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🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵
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You know you're on Lit too much when you see an innocent sun on an album cover & immediately that it's a butthole
Excuse me while I go read some Dr. Seuss to cleans my pallet...
KarenB59
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Day 3- A song that reminds of you (more than) one of your closest friends in life
High school. Raising money for the yearbook or something, we held a variety show. One of the acts was myself and a group of friends performing in a 'group' complete with jugs and washboards. Singing Rhinestone Cowboy. That was 40+ years ago and we still snicker when we hear the song
High school. Raising money for the yearbook or something, we held a variety show. One of the acts was myself and a group of friends performing in a 'group' complete with jugs and washboards. Singing Rhinestone Cowboy. That was 40+ years ago and we still snicker when we hear the song
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Day 4: A song that isn’t overtly religious, but feels inspirational in a spiritual sense
Growing up buddhist, I've never seen myself as anything other than atheist. Some revere the buddha but I never did. Is it a religion then? Or a spiritual belief? I believed in myself. In my heart. In my feelings and my wisdom and my convictions. My spirit. My mind.
I don't believe salvation comes from anything external, and that divinity is something ethereal we've conjured out of nothing...
Look inside, find who you are, grasp something tangible and make yourself better. We all can. Then the world will follow.
you were looking for devotion
made of promises in motion
"I can change, I can change, I can change..."
never could find a way to explain
we're only building God
until we have the one that we want
Tennis
Growing up buddhist, I've never seen myself as anything other than atheist. Some revere the buddha but I never did. Is it a religion then? Or a spiritual belief? I believed in myself. In my heart. In my feelings and my wisdom and my convictions. My spirit. My mind.
I don't believe salvation comes from anything external, and that divinity is something ethereal we've conjured out of nothing...
Look inside, find who you are, grasp something tangible and make yourself better. We all can. Then the world will follow.
you were looking for devotion
made of promises in motion
"I can change, I can change, I can change..."
never could find a way to explain
we're only building God
until we have the one that we want
Tennis
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Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life
My best friend and I used to ride around listening to this as if we weren’t two white kids from the suburbs.
My best friend and I used to ride around listening to this as if we weren’t two white kids from the suburbs.
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UnquietDreams
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Day 4: A song that isn’t overtly religious, but feels inspirational in a spiritual sense
"And all of us are meant for the fire
But we keep on rising up"
We are all born dancers -- we just don't always know it.
The nineties were a tough time for theater and dance. It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and it was tearing through the arts community. Now, HIV and AIDS are horrible diseases you have to work to live with. Back then, "living with" wasn't an option. I met Joe Morales in the late 80s. He was a choreographer and a teacher, but mostly he was a dancer. Broadway, where he was a featured dancer for Cats, as Mr. Mistoffelees. New Mexico and LA, and finally Portland, where he taught, and danced, and founded the company that would eventually form Oregon Ballet Theater. I was an English and Theater Arts student (this was before I realized liked paying rent, and moved to computer science) and took classes in Ballet and Jazz. I wasn't good, but I loved it. I met Joe at a workshop. Most of the performers had been happy to just dance for us. Joe walked in and said, "everyone off their asses. You are all dancers. We dance." Then he taught us, walked us through it, and danced along with us. And that was Joe. God I loved him. He had me play congas for his performances a few times. I took classes with him when I could. Went to where he waited tables so I could tip him because he wouldn't take gifts. Got drunk with him. I knew him for about four years, before the disease put him into a coma he wasn't supposed to come out of. He did come out, for a while, joking he was on pointe while comatose. Then he went blind. Then he was bedridden. Then, in October 1994, he was gone. But at no point was he bitter, or sad. "What's important isn't the past; it's the future, moving on."
I always remembered a quote from a friend of ours, Josie, from well before he was sick. A group was discussing how they would spend their last day on Earth. Everyone's plans were outrageous, expensive, and over the top- as expected. Except Joe. "I," he said with quiet pride, "shall be dancing." A week after he died, I was in the Adrianna Hill Grand Ballroom in the Pythian Building, a great space with a sprung floor, for Joe's memorial. And those who loved him danced for him. He had choreographed the whole damn thing --beyond the veil, with us, he was dancing.
"Oh my love, don't cry when I'm gone
I will lift you up, the air in your lungs
And when you reach for me, we'll dance in the darkness
And we will walk beyond, our daughters and sons
They will carry on like when we were young
We will stand beside and breathe in their new life"
Joe would have liked this song. One, we bonded over percussion, and Delta Rae loves their percussion. I chose the live version because he loved to dance to live drums. But mostly he would love the idea that we live on in the lives of those we touched. Not resting in peace, but dancing in the graveyard. There is a fund in his name, providing support to young boys who want to dance. Dancers in Portland still talk about him. Oregon Ballet Theater is running strong. Joey is still dancing.
"Dance in the Graveyards (live)," Delta Rae
(I wanna dance with them some more...)
"And all of us are meant for the fire
But we keep on rising up"
We are all born dancers -- we just don't always know it.
