CRASH!
Day from hell yesterday. Really needed a day off from organising my life and from dealing with increasingly stress-inducing parents who've been hovering around a bit lately. I was quite happy to tend to life itself, however, in the guise of family organisation and housewifely duties so it wasn't as if I needed to head to bed to escape it all, despite having had only 2 hours sleep. But to no avail this hopeful day to myself. Ma and Pa needed to pick up the small fridge Mum had lent us for the granny flat. To be fair, she'd just forgotten to get it the day before because she was helping me out, and another fortuitous forgetting was Dad re his drill. I still haven't drilled all the holes we require!
Anyway, parents dealt with, hardworkin' chores mostly performed, me walkin' round the house slowly like a ghost (so drained... so tired...) and I was grilling cheese on toast and about to settle onto the couch nestled into my pupdoggy. The only sounds of the day were ambient ones: birdsong and budgie-tweet, distant conversations between cars in the traffic, the light patter of animal feet as they followed me across the deck, onto the back lawn, inside again, from room to room, into the laundry, etc.
I decided to throw caution to the wind and put a CD on. Trawled through Anne's CDs, most of which are still separate from my own, dusty and very telling of her 'era'... Would you have guessed I put on Roxy Music? Used to have the double vinyl of the Street Life greatest hits collection, and Anne used to get such mileage out of it she bought it on CD. Now talk about dated. And I don't mean the '70s stuff - more the '80s! My favourite song, which I didn't expect would stand out to me one way or another, was "Over You". It was never a favourite before but the guitar refrain playing over and over struck me as way ahead of its time and as melodic and lovely as it was innovative. What a song! As I've tried to imply, the songs leading up to that point were leaving me kinda chilled and bored, but that invigorated me.
Far too tired to DL and hook you up with an mp3, so have a listen to this snippet to reacquaint yourself with the song. You might think you don't know it, but you do. It was a huge hit in these parts.
Over You (Roxy Music)
I have to let Todd have a go on the computer before he nicks off to work, so I'll be back after a good long sleep (cross fingers) to explain the subject line of this post. Yes - brace yourself.
Anyway, parents dealt with, hardworkin' chores mostly performed, me walkin' round the house slowly like a ghost (so drained... so tired...) and I was grilling cheese on toast and about to settle onto the couch nestled into my pupdoggy. The only sounds of the day were ambient ones: birdsong and budgie-tweet, distant conversations between cars in the traffic, the light patter of animal feet as they followed me across the deck, onto the back lawn, inside again, from room to room, into the laundry, etc.
I decided to throw caution to the wind and put a CD on. Trawled through Anne's CDs, most of which are still separate from my own, dusty and very telling of her 'era'... Would you have guessed I put on Roxy Music? Used to have the double vinyl of the Street Life greatest hits collection, and Anne used to get such mileage out of it she bought it on CD. Now talk about dated. And I don't mean the '70s stuff - more the '80s! My favourite song, which I didn't expect would stand out to me one way or another, was "Over You". It was never a favourite before but the guitar refrain playing over and over struck me as way ahead of its time and as melodic and lovely as it was innovative. What a song! As I've tried to imply, the songs leading up to that point were leaving me kinda chilled and bored, but that invigorated me.
Far too tired to DL and hook you up with an mp3, so have a listen to this snippet to reacquaint yourself with the song. You might think you don't know it, but you do. It was a huge hit in these parts.
Over You (Roxy Music)
I have to let Todd have a go on the computer before he nicks off to work, so I'll be back after a good long sleep (cross fingers) to explain the subject line of this post. Yes - brace yourself.