Thought I’d update everyone on my iPod progress. Because I know that it is just SO FASCINATING and you all are WAITING WITH BREATH A-BAIT to hear about my upload process.<\/p>\n
Listening to the shuffle feature is now a distinctly humorous experience – because I have uploaded my entire CD collection (which, actually, is not that extensive – I still listen to cassette tapes as I have said a gazillion times) – so now I’m walking along the street, listening to the Shuffle – and Led Zeppelin comes on. Whoo-hoo. Let’s rock out. Next song. Some random Clancy Brothers song. hahahahaha I LOVE THAT. I have 15 Clancy Brothers albums … so you can imagine how often they come up now. It’s hilarious. But I love it!! I’m rarely in the mood to listen to a Clancy Brothers album all the way through – although I have gone through phases where they are all I can listen to. But to hear them sprinkled in among Nirvana and the Eagles and Fiona Apple … is just delicious.<\/p>\n
I have written before about my strange and deep response to the Everly Brothers<\/a>. Or perhaps not so strange – they’re classic! But it’s strange to me in that – it’s a response that seems to come from outside of me. Like: I NEED to hear them on an almost daily basis. I don’t know why this is. There’s something very very familiar to me about them – and I didn’t grow up when the Everly Brothers were in their heyday – this is not a personal memory being brought up … And yet they make me feel nostalgic. They also make me feel CREATIVE and ready to get to WORK. I do not know why. More than any other music. You know how some music just makes you feel positive? Like: Wait a minute, I can get myself OUT of this bad situation if I put my mind to it … Or it makes you suddenly feel like: wow. Everything is going to be okay. Everything already IS okay. I don’t know – maybe that’s just me. I have a hard time just feeling like everything is going to be okay. The Everly Brothers – especially “Bye Bye Love” (even though it’s such a damn sad song!!! hahaha) make me feel okay. In a real UBER way. I hear them, their harmonies, their lyrics, their melodies … and suddenly, I am not only FEELING okay, but I am ready to get down to whatever work needs to get done.<\/p>\n I am so not explaining this well.<\/p>\n All I can say is – I have The Everly Brothers Greatest Hits on, of course, a cassette tape. And since I have discovered what they give to me, emotionally, not a day goes by when I don’t listen to at least one of their songs. Mainly Bye Bye Love. I listen to it as I get ready to face my day.<\/p>\n So I’ve been so busy with the iPod upload – that I have turned a blind eye to all my damn CASSETTES – which I cannot upload. Argh – gonna have to get to work on that.<\/p>\n But a couple days ago, I was walking down the street – listening to my iPod shuffle (Madonna – Huey Lewis – Clancy Brothers – Elvis Costello – Johnny Cash) and out of nowhere, I thought of the Everly Brothers and realized I needed to buy a Greatest Hits of theirs ASAP. A Barnes & Noble was a block away so I went into their music section, bought their Greatest Hits, uploaded it that night … and now, on occasion, they show up in the Shuffle.<\/p>\n And EVERY TIME I hear the opening chords of one of their songs … it’s this strange uplifted feeling. I rise up out of myself.<\/p>\n What is that?? I have no idea. Just know that it is so.<\/p>\n Oh, and I took a 4 mile run the other night – and at one point during the run, the song “Sit Down, John” came on – from one of my favorite musicals (Duh) 1776<\/i>. I haven’t heard that song in years. And as I ran, I just started LAUGHING out loud listening to it – it’s so MARVELOUS. The loud male chorus – of all the delegates at the Convention – singing out: “SIT DOWN, JOHN … SIT DOWN, JOHN … FOR GOD’S SAKE – JOHN – SIT DOWN!!!” I just looooooooove it. Marvelous.<\/p>\n Oh, and I’m really into Franz Ferdinand. Weirdly: I wasn’t as much into their stuff on the CDs I had – maybe because I just didn’t like listening to them all the way through, not in the mood for them for 8 songs at a time. I don’t know. But every time one of their songs pops up on Shuffle, I feel this thrill. Their songs work well as stand-alone songs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thought I’d update everyone on my iPod progress. Because I know that it is just SO FASCINATING and you all are WAITING WITH BREATH A-BAIT to hear about my upload process. Listening to the shuffle feature is now a distinctly … Continue reading