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Feb 11, 2010
My New Personal Blog
I will be putting personal things up there from now on.
Feb 11, 2010
I had a lot of fun making this. Maybe I’ll make a series of them.
Oh, Sawyer. You’re so damned obnoxious.
Feb 8, 2010
Makes me unbearably happy. :)
Feb 8, 2010
This was my favourite Cirque Du Soleil song. “Rain One” from Varekai. I love the story of Varekai, Icarus falls into from the sky and is inspired by his love for a caterpillar to fly again, though it was Cirque Du Soleil’s weakest show.
Feb 8, 2010
Music I’d always associate with my parents
Papi
1. Dire Straits - Not the popular songs like “Money For Nothing”, but the dark, moody ones like “Fade To Black”, “Your Latest Trick”, “Rüdiger”, “News”, and “On Every Street”, which supplied my childhood (and early adulthood) fantasies with scenes from film noir.
2. Pink Floyd - Weird, wonderful, experimental, and highly political music that my mother hated. Just hated. Made me love it all the more in my strange, rebellious way.
3. Paul Simon - Mainly his album, Graceland, which my mom also hated. Again, I loved it, but not out of rebelliousness but in response to its positive, playful attitude.
Mami
1. Gloria Estafan – I can’t think of a single song that she has written, but for some reason I’ve always liked Gloria Estafan and associated her with my mother in a positive way. She was always heads and shoulders above most of the other Spanish female singers of the time. I guess, in retrospect, she’s like the Shakira of the late 80s, a sexy, intelligent, and totally respectable Latina musician.
2. Gypsy Kings - These guys were incredible. Just incredible.
3. Assorted Kurdish music. At some point my mother decided she was Kurdish and Lebanese, and so came a wave of wonderful, incredible Kurdish music. (I should really figure out who those artists were.)
So Kate Bush’s “Sunset” from Aerial always reminds me of my parents. It just sounds like a conglomeration of all of those musicians in one.
Each Kate Bush song has a deeply personal meaning to me just like this.
Feb 8, 2010
I don’t care what anybody says about Ace of Base. They were awesome. (No…really, they were totally ridiculous. But they were all the more endearing for it.) Besides, they were my first introduction to Swedish artists. Although the music reminds me more of Australia, journeys through the desert (to the Grand Canyon with my family in our van), and the smell and feel of the Native American gift shop we stopped at along the way (which seemed so much more personal and spiritual in memory than in how I just described it.)
Kind of wonder why I don’t like M. I. A. and Lady Sovereign more, listening to this again. Huh.
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