Something For Kate - Waltz #2 (Elliott Smith cover)

Oh. My. Gosh. I think I'm transformed into bliss. I was looking for a youtube video of Paul Dempsey singing "Born To Run" because he always performs it at his live shows and it's awesome but man, I couldn't find it. However my dear music aficionados! I found this. This incredible gem... A blend of two of my favourite artists. I avoid listening to Elliott and have done so for years because music is powerful and Elliott has the powerful ability to drag me downwards. However, I'm pretty low at the moment and sometimes you need something equally low to bring you up.

This is gold.



Something For Kate - Waltz #2




First the mic, then a half cigarette
Singing Kathy's clown
That's the man she's married to now
That's the girl that he takes around town
She appears composed
So she is, I suppose
Who can really tell?
She shows no emotion at all
Stares into space like a dead china doll

I'm never gonna know you now but I'm gonna love you anyhow

Now she's done, and they're calling someone
Such a familiar name
I'm so glad that my memory's remote
'Cos I'm doing just fine hour to hour, note to note
Here it is, the revenge to the tune
You're no good, you're no good, you're no good, you're no good
Can't you tell that it's well understood?

I'm never gonna know you now but I'm gonna love you anyhow

I'm here today, expect it to stay on, and on, and on
I'm tired, I'm tired
Looking out on the substitute scene
Still going strong
XO Mom
It's OK, it's alright, nothing's wrong
Tell Mr. Man with impossible plans
To just leave me alone
In the place where I make no mistakes
In the place where I have what it takes

I'm never gonna know you now but I'm gonna love you anyhow
I'm never gonna know you now but I'm gonna love you annyhow
I'm never gonna know you now but I'm gonna love you anyhow



I love how the crowd is singing along. We who love Paul, love Elliott also.

Night,

Cathrine

J'ai une voiture....

It's true. I have a car. Mum went and bought me one. A red 2006 Toyota Corolla. I'm a little bit turned around. This week (up until finding out this news) has been un-awesome. I could make a long list of how many ways this week has failed. When mum told me she bought the car, I laugh and then didn't believe her and then did a little bit and laughed some more. It'd been a while since I laughed like that. I didn't know what to do. Be happy? So weird. lol


But it's awesome and I'm grateful and stunned and gah!


I texted a friend at work about the car and she said I no longer had to memorise bus numbers. lol It's funny how many buses I know... but yeah, it's true. I'll be a driver. I'll be more worried about parking than how to get there. Exciting. :) Oh the places I will go! And take Tom with me. *laughs* (all in due time)


On the bus home I listened to such a random assortment of songs... I went without music for a week and nearly died. It was part of a music fast and it was awesome for the first couple of days, then it became more burdensome than edifying so the fast was broken. Music is more than music. It's ingrained in me... it's part of what pumps blood through my veins, it's mixed in with the air that I breathe. So it's awesome to have music back and I definately appreciate it with new eyes and 'use' it in a more considered fashion.


I started making a list of songs in which the artists screams in the song. I'd maybe call the mix "Screamers". So far:



Janis Joplin - Ball and Chain
Paul McCartney - Hey Jude
Emiliana Torrini - Tomorrow
Xiu Xiu - I Luv The Valley Oh!
Joe Cocker - A Little Help From My Friends

(thanks Tom for the last two)



What else is there?

Anyway, night...

Cathrine

A Whole New World

Let's play 'good thing/bad thing'.

Good Thing:
A child brought in a CD with this song on it and sang it for the class. So so brilliant! Disney is love, this song is grand. My lil girl singing this for the whole class - pretty much pitch perfect - made my day. Key changes, male/female vocals be damned she took it all in her stride.


Aladdin & Jasmine - A Whole New World






Bad Thing:
I wanted to sing along with her but really, I couldn't in good conscience take the limelight from her.


<3

Cathrine

Ramona Was A Waitress

This is Paul's first single from his new album "Everything Is True", which is out now. I love his voice. It is so familiar and warm. His music has been a friend from early high school.


Paul Dempsey - Romona Was A Waitress





I'll be buying that album asap.

Cathrine

Excerpts

I have certain favourite lines from songs at the moment.
Some include:



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Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue

Then she opened up a book of poems
And handed it to me
Written by an Italian poet
From the thirteenth century.
And every one of them words rang true
And glowed like burnin' coal
Pourin' off of every page
Like it was written in my soul from me to you,
Tangled up in blue.



Bob Dylan - Shelter From The Storm

Suddenly I turned around and she was standin' there
With silver bracelets on her wrists and flowers in her hair.
She walked up to me so gracefully and took my crown of thorns.
"Come in," she said,
"I'll give you shelter from the storm."



Simon and Garfunkel - Kathy's Song

And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I.



There are others... but this will do for now.

Cathrine

Another World

I have been listening to a lot of Antony lately. I'm almost always singing Daylight and the Sun in my head - consciously and unconsciously. I really like the song. I listened to another Antony song (Another World) with Tom yesterday and it's another incredibly beautiful one. I cried the first time I heard it.



Antony and the Johnsons - Another World






I'm always learning about life, and re-learning. Lessons learnt so far:

- I can face problems and by facing them, begin to fix them
- I am allowed to make mistakes, or rather:
- It's okay for things not to be perfect
- Life is worth the effort
- God loves me
- I'm not alone (thanks Tom, Kat and Aisha)


I sometimes get really scared. I look at where I am and sometimes think I should be so much more further along than I am and I push myself further out than I'm ready because of it. I'm learning to be okay with where I am, even if it's not perfect, and pick up and try. It helps no one to ignore problems. The gentleness in this song is one of the things that kills me. I have been treated so gently and tenderly of late. I think it's one of the things that life needs.

