Hello my dears, sorry for being away once again, I am trying to enjoy my summer time at best and I've been having some trouble accessing the Internet at home too (and not only that, also Pokemon GO has been a big deal of trouble, but more on that some other time). Today I came to Padua to visit my dear wife and we took a trip to the sea (if you can call it that). Last night I've been to Neil Young (+ Promise of the Real) concert in Milan and I've enjoyed it quite a bit, it's been 3 hours straight of music and it felt like he was 26 years old and I was the one in his 70s, not the opposite! The band came back for an encore and quite surprisingly they played this song, which I've been having on my mind for quite a while for no reason (call it destiny or coincidence), so I'm sharing it with you now!
Today we have gone to Saadiyat beach, a "trip" organized by our hotel (they take you there with a car, you get access and sun-beds and so on and they come pick you up). We didn't do much, just roast in the sun, venture in the not-so-warm waters a couple times with mixed success and read and listen to some music (including this song, that stuck in my head at one point). Plain and simple. Now I'm red like a pepper, but everything's under control (I hope). Still no plans about tomorrow, gonna keep enjoying our time here at our own (slow) pace! Cheers!
Hey guys, sorry for not posting anything new yesterday, but the day has been quite full and it ended with a 3-hour movie that ended very late, plus I was too emotionally involved with it and with the song that made me watch it that I couldn't find the strength inside of me to write about something else. The movie is 'Blue is the warmest colour' and I think it's worth all the time spent watching it, I really liked it, especially how the director has been able to make the characters' feelings pass through the camera and the screen and get to the viewer. The song that made me know the film is Alt-J's 'Nara', a beautiful masterpiece that I've been able to appreciate more and more last year to the point that it has probably become my favourite song of theirs. I've been listening to a lot of Alt-J today, but I'm posting something else because... of no reason in particular.
I am finally starting to get towards the middle of Neil Young's discography and listening to his (first?) collection 'Decade' I found a few songs I really like, this being one of them!
I'm so sleepy I'd go to bed straight away, but I'm forcing myself to fulfill my blogger duties, especially because I had already decided to post this song sooner today. I don't know why I went to listen to Neil Young today, probably it was after I watched a video of some younger artists covering his songs at an event called Neilfest or something like this... anyway here I am, sharing one of my favourite songs of his right out of his debut album which came out in 1968 (my mother was 8 years old at the time!!). I've been waiting for you, and you've been coming to me...!!
This morning I started driving to work and as soon as Lykke Li stopped playing, this song came out of my iPod (thanks, alphabetical order for always being such a great source of inspiration!), and I immediately entered the "country-music" mood, shifting to the whole country playlist I compiled in 2013 after spending two of the best weeks of my life in Midwest doing a research project. I looked for random country music (playlists) on Spotify and elsewhere, and voilà! I really enjoy listening back to this playlist from time to time, and today was one of these days! This song in particular was the one that gave me the initial boost, so it's the one I'm sharing now with you! And beware: by the time you get to 10 Mississippi, I'm gonna be long gone!
I must confess that going through the discography of some artists is a pretty long and not-always-so-enjoyable task, especially when these artists have released tens of albums and have been making the history of last century's music (with some of them), but also been trying different things or anyway been producing stuff that won't be remembered, or that anyway doesn't fit the musical taste of a millennial like me. Nonetheless a few good songs are always to be found here and there, and this is exactly the example of what I've just been writing about, so in case you want to know Neil Young better but don't know where to start, here is a good point!
My training course is going on, it's very hard for me to be awake because I'm totally not used to waking up early in the morning, and before and after lunch it really kills me, I wish I had a bed to take a nap on... but I'm still getting the best I can out of it, and a few useful things are coming out of it for sure! In a moment of (fb) distraction I noticed a news reporting that Jimmy Fallon performed this song in his show dressed like Neil Young together with the real Neil Young, so I went to watch it as soon as I got to my hotel room and my computer and... it's just amazing! I'm linking you here the original version of the song and also this awesome performance, you have to check it out!!
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!
After Lorde yesterday, it's time for me to get back and post a few other good songs from my recent playlists that went a little bit unnoticed but are nonetheless worthy of posting. Today I'm devoting a little space of one of the bigs of last century's (and also current) music history, i.e. Mr. Neil Young. I'm slowly going through his discography and I must confess that the last albums I've been listening to did not excite me as much as some of the very first did, but I'm confident I will find more great stuff soon! Yet it would be unfair to say that none of the last things I've been checking out didn't leave any mark: this is one of these songs that are not "loud" but that one tends to go back and listen with pleasure every time, so here it stands as a representative for Neil Young's mid-70s repertoire!
Today I woke up, opened my Facebook and got a perfect inspiration for a song. And then, I kept on scrolling down my wall, listened to a song on YouTube and then... paf, I forgot about the song and notwithstanding all the efforts coming back and re-reading the stuff I didn't come back... well whatever, fate says it wasn't its time! Luckily enough, when I was in a supermarket buying some ice-creams with my parents, as soon as we were able to get out of it this song started playing and I started singing it by myself in the parking lot. And here it is, new inspiration for the blog! And it's a perfect one for this hot summer day too! Couldn't ask for anything better!
Hey guys! First day of work today, it's getting pretty busy, then I went grocery shopping on my way home, had dinner and got out for a drink right after! Little time to post for me, and little chances to get to listen to some good music today...! I'll have to pick another one of my songs from the new January playlists: this one is coming out of Neil Young's "Tonight's the night album", I think I already posted another song out of it a few days ago. This is Albuquerque, enjoy and have a good night!
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