Random musical thoughts
It's funny with how much I love music and how integral I often think it is to my life, how sometimes I can sort of lose a song that means a lot to me.
I've been watching American Idol this year...such an awful guilty pleasure, but one of the contestants last week, Jason Castro, covered one of my favorite songs ever, the Jeff Buckley version of the song Hallelujah. I realized afterwards that I hadn't listened to that song at all in a couple years...not since it was in heavy rotation when me and CarolAnn broke up. I think most of those songs from that time I just burnt out on, and I completely forgot about this song and how much I love it. At the time, I even wrote three full verses to the tune of that song about what I was feeling.
I'm so closetly spiritual sometimes. Despite the fact that I consider myself closer to an athiest than anything else (though that's not entirely accurate...the best answer I could give is I believe what I believe and it's not what anyone else does), I absolutely love songs of a certain spiritual nature, like this one.
I also for whatever reason love songs written from a point of great weakness. This song fits that too. I don't know, it's just always served as one of those songs that's almost discouraging from a writting standpoint because I don't know how I could ever phrase lyrics that well.
I really really need to learn how to play something so I can more fully write my own songs. I'm thinking I'll actually look into taking lessons for guitar sometime this summer. Someone please help hold me to that?
I've been watching American Idol this year...such an awful guilty pleasure, but one of the contestants last week, Jason Castro, covered one of my favorite songs ever, the Jeff Buckley version of the song Hallelujah. I realized afterwards that I hadn't listened to that song at all in a couple years...not since it was in heavy rotation when me and CarolAnn broke up. I think most of those songs from that time I just burnt out on, and I completely forgot about this song and how much I love it. At the time, I even wrote three full verses to the tune of that song about what I was feeling.
I'm so closetly spiritual sometimes. Despite the fact that I consider myself closer to an athiest than anything else (though that's not entirely accurate...the best answer I could give is I believe what I believe and it's not what anyone else does), I absolutely love songs of a certain spiritual nature, like this one.
I also for whatever reason love songs written from a point of great weakness. This song fits that too. I don't know, it's just always served as one of those songs that's almost discouraging from a writting standpoint because I don't know how I could ever phrase lyrics that well.
I really really need to learn how to play something so I can more fully write my own songs. I'm thinking I'll actually look into taking lessons for guitar sometime this summer. Someone please help hold me to that?