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Wednesday, 04 February 2009
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I love this song.
Oren Lavie- Her Morning Elegance
Sun been down for days
A pretty flower in a vase
A slipper by the fireplace
A cello lying in its case
Soon she's down the stairs
Her morning elegance she wears
The sound of water makes her dream
Awoken by a cloud of steam
She pours a daydream in a cup
A spoon of sugar sweetens up
And She fights for her life
As she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train
She looks at the rain
As it pours
And she fights for her life
As she goes in a store
With a thought she has caught
By a thread
She pays for the bread
And She goes...
Nobody knows
Sun been down for days
A winter melody she plays
The thunder makes her contemplate
She hears a noise behind the gate
Perhaps a letter with a dove
Perhaps a stranger she could love
And She fights for her life
As she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train
She looks at the rain
As it pours
And she fights for her life
As she goes in a store
With a thought she has caught
By a thread
She pays for the bread
And She goes...
Nobody knows
And She fights for her life
As she puts on her coat
And she fights for her life on the train
She looks at the rain
As it pours
And she fights for her life
Where people are pleasently strange
And counting the change
And She goes...
Nobody knows
Sunday, 11 January 2009
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Facebook has a sense of irony.
From my facebook feed news trough thing:Tim Janssen is hating the QassamCount! it's really shallow to only shine a light on one half of the war crimes, where 2 are fighting there are 2 wrong! about an hour agoAleeza Sklover QassamCount: 8 more Hamas rockets hit Israel Sunday, 2 strike near the cities of Netivot and Ashkelon. Donate your status: http://qassamcount.com/fb.
Thursday, 08 January 2009
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The Best Day Ever
I passed my driver's test today, and I got a job!
Sunday, 04 January 2009
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Music Meme from Lindsay!
Yay! Thanks for the fun, Lindsay... although I doubt that it was on purpose.
In no order:
1. Stars
2. The Beatles
3. Jethro Tull
4. Laura Marling
5. Ratatat
6. Nightwish
7. Dissection
8. The 1900s
9. Fountains of Wayne
10. Basshunter
11. Seatrain
12. TOKIO
13. Kumi Koda
14. Yoshida Brothers
15. Final Fantasy
16. Andrew Bird
17. The Fleet Foxes
18. Squirrel Nut Zippers
19. Malajube
20. Gnarls Barkley
21. Ataraxia
22. !!!
23. The Weakerthans
24. Devin Townsend Band
25. The Softlightes
26. Emilie Simon
27. The Fratellis
28. Feist
29. The Decemberists
30. Southern All-Stars
1. How did you get into 29 (The Decemberists)?
I saw one of their people on the Colbert Report!
2. What was the first song you ever heard by 22 (!!!)?
I think it was 'A New Name'.. and I hated it. But now I love that song.
3. How many albums by 12 (TOKIO) do you own?
None, fortunately. They've got some good songs, but nothing I need a lot of.
4. What is your favourite song by 5 (Ratatat)?
Oh dear... that's hard. A three-way tie between Gettysburg, Seventeen Years, and Wildcat
5. What is your favorite song by 15 (Final Fantasy)?
Please Please Please or Adventure.exe, I think.
6. Is there a song by 6 (Nightwish) that makes you happy?
The Islander. Also, I wish I had an Angel, just because the bass line makes me joyful.
7. What is your favourite song by 10 (Basshunter)?
I know Dota is the expected answer, but I really like Boten Anna. (and Dota)
8. What is a good memory you have involving 30 (Southern All-Stars)?
The first time my host family showed them to me, on a DVD in the car, with the kids bouncing up and down and singing along, and me thinking... holy cow, an actually good Japanese band?
9. Is there a song by 19 (Malajube) that makes you happy?
La Russe
10. How many times have you seen 23 (The Weakerthans) live?
Nevar. But I don't know how they would sound live, so it's just as well. I think the singer's voice might be just a smidge too whiny in person.
11. What is the first song you ever heard by 26 (Emilie Simon)?
I don't remember... I think it might have been Fleur de Saison. \m/
12. What is your favourite album by 11 (Seatrain)?
Their first one- Seatrain. =P
13. Who is your favourite member of 1 (Stars)?
I have no fucking clue.
