So much neat stuff this year--The Nutcracker!  A Christmas Carol!  And yet, so much stuff that doesn't actually sound good to me!  This is very good indeed, seeing as how I'm stinking broke.  ;)  Anyway--on to the scents!

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Artistic license again: I don't know that there are any songs that make me feel guilty.  However, a song that I listened to a lot during a time when I was feeling rather guilty, that resonated with me a great deal, is Ani DiFranco's "Studying Stones."  The visuals in the video below aren't great, but the sound quality is rather good, at least ( Read more... )

Well, pretty much Ani DiFranco's whole catalog, really--and I'm really bummed, because I had a website bookmarked that had pretty much all her songs tabbed out, and there were a couple ("Blood in the Boardroom" and "Not A Pretty Girl") that were in alternate tunings and I could sort of kind of fake playing them... but I just checked over the ( Read more... )

Over the years I've played the flute, the trumpet, the trombone (very briefly), the baritone (just for one semester), the tuba, the guitar, and the bass guitar.  I play the tuba most often these days (that's what I'm playing in Wind Ensemble, of course, and I've been playing it for 17 years now!), and then I noodle on the guitar sometimes just for ( Read more... )

MAHNA MAHNA!!

( Doo doo, doo-doo doo... )

I'd like a proper Irish-style wake, thanks, so this is more of a song describing the sorts of songs I want sung/played at my funeral, but it gets to the heart of it: "Keg on My Coffin" by the Push Stars.

( His friends were earned, and not a penny saved... )

First of all, I don't anticipate ever getting married again, largely because I'm old and bitter, but also partly because I would prefer not to marry when marriage is not a right guaranteed to every citizen.

Second, if I did get married, like maybe for urgent financial and/or insurance reasons, I don't anticipate having a wedding.  Been there, done ( Read more... )

As I was saying, sometimes when I'm sad I do my best to avoid sad things, and/or try to cheer myself up.  (Lifelong sufferer of depression, meet coping mechanisms!)  Other times, however, I'll want either to wallow, or to find songs that... remind me that I'm not alone, I suppose.  Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" suits the latter category nicely.  It ( Read more... )

Um, all of them?  ;)  The truth is that while there's some music I might avoid if I'm in a particularly bad (mad/sad) mood and I'm trying to avoid the subject and/or refusing to wallow, if I'm in a good mood, then pretty much anything's fair game.  That said, though, the song that came to mind for this day (and is definitely on the list of favorite ( Read more... )

Angry Liz doesn't get let out all that often, but one of her guises is Defiant Liz.  As a result, the two songs that came to mind for this topic are the Dixie Chicks' "Not Ready to Make Nice" (a song that suited me nicely when it came out in 2006, and came to have even more resonance for me in 2007-2008), and Rage Against the Machine's "Killing in ( Read more... )