days ten and eleven

HEY HI KENDRA HELLO.

Day 10 - A song that can pick you up out of a bad mood

i am really, really excited about this one! BECAUSE I GET TO LISTEN TO THIS SONG. and NOTHING on this planet makes me as happy as this fucking song:


(banditos - the refreshments)


so give you ID card to the border guard 
your alias says you're captain jean-luc picard 
of the united federation of planets 
'cause he won't speak english anyway 

THE NINETIES. I WILL TAKE THEM. one of my favorite cheesy videos, the best cheesy lead singer hair (lookin' mighty fine, rog), and oh oh oh the lyrics. happy, happy, happy.

i don't even have a second song. that's how happy that song makes me.

moving on to sadder things...

Day 11 - A song that can kill a good mood


(ne me quitte pas - nina simone)

as if it weren't sad enough in fucking french, i had to look up the translation once and obviously she's saying don't leave me over and over but then there's this (at least i hope it's a correct translation):

let me become
the shadow of your shadow
the shadowof your hand
the shadow of your dog

ouch.

i had to do it

EVERYBODY'S DEAD, DAVE.

ritual

(i deleted and posted this several times, but since i'm pretty sure it's just you reading it, i'll go ahead and keep it up. let's just be honest.)

wrapped up in a blanket, sitting at the kitchen table with half of an icebox cold watermelon and a table knife, a new book, a strange look, i picture you - wide mouth, half roman nose, maybe greenish eyes and one mischievous dimple, already sitting at my feet, tugging, insistent, chaotic, like me. come to bed, come to bed, come tuck me in. please hurry.

days eight and nine

Day 8 - A song from a show/concert you've been to (sorry, 'to which you've been')


my two favorite concerts ever (yes, i am a boring loser):


(i needed somebody - irma thomas)

i fucking love irma thomas. you don't even. you don't even know. and she's a local girl, so come on.


(an old fashioned love song - three dog night)


i am such a square sometimes.

Day 9 - A song you would play to torture enemy combatants


oh, this is easy:


(streamline - newton)

day seven

Day 7 - A song that reminds you of a lost love

this one is really easy so i'm going to do it tonight, too!

anybody who has ever known me can figure out who this one is about. the lyrics are just...perfect:


(joey - concrete blond)

i know you've heard it all before
so i don't say it anymore
i just stand by and let you fight your secret war
and though i used to wonder why
i used to cry til i was dry
still sometimes i get a strange pain inside
joey, if you're hurting so am i


(johnette napolitano's voice is like fucking lip balm. for the chapped soul. ew. anyway, that is somehow a compliment. i want to literally wrap my entire body in her voice. is that...weird?)

and this one is more for my secret spaces, for a friend, but i dunno. honestly, it encompasses all loss for me. sidenote: i cannot listen to this song. at all. without crying. when she sings "would you just look at me?" i want to slit my wrists and slip into the bathtub. well, hell, the entire set of lyrics just twists me all up. i am not even listening to it now! i hope it plays. ENJOY.


(clam, crab, cockle, cowrie - joanna newsom)

there are some mornings when the
sky looks like a road
there are some dragons who were
built to have and hold

i do as i please
now i'm on my knees
your skin is something that
i stir into my tea
and i am watching you
and you are starry, starry, starry

(there is another song, but it's another joanna song, so i'll spare you)

day six

Day 6 - A song that makes you want to dance around like an idiot with people watching

(dance motherfucker dance - violent femmes)

no, really. i don't dance. i've got about as much rhythm and grace as a newborn calf. a direct order will do, though.

this has taken me so long because i CAN two-step, but i can't think of any good two-steppin' songs.

i can also box waltz to some old country music, so here:


(waltz across texas - ernest tubb)

also? also? one of the most romantic, dreamy songs ever to me.

my heartaches and troubles are just up and gone
the moment that you come in view
and with your hand in mine, dear, i could dance on and on
and i could waltz across texas with you

day five

Day 5 - A song with deep lyrics

(insomnia and the hole in the universe - live)

holy shit, kidding. angel, don't you have some bagels in my oven? is probably my favorite line written in a song ever ever, though. i mean, really? 

(sorry for the creepy kid video)

(el condor pasa - simon and garfunkel)

i'm taking the easy way out. one of my favorite songs, some of my favorite lyrics.