Friday, August 26, 2005
What'll I say!? What'll I say?!
I've been tagged by Ka!
Here's her challenge: List five songs that you are currently digging - it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions and the five songs (with artist) in your blog. Then tag five people to see what they're listening to.
Well, I think what I'm going to do is forward on this tag to 1 person who isn't a blogger, but is a reader, and four random blog people, who I've never met or contacted or commented on their sites, or even BEEN on their sites, maybe, because my readership is small, and this will act as a way to branch out, or at least scare a few people, which is fun too!
Here are the songs:
1. Aquarium from Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals.
It's sooooo creepy, and reminds me of the play I'm writing with my best friend, because we're using it for a scene in which a narcissistic little girl drowns in a lake.
2. One Evening by Feist.
Loving it. Very sexy. Very flirty and hot. Alternately, Mushaboom from the same album is equally lovely because of it's home-ness.
3. Procissao by Gilberto Gil.
One of his early pieces, from 1968, and one of my favourites. A beautiful Brazilian song with a mildly spiritual subject matter. Gorgeous and simple and well executed. It's the epitome of what I like about Brazilian music, while still remaining a definite piece of Tropicalia, which I tend to like least of all the Brazilian genres.
4. a man/me/then Jim by Rilo Kiley.
Again, a very beautiful song from their latest album. I love the way these writers shift narrative, and bring the listener on a really hard journey, inside a little pretty acoustic cha-cha. It's heart-rending and perfect.
5. The Sweater by Meryn Cadell (Toronto-based! Yay!).
This song is just hilarious. It's sort of a spoken word thing, using samples from "Un Homme et Une Femme", and it just made me the happiest man in the world when I first heard it in 1991, and it continues to do so to this day. My favourite line from it is: "If you get to keep it for a few days you can sleep with it but don't let your mom see because she'll say what is that filthy thing and who does it belong to besides the trash-man. So you have to keep it under the covers with you. You can kind of, lie it beside you or wrap it around your waist or touch it on your legs or whatever that's your business". Ha!
Okay. so the tag goes to:
the infamous RH (the one without a blog)
Here I Stand
Andrew B
Dev
KOTP
Here's her challenge: List five songs that you are currently digging - it doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions and the five songs (with artist) in your blog. Then tag five people to see what they're listening to.
Well, I think what I'm going to do is forward on this tag to 1 person who isn't a blogger, but is a reader, and four random blog people, who I've never met or contacted or commented on their sites, or even BEEN on their sites, maybe, because my readership is small, and this will act as a way to branch out, or at least scare a few people, which is fun too!
Here are the songs:
1. Aquarium from Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals.
It's sooooo creepy, and reminds me of the play I'm writing with my best friend, because we're using it for a scene in which a narcissistic little girl drowns in a lake.
2. One Evening by Feist.
Loving it. Very sexy. Very flirty and hot. Alternately, Mushaboom from the same album is equally lovely because of it's home-ness.
3. Procissao by Gilberto Gil.
One of his early pieces, from 1968, and one of my favourites. A beautiful Brazilian song with a mildly spiritual subject matter. Gorgeous and simple and well executed. It's the epitome of what I like about Brazilian music, while still remaining a definite piece of Tropicalia, which I tend to like least of all the Brazilian genres.
4. a man/me/then Jim by Rilo Kiley.
Again, a very beautiful song from their latest album. I love the way these writers shift narrative, and bring the listener on a really hard journey, inside a little pretty acoustic cha-cha. It's heart-rending and perfect.
5. The Sweater by Meryn Cadell (Toronto-based! Yay!).
This song is just hilarious. It's sort of a spoken word thing, using samples from "Un Homme et Une Femme", and it just made me the happiest man in the world when I first heard it in 1991, and it continues to do so to this day. My favourite line from it is: "If you get to keep it for a few days you can sleep with it but don't let your mom see because she'll say what is that filthy thing and who does it belong to besides the trash-man. So you have to keep it under the covers with you. You can kind of, lie it beside you or wrap it around your waist or touch it on your legs or whatever that's your business". Ha!
Okay. so the tag goes to:
the infamous RH (the one without a blog)
Here I Stand
Andrew B
Dev
KOTP
// posted by MSR @ 5:30 PM 
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ok... here goes:
1. "bali hai" performed by rosemary clooney and perez prado. holy point/counterpoint batman.
2. "janeane" by jann arden. my roommate and i like to think that she wrote it after a love-affair gone wrong with janeane garofalo.
3. "jolene" by dolly parton. we also like to think that this is about a love-affair gone wrong with... some gal named jolene.
4. "cry me a river" by barbra streisand. i LOVE her.
5. anything by edie carey. i saw her perform at a wedding on sunday and then a show in the city the next day and fell a little bit in love with her.
ta-da.
1. "bali hai" performed by rosemary clooney and perez prado. holy point/counterpoint batman.
2. "janeane" by jann arden. my roommate and i like to think that she wrote it after a love-affair gone wrong with janeane garofalo.
3. "jolene" by dolly parton. we also like to think that this is about a love-affair gone wrong with... some gal named jolene.
4. "cry me a river" by barbra streisand. i LOVE her.
5. anything by edie carey. i saw her perform at a wedding on sunday and then a show in the city the next day and fell a little bit in love with her.
ta-da.
# posted by 
: 3:20 PM
: 3:20 PM
PS:
6. "i want to know what love is" by wynonna judd. i saw her sing it on oprah once upon a time and it was heartbreaking. oh, wynonna...
6. "i want to know what love is" by wynonna judd. i saw her sing it on oprah once upon a time and it was heartbreaking. oh, wynonna...
# posted by : 10:23 PM
: 10:23 PM
Very exciting, RH! One might think you were a COUNTRY fan if it wasn't for the Rosemary Clooney which confirms that you are a gay man. Oh, and the Barbara Streisand, of course!
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