Space between - Sia

Space between - Sia

Back home from my trip in Portugal with my parents, I am still struck by fever and bored at home as I can't do anything but lying in bed day and night... computer, smartphone, everything is not really good for my headache, so I'm taking advantage of this moment of slight recovery to tell you guys I'm still alive! In the last couple of days I couldn't take Sia's 'Cheap thrills' out of my head, such an awesome song, but given that I already posted it a few weeks ago and that there's another good one that has been waiting quite a while, here it is for you! Don't forget to give a full listen to good albums, don't just stop at the singles / more renowned songs!

#sundayrevival I'm no angel - Dido

I'm no angel - Dido

In the last couple of days life has hit back on me, I already knew that 2016 had started too well and that karma was about to hit back, and so it did. Thanks goodness I booked my tickets to Japan, which helped me feel way better, as pretty much everything else is going so and so. First of all I have a few (minor but annoying) health problems, including the usual winter cold that makes you feel like a van has run over you, some pretty painful mouth lesions that make eating a nightmare, while one of them also hits me at rest and I've been living with the non-stop pain for a couple of days now... Moreover today my dear computer decided it doesn't want to boot anymore! Yeah, exactly. Right now. After I've been praising it for days and after I ordered on Amazon a bigger RAM and a new battery. Oh yeah, that's the freaking right time! I've been struggling for the whole day and I still haven't been able to solve the problem, guess I'm gonna have to take it to some Apple centre. To write the blog I dug out my old Sony Vaio from my wardrobe and I'm trying to live with it, hoping that at least this one is going to keep it up for a little more!
Getting to the music, it's (been) Sunday so it's time for a sundayrevival! I had another Dido song on my mind, but I realised I had posted it already, so I chose this one instead. 'I'm no angel' has never been one of my favourites on this album that I've been listening to since I was a child, but lately it has outgrown many other songs on the album and, well... I must revise my judgement and say that it has indeed entered the pool of my favourite Dido songs! I'm sure you're gonna take a liking for it too, if you give it time! I hope your week  (and mine too) is gonna start better than the way I am ending this one. Cheers!

Flight #303 - Feist

Flight #303 - Feist

My dears, sorry for not posting yesterday but my day has been quite hectic and tough... I woke up at 7.15 to meet a friend for breakfast, talked with her a while before she went off to work, then went back to my aunt's house, rested a little and I was on my way to my (ex) University as I had a few things to deliver to some of my Profs. After a lunch with another friend I went back home, waiting for aunt and we came back together to my grandparents, where mom picked me up and took me home. I've been feeling unwell for the whole day: I cannot process coffee anymore methinks, for after breakfast I've been feeling sick in my stomach for the whole day, plus a sore throat started coming to me and got stronger and stronger, to the point that this morning it's very annoying. For this reason I went to bed at 22.30 yesterday and after waking up at 5-something I stayed in bed until a short time ago, more than 12 hours! Nonetheless my throat is still sore and, given that I have to take a flight tomorrow (yay!) I'm not really happy about that... at all!! My flight number is not the same as Feist's so I guess we won't see each other on the plane... maybe next time!!

Always - Junip

Always - Junip

Hello my followers, here I am somehow back on my feet! Have been sick in the last couple of days, been off work and came back home, as I took a few days off starting tomorrow...! I hate this time of year and I hate feeling bad and sick as I did yesterday, today I'm a bit better thanks goodness, even if I still got a bad cough, maybe a little temperature and all the ending symptoms of the flu (hopefully). I gotta be back on my feet by Monday, as I have an important even to attend, but I will let you know more about that soon! For now let's enjoy some great music, once again by one of my best discoveries of the awesome year in music this 2015 has been!!
PS: Genius video, don't miss out (and please explain me your interpretation of it)!

Thunder - Leona Lewis

Thunder - Leona Lewis

I'm coming back with a thunder. Oh yeah, I am. But not now. Now I'm living that (usual) time of year when I only feel sick and bad and would just like to get away, go somewhere warm, go to the beach and just lay there waiting for spring to come again, so that I can come back here (or wherever). Or just leave me on that beach, I don't mind at all. Just take me away from that hideous autumn, as I'm spending more money on useless medicines than I am earning. Tonite I said goodbye... well, adios to the working location that has hosted me since March, as the office is being moved to the next town. I am slowly starting to detach from here... can't wait for the process to be over. So that I can indeed come back with a thunder. Health permitting.

Anybody out there? - Lawson

Anybody out there? - Lawson

I don't why I got it in me to go back and listen to Lawson today: hadn't listened to their songs for almost 2 years, since right after I discovered them. Their songs are ok, but their style is a very "teenager-appealing" one and I don't really get a desire to listen to their music on purpose... it's enjoyable, but I don't look for it. And I confirmed my opinion today, as I just finished listening to their debut (and only) album (so far). Still, the music is enjoyable and some songs are noteworthy methinks. This is one of them, and given that I am feeling very old in my broken body, I really need to get some "teenenergy" in me!!

Fever - Elisa

Fever - Elisa

Of course. Of course I've been waiting for months to get away, to go abroad for work for a two-week visit and of course I get sick two days before I should leave. Of course with a relocation to do (first home and then goodness knows where), of course with a 3-hour drive home to undertake, hopefully tomorrow if I'm not feeling too bad. Of course this is probably not the fever Elisa was singing about, but my own fever, caused by whatever illness I got in my lungs since last xmas, is starting to be pretty bothersome!! Of course.

