30 Day Song Challenge day 08 – a song that you know all the words to Invitation To Alienation Amazing Crowns. Not the greatest quality video, but it was the only version I could find. Maybe Jeff Kumre remembers riding down a San Jose Highway as we screamed along with this song at the top of our lungs.
30 Day Song Challenge day 07 – a song that reminds you of a certain event. 9/11/01 Tuesday Morning I am riding to work on the North Side Of Austin. Beautiful, cool morning. I turn on the radio and hear what must be the middle of a bit that I came in late on. I switch channels and realize it is the same everywhere I turn. I go back to KLBJ and they are running the news from New York. I start to put things together, slowly at first, a building has been hit by a plane, then another. I started to get quite nervous and then a 10 second pause on the radio that felt like 10 minutes and then I hear gasps followed by “Oh my God, they blew up the Pentagon” I was a hair away from slamming on the breaks and returning home. Instead I went in to my temporary job where the front desk lady had her radio going. I will never forget going to my desk, horrified at what I was picturing going on up North and to the East. Throughout the day I would ask co-workers if they knew any updates. I will never forget one girl saying to me “Wow, you’re really freaked out about this aren’t you?” And it striking me so weird that I was in a moment that a lot of people hadn’t reached yet as they weren’t quite aware of the situation as of yet, but soon would be. Now here is where the song comes in. I distinctly remember Dale Dudley in the middle of all this, apologizing to sponsors as he wasn’t going to air the commercials at this time. And then later on I remember him playing this song and breaking from their talk format. The thing is, I don’t know if it happened like this. I don’t know if these are two separate memories from two separate days, or if this was all in that same morning. But I match the song to the event regardless.
30 Day Song Challenge day 06 – a song that reminds you of somewhere Cotton Eyed Joe. Garner State Park was my favorite summertime camping/family meet up location. Swimming under that cave in the Frio River and the nightly dance were my favorite parts. I remember everyone yelling Bullshit during The CEJ and thinking how cool it was adults were screaming profanities as if it were nothing!
Last night’s South Park might just be my favorite up to now (Along with Scott Tenormen Must Die and Raisins) Between the Britches Greek Chorus, “No, it sounds like someone is literally shitting in my ear” to Steamy Ray Vaughn, I don’t think I have ever laughed so much during a single episode. The great thing was it also, for the first time I remember, had as much heart as it did laughs. If you have the chance to see it, I highly recommend watching it. And Second, but also very much related to the episode: I am listening to Death Cab For Cuties new album and really digging it. Please let your hate flow over me as it will only make me stronger! What did you think of the episode?
30 Day Song Challenge day 05 – a song that reminds you of someone Blondie for Deborah Horne. 1980, Kindergarten, Bedford Heights Elementary. My first love. I followed her and her girlfriends on the playground until she turned around and told me to stop it. I got her number in the phone book and called her and then realized a 6 year old doesn’t have much to talk about. She was the reason that all through my school years I was obsessed with short blonde hair girls.
30 Day Song Challenge day 04 – a song that makes you sad Blackbird. Sad would have a negative connotation in my mind. I actually love this song, but man does it make things introspective and melancholy for me.
30 Day Song Challenge day 03 – a song that makes you happy F You by Cee Lo Green. I have a list of songs that when I play them, they seem to say “Everything is going to be alright”. Goofy as it sounds, I hear this song and I get a swell of emotional happiness. Goofy maybe, but isn’t that what some music is supposed to do to you?
30 Day Song Challenge day 02 – your least favorite song. So hard for me to choose between Barry and Burt Bacharach. I know, I know, you know them to be expert songwriters, I just can’t abide….
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