Lately my life has been going on as usual, but also not. People around me are moving on with their lives (but also not), and I am happy for them, as I soon will be doing that myself (hopefully)! Tonight I went out with my wifey and other friends, it's the first time I see her since she moved to Padua as she got back for a couple days and it's been good, spending the evening together and then talking about past and present times up until past 2 in the morning, it really makes me happy, especially now that I am spending a lot of time alone and that I am about to leave everything behind (and this time there is no plan to come back for good, not yet at least)! I hadn't realised this up until now, so at least I've got something to think about in the next few days...
You might remember that a little less than three months ago I posted one of my favourite U2 songs, 'One tree hill', just to celebrate the fact that I had just started watching the homonymous TV series. A TV series that I just finished watching tonight, and when you spend months with fictional characters in a fictional world, it's always extremely hard to cut your relationship with them and come back to reality, realising that they are not a part of your real world and real life. Or maybe they are, in the end this is the magic of movies and series and books, isn't it...? Anyway I found myself reading about the actors, their lives, what they are doing now and so on... I think it's my brain's way of slowly and gently detaching with the characters, and when strong music is linked to the show, listening to the songs is another great way of easing the end of it all. So I went back to listen to 'The Joshua Tree' and off that great album I am posting this one song today. Why? Because all the main characters have in some way found what they were looking for, while me... I still don't think I know what it is I am looking for, so I guess that this song is a great way for remembering that real life is real life and things don't work as "smoothly" (killings and accidents and kidnappings apart) as in the entertainment industry...!
I wasn't planning on posting more Julia Holter songs for the time being, but here I am, and it feels right to take a few moments and share this one with you. True, Julia's music hasn't been utterly rocking my world, not as much as many other artists' work anyway, but there is a preciousness and peculiarity in her songs that makes them... I don't know, personally it's like I don't feel the need to go listen to them, but when I do it feels good! I am not very much able to explain this with words, so you better go and check out the tunes yourselves!!
I am doing my best but I really can't seem to pick up the rhythm again and start posting daily with a decent constancy... anyway, I'll give you my best when I do remember to come here and carry out my duty! It's been a while since The Wallflowers have gone out of my get-to-know playlist, and it's been a while too since this song got featured in one of my playlists, but you know me...! I liked it quite a bit and wanted to share it with you though, so I hope you'll forgive my delay!
Unfortunately unlike Halsey I don't run on gasoline, and that means I am just human and have things to do (which, lately, seem to all condense in short periods of time, then leaving my days totally empty after) and I forget to do other things, such as posting on the blog. And I also had the good songs to put on here. Anyway, musically speaking in the last few days I've been listening to Moby quite a lot (even more after reading an article about his biographic book that just came out), so expect more posts about him, and also I've felt my connection with PJ's last album grow stronger, so expect more of that stuff too!! Cheers!
One of the... well, probably THE most anticipated 2016 album (by me) was for sure PJ's new work, which was actually supposed to be released last year. Five years after her last work, 'Let England shake', which I didn't immediately fall in love with but which has grown a lot inside of me over the years, I was expecting something special. PJ is usually an artist who, over the course of her career, has made consecutive albums that were often quite different from one another, so I was quite surprised to listen to 'The hope six demolition project' and to find out that it sounded like 'Let England Shake' 2. I haven't been particularly positively struck by it for now, but given that it really sounds similar to its predecessor, especially in terms of sounds and concept, I am waiting for it to walk the same path. In the meanwhile, this is the second single (if such things still exists) released off it, which I have started to greatly enjoy lately! I hope you like it too!
Nothing particularly relevant is going on with my life these days, I have resumed playing Mario Kart 64 and I am trying to improve my records on some tracks, I am going to visit one of my long time friends in Lecco where she's been studying for her degree and where I promised I would go visit like 5 years ago, I have just finished watching a crazy Japanese superhero movie, quite entertaining and peculiar and very... well, peculiar (it's called Hentai Kamen, don't try looking for it if you are oversensitive!), plus taking care of daily routines. Sharing this Adam Lambert song with you, I am finally getting rid of all the draft posts that have been hanging over me lately, so I am finally free to find some new music to share with you!
