"Hope there's someone who'll set my heart free, nice to hold when I'm tired" sings Antony in her homonymous 2005 EP, and how could we say her request doesn't make sense? We all are looking for that someone special who will set our heart free, who will take care of us when we die (and hopefully while we are alive, even more so!), who will change our life, who can help us through our darkest times and enjoy the good ones with us. Aren't we? The search is hard for most... the ones among you who have found that person(s), cherish your moments with them! And let's hope we will all get the chance to spend some great time with our special people!
I didn't even realise yesterday was Sunday and it would have been appropriate to post a sundayrevival, but it's ok as I didn't have anything I was particularly eager to put on here. I did today. So what is that, a mondayrevival? A late sundayrevival? A regular post? I don't know myself, but this is one of the songs that I loved the most when I was a teenager, that I loved the most at the time my music clock started ticking in 2007 so... well, it is a pity, but it doesn't feel right to post it as anything else but a regular post. So it is and so it should be. My life is particularly messy at the time, I'm confused about what I want, I would like to settle, I would need to settle... I don't know, I think things are starting to spin out of control and I need to take them back before it's too late. Anyway, I needed a cheer-up, and that's the reason why since I saw this song posted on Facebook by one of my friends, I started playing it in loop today. Life me up!
(Giving that I'm moving back to Vodafone as a mobile services provider and that this song in Italy got big about 10 years ago [seems like a lifetime ago] because of a Vodafone spot, it makes it all even more sense!)
Hello my dear followers, I'm deeply sorry for disappearing in the last few days, but my life has been kind of on a roller-coaster, even if now it's back on the usual (sad) tracks. Came back from Thailand once again, but something beautiful happened before coming back, some sparkle in the sentimental point of view, but after a couple of days flying today I fell back down on earth, back to my usual place. It's so tiring for me now, such a tiring life: not having a home, going back and forth to Veneto and to Thailand, jet lag, early wake up calls, uncertainty about the future... it felt like I could finally find some peace of mind, something to help me relieve the stress... instead it turned up as another source of stress, another mess to deal with. Well, that's the price to pay. And that's what relationships are, aren't they? They say we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy, but what do they say we need to do to find some happiness without paying the price for it?
Yes yes, it's kind of an Enya period, I'm listening to her more than I usually have done, and that means more blog posts of hers! But it doesn't seem you guys are unhappy about it, rather...! This is a 10-year old song I included in my current playlist, and I hope you're gonna enjoy it as much as I enjoyed my trip to Ayutthaya today: many temples and ruins, golden and stone buddhas, elephant-riding, feet-eating fish, floating markets, food, heat, people, fun, burning sun... did I mention the heat? Well, yeah, we had it all!! I'm starting to get more and more used to Thailand!
I'm sorry I've been away from the blog for a couple of days, travelling back from Thailand has been quite hectic and I didn't have any internet connection available, then yesterday I meant to post but I was at home so tired that I end up forgetting about it. Pity, because I had a song I really wanted to post, but I will do it now with a few hours of delay! I don't remember if I shared with you my latest TV series, but in the past few months I've been watching Shameless (the UK version): it's the story of a big family living in Machester's outskirts in a pretty degraded situation, but it's pretty nice and at times quite funny! At the end of the 6th Season, which is where I got to now, one of the main characters dies and the whole thing is very emotional, with this song playing in the background at the end of the episode, so it felt right to share it with you!
Here we are again, the week has almost come to an end and it's been very weird, it felt so long and so short at the same time! Never ending, but it also feels like yesterday that I went out with my friends last week and so. Probably it's because something finally happened this week, things started moving, I started being properly trained and we have confirmed our transfer and are about to book the flights! My future besides that transfer is still kind of unknown, but at least it's a first step, getting things started can only be a good thing for a quick development of the project! Tomorrow I'm gonna have to face the long and wearing trip home, but it'll be good to be back after 3 weeks. Have a good night and a mushaboomy weekend!
Sooo, I guessed you kind of got to know that already, but in case you didn't... the blog is now on Spotify too!! I have created and will update a monthly playlist with all the songs posted on the blog each month, plus some other specials playlists, like (my) 90s best hits, (my) 00s best hits and more more more!! You can find all of this music paradise here or by just searching 'A song or two per day' in Spotify! I really really hope this can be a handy way for you to get a chance to listen to all the great songs featured here in one place, and, why not?, to explore and find new music you didn't know about before! Unfortunately the song I chose for today is not present on Spotify (what a timing, what a choice!), but it's here and that's what matters. Another great tune out of Lana's debut album under the pseudonym Lizzy Grant, and don't tell me I didn't go out with a bang tonite!!!
For the series 'Before they were famous', tonight we feature (again) miss Lizzy Grant a.k.a. Lana del Rey with her 2005 debut album 'Sirens'. The songs are practically all voice + guitar in a style that reminds a little bit the early Joni Mitchell and, well, the usual American country/folk/pop/rock female singer. I'm not saying that her current style is on the complete opposite of the music spectrum, but it's not next to this one either. All in all evolution is key, especially when you still haven't found success. I dare say that her vocals used to be better then (like in this song) than they are now, but well, she is composing great music today, more produced than her first songs for sure, that's her recipe for success and it works well, but it's always nice to go back and see how it all started. The songs are anyway greatly enjoyable, so it's quite a pleasant trip!!