:)

Cathrine

Daylight And The Sun

I love this song so incredibly much. It's rich and full and it resonates so much with my heart/soul. I am moved when I listen to it.... Thank you so much for showing it to me. :)


Antony and the Johnsons - Daylight and the Sun



There was no light
Only the white night
First born when the sun
Screamed her eyes open
Daylight in the fields
Daylight mountains
Fire kisses the floor
Of the lakes and makes shadows

Now I cry for daylight
Daylight and the sun
Now I cry for daylight
Daylight everyone
Daylight in my heart
Daylight in the trees
Daylight kissing everything
She can see

Ooh your dream
Here on the water
Warm the sand
The seagulls calling
Kissed by kindness

You gave me this
Your fire becomes a kiss



Love,

Cathrine

Abel

So after Kat's birthday dinner (HAPPY BIRTHDAY KAT!) I was walking home and listening to this song on my iPod. It seems that's when I do most of my quality listening. I'd just said goodbye to Tom, who was getting on the bus, and this song made me laugh instead of shed a little tear. Why should I be sad about missing him when it's so fantastic that I have him? I love the energy in this song's chorus. I want to jump up and down and mosh...



The Nation - Abel




:)

Cathrine

Buckets of Rain

I'm making friends with Bob Dylan's music. There are a few that I really like already but I heard this song for the first time tonight walking home. His music is made for travelling. This is a happy-sad song...



Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain




Goodnight...

Cathrine

For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her

Something tender from Simon and Garfunkel. They are poetry. I used to write like this. :)



Simon and Garfunkel - For Emily, Wherever I May Find Her




What a dream I had
Pressed in organdy
Clothed in crinoline
Of smoky burgundy
Softer than the rain

I wandered empty streets down
Past the shop displays
I heard cathedral bells
Tripping down the alleyways
As I walked on

And when you ran to me
Your cheeks flushed with the night
We walked on frosted fields
Of juniper and lamplight
I held your hand

And when I awoke
And felt you warm and near
I kissed your honey hair
With my grateful tears
Oh I love you, girl
Oh I love you




Goodnight, goodnight.

Your,
Cathrine

That's The Way

I was walking home yesterday after work and I was listening to my iPod again. I put this song on (though it's not this actual version). It was a live recording of Led Zep playing "That's The Way" - one of my favourite songs by them. I was enamoured. I was blown away. I was laughing and bubbling over with delight. I can't explain why I love this song so much... the lyrics tug at my heart. The gentle guitar strumming is enough but leaves me wanting more with this funny kind of ache. And I love Robert Plant's semi-screaming vocals. Love. :)


So my dear children... here it is:


Led Zeppelin - That's The Way




I think I'll have to make the actual version that Tom gave me available to you guys because it is truly beautiful...


I hope you all have beautiful days. We have to much to be thankful for...

Love,

Cathrine

Just A Song About Ping Pong

First step to treating others well: Remembering you're also human. When I think about how much other people have to put up with with me, I think it's only fair that I reciprocate a little. I'm forgetful, lazy, unsympathetic, unforgiving, spiteful, etc. Makes me wonder how I scored such wonderful friends, really. :P


Anyway... music. This is our ping pong song. We play ping pong at church.


Operator Please - Just A Song About Ping Pong





Ta da,

Cathrine

Woman By The Well / Ball and Chain

So I am overwhelmed by so much these days. Emotions. Decisions. Responsibilities. Loves. Fears. Hurts. I don't really have much left to give or strength to give it. Work is so emotionally draining at times and each day is an intense battle. Some days are beautiful and easy, others are just really difficult. There are always so many things to remember and do and I always have a list of things to be done and a growing one of things I should have done, which is painful and annoying.

Being an overachiever is a curse, especially when you're going through a period of less-than-awesomeness. In the mean time, I have hope. I have the hope that endurance builds character and I know that leaving things unresolved and broken leads to just way more hurt down the track to be dealt with - so I also have resolve, to try.


I remain a fan of trying. I think I will replace that as my approach to life... instead of giving up, you know. Even when things are rough.



Sarah Blasko - Woman By The Well





At the moment I'm sticking in beautiful pictures from a magazine into a book. I like the way they used colour. I like collecting ideas for arranging/using colour. It makes a part of my brain think in a way that makes me really happy. lol So ideas for decorating and designing and arranging? Bliss. :)


And then this, my dear friends. Is a fantastic, fantastic song by Janis. It kills me. I love it so much.


Janis Joplin - Ball and Chain





:)

Cathrine

Is This Love?

I had this song in my head this morning... but I mixed it up with this other one too. :D This morning is one filled with possibility. I will read more of Hamlet on the train and write... having time and space to do that makes me happy inside. :) So the songs:



Bob Marley - Is This Love?






Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Is This Love?





Love,

Cathrine

Puppet on a String and Heidi Bruehl

I stumbled upon this song on YouTube this morning. It made me laugh. :) Anything done in French instantly becomes awesome to me... even this stuff.



Sandie Shaw - Puppet On A String (French Version)




There is also an English version, which came first.



Then walking to the train station I had my iPod playing random songs and this one came up. I heart it. Thanks Tom for awesome random French tracks. :)



Tosca - Heidi Bruehl





<3

Cathrine