Scenes from an eternal summer

Bday Blues

I don’t recall ever getting here. Time flies as they say, oh so quickly when you’re not paying attention. That’s my fault really not giving second glances and taking the time out to really digest things and balance how each milestone screwed me up or led me to the golden mean. Forgive my rants. Lately things are a bit of a blur before bedtime. Does it really take this long to find out what you want to do with your life? Why am I in a constant daze to figure out what life has lain out brazenly in front of me? It’s a good thing I have people looking out for me. Friends and family that tell me I am on a path that I can handle and should just get about traveling its course, not to worry too much. And so to mark the occasion of yet another candle blowing event I have shamelessly written down (in no particular order) my top 10 things to do this year to cut down on my ever-growing neurosis.

1.Go to church more often
2.Get my name back!
3.Finish my thesis
4.Be brave again to CREATE!
5.Learn (again for the 3rd time) and actually drive a car
6.Get another tattoo (maybe two)
7.Finally move into my low cost condo
8.To accept, love and finally grow my natural curly hair
9.Skim board at least 10 meters off the coast without falling on my butt
10.To get some



To sleep and dream in color, or to wake up in stark reality? My favorite is the moment when my eyes are caught in the middle of blinking to neither destination.

posted by SmellMyKnee @ 8:40 PM 3 comments

Antigone Rising

I saw, I heard, I bought the CD!

ANTIGONE RISING

The all female acoustic rock band from Greenwich Village takes angry chick music to a totally new level- one that includes redemption and hope. Not since the Indigo Girls' Swamp Ophelia have I gone crazy over another guitar-riffing, vocal-wailing, soul-aching female musical act.

I saw them first on VH-1s Listen Up show last June 1. Needless to say I rushed to the nearest Starbucks and got their Hear Music Debut CD entitled FROM THE GROUND UP. The 14-track album features the live recording of their performance at the Sony Sound Studios in NYC in the winter of 2004. Check them out at www.antigonerising.com

I’ve just gone through the whole album I’m still shaking in my skin. Track 9- Don’t Look Back co-written by Rob Thomas definitely hits the mark. So is Track 14 a song about finding your inner diamond and makes you realize no matter what you’ve gone through you cannot be- Broken. And as if I’m not already sad about losing my friend Reyster Langit last June 3 to cerebral malaria, Track 5- Michael has these lines to make me cry again

MICHAEL
(Excerpt)

When they told me you were gone
I hated god for what he’d done
I’m trying hard to understand
And I know I shouldn’t want this to
be someone else instead of you
I though you were so invincible

BROKEN
(Excerpt)

Mother please don’t cry for me
I rolled the dice
Just give it some time
***
He took your youth and he took your name
What did YOUR journey here ensure?
***
I- I am a diamond I cannot be broken

DON’T LOOK BACK
(Complete Lyrics)

Heard you talk about leaving
Heard you talk about leaving before
Heard you talk about giving up on me.

Heard you talk about changing
But talk is cheap ad
I’ve heard it all before
Used to be that Id fall apart
But that don’t work no more.

'Cuz you cant leave half way
and I can’t let you stay

Chorus:
Take your promise take your pain
Take your restless heart
if you go
go all the way
Don’t look back
‘Cuz in my heart you’ve been gone so long
that I won’t miss you that bad
if you go
go all the way
Don’t look back

So you ask me why I’m not crying
I did all of my crying before
I took off my pity party dress and
I don’t dance no more

I don’t need someone else
To make me feel myself

(chorus)

Bridge:
Don’t look back don’t look back

(chorus out)

Consider this a plug of sorts. Buy their CD. Download their music wherever possible. ANTIGONE RISING is the next big thing!

posted by SmellMyKnee @ 6:44 PM 0 comments

Reyster

posted by SmellMyKnee @ 12:34 PM 2 comments