The same question that so often comes to me at night has reached my mind tonite too: what (the hell) should I post today?!?! There's so much great music around, so much great music I'm listening to, but I'm so tired when I get through the day that I lack the energies and time to think clearly about what I wanna share with you! Well, taking inspiration from my latest playlist, I'm sharing with you a song whose title actually makes sense with my whole blabbering here-above. I'm gonna try tonight to make a meaningful contribution with the help of then-Lizzy Grant (now-Lana del Rey), hope it'll be a successful one! G'nite!
Old sayings always come in handy, and one of my favourites is the one about hitting two birds with one stone (or, in Italian, "catching two pigeons with one broad bean"). I just had a good chance to use that, as I was wondering what I could post for today's sundayrevival and then, 5 minutes later, I got this chorus in my head but couldn't remember which song it came from. After a very quick Google search (this time I've been lucky, a couple of other times my brain did this trick to me it has been way more cumbersome to find out which song I was thinking about, one of them is actually still pending!), I found out that Just feel better was the song I have been mumbling in my mind and voilà , here both of my problems were solved! I hope this can help you enjoy your sunday too!
Being in that time of one's life between giving in the thesis and discussing/defending it, I have loads of free time. And by loads, I mean the whole day. Ok, I confess, today I have started getting a few slides ready for the discussion time, but aside that I'm mainly devoting my time to video games, reading, swimming, yoga, spending time with relatives, receiving tickets for "high speed" (thank you Milan municipality, thanks a lot) and, mainly and mostly, watching TV series. I have (with utmost regret) finished watching the first two seasons of Orange is the new black, and I'll be eagerly waiting for the third. After that I started watching a series that has now ended permanently, i.e. True blood. I mean, after two seasons I still haven't understood how they could keep up a show with: a not-pretty starring female character, a not-pretty-to-quite-ugly and gloomy starring male character, the most unnervingly stupidest character ever (the brother of the protagonist) and the usual tales of vampires vs werewolves vs humans vs other supernatural creatures vs whatever. The funny thing is that at times, well, let's say often, I find myself eager to go on watching, as the plot is quite flowing and, I confess again, there are a few hotties and a few interesting characters! Well, as usual one of the things that I love the most about the show is the opening song, so here it is!! Go on and do real bad things with your loved ones!
One hour and a half ago I told myself: let's post on the blog, otherwise I'll get lost in my stuff and forget it... guess what I've been doing in the last hour and a half? Uff... this thesis is really draining the energies out of me, but seeing my dedication to it makes me feel better, as it means I enjoy working on it, at least a little. Actually I enjoyed it a lot up to now, until last night I had a moment of despair caused by the overwhelming amount of data I am collecting for my database, but in the afternoon I had the chance to speak with a ticketing manager at Live Nation Italia, so I went to their office in Milan and it felt great, I'd really love to work there! Anyway, I don't remember if I ever mention (and I don't think you will care that much anyway), but I'm writing my thesis on music, on the pricing of tickets for live music more precisely! I'm very happy I've been able to write about something I'm passionate about, and if the mark is not gonna be the best... who cares! The important thing is that I'm enjoying what I'm doing. And I'm mostly enjoying it. After all, without a few moments of despair, it wouldn't be called a thesis, would it?
"Give us something familiar, something similar to what we know already, that will keep us steady, steady... steady going nowhere"
It feels weird to be posting again after such a long time! It's been almost a week and I'm sorry, but life here has been full of events and the Internet connection not very reliable, so I didn't get a chance to post until now... I'm gonna make it up for you, don't worry! Our days at the sea have been great and it's been a real shame they're over, we really had a great great time! Not that here is bad, rather... great food, more trips on unbelievably crazy routes and nice places, I really couldn't ask for more, I don't wanna come back and start working for real on my thesis, I'd stay here one more month but well... I'll just enjoy the time I have! And that comprises great music in the car, which would have given me tons of songs to post here if only I had the time, I'll just stick with what we've been obsessing with today, i.e. Coldplay! Speed of sound is my favourite song of them, so enjoy!! I hope I'll be able to write again before we come back on Sunday, anyway I will start again to post regularly next week! See ya!
I was chatting with my dear friends in our Facebook group when one of them posted a song by 5 seconds of summer. I won't waste our time explaining the whole conversation, it is enough to say that it mostly revolves having doubts around the alleged heterosexuality of the band members (a buzz that is generated around practically every boy band, most often with reason)! But that's not what I wanted to talk about today. When I started playing a song posted by one of my friends (don't remember the title, sorry...) the intro sounded a lot like the one of this song, which of course stuck into my mind and, well... why not post it?
On Sunday I started playing around with the harmonica on Under the Bridge and since then I've started listening to RHCP a little bit in the last couple of days. Overlooking the at-best-moderate success of my attempts, today I will probably start training on this other song, that quietly stuck in my head (and went on to substitute another song I wanted to post today). I've always liked Desecration Smile, I really have no memory of how I got to know it and everything, but it's always been one of my favs and one of the few Red Hot songs I really do like. I never devoted too much attention to them, not being a funky fun, but I really do like some of their songs, especially the stuff that came closer to pop after they got famous. Today I'll go for it, and who knows? Maybe one day I will also be able to play it at least decently on the harmonica! Never say never!
Dear all, yesterday I've completely forgotten the blog, it's been a quite busy day, baking my first cake all alone and arranging things for the xmas dinner with my friends. And when you wake up at 14.30 past, well... the day ain't that long! But I'm sure the christmas spirit makes everybody happier and more forgiving (yes, sure!). I'm gonna make it up with the song I had in mind for yesterday's post. I've been pretty much into Coldplay, in particularly their X&Y album. Actually the few songs I had out of that album. One of them is this one, so enjoy and have a merry christmas eve!
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