor does avoiding your family members when they need you the most.
Credit goes to those people who stayed, when they probably shouldn't have. The family members who fought to make me smile when all I wanted to do was die; hugged me for no reason; somehow made me laugh when I wanted to do was cry my eyes out.
To my wife who has stood around through stupid fights that went no way; through me cutting myself; hugged me for hours and hours as I cried and cried over people and things that I was not strong enough to change. I am blessed to have someone so utterly beautiful who loves me through all my crap. And I shovel a lot of it.
To wake up next to that beautiful smile and mind numbing snoring is one of the most treasured things I have.
It may not be everything I was hoping for; but it's a start. And a start is all we have sometimes to work with.
***No longer have this job... LONG story***
003. To have a place to live.
004. Writing.
Something so little helps me deal with all varied things that I am going through.
It doesn't matter if its straight doodling in a journal; or writing a story, it acts as a creative outlet for me and I am thankful for it. That I am able to channel my fears, frustation, angry, love all into something other then hurting those around me or myself.
005. Music, for being the thing besides writing that smoothes my savage beast.
I'm thankful for all the artists and bands I have discovered through the iTunes store; car rides in other peoples car's; the fm radio; commericals; movie trailers etc...
Top 5 on Friday: Don't Cover Me
Top 5 on Friday -------------------
(Even though it's actually Moday, so I'm running behind.)
TOP 5 SONGS YOU THINK SHOULD BE ILLEAGAL FOR ANYONE TO COVER
001. Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
It is simply perfect. A dark, almost macabe song that has everything going for it.
Interesting topic for a song --- CHECK.
Awesome Guitar Solo -- CHECK.
Does it need a modern day revamping? Hell no. Leave it be. Let it wash over you.
002. Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure
I must be going for a theme here, tonight. All the songs I have picked seem to have this glooy over tone.
But "Charlotte Sometimes" is a song that I had to hear over and over again the first time I borrowed my mom's copy of "Staring at the Sea: The Singles". It's achingly haunting and spoke to me as a teenage girl trying to find my way through the crooked path of adolescence.
003. Living in Another World - Talk Talk
An obscure song from a forgotten band in the 80's, but Mark Hollis' vocals on most of their records including this one are just so vulnerable and lush that you feel entirely what he's expressing to you.
And this song spoke to me. And the thought of someone covering it makes me sad. I don't doubt that maybe someone out there can bring some justice to it, but you'll lose the emotion that Mark Hollis gives when he sings,
"...Did I see tenderness where you saw Hell
Did I see angels in the hand I held;
God only knows what kind of tale you'd tell;
Living in another world to you...."
004. Dear God -- XTC
I have never to this day heard a cover of this song and I probably will never will.
005. This is Hardcore -- Pulp
It's Jarvis Cocker at his smooth, slighty odd self.
It's a beautifully operic piece that was set behind a music video that was reminscine of a hitchcock set and just mind blowing.
It's the kind of song that demands to be played behind a trailer of a new interesting film that is determined to be a cult classic. Not for everyone, yet those that get it's power are completly taken over by it.
(Even though it's actually Moday, so I'm running behind.)
TOP 5 SONGS YOU THINK SHOULD BE ILLEAGAL FOR ANYONE TO COVER
001. Don't Fear the Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
It is simply perfect. A dark, almost macabe song that has everything going for it.
Interesting topic for a song --- CHECK.
Awesome Guitar Solo -- CHECK.
Does it need a modern day revamping? Hell no. Leave it be. Let it wash over you.
002. Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure
I must be going for a theme here, tonight. All the songs I have picked seem to have this glooy over tone.
But "Charlotte Sometimes" is a song that I had to hear over and over again the first time I borrowed my mom's copy of "Staring at the Sea: The Singles". It's achingly haunting and spoke to me as a teenage girl trying to find my way through the crooked path of adolescence.
003. Living in Another World - Talk Talk
An obscure song from a forgotten band in the 80's, but Mark Hollis' vocals on most of their records including this one are just so vulnerable and lush that you feel entirely what he's expressing to you.
And this song spoke to me. And the thought of someone covering it makes me sad. I don't doubt that maybe someone out there can bring some justice to it, but you'll lose the emotion that Mark Hollis gives when he sings,
"...Did I see tenderness where you saw Hell
Did I see angels in the hand I held;
God only knows what kind of tale you'd tell;
Living in another world to you...."
004. Dear God -- XTC
I have never to this day heard a cover of this song and I probably will never will.
005. This is Hardcore -- Pulp
It's Jarvis Cocker at his smooth, slighty odd self.
It's a beautifully operic piece that was set behind a music video that was reminscine of a hitchcock set and just mind blowing.
It's the kind of song that demands to be played behind a trailer of a new interesting film that is determined to be a cult classic. Not for everyone, yet those that get it's power are completly taken over by it.
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