This video is exactly what it was like to be friends with Lisa. This song is exactly what it is like to miss her. And to miss my Grampa, and my Uncle Stephen, and my Gramma and Grampa Jim, and everyone I've lost. Thanks (or something like it) to Katie. I needed a good cry … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “A Case of You” by Joni Mitchell
Someone posted on Facebook that it's Joni Mitchell's 70th birthday. It might surprise you that I've never been a huge fan of hers. I don't dislike her music - I just never got into it. I wasn't into her voice, although some classics have entered my psyche and I hum them from time … [Read more...]
Songs That Make Me Say Hell Yeah! “Royals” by Lorde
Here is it, folks. The first song I'm posting that doesn't stab me in the heart. I can't remember the last song that grabbed me by the gut and led to me buying it and playing it over and over until my family yelled at me to stop playing it already. This may have happened last … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “God Only Knows” by the Beach Boys
At my wedding, I danced with my father to this song - the studio version, of course, but this is a fantastic live performance. This is a picture from the night before the wedding, when I put on my dress and we did a dry run of the dance so that we wouldn't cry when all … [Read more...]
Songs That Stab Me in the Heart: “Anna Begins” by Counting Crows
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrqrFWSO4QU Skip the ad if you can, and put your earbuds in. Close your eyes. Listen. Then read the lyrics. She's talking in her sleep It's keeping me awake And Anna begins to toss and turn And every word is nonsense but I understand And … [Read more...]
