In celebration of the official start of my (self-created) “Getting On Track” program, in which I’m trying to drag my battered self out of the wastelands of depression, today’s song is an anthem from KISS called “I”…
Category Archives: Songs & Music
“First of May” (Song of the Week, Beltane 2011) [NSFW]
To my pagan friends, and anyone else of good will, I wish you all a happy Beltane.
I had hoped to celebrate properly this year, as in the Jonathan Coulton song below, but ’twas unfortunately not to be. I hope your day is more enjoyable.
“I Wonder”
“On Every Street” (Song of the Week, 4/25/2011)
This song always gets under my skin.
THUNDER
When I’m writing this, I’m up way too early Monday morning. But when it appears on my blog Wednesday morning, I will be at the ZZZZZZZAAAAAAAAAP lab, possibly already riding the lightning.
To commemorate this first session (which I’ll try to blog about afterward), here’s some AC/DC.
Thanks to all my friends who are with me in spirit as I undergo this treatment…
Tunnel of Love (Song of the Week, 4/18/2011)
Fat man sitting on a little stool
Takes the money from my hand while his eyes take a walk all over you
Hands me the ticket smiles and whispers good luck
Cuddle up angel cuddle up my little dove
We’ll ride down baby into this tunnel of love
I can feel the soft silk of your blouse
And them soft thrills in our little fun house
Then the lights go out and it’s just the three of us
You me and all that stuff were so scared of
Gotta ride down baby into this tunnel of love
There’s a crazy mirror showing us both in 5-d
I’m laughing at you you’re laughing at me
There’s a room of shadows that gets so dark brother
Its easy for two people to lose each other in this tunnel of love
It ought to be easy ought to be simple enough
Man meets woman and they fall in love
But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough
And you’ve got to learn to live with what you can’t rise above if you want to ride on down in through this tunnel of love…
Counting The Clock That Tells The Time
I have the go-ahead from my psychiatrist, and just got off the phone with the ECT clinic.
Next Wednesday morning, I start my lightning ride.
If we can stand up
When all else falls down
We’ll last through the winter
We’ll last through the storms
We’ll last through the north winds
That bring down the ice and snow
We’ll last through the long nights
Till the green field’s growing again
Growing again…(Peter Gabriel w/ Kate Bush)
Maybe I’m Going To Graceland
Thought of these Paul Simon lyrics last night, and they touched me through my pain…
And I see losing love Is like a window in your heart Everybody sees you're blown apart Everybody feels the wind blow
“Black Water Hattie”
For those who might have been curious about my reference to Swamp Witch Hattie in my last post, here’s Jim Stafford’s creepy classic…
I love witches.
If the embedded version isn’t working for you, here’s a direct link.
Little Red Hiding Hood (Song of the Week, 4/11/2011)
- Woof.
My favorite fairy tale, though I’m a passionate believer that the wolf should get the girl.
Chain Lightnin’ (Song of the Week, 3/28/2011)
Huge thunder storm right now, here in lovely Decatur, in the wee hours, and I’m awake not because of my all too frequent insomnia, nor because of the storm itself, but because the weather service decided it was really important that people in the middle of a thunder storm know that they’re in the middle of a thunder storm, even at 3:27 am on a Monday morn.
So my phone, which is also my alarm (standing vigil till it has to awaken me at the now seemingly less ungodly hour of 5 am) starts vibrating loudly (the ringer being muted). And the buzzing drags me out of dreams, and I cannot return.
It’d be nice if I could set the emergency system to call me only if there’s an actual freaking threat, like a tornado, and not when there’s just another thunderstorm. But, alas, no.
Still, sitting here typing in the dark morning with thunder shaking the firmament, the susurration of rain, and flashes of lightning through the open blinds is pretty damn cool.
I was going to offer up the classic Jackson Browne song “You Love the Thunder,” but it’s apparently not available anywhere online. I could change machines, dig up off my iPod, upload it…but nah. Instead, here’s the second tune that came to mind, .38 Special’s “Chain Lightnin’,” which I always loved back in high school.
Stay dry out there. Unless, you know, havin’ sex.
Look Into My Eyes…Vote Republican…
Roy Zimmerman offers up a very funny song and hits his target squarely in the balls. This ain’t satire, folks; it’s journalism.
Cliffhanger Music (Song of the Week, 3/21/2011)
To commemorate my new monthly column on pulp, which debuts today at Inveterate Media Junkies, here’s John Williams’s perfect cliffhanger background music from Raiders of the Lost Ark…
And as a bonus, here’s Taylor Dayne’s “Original Sin,” the Jim “I Wrote All Meat Loaf’s Best Songs” Steinman creation used for the Alec Baldwin version of The Shadow…
The Galway Girl (Song of the Week, 3/16/2011)
Just in time for St. Patty’s Day, radiant Irish accordionist Sharon Shannon joins Steve Earle on his great song “The Galway Girl…”
In Your Room (Song of the Week, 2/7/11)
You know who you are.
If You Open Your Mind Too Much, Your Brain Will Fall Out
A great song by Tim Minchin.
“Hey” by The Pixies (Song of the Week, 1/31/11)
A pair of fetching Israeli girls do one of the only homemade music videos (of someone else’s song) I’ve ever seen that’s not only worth watching but pretty darn incredible.
More Malone
Michelle Malone
In a short back n forth with Michelle after I posted my last post, I told her “All blogs need more Malone.”
Realizing I’d spoken (or, typed actually) a great truth, I decided to try to get my own blog up to code.
Watch, revel, then go get some.
Here’s an engaging and funny performance from 2008:
And here she is reunited with her band from back in the day, Drag the River:
And here she performs with the Indigo Girls: Continue reading
Michelle Malone, Singing to the Heart…
“Jenny” by Flight of the Conchords
While searching for todays’s Song of the Week, I came across this witty gem from Flight of the Conchords.
Under An Outlaw Moon 