14. Have you ever seen 14 (Yoshida Brothers) live?
No, but that would rule asses.
15. What is a good memory involving 27 (The Fratellis)?
Driving along in Maine with my family, rocking out to Flathead, everyone singing along to the nonsense.
16. What is your favourite song by 16 (Andrew Bird)?
I'm not sure yet... I really like Lull, just because of the music video... but how could I possibly not love a romance between a man and a squid?
17. What is your favourite album by 18 (Squirrel Nut Zippers)?
Perennial Favorites, prolly.
18. What is your favorite song by 21 (Ataraxia)?
Mnemosine, s'what got me hooked.
19. What is the first song you ever heard by 25 (The Softlightes)?
I don't remember, but it was probably either Heart Made of Sound or The Microwave Song.
20. What is your favourite album by 2 (The Beatles)?
Are you serious? I love all the different periods of the Beatles for different reasons... I guess for early Beatles it would be Please Please Me, Mid would be Help!, and late... White Album.
21. What is your favourite song by 3 (Jethro Tull)?
So very tough. I guess.... a tie between Bouree and Jojn Barleycorn, unless of course it's Aqualung... that few moments in Aqualung where they switch from the second section to the third is just... orgasmic.
22. What is your favourite song by 8 (The 1900s)?
It used to be When I Say Go, but now I think it's The Medium Way
23. How many times have you seen 17 (Fleet Foxes) live?
Nevar.
24. What is the worst song by 13 (Koda Kumi)?
Oh goodness... she's terrible. Absolutely terrible. But somehow... so catchy and listenable. I have no idea what that would make her worst song.... probably Cutie Honey, sorry anime peoples.
25. What was the first song you ever heard by 28 (Feist)?
My Moon My Man
26. What is your favourite album by 7 (Dissection)?
Reinkaos. Dur. It's them at their peak, and it's got Maha Kali on it!
And for some reason this cuts off at 26 even though there are 30 bands, so lets make some up!:
27. How many times have you seen 20 (Gnarls Barkley) live?
*sigh* Never. This is depressing.
28. What is your favourite song by 24 (Devin Townsend)?
Ziltoid the Omnicient. AMAZING.
29. What is your favourite album by 13 (Koda Kumi... again?)?
No clue. None.
30. What is the worst song by 9 (Fountains of Wayne)?
Stacy's Mom.
Saturday, 13 December 2008
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There are more places and people than Oneonta
I'd like to preface this post by saying that the ice on the tree outside my window is melting and making diamonds and crystal sparkles everywhere on top of the mud and bark and air and it's absolutely lovely.
To the point, however: it makes me so sad how many of the people my age I knew in Oneonta are still there and haven't grown up and away or made new friends. Some of them certainly want to leave, but they haven't... I guess it's one of the cons of having a college or two right in your town. It's not pathetic, but I do pity them. I've met so many amazing people and explored so many new places, and I can't stand Oneonta- and then facebook shows me what my old friends are doing, and they're all hanging out with the same people in the same place. I'm almost jealous that they've managed to save their relationships so well, but you know... I've tried hanging out with some of them again. It was so awkward and we had nothing to talk about. It was just in-jokes about SUCO and polite conversation about high school, which was- how many years ago now? - in the past. About two and a half years. I grew up in that time, but maybe... I wonder if some of them have.
I could really care less about the high school, or drama that goes on there. When I'm forced, kicking and screaming, to return to Oneonta for a break, all I want to do is hang out with my family (most of 'em, anyhow =P) and Ben, Ben, and Rachi. I've even grown apart from Jordy, for goodness' sakes. Maybe since this is a long break I'll hang out with Troy and everyone again, but who really knows? I'm going to hate it all and become depressed. It's gone beyond just not wanting to be in my family's house because of the dirt and the mess and hair and Mercedes and Dad, it's pretty much the entire city that I really don't want to be in, because the entire city only remembers Becky-as-she-was-two-years-ago, and even I don't like that person anymore. Going back is a depressing relapse to depression and introversion, it's nothing like going home. Home is Albany. I wouldn't mind Oneonta for visits to see family and people, but I never want to live there again. And I'm going to have to, for an entire month. Dread.
I guess... in the sense that I am once again forced back into those restraints, I am just as pitiable or more so than those who have never left.
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