True colors - Cyndi Lauper

True colors - Cyndi Lauper

Today it's been a pretty important day in terms of marriage freedom for gay people in America, so I felt that this fact needed celebration! I had planned to post a different song, as I have been listening to the Cranberries in these days and today in the shower I ended up listening to a few songs that (I realized later) I hadn't been listening to for more than 2 years, and I still knew the lyrics by heart!! But don't worry, they would make great sundayrevival posts so I think I will keep them on the side for a while! Today it's all about making a step forward in terms of respecting each others as human beings, valuing our differences and celebrating them instead of being scared by what's different.
I have been a bit uncertain on which song to post, but at the risk of being cliché, I wanna play it safe and choose a perfect anthem for this occasion! Happy US gay marriage day and pride week/month to you all!!

I drove all night - Cyndi Lauper

I drove all night - Cyndi Lauper

Today I've been driving around with my parents, who came to visit and we've been to a few nice little towns around here where I'm working, it's been quite a nice saturday! To celebrate this saturday night I'm gonna leave you with one last song (for now) out of Cyndi Lauper's best hit. I hope I'm not gonna be driving all night, but some people will be driving (where here is) tomorrow in the early morning, so I better go to bed! F1 seasons begins tomorrow, and even if my pilot's team (badly) sucks by now, I hope the early wake-up call is gonna be worth it! See ya!

She bop - Cyndi Lauper

She bop - Cyndi Lauper

I've been needing a mood boost after the weekend to start the week in the best way, and I got the total opposite: inability to focus, boring lectures and tiredness... today it's been hard, but I did my best to turn it into a productive day, both concerning my training and some side activities (mainly studying Japanese). Thanks goodness I'm having a good time with the people in the class, otherwise it'd be the death of me! Anyway, I gave myself a boost to try and start the week well: the little town I'm located in for the beginning of this week is cute a lively (for being a small town), so I'm enjoying it, even if the hotel ain't the best (last night there was no hot water and at one point the woman in the room next to mine, where ironically I am now, was screaming so hard I thought I was on the set of a porn movie)!! Tonite, after a quick look at Tripadvisor, I decided to aim for a place that cooked paellas and kebabs and that had great ratings. After a 15 mins walk I get there and... I find a nice sign telling me that in winter they're closed on monday... it's the second time already that I get hissed in this way since I started this training, dammit! Well, this time I had a plan B and I aimed for a pub I saw on the internet, which offered me an enjoyable chicken skewers with fries and a spirtz! But the best mood booster was Cyndi Lauper's music in my ears while walking! So, get a boost for the beginning of your week too!!

When you were mine - Cyndi Lauper

When you were mine - Cyndi Lauper

I'm drawing fully from my current playlists to create posts this week, and I'm glad when I do that, because it means I'm really liking the music I'm listening to! Mainly focused on Hozier, The Ting Tings and Cyndi Lauper (plus a few extra additions that I will share with you shortly), the playlist I've built for this beginning of February is one I'm really fond of. Its name is very telling: Sperendio, (literally "hoping-in-god") which is a word used in Italian when you do something without attention or not having data and information that lets you foresee the outcome of your actions with good predictability, and which is a word that describes my current stage of life perfectly! It seems like the inspired name of the playlist brought me to select inspiring music for it, and this is another piece of it that I am enjoying greatly!

Sisters of Avalon - Cyndi Lauper feat. Ani DiFranco & Vivian Green

Sisters of Avalon - Cyndi Lauper

First day of training today, not bad not bad, I'm surrounded by people from around here, the Venetian vibe is all around me but I can't say I dislike it, I like the accent and I'm already getting it in me, like my (grandmother's) roots coming to the surface! Ok, so the training is ok, not super exciting (it's a training), but it seems bearable from what I've seen in this first day, some parts of it are more hands-on so chances are that I might pay a little attention and learn something useful!
About the music, I've been meaning to post this song for a while now, as it's my current favourite out of the pool of the new Cyndi Lauper songs I am discovering with her best hits. The title of the song is evocative, I like the melody... I won't lie, I didn't pay a lot of attention to the lyrics yet but I trust my subconscious, as usually when I grow to like a song musically, I tend to love the lyrics too! I'm sure it's true for the sisters of Avalon too!

Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper

Girls just wanna have fun - Cyndi Lauper

A little while ago I started listening to new music, but the beginning of this 2015 has been a much more favourable time for retrieval of old favourites than for new explorations. Nonetheless I devoted a little time to my "new" discoveries, one of which is the greatest hits of Cyndi Lauper, which is not really "new"; moreover it has been lingering in my library for ages. But its time has come, and after a few listens I have been enjoying a few songs already, even if the thing that struck me the most is the (at times) super marked resemblance of Cyndi's voice with Patti Smith's. Is it just me or sometimes they sound alike? Anyway, I choose to post this song, which is widely popular (even if I hardly knew it, if at all, before putting it in my library). Because a girl gotta have fun. Well, a boy does too, doesn't he?