(no subject)

[auntiemeesh]

And this is why I didn't even bother to call the prompts drabbles. Over six hundred words just to set the stage. I am just a wordy, wordy person. And at the same time, how pathetic. I've had Word open in front of me all evening and I've only managed to come up with six hundred words. And yet I've managed to come up with almost as much in half an hour of blather and babble, here on lj. *sigh*

On the plus side, hey, good music on the radio. I actually managed to tune in to Virgin UK at the appropriate time and caught the last hour and a half of the Geoff Show, which is my very favorite. Honestly, the only time I don't like the music they play is during the Party Classics on the weekends - a mix of crappy eighties dance music which is pretty much the same as eighties night on any station anywhere (and it isn't that I don't like eighties dance music, it's just that it is almost never want I want to listen to when I've tuned in to internet radio).

It was a funny coincidence - they have some sort of email/text in with the first music you bought and they might play it if they have it. So when they mentioned this, my mind drifted back to the first record I bought. I'm not really sure what it was. One of three things - either Dream of the Blue Turtles (Sting), Tears For Fears, or A-Ha. I think it may have been the A-Ha (I was madly in love with Take On Me once upon a time). That's the one that came to mind, certainly. And then five minutes later, as if they'd read my mind, Take On Me started playing. *grins* I know, a perfect example of crappy eighties music, but I was young at the time and knew no better.

We had a fun special event at work today. The River City Percussion Duo set up in the gym and gave us quite a performance. I love live music of almost any sort but unfortunately, I rarely get out to actually see any, so all of these little things we do with the kids give me as much pleasure as them, I'm sure.

And now for a little music meme: ten songs that I really love at the moment, in no particular order.

1. Any McDonald - Mr. Rock and Roll
2. Nickelback - Rock Star
3. Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
4. The Killers - Mr. Brightside
5. KT Tunstall - Big Black Horse and a Cherry Tree
6. Jack Johnson - If I Had Eyes
7. Scouting for Girls - Elvis Ain't Dead
8. The Kooks - She Moves in Her Own Way
9. Snow Patrol - Chasing Cars
10. Arctic Monkeys - Flourescent Adolescent
11. Harvey Danger - Helicopter (yeah, I know, more than ten, but I really love this song so suck it up, yo)

My taste in music is in constant flux - one thing has held pretty steady for the past fifteen years or so, I can't stand a lot of what gets played on the top forty stations here. Otherwise it swings back and forth between 70s progressive rock, chick music, borderline alternative, renaissance madrigals, to anything with lots of guitar in it. Right now I seem to be in love with young U.K. bands.

Comments

[topaztook.livejournal.com]

Apparently, my taste in music has not evolved as yours has, because I still enjoy "Take On Me."

Also, I still have all three of those records you mentioned.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Oh, I still like 'Take On Me' too. But it's more in a nostalgic way. You know, in that 'this is the music that made me feel better when I was thirteen or fourteen and my world was completely out of control' kind of way.

Sadly, I don't have any of those records anymore - one of my brothers snurched them all from me about a day after I bought them, made me dubbed tapes which all fell apart years ago, so that he could use the records when he DJed parties. I do still love all that music, though.

[slightlytookish]

I actually downloaded "Take On Me" from iTunes recently :) I remember hearing it on the radio when I was little, and then when we finally got cable I got to see the video and loved how it kept switching between the comic book and real life. We didn't get cable till '90s so I'm a little surprised thinking back that they showed such an old video but then again, this was when MTV actually showed videos, lol, so I guess they needed to fill up the day!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I loved the video to Take On Me. We actually had cable back then (possibly the only time my mom ever had cable), and MTV was still newish and showed videos all day long. It was the awesomist thing ever. *grins*

[eve11]

Hey, it took me 10 days to write the last 1800 words of my last story (well, it was actually the third part of the story but the last thing I wrote). So I think 600 words in one setting is actually pretty darn good :)

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just get frustrated when the ideas come so sluggishly, making me struggle for every single one.

[maniacmarshall.livejournal.com]

Well, at least I'm not the only person who has these kinds of problems... I guess it only seems that way. I've disconnected my labtop from the internet and will be removing all the games from it when I finish the one I'm in the middle of now. Maybe less distractions will help.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

I keep trying to think of things to motivate me to write, but honestly, the ideas just aren't flowing these days. It makes me sad, because I love writing, but these days I just take what I can get - little bits and pieces, most of which never get finished. But it makes the sense of accomplishment when I do finish something all that much sweeter. :)

[maniacmarshall.livejournal.com]

My problem isn't ideas... i wish i could really figure out exactly WHAT my problem is... maybe it's just the enormity of it all and my sense that I can NEVER finish it.

Rh suggests I write short stories, but I don't have any ideas for those, nor would I know how to write something to a word limit. I need all that space to develop my characters, because thats the only kind of writing (not necessarily reading) that is interesting to me. :(

[lyda-pearl.livejournal.com]

Hey, what's wrong with A-ha "Take on me?" It's on my Napster playlist. I hate to say the first record I bought was The Partridge Family with David Cassidy singing I Think I Love You! That was when KC was staying with us and you were being born! My first album was Cat Stevens teaser and the Firecat which I'm harbor no embarrassment over.

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Nothing's really wrong with Take On Me. I still like it when I hear it. I suppose my embarassment over it is that I originally liked it more for the pretty factor than anything else.

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed that you are so in touch with current popular music. I seem to have passed some impermeable geezer boundary beyond which you couldn't name a song that had been a top 40 hit in the past 5 - 10 years to save your life. Fortunately, such a challenge is not likely to be forthcoming!

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

Well, half the music I listed above is old, and most of it isn't American top 40 (I don't know what the hell would be on the Billboard top 40 currently) - I don't know if it would be on the U.K. top 40 either, since I don't listen to the shows that do the countdown. And it's the first time in years that I've listened to the radio and actually liked most of what I was hearing - apparently British music is just better these days.

Another vote for "Take on Me"

[ani-no-mouse.livejournal.com]

I also liked "Take on Me" although I doubt I ever saw the video. The first album I ever bought was Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2. Like LP I was inspired in this choice by KC. The songs on that record are probably some of the first music you ever heard - along with the songs on M's "Hansel and Gretel" record, which was his favorite at the time.

Re: Another vote for "Take on Me"

[auntiemeesh.livejournal.com]

You know, I remember the Hansel and Gretel record (or a H & G record anyway) because it was one of the 45s we listened to when we were kids. I hated it, by the way - that story freaked me out as a kid more than any of the other folktales/fairytales I knew.