music tonight

i love the 80s music tonight. cafe is closing and i have to go home. i am determined to finish some research tonight and to finish my post on not taking sides and the oig complaint. i got more done today...more of my records and have to pick more up tomorrow and find out about some timing issues for things here in maryland/d.c.

i think i would like to live in NYC, because there is more art, but i also think it's not a fun place to be without money. NYC would be best with a little bit of money. d.c. is a little bit cheaper maybe.

i heard some different 80s songs i hadn't heard before, and i wrote down the titles. then a friend came in and we talked. i'll do more later. I heard: Al Corley's "Square Rooms", which I liked for vocals and lyrics; "never gonna give you up" by rick astley which I love for jr. high school memories; "japanese boy" by Aneka which was interesting; "all i need to know" by Nevil and Rondstat for memories again; "Daniel"...

was writing down songs I liked, but i have to go upstairs to cut cake with a friend for her birthday and they're waiting for me. then i have to chat about something and then i'll blog. it's about? i don't know...

we got some photos of my beautiful colombian friend pilar. i think she's gorgeous and photos do not do her justice. some guy is going to be lucky to get her--she's newly divorced. i'll post some photos when the camera is here.

i heard an interesting spanish song by alaska y dinaroma "quiero ser santa"...really like it. i realize i like this 80s electronic drum stuff. i heard earlier, ub40s "kingston town" and liked it a lot. i thought it was red, red, wine at first. i have always liked "i just want to use your love" too. i was going to visit more but my back is actually bothering me so i'm back in bed with the laptop and some advil.

for the second time in a long time i tried a chatroom and i am not sure what i think.
are most of the people in chat rooms normal or not? someone with a chatname like "stanwick III"? slightly pretentious, no? i think i mispelled that. you wonder what everyone looks like in person and how they act and speak in person too. i tried chatting for about 10 minutes.

heard "piano man" by billy joel. i think if i go into another chat, i need to find a music one when i'm listening to music. i like the solid piano version of piano man. i got a msg from a musician i connected with and need to call him. the one who has the friend with the studio thing.

soda stereo is an interesting band, from argentina. i have decided i have to work on my spanish, legitimately. i have to work on my grammar and i'm not going to pick up more unless i do, and start incorporating new vocab and looking things up in a dictionary.

my fiance wants english lessons and i need spanish lessons. i can actually pick it up on my own though, if i have a dictionary and a book and i'm just practicing. but i'm always trying to speak to him in spanish now and he's saying i never speak in english anymore and he doesn't learn (i probably speak a butchered form of spanish).

if i learn enough, maybe i'll be able to write poetry in spanish. that would be cool. i'd have to learn more first. i don't know enough of the tenses and forms to be able to do it right now.

i don't learn by listening to spanish music unless i'm concentrating on it though. films are different, because you can read the subtitles and listen at the same time.

i have to look up "out of time" motion stuff, and bonding rules in washington state. a lot of people are suggesting i stay in d.c. and get my son back from here and fight them from here first. i don't know why, completely. i think some people are concerned that my going back to wenatchee would be a sort of trap without money or a good private attorney backing me on everything.

just heard a couple of dance movie songs, from flashdance? footloose and "what a feeling". i loved "what a feeling" when i was a little girl. i like 80s more now than when i was younger and forced to listen to mainly all christian music at home (or 50s stuff). i missed out on the 80s music--maybe that's why it all seems new but old at the same time. i loved that movie...inspired me to dance in my room and try out some of her moves.

i've had a couple attempts by someone to get my password stuff, so says my computer security. i don't know what that means exactly. it happened last night too.

nic kershaw's "wouldn't it be good" is a great song lyrically. you know, the 80s stuff actually explored the human psyche more than the stuff in this generation, i think. it's a little more in depth and examines the human situation more. the songs now, which i also like, are not so existential or something...they're about dancing, clubbing, drinking, being rich, and speak of external properties like cash, cars, and physical attributes. and i like music from this generation just as much, but it's a little different.