I can fly - Lana del Rey

I can fly - Lana del Rey

Hello guys, sorry I disappeared for a couple of days but it's been crazy since I came back... I had to leave for Marrakech this morning with a friend but I had to cancel the trip due to a bad fever I got, the one that probably started on my flight back from America... It makes me very sad and angry, especially for my friend who had been anticipating this trip, but even if I was undecided until the last moment, I wouldn't have actually been in a condition to travel safely, also because I would've strained myself while I need to rest. It's a bit ironic to post this song from the Big Eyes movie soundtrack today, as I actually couldn't fly, but... I hope it can prove true to you!

Disappear - R.E.M.

Disappear - R.E.M.

"There is a calm I haven't come to yet
I spend half my life figuring what comes next
I telescoped in
I'll finally win
I'll finally win the prize
That now eyes see
A comic's perfect timing squeezed.
I'm head-first fighting everything
The crushing force of memory
Erasing all I've been
The vanishing point appears."

After many many hours of travelling I'm finally home, I took a nap, had a quick dinner and a hot bath and now I'm almost ready to get to sleep. I've not been feeling well since the flight back from America, as I've been writing before, and now I feel pain in my head when I turn it and look sideways, and the usual symptoms of fever (cold hands and stuff). I really hope I'm gonna get better soon, as my life is rapidly entering a spiral of important events! I'll just tell you that (if nothing goes wrong) I'm gonna be on a plane again on monday! Life aside, I was uncertain whether to play some music while having my bath, and when I decided not to, I plugged in the radio! Then after a quick look at my CD library my eye fell on R.E.M.'s Reveal and the song I'll take the rain came to my mind, I decided to play it in shuffle mode (and of course it was the first one to play)! The one that touched me more strongly this time though has been Disappear, another favourite from the album! The lyrics are quite meaningful for me now, I hope they resound in you too!

"I looked for you and everywhere.

I looked for you and everywhere.

Tell me why you're here.

I came to disappear."

To be alone - Hozier

To be alone - Hozier

I think the flu I'm going through is the worst one as far as I can remember, and I've had quite a few... I got a temperature right after xmas, then almost a week of weird cold, up to yesterday when everything got watery and I've been blowing my nose like every minute... and now I feel the shivers and pains of fever again. Gosh, will it ever end? I hate, hate, hate goddamn winter, realllly wanna move somewhere warm!! I've been locked up inside my house since the 27th of December, except for a few hours at new year's eve. I wouldn't mind going around and seeing people, doing things, but for now I think I'll accept Hozier's offer to be alone!

Someone new - Hozier

Someone new - Hozier

Hello there! No, I didn't disappear again, this time my missed post was kinda justified, as I have been struck by the usual winter temperature yesterday. I'm feeling better already, after sleeping almost the whole day through, so I hope tomorrow I'm gonna be back on my feet completely tomorrow! Well, not that I have that much stuff to do... I just hope I'll be back in shape by new year's eve! For today I'm gonna leave you with another Hozier song I fell in love with! Enjoy!

The Gospel of John Hurt - ∆ (Alt-J)

The Gospel of John Hurt - ∆

Archiving the first (successful) experiment of the 90s music week, let's get back to regular posting! During this convulse past week I must confess I have not been feeling the need to post anything else except what I've been posting, i.e. songs from the awesome 1990s. With one exception. This one.
I think I have already underlined more than a few times how I already love Alt-J's sophomore work, maybe not as much as their debut (there are still 3-4 songs that didn't totally convince me yet), but up to the point that is is a serious candidate for my personal album of the year. John Hurt's gospel has been one of the first tracks that struck me on the album, and well... it's the last big thing I wanna post from this album for now, waiting for its sisters to ring a bell inside me too. And, well... today I'm feeling better, no more temperature symptoms, just a bit of late phases of cold and a pretty annoying cough, feels like my chest is burning like John Hurt's too...!

Blood flood - Alt-J

One of the things that surprised me the most of the past 2 months I spent in England (today is 2 months exactly since I'm here!) is... that I still didn't get sick. But I've been calling for it many times and now it has finally come. Be it playing barefoot in the sand, be it the wind, be it the cold we felt while getting back to the train, be it the harsh temperature leap, be it a virus or whatever else... fact is, I can feel it. I've had that sore throat that cannot announce anything but a cold/flu. My nose is starting to feel it already too, so I'm braced already and ready to be in bed. I've not been very clear headed today already and this didn't help me in writing this post. As of now, I still don't know what song I'm gonna post. Well, maybe time has come to think about it...

Blood flood - Alt-J

Ok my mind is made up now. I know I posted them already a few days ago, but they are what I'm listening to now (actually today I've been listening for most part of the day to Sia and then Ellie Goulding, who has covered a song by Alt-J, and so here I am now). Blood flood is what really makes sense to me. It has been the last song of the album I've felt in love with and it is in turn amongst the ones I love the most. I love all of them, ok, but this emerged quite strongly lately. And now I know already that a flood of blood in my body is what is spreading the virus and what could also kill it. But the most difficult thing for me in the next few days will be to obey their instructions, as I always do while listening to the song.

Breathe in...

Exhale...