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Drink Up With Me Now - November 2006

Dancing on your Toes

November 30th 2006 22:37
I was at a festival yesterday, dancing to some reggae, jazz and soulful pop. The smell of pot was in the air and perspiration was cooling the thousands of little bodies down. It felt good. You don't really experience the sparkle of music until you hear it straight from an instrument, it’s just like the magic in a wand- you need a direct line of influence. True appreciation of music comes only rarely, such grand feelings are elusive. You can’t do with it most genres, and you can’t do it listening to music from the charts…though there are rare exceptions. People matter, there’s an energy about wholesome people that you can’t get from a murderer or someone who dances ballroom. Location, nature never disappoints, the feel of grass on toes compliments bars and notes very well, we are after all animals of evolution, we feel most comfortable in our oldest habitat. Then it’s up to the soul of the artist, their skill and their faith in the purity of music. To sing and be embraced by the wonderful ambiguity of art and creativity. That’s my religion.


Ta.
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My Generation

November 29th 2006 05:01
My Generation…when Patti Smith repetitively screamed those two words to her generation when she was jamming in the 70’s music was alive and meant a damn. Rock n Roll went hand and hand in living, breathing and being. It was the time of the Doors, Jefferson Airplane and a whole load of in your face musos. I'm seventeen, there aren’t many people my age I can talk music with. Music on the radio or tv is sadly shallow and depressing. Maybe we’re experiencing a more subdued political climate compared with a few decades ago. Things are happening but we’re subdued, its cool dude. I’ve got my home and my gorgeous mortgage, a spouse and my lexus or whatever…I’m feeling mellow. We still have an absurd war, Vietnam sounds a lot like Iraq to me, plus terrorism, climate change, poverty, ugly people, death. Its all starting to sound kind of universal. But its not, we’ve got crap to complain about, lets do it a whiney and big big way. Scream you passive people who read while they sit. Smile at people, don’t be evil and feed the spiritus mundi with yummy love.


Ta.



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John and Yoko

November 28th 2006 12:11
I've picked up a book again, the last in depth interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono and just like their music, I felt hopeful again. I must begin by stating myself to be a firm lover of Yoko Ono, her art and all that she has done. I know there are many who probably don't regard her as highly as myself, but be acquainted with her work before you judge.
I'm surprised to be in an incredibly mellow mood, a few years back I would have felt the loss of John Lennon with anger. I guess I've matured, woo hoo. But also, you can't be angry to truly appreciate the beauty of their art. I wasn't around when people were crazy about them, and artists of their calibre today do not often crawl into the muddy light of 'the mainstream,' which I might add isn't an altogether bad thing. Exposure works both ways, and popular culture will almost certainly ruin a colourful soul, be warned! But you will do what you want.

Ta from me. Be peaceful..
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Music in the Back Seat

November 22nd 2006 04:10

I'm not sure if this happens to anybody else apart from myself, but does the feel of a movie change when you listen to a song during the film that you're already familiar with? After watching Little Miss Sunshine a few days ago the mood of the film was lost when I realised they were playing Sufjan Steven's Chicago.. they were going to California. Only rarely too do they play the song until it hits the lyrics and words come into play. Which makes me ponder? The director should be a creative person totally immersed in their films, why not come up with their own perfectly suited score? An angry teenage angst kid, with lyrics like 'I am angry today, my friends all hate me and I like black clothes, some heavy metal and head banging music and there we have... the perfect accompaniment. I'd go no further than sex scenes though, theres a fine line between singing about passionate love and corny porn.
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