"eternal flame" is loaded with memories for me, though, because it's one i heard in someone's car all the time, in jr high. i heard any music from the 80s, at other people's houses, or in their cars. the bangles. and there was this song by debbie gibson "lost in your eyes" that i heard over and over, and i always thought about this guy that i liked. i remember listening to this girl complaining about this guy who liked her WHOM I liked and feeling pissed she was whining when i wanted it to be me.

it's extraordinary, now that i think about it, that i missed so much music because my parents wouldn't allow it in the house. i missed out on almost all of the 80s. all my memories of songs are while in other places, like the bus (i love rock and roll), or the springers (wham and george michael), some neighbors next door, or bangles at the maiers (other friends) or in the parking lot in a friend's car. i like solo por hoy by alaska y din...i think i could get their cd and be interested in learning spanish.

the first time i had a chance to really explore music, was when i was a nanny at age 18, living with a reform jewish family that had a really good collection of cds and music. it was the first time i was out of the house and had a chance to see and hear something different.

huh. there's a first time for everything. funny. first time married and is my honeymoon in WENATCHEE?!!!!!!!!!! HEELLLlll NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
dear god, please, please, please, this is not my life...i don't know where we're going but it had better not be soap lake, or ephrata or the tri-cities. or spokane or even seattle. not grandpas log cabin in bonner's ferry, idaho, either. we should be going to, hmmm...somewhere to windsurf would be my fantasy.

i really like "i don't wanna use your love tonight" and i think i need to learn how to upload music onto my computer because i've not done it yet.

i think i could write a good paper on the difference in the sentiment expressed in music in the 80s and the lyrics of the 2000s. maybe a whole examination of the cultural psyche...i wonder if it's because of all the excess, and materialism, so people or writers were going the other direction...getting deep and thinking about what is beneath the surface, while perhaps the economic disasters of the 2000s have propelled songs about being rich and carefree because it's escapism. both are escapism, but a type of counter-balance for the times. i will have to think about it more to figure out if i'm right about this analysis. and i guess one would have to really go through all the top 100 playlists for every week for the whole decade to do a study justice. oh, the word i was looking for is "backlash". but not to say the lyrics and writing were necessarily a backlash or conscious rebellion of the status quo or of circumstances but some kind of unconscious desire for the grass on the greener side.

"room in your heart" by living in a box. see, even the name of the cd speaks volumes. music from the 80s, i think, TENDS to go inward, while music of this generation TENDS to go outward and extends to desire for a carefree physical existence rather than the metaphysical. lots of good "paranoia" songs from the 80s too--i love it! "somebody's watching me" by rockville. i wonder how many songs like this are from the 80s and if they are cocaine or rather, fame driven? or a notice of the 80s focus on the external and looking good? i like this one for club dancing. i don't think i've heard any 80s songs yet where the lyrics are about physical attributes, one of the mainstream characteristics of popular music now. maybe this is because it wouldn't have been played in the 80s and was too daring? but if that's true, what about george michael's "i want your sex"? or whatever that song is called? and madonna's "like a virgin". but still they don't speak, narcissistically about physical attributes.

hahaaaa...."i get my kicks above the waistline sunshine!" haha. so funny, from "one night in bangkok" by murray head. i like this. i like the talking stuff in 80s music too. a lot of it is philosophical or hilariously funny. i didn't know what i thought about this song at first, but i really like it. it's one to hear again. great lyrics. i might have to look this one up again just to hear the lyrics again. "somebody stole my thunder" by john parr makes me think of top gun and military movie songs or motorcycle songs from the 80s. you can just see some guy driving fast while listening to this song. i wonder what the video is like for this song. if it's just filming a guy singing, or if it's got some kind of fast moving machinery.

jon secada's "just another day (without you)". i remember this one. it must have been jr. high. i know all the words by heart, so i was singing this one when i was younger.

lots of songs about signs. i wonder if there are as many for the 2000s, about signs and wonders or whatever. signs mean different things to different people though. a "sign" could be some kind of miraculous or telekinesis thing, or it could be a basic "sign" as in signal that is obviously pointing to something. i really like laura branigan's "Self Control". i don't know why, but she's really interpreting this one too...it's not just a rock singer, she's actually feeling this song, and her vocal work is the perfect expression for the lyrics.

"love bites" by def leppard i remember, but i remember hearing it maybe in jr high and then i know i heard it a lot when i was in high school...i think maybe my then bf robin played it a lot.

sometime, when i have time, or an excuse, maybe i'll look into my ideas about 80s music contrasted with music from now. someone has already done this i'm sure. i'm tired now and going to bed. have to wake early tomorrow. earlier than i've been getting up.

if i had done things differently, i would have taken an independent degree, where you pick out all your classes and design your own major with autonomy. i would have still picked a lot of english lit and science (light), but would have added more music appreciation perhaps. i DID take a lot of film appreciation classes and almost changed my major to film. i sort of wanted to do a combined degree with english lit and film. i liked my art classes too, art appreciation.

i like "never let them see you sweat" by go west. good instructions there. these guys are english or british but they sound very american. i don't know what happened to their accents. and then you hear some americans who almost sound english, like al corley or whatever. awww...like rick astley's "just good friends". romantic song. his voice is so unique and he's on tour! i wonder if he sounds the same, in general...signing out on this one.