Highway

Dreaming/daydreaming a bit today, it's mandatory for Mondays, haha! Reading Soblo the other night, I've decided to put out [finally] a song list of my own. I love music. It's changed my life, no doubt. For the better? I dunno, but it certainly made an impact. If you're a music lover like myself, I think you'll agree. I don't go a day without listening to some music or melodies. I don't listen to the radio, whenever I'm in the mood, I head out to Amoeba Music, and they have enough goodies there to keep me happy. I don't like popular music much, I've always preferred the underdogz.

I burned a few CDs recently for a 'friend' [a brilliant young man I figured after browsing through his website] and mailed them out to him this past Saturday. I feel good, and he's sending me a collection of his own favourites as well. He commented about the song Respire one day and I wrote him back.

So now I'm gonna make a disc of the following for myself tonight [if I have enough time], in no particular order. Mostly oldies but goodies. My Chinese music would have to wait a wee bit on separate discs. Later months from now I'll have something to refer back to.

> Booth & The Bad Angel - Fall In Love With Me [KCRW version]
> Pernice Brothers - Number Two
> Lisa Germano - Dream Glasses Off
> Lush - Half and Half
> Cocteau Twins - The Thinner The Air [Massive Attack mix]
> Air - Cherry Blossom Girl [Fanny/CBG demo]
> His Name Is Alive - Drive The Dreamy Demon Down
> Harold Budd - Balthus Bemused by Colours [Mix 2]
> Colourbox - Philip Glass
> Philip Glass - Opening
> Captain Sensible - I Love Her
> Klaus Nomi - Der Nussbaum
> Chicks On Speed - Kaltes Klares Wasser [Lazerboy Mix]
> Brian Eno - An Ending [Ascent]
> Gary Jules - Mad World
> This Mortal Coil - Something Borrowed
> Red House Painters - Instrumental [demo]
> Yoko Ono - Imagine [live]

Y'know sometimes when you're listening to your favourite tracks, don't it make you think? Don't it make you feel more alive? As for me, I think the most elated feeling that I get is sorta like... driving alone on a long stretch of seemingly endless highway near twilight... watching the sun sets... up ahead, seeing where the horizon meets the sky... thinking: So far away, yet as if you could see into your own future... and things... are all right...
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Image: nissemand a.k.a Jakob Faarvang

Posted by robert at February 23, 2004 11:38 PM