When driving back from the sea yesterday I put on some blues music, in particular Koko Taylor's last album, one of those I am currently listening to. I must confess that blues music tends to bore me after a while, but I undoubtedly enjoy it under the right circumstances and in the right amount. A night with friends (or else) dancing off in a club or under the stars, a few songs here and there... it's a classy and enjoyable touch imho! I hope you can enjoy this great tune off the Queen of Blues's last record!
Back from the short trip to the sea with my parents, it's time to set back into my usual routine and start planning the next trip! But I'm gonna do that tomorrow, as right now my bed is calling out for me! Have a good night with one of the songs off Sia's latest album!
Hello my dear readers, another week has com to an end and it's time for a new sundayrevival post. Today it hardly feels like Sunday, as I have left with my parents for a couple days at the sea (who the hell leaves on Sunday? Only people who do smart vacations! Or people who look for good weather). The drive has not been too long, just over a couple of hours, but at one point I felt the need to enliven it with some music; in particular I had this song on my mind (goodness bless this inspired week and may it have more of them to come in the future!) and so I put on Lana's whole debut album (under her current art name). The trip has been more pleasant for sure after that! I hope this song can make your end of the week more enjoyable too!
I love periods like this one, when I keep getting songs in my head, as I don't have to struggle to find great music to post on the blog! The problem only lays in me remembering to post them and finding the time to. Today I think I managed to, even if I had a few things to do here and there, such as coming back from Milan, a brunch, F1 quali, tidying up my desk to make room for new manga, shower, washing me and clothes, and I still get to have my Saturday night getaway (or get-in). This Moby song came to my mind after dinner and after immediately listening to it, I figured it would be a good post! I hope it makes sense for your own Saturday night too! Enjoy and have a great weekend!
This morning I woke up with this song on my mind, I'm sure I've heard it somewhere in the past couple of days, some restaurant or shop or else. I don't think it needs any presentation at all, so well... you can imagine how waking up with it makes me feel like today is gonna be a powerful day! Let's hope it's gonna rock as much as its premise suggests! Sing and shout at the top of your lungs, and if the world doesn't smile to you, you smile back at it!! Sing and dance and shout and run and express yourself whatever way you see fit. In your room, in the streets, at the beach, just don't care about what the world thinks and enjoy yourself!
Milan is always a great city to spend a good day in. Even if it's pouring rain and you have optimistically got out of home in your Vans and almost took your sunglasses with you just to be completely and utterly soaked 50 steps out of home. It's a great place where to spend time with your friends, where to buy entire collections of manga, where to eat random ice-creams, where to take amazing (random) pictures of the apocalyptic sky. It's amazing even when its weather behaves as if it was an English city. Of course it's a great city where to walk around, headphones on, dancing as if nobody's looking. Except when it's raining. Oops!
Among the big amount of new music I've been approaching lately is Julia Holter, yet another artist I have discovered thanks to KEXP radio live videos. Listening to her latest album, released last year, I must confess I have not been immediately stricken by her music, which is kind of ethereal and easy to get lost into. Nonetheless after a few listens I have been able to enjoy a few more songs of hers, even though I don't know if I am going on to deepen my knowledge of her music soon. What I can tell you is that for sure there are a few songs worth listening, and this is one of the most accessible ones!!
Today I have been working out a thing that has been bothering me for the past weeks: since I updated the OS of my Macbook, I have been unable to listen to and to transfer on my iPod the songs I had bought on the iTunes store with my old account (created with an email address that doesn't exist anymore). Not even trying to change mail and working with the authorisations did any good, so the only solution I had left was to... download the songs I had bought with that account. Do you see the irony in that? I guess that the DRM (Digital Rights Management) thing didn't really work out, it did not for me at least. The good thing in all that is that I got to listen back to old songs I haven't been paying much attention to lately. And I just realised I hadn't posted anything off Dolores's debut album as a solo artist since... the very first post of this blog!! I'm making it up now, as thinking about what this album has meant for me and listening to it always gives me a powerful chill!
Here I am, back again after another long absence. This time around my being away from the blog has been the sum of a pretty nice holiday in Phuket added up to not having a working internet connection back at home, which has prevented me from coming back to you a couple days before. But let's talk about Phuket, the trip has been fine, great beaches, super hot weather, not even a single drop of rain... I can't not fall in love with it every time, especially after I get away from it! The sunset colours in particular have been amazing this time too, and they will be in my heart forever, so what other song could I post if not this one?!
