Gobble gobble gobble.
I have the biggest girl-crush on Ani DiFranco right now. On the ride home from my aunt's we were listening to a live show she played in October...and oh god was it good. I wanted her to play a lot of older stuff so I could feel cool and know if, but OH MY GOD IS SHE INCREDIBLE. If anyone feels like giving me a Hannukah gift or even a belated birthday gift, another Ani cd would be muchly appreciated (anything but Not So Soft, Knuckle Down, and Not A Pretty Girl).
In sadder news, my cousin Robert had apparently been HIV positive for a while now and has recently ended up with full-blown AIDS. That's really really really bad. Send him your thoughts, please. I love him too much for anything bad to happen. He's the only one in my family who actually gets musical theatre (ahh...how I love 40-year-old gay men...). I really really really can't deal with him being sick. Hopefully I can visit him soon.
In lighter news, Ben and I are official collaborators (sorry Sarah!). Last night he played me a piece of instrumental stuff he wrote a few nights ago, and I put down about a verse's worth of lyrics with a REALLY pretty melody line. I like this a lot. It's been awhile since I've written a song. I sang him the one I wrote over the summer, and WOW was it weird to hear that. I could barely remember how it goes. It was almost hard to do, because it dredged up all those old feelings that prompted me to write it in the first place.
drifting in langour, you exhale pure poetry
eye contact shifts, and just for a moment we
synthesize energy, a sun-soaked retreat
please be my antidote for this blaze of heat
Funny how things change. Equally funny how they don't.
In sadder news, my cousin Robert had apparently been HIV positive for a while now and has recently ended up with full-blown AIDS. That's really really really bad. Send him your thoughts, please. I love him too much for anything bad to happen. He's the only one in my family who actually gets musical theatre (ahh...how I love 40-year-old gay men...). I really really really can't deal with him being sick. Hopefully I can visit him soon.
In lighter news, Ben and I are official collaborators (sorry Sarah!). Last night he played me a piece of instrumental stuff he wrote a few nights ago, and I put down about a verse's worth of lyrics with a REALLY pretty melody line. I like this a lot. It's been awhile since I've written a song. I sang him the one I wrote over the summer, and WOW was it weird to hear that. I could barely remember how it goes. It was almost hard to do, because it dredged up all those old feelings that prompted me to write it in the first place.
drifting in langour, you exhale pure poetry
eye contact shifts, and just for a moment we
synthesize energy, a sun-soaked retreat
please be my antidote for this blaze of heat
Funny how things change. Equally funny how they don't.