"When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'." Groucho Marx
These are the sounds that are accompanying me on this chilly (65 degrees) morning.
As Good As I Once Was– Toby Keith
Molly Malone– The Dubliners
Into the Ocean– Blue October
Plowed– Sponge
Into The Mystic– Van Morrison
Let Me Put My Love Into You– AC/DC
Atomic Dog- George Clinton
El Dorado– Iron Maiden
Sloop John B– The Beach Boys
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I just slammed my head into the wall. Don’t ask me how I did it or tell me that it was dumb because I know those things. Â Don’t ask my children to repeat what I said or to admit that they heard things crashing inside the bedroom because the words were colorful and the crashes were loud. I was alone in the bedroom and the reaction was more pronounced because I was alone.
Good to know that I had the presence of mind to try and be quiet when I hurt reacted but the thing is that my voice carries. I don’t yell very often because I don’t have to. The voice carries with little effort. It is not anywhere close to being as deep as Barry White or James Earl Jones but it is deep enough. When I first wake it is often more of a rumble. But that damn knock in the noggin made me forget and I suppose it is fair to say that I bellowed.
Damn.
Got a bunch of ideas for Fragments of Fiction that I want to work on. Sometimes the words flow from my fingertips with little to no effort and I am able to draw pictures in your mind. And when it works well they resonate within both your heart and your head. When it works you feel the passion and you feel the fire. When it works well I hear the words in my head and feel they rhyme and the reason. There is an internal beat I follow that I try to translate from here to there and hope that you get it.
But ultimately it doesn’t matter if you do because I write anyway and any how. I am compelled and driven to mark these things with my keyboard. Moments in time and passages of the present. I still need to come up with a more effective way to present my best material and if my head weren’t pounding I might focus on it now- damn, that is a nice knot that I created.
Got to grab some Motrin. In the interim here is what is playing on iTunes now:
Need You Now– Lady Antebellum
Hungry Heart– Bruce Springsteen
Gallows Pole– Led Zeppelin
Stand By Me– Ben E. King
Please Read The Letter– Robert Plant and Alison Krauss
It is not a good day without some music to help get me through the morning. The rules of the blog are simple, share what you listened to even if the shuffle pumped out some tunes that are technically not yours. And since I follow all rules religiously here is a snapshot of some of what has been tickling my ears:
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me– U2
Tangled Up In Blue– Bob Dylan
Some Days You Gotta Dance– Dixie Chicks
San Jacinto– Peter Gabriel
How Do You Like Me Now?!– Toby Keith
The Letter– Joe Cocker
Love Me Tender– Elvis Presley
Scarborough Fair/Canticle-Simon & Garfunkel
Cool Places– Sparks
I Don’t Want To Change The World [Live]-Ozzy Osbourne
Walk Away Renee-Left Banke
You’re the One That I Want– Grease
Writing music. I like the way that sounds because it ties in to things that make me happy. I haven’t actually written a song although I have written about it. I don’t know how to play an instrument, but I hear songs and symphonies in my head. Perhaps one day I’ll be able to write a song and or compose music.
What I can do is say that I rarely write in silence. Almost every post is accompanied by music. Sometimes if I want to focus on a particular feeling I will make sure that I play specific songs, but most of the time I just let iTunes take it away. Here is a snippet of my writing music from today.
One Slip– Pink Floyd
Telephone Line– ELO
Baby I love You– Aretha Franklin
Baby, Now That I Have Found You– Alison Krauss
Please Read the Letter– Alison Krauss and Robert Plant
Tunnel of Love– Bruce Springsteen
Join Together– The Who
Calling You– Blue October
Somebody’s Crying– Chris Isaak
Have You Ever Seen The Rain– Creedence Clearwater Revival
Pictures of You– The Cure
Same Old Lang Syne-Dan Fogelberg
Layla-Derek & The Dominos
Can’t Get It Out of My Head-Electric Light Orchestra
Summertime-Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
The Magnificent Seven (Theme)-Elmer Bernstein
Burn Down The Mission– Elton John
A Little Less Conversation (JXL Radio Edit Remix)-Elvis Vs JXL
L’estasi dell’oro (The Ecstasy of Gold)-Ennio Morricone
How You Like Me Now (Single Edit)– The Heavy
Conviction Of The Heart– Kenny Loggins
Into The Ocean– Blue October
The Breaking of the Fellowship-Lord Of The Rings Soundtrack