No title - i'm too busy to think of one

Life for the next month or so is gonna be insane. Unfortunately it is work that dictates this. I guess I should have spent more time on being creative and building this website that now sees me tied to my desk till mid septemeber and no doubt beyond rather than tralling the internet for music and other distractions. However, as I sit here at my desk while the clock skips past 8.30pm, the only thing that is keeping me sane is music. I can't mess around looking for it so I'm putting my ears into the hands of Zane Lowe on Radio 1. Some people find him terribley annoying and I agree that his physcophantic attitude towards musicians can be cringeworthy. But to be honest he has an unbounded enthusiasm for music and his tastes are eclectic makes for a good mix of listening.

Anyway the reason for this blog which has already gone on too long, is that he just played Dan Black's Hipnotize (a cover of Notorious Big) . Sometimes a cover of a song, when played so completley differently like this one, make you see the song in a whole new light and listen to the lyrics more clearly. They're simple rap lyrics but they have a different feel and they even sound a bit funny when sung by this guy. For some reason though, I've had it on loop for the last 20 minutes... i just can't get enough of it, and its catchy sample. Love it.

Have a listen.

Back to work..... *sigh*

musical mojo and new beginnings....

So, new day new blog. I was gonna start by apologising for my latest entry and its negative connotations but then I just thought, feck it. It was a burst of honesty that felt like it needed a place to be aired and at the lack of a diary (haven't had one since my travels) it seemed like a good place to vent. It even felt a bit cathartic. Opening up like that on a public domain felt weird afterward though. Like i'd laid myself bare a bit, like a naked work dream. but then again in my very first blog i said "honesty remains the eternal truth"... nuff said.

It was a funny one though, because I was so distracted and pissed off that even music was making me frustrated. I can't remember a time when that has ever happened. There is a piece of music for every state of mind, a soundtrack to emotions that always has a place. That day though I couldn't find it and jumped from artist to artist and track to track in search of some musical prozac. Nothing worked. Eventually I sat in slience with my ear phones still on...silent and a little in despair....... untill after a while I remembered this woman and this song... it kinda represented my mood but at the same time it slowly but surely lifted me out of it. The note she hits and the end and the build up too it remains the single most amazing piece of music i've ever heard.

Right, distractions aside, there are some new things happening in my life in the next month or two. A new home awaits me and I'm dead excited about making just that, a home. I'll be living on my own but I'm kinda secretly looking forward to it. Hell, I might even walk around the apt naked if i want, its the little freedoms that give life its boost and I'm all over them.

Now I actually had lots more to write, but its getting way too late and I'm too excited to sleep so i need some reading time to send me off.... this is what I'm reading btw the way and its a hoot.
David Saderis - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

Music wise, I've had this on loop - it gets better with every listen

And last, i kinda like the sounds of The Flobots too - hit Handlebars first

Night now.

mini rant

I know i haven't written in a while but life has taken over my life lately and blogging seems like an added luxury which time will not allow. however, i'm spent and i need to vent. it seems that the last year has seen a shift in the earths atmosphere. When the f*ck did we all grow up so fast? When did those flies who have dropped or are about to drop become so smug and feel able to give "advice" about my life. I'm sick of hearing it, give me a break and let me make the wrong decision if i want. Life will teach me its own lessons in the long run.

This place in which we live is too small, i need a life raft 'cause I'm drowning in the familiarity and over opinionated waters of it all. I once gave a good friend advice that blogging in the negative seems a shame when they had so much more positives to be sharing about their life. I'm wholeheartedly ignoring that advice today but frustration has got the better of me. Allow me this minor liberty just for now.

Even music makes me frustrated... things are bad.