The nineties were a tough time for theater and dance. It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and it was tearing through the arts community. Now, HIV and AIDS are horrible diseases you have to work to live with. Back then, "living with" wasn't an option. I met Joe Morales in the late 80s. He was a choreographer and a teacher, but mostly he was a dancer. Broadway, where he was a featured dancer for Cats, as Mr. Mistoffelees. New Mexico and LA, and finally Portland, where he taught, and danced, and founded the company that would eventually form Oregon Ballet Theater. I was an English and Theater Arts student (this was before I realized liked paying rent, and moved to computer science) and took classes in Ballet and Jazz. I wasn't good, but I loved it. I met Joe at a workshop. Most of the performers had been happy to just dance for us. Joe walked in and said, "everyone off their asses. You are all dancers. We dance." Then he taught us, walked us through it, and danced along with us. And that was Joe. God I loved him. He had me play congas for his performances a few times. I took classes with him when I could. Went to where he waited tables so I could tip him because he wouldn't take gifts. Got drunk with him. I knew him for about four years, before the disease put him into a coma he wasn't supposed to come out of. He did come out, for a while, joking he was on pointe while comatose. Then he went blind. Then he was bedridden. Then, in October 1994, he was gone. But at no point was he bitter, or sad. "What's important isn't the past; it's the future, moving on."
I always remembered a quote from a friend of ours, Josie, from well before he was sick. A group was discussing how they would spend their last day on Earth. Everyone's plans were outrageous, expensive, and over the top- as expected. Except Joe. "I," he said with quiet pride, "shall be dancing." A week after he died, I was in the Adrianna Hill Grand Ballroom in the Pythian Building, a great space with a sprung floor, for Joe's memorial. And those who loved him danced for him. He had choreographed the whole damn thing --beyond the veil, with us, he was dancing.
"Oh my love, don't cry when I'm gone
I will lift you up, the air in your lungs
And when you reach for me, we'll dance in the darkness
And we will walk beyond, our daughters and sons
They will carry on like when we were young
We will stand beside and breathe in their new life"
Joe would have liked this song. One, we bonded over percussion, and Delta Rae loves their percussion. I chose the live version because he loved to dance to live drums. But mostly he would love the idea that we live on in the lives of those we touched. Not resting in peace, but dancing in the graveyard. There is a fund in his name, providing support to young boys who want to dance. Dancers in Portland still talk about him. Oregon Ballet Theater is running strong. Joey is still dancing.
"Dance in the Graveyards (live)," Delta Rae
(I wanna dance with them some more...)
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Day 1: A song that once you hear it, it will be stuck in your head all day
Bye, Bye, Bye (since seeing the new Deadpool, can't get it out of my head)
Day 2: A gateway song to some of the music you currently enjoy.
Twisted Sister, We’re not Gonna Take It
Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life
Bryan Adams, Heaven (it’s our wedding song and my wife is truly my best friend to this day, through all the ups and downs in life)
Bye, Bye, Bye (since seeing the new Deadpool, can't get it out of my head)
Day 2: A gateway song to some of the music you currently enjoy.
Twisted Sister, We’re not Gonna Take It
Day 3: A song that reminds you of one of your closest friends in life
Bryan Adams, Heaven (it’s our wedding song and my wife is truly my best friend to this day, through all the ups and downs in life)
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Day 4: A song that isn’t overtly religious, but feels inspirational in a spiritual sense
Grace - Jeff Buckley
Grace - Jeff Buckley
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Day 4: A song that isn’t overtly religious, but feels inspirational in a spiritual sense
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Day 4: A song that isn’t overtly religious, but feels inspirational in a spiritual sense
“Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all”
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
“Can’t believe how strange it is to be anything at all”
Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
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Day 4: A song that isn’t overtly religious, but feels inspirational in a spiritual sense
Glorious-David Archuleta
Glorious-David Archuleta
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Day 4: A song that isn’t overtly religious, but feels inspirational in a spiritual sense
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Day 4: A song that isn't overtly religious, but feels inspirational in a spiritual sense
I first heard this song a couple years ago, and was surprised because it's such a departure from the edgy, angsty, teenage drama Avril we all know and love.
"Head Above Water" - Avril Lavigne
I first heard this song a couple years ago, and was surprised because it's such a departure from the edgy, angsty, teenage drama Avril we all know and love.
"Head Above Water" - Avril Lavigne
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Just to let you know; this is showing as video unavailable this side of the pond. Fallen into the Youtube transatlantic black hole
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That name. The woman on the cover with a coconut head?? The trumpet solo?! I have no idea what the second solo is, it sounds like squeaky trainers on a school gym floor. I'm so confused. This is the essence of absurdism and abstract art. I love it SO MUCH!!
So much.
I'll be binging them all day. Thank you!!
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Let me see if I can fix it.
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Day 4: A song that isn’t overtly religious, but feels inspirational in a spiritual sense
When people say that something is forever
Either way, it ends
And all things end
All that we intend is scrawled in sand
Or slips right through our hands
And just knowing that everything will end
Should not change our plans
I could pick something witchy but to keep to the spirit of the prompt, I'll go with Hozier. This song is so powerful to me. Being a fatalist, I'm all too familiar with the sentiment of nothing lasting forever. It usually brings me comfort. However, embracing the message in those last two lines is where I struggle but it's what I aspire to. Also, it's just a gorgeous song
All Things End - Hozier
When people say that something is forever
Either way, it ends
And all things end
All that we intend is scrawled in sand
Or slips right through our hands
And just knowing that everything will end
Should not change our plans
I could pick something witchy but to keep to the spirit of the prompt, I'll go with Hozier. This song is so powerful to me. Being a fatalist, I'm all too familiar with the sentiment of nothing lasting forever. It usually brings me comfort. However, embracing the message in those last two lines is where I struggle but it's what I aspire to. Also, it's just a gorgeous song
