Running in an artificial pace"
Last night I had some delicious Indian food from a spot
called Lehja and split a bottle of wine with my wife. It was an amazing meal;
the wine was delicious, and it was a nice relaxing night especially knowing
that it was Memorial Day eve. I fell asleep fast and after some strange dreams
(We’ve been watching a lot of David Lynch projects over the “tine”) I was wide awake,
and the sun was nowhere to be found. I looked over at the clock and here it was,
good ole 3 AM. The mix of Indian spices and alcohol joined forces and decided to
gift me with a bountiful case of heartburn. As mentioned in a previous post I’m
not a stranger to those dark, quiet, witchy hours but since I no longer share a
bed to myself flipping on my precious music infomercials or Three’s Company reruns
is no longer an option. Instead I’m left alone with my deep thoughts. If you’re like me
sometimes work likes to pay a visit or other stresses of the day that one needs
to block out to go back to dreamland. A positive part of resurrecting this blog
is that I can push those thoughts away and lean more on the creative side of my
brain and figure out what to write about next. Well that’s how the “Indian Food
Bottle of Wine 3 AM Challenge” was born.
The rules are simple. Each post for the next few weeks I’ll write
down the first two songs that appear on my iPod using the shuffle feature and
then move which one I prefer to the next round (I’ll start with 12 songs) At first I was
going to pit the bands versus each other but then thought it would be fun for
the first round to put the actually songs against each other. That evens the
playing field a bit since like most of you the mix of music on my iPod is a
bit eclectic. (It took forever uploading hundreds of CD’s to iTunes years ago. Now
I’m living in a streaming world and I am a streaming girl…or something like that)
This way in the first round Milli Vanilla could in fact beat The Beatles. For instance,
if “Blame it on the Rain” went against “Octopus Garden” it’s not even close! (well, for me) Since
I began streaming years ago this collection of songs hasn’t been updated in 5
to 7 years. As for round 2 I believe I’ll switch to the actual bands matching
up but I’m making these rules up as I go so, we’ll see.
Alright first up. Wow great example of the how the song
matters. If this was Blue Sky or Ramblin’ Man I’d be prone to go with the
Allmans…On the other hand if one of the lesser anthemic Gin Blossoms tunes
would’ve come up the Georgia boys would’ve been victorious. So round one goes
to the Gin Blossoms! I can’t help not thinking about my high school days when
these songs were in the air. Hey Jealousy, Found Out About You, Until I Fall
Away and of course this one. These guys were the real deal and very talented
pop rock songwriters. As a testament to their talents I believe you can throw on
any of these tunes and they still hold up today. I’ve seen them live
twice but sadly a little out of their prime.(I was probably too cool to care
during that time) Once at the Coastal Carolina Fair in Ladson, SC (2008) and more
recently back in 2015 in an intimate listening room at the Capital Ale house in
Richmond, VA. The band still sounded great, but they just couldn’t get past
their initial success mainly due to the lead songwriter/guitarist committing
suicide in 1993. Glad he left us with some great songs before he went. Next
battle coming soon! Happy Memorial Day.
