Sunday, October 21, 2007

BTW....

If you love Harry Potter and hadn't heard, J.K. Rowling annouced that Dumbledore the wize headtmaster of Hogwarts School of WitchCraft and Wizardy is Gay....

I think I may have already known that, but oh well.

And random thought...Luke Walton (from the Lakers) is really cute!

Martinsville...not Malibu

Okay this is going to sound really mean, but let me vent. I got up this morning and after sitting at the computer for two hours decided not to go to church, so I log in to nascar.com and get ready for the race to start.
I choose to listen to Kasey Kahne's in car radio (so I can hear kasey, his spotter Kole and His chew chief Kenny talk throughout the race), but I don't turn the TV on. I go get myself some breakfast and hear Kasey and the boys doing their sound checks, just making sure they can all hear each other well and going over instructions given at the morning meeting.
Kenny and Kole wish Kasey good luck and the race starts. I turn my tv on and there's a f-ing fire raging in Malibu. That was 2 hours ago....it's still on! in fact the only two regular channels, not showing this stupid fire are 13 and 11...jeez, all I want to do is watch the race....that's it. I mean why does every news channel in LA have to carry this...the people in Malibu know it's there and the rest of us can choose to watch Channel 2 or 9, why oh why does this have to interrupt the race!
I am still listening to Kasey, he's complaining about his car, but I'd feel much better if I could actually see it. Jeez, I don't know what else to say. Maybe I should go back to bed!

Ch ch ch ch changes...

So, lately I've been listening to country music with increasing enjoyment. I've always liked some country songs, especially in the mid to late 90's when all the country crossovers started to emerge. But a couple of months ago I was house sitting and one morning, while getting ready for work, I decided to turn on MTV. I thought, hey I haven't watched MTV in forever and it's early maybe there will be some videos on... That day I realized that the M in MTV no longer stands for music (but that's for another blog).
There were no videos on, just reality shows; now don't get me wrong I love most of MTV's reality shows, but I wanted to see some videos. So I changed to channel to VH1 nothing and then I turned the channel once more and landed on CMT, there was a video on, I think it was Kenny Chesney or Brad Paisley, but that was it and enjoyed it, so much so that I continued to watch CMT that morning and the rest of the week.
You know actually while sitting here thinking back and I have to say that the first time I really watched and enjoyed CMT was that last time I was at Kristi and Randy's house in April. Kristi left to go paint the new house and I was getting ready and couldn't figure out the cable channels, I ended up watching CMT and enjoyed it so much that I left later than I thought I would. But I digress...
I recently got dish network in my bedroom and since then I've spent much of my time holed up watching the shows and channels I couldn't watch in the other parts of the house (no, not porn). And I have discovered CMT all over again. I watch the video countdown and the music insider shows. Since I don't know anything about country music, I feel like I should give it all a chance before I pick and choose who I like. I'm enjoying my new found music so much that I'm constantly writing down songs to buy on Itunes.
You might be thinking what is a black girl doing listening to country music, a couple of days ago I wouldn't have had an answer for you, but now...after thinking about it yesterday I feel it's pretty safe to say that I enjoy country music cause it's really the only true music we have left in this country.


I don't know if you've been listening to popular radio these days...but music sucks now and the industry is in desperate need of a change. At the beginning of the year I saw a small change coming, another British Invasion of the pop kind...Amy Winehouse and Lily Allen had some good songs out, but they faded and at the end of Spring I found this chick named Colbie Calliat whose album I love her one single is good but doesn't have the potential the rest of the album holds.
Don't get me wrong there are those people out there making great music(the gossip to name one), but they are few and far between, then there are the outstanding performers, but they aren't writing and most times aren't singing. So it left me with this dilemma, how was I, an avid music fan and lover, who likes all types of music going to be satisfied by half-assed ripe-offs and verse less demos? I wasn't!, my mind wandered and I stop buying whole albums, just settling for singles and soundtracks from relatively good movie musicals.
That is until this last month. I kicked up my country music buying, starting with names I've known and adding some I didn't. And I realized, the reason I enjoy country is that it's pure. It's music written from some one's heart...they may be talking about their wife and kids, or their pickup or their gun or God (yes that God) but it's pure. Some songs I take with a grain of salt knowing that they are jokes, but others are humbling and sensitive and beautiful.
That's what mainstream music is missing. I understand that the music business is a business, they are in it to make money. So if they have to give a contract to a guy who looks good without a shirt on, can dance, but barely sing they will, and he will sale millions, but it'll still be an album of crap.
You may agree with me or you may not, I'm still dreaming of the day when we have pure bands (like the Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pearl Jam), pure singers (like Aretha, Janis and Tina), and pure pop acts (like Michael and Prince of the 80's), but until that day I will continue to look for music that hits my heart and makes me feel the way I did when my dad played the Joe Cocker album...at home.

Saturday, October 13, 2007

Don't Blink by Kenny Chesney

I turned on the evening news
Saw a old man being interviewed
Turning a hundred and two today
Asked him what's the secret to life
He looked up from his old pipe
Laughed and said "All I can say is."

Don't blink
Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your "better half"
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don't blink

I was glued to my tv when it looked like he looked at me and said
"Best start putting first things first."
Cause when your hourglass runs out of sand
You can't flip it over and start again
Take every breathe God gives you for what it's worth

Don't Blink
Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your "better half"
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster than you think
So don't blink
So I've been tryin' ta slow it down
I've been tryin' ta take it in
In this here today, gone tomorrow world we're livin' in
Don't blink
Just like that you're six years old and you take a nap and you
Wake up and you're twenty-five and your high school sweetheart becomes your wife
Don't blink
You just might miss your babies growing like mine did
Turning into moms and dads next thing you know your "better half"
Of fifty years is there in bed
And you're praying God takes you instead
Trust me friend a hundred years goes faster then you think
So Don't blink
Naw, don't blinkLife Goes Faster Than You Think
Don't Blink...