My Thoughtful Spot

musically speaking: december 11, 2008

Here's one of my favorite "unusual" Christmas songs. No one can sing like Pearl Bailey...

"Hey Santa Claus, you wanna me happy this year?

Listen to me honey.

Give Pearl something that would be of some use to me... like a...

Like a five pound box of money.

Now there's a little gift that's loaded with lots of sentiment.

See? Whenever I get blue, Santa, I'm gonna think of you.

But at the same time have a little change to pay my rent.

You see?

Now, money isn't everything, there's no two ways about it.

But while we're here, Santa dear, it's much better with than without it.

So, really, I could be real good and not do nothin funny.

If you do like I ask you, start me right on Christmas night.

Try me! Try me! Try me on that money. Just try me, honey.

Santa, can you hear me? You listening to everything I'm askin about?

Listen, honey... Santa dear... The new year, oh, it would be so bright and sunny.

Just bring me the little simple thing I've been speakin to you about.

Like that... maybe that five pound box of money. That's all. That's all!

It would be so heavenly and help me meet both ends.

Yes, indeed.

What ol' Pearl really needs is say a... a five pound box of tin.

How much can it weigh? I ask you, how much?

I don't want the whole money tree. What good is that big thing to me?

You keep the branches, you keep the trunk and the root.

Cuz all that I want is just a little bit of the fruit.

So you wanna be sure I'll be your little ol' honey honey bunny.

You try me. Start me off on Christmas night with a five pound...

No, better increase that... make it ten pounds...

No, I'd better put in a good beg while I'm begging, cuz I mean, I'll catch ya next year, you know, people go out and sometimes you don't see 'em no more, so bring the money!

Santa! Can you hear me? Five! Bring me some ol' Santa!

Now what do I want with this diamond, are you kiddin?

--Pearl Baily, "A Five Pound Box of Money"

musically speaking: sept 27, 2008

All of these lines across my face

Tell you the story of who I am

So many stories of where I've been

And how I got to where I am

But these stories don't mean anything

When you've got no one to tell them to

It's true... I was made for you

I climbed across the mountain tops

Swam all across the ocean blue

I crossed all the lines and I broke all the rules

But baby I broke them all for you

Oh because even when I was flat broke

You made me feel like a million bucks

You do... and I was made for you

You see the smile that's on my mouth

It's hiding the words that don't come out

And all of my friends who think that I'm blessed

They don't know my head is a mess

No, they don't know who I really am

And they don't know what I've been through like you do

And I was made for you

All of these lines across my face

Tell you the story of who I am

So many stories of where I've been

And how I got to where I am

But these stories don't mean anything

When you've got no one to tell them to

It's true... I was made for you

Ohh yeah it's true... That I was made for you.

"The Story" by Brandi Carlile

musically speaking: july 21, 2008

You fill up my senses

musically speaking: may 29, 2008

Fear
And panic in the air
I want to be free
From desolation and despair
And I feel
Like everything I sow
Is being swept away
Well I refuse to let you go

I can't get it right
Get it right
Since I met you

Loneliness be over
When will this loneliness be over?

Life
Will flash before my eyes
So scattered and lost
I want to touch the other side
And no one
Thinks they are to blame
Why can't we see
When we bleed we bleed the same?

-- "Map of the Problematique" by Muse
One of the things that makes this song so sweet is the very unusual drum line. Worth a listen.

musically speaking: may 26, 2008

It's looking like a limb torn off
Or altogether just taken apart
We're reeling through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do

And anything to make you smile
It is my better side of you to admire
But they should never take so long
Just to be over then back to another one

But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do

But someone,
They could have warned you
When the things start splitting at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumbling down,
Things start splitting at the seams and now
If things start splitting at the seams and now,
It's tumbling down
Hard.

-- "No One's Gonna Love You" by Band of Horses

muscially speaking: march 11, 2008

It has been so incredibly nice outside for the last five days or so, that I don't want to sit in front of a computer unless I have to. It's almost like I went over to the thermostat for outside and adjusted it to precisely the temperature and humidity I wanted.

So I haven't been posting very much lately...

"Sun is shining, the weather is sweet
Make you want to move your dancing feet
To the rescue, here I am
Want you to know ya, where I stand"
-- Bob Marley, Sun is Shining

musically speaking: march 6, 2008

It's fascinating to me that this group can make a song as beautiful as this one and as heavy as Knights of Cydonia. And I love them both!

Far away
This ship is taking me far away
Far away from the memories
Of the people who care if I live or die

Starlight
I will be chasing the starlight
Until the end of my life
I don't know if it's worth it anymore

Hold you in my arms
I just wanted to hold
You in my arms

My life
You electrify my life
Let's conspire to re-ignite
All the souls that would die just to feel alive

But I'll never let you go
If you promise not to fade away
Never fade away

Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations
Our hopes and expectations
Black holes and revelations

-- Muse, "Starlight"

musically speaking: january 28,2008

On the corner of Main Street
Just trying to keep it in line.
You say you want to move on and
You say I'm falling behind.

Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?

I never really gave up on
Breaking out of this two-star town.
I got a green light
I got a little fight
I'm gonna turn this thing around.

Can you read my mind?
Can you read my mind?

The good old days, the honest man,
The restless heart, the Promised Land
A subtle kiss that no one sees:
A broken wrist and a big trapeeze.

Oh well, I don't mind if you don't mind
'Cause I don't shine if you don't shine
Before you go, can you read my mind?

-- The Killers, "Read My Mind"

musically speaking: january 23, 2008

"You live too far away
Your voice rings like a bell anyway.
Don't give up your independence
Unless it feels so right.
Nothing good comes easily,
Somtimes you have to fight."
-- 311, "Amber"

musically speaking: january 21, 2008

"If you were falling, then I would catch you.
If you need a light, I would find a match.

Cuz I love the way you say good morning.
And you take me the way I am."
-- Ingrid Michaelson from The Way I Am