It wasn't all bad

I lament. And I have been happier, that's a fact. But, in regard to the topic of my last post, i don't want anyone to get the impression that it was so bad. In fact, it was great. So, here's another song from the soundtrack of my year - pretty much covers it.

Bloc Party I Still Remember



I, I still remember
How you looked
That afternoon
There was only you
You said it was just like a full moon
Blood beats faster in our veins
We left our trousers by the canal
And our fingers they almost touched

You should have asked me for it
I would have been brave
You should have asked me for it
How could I say no?
And our love could have soared
Over playgrounds and rooftops
Now every park bench screams your name
I kept your tie
I'd have gone wherever you wanted

And on that teacher's training day
We wrote our names on every train
Laughed at the people off to work
So monochrome and so lukewarm
And I could feel our days where becoming night
I could feel your heart beating across the grass
We should have run, I would go with you anywhere
I should have kissed you by the water

I still remember

I hate New Order

It's like having a friend that's always right, listening to New Order. At any rate, I'm pondering this year in review so far, and this song will be on the soundtrack, for sure. Of course, this goes out to JSH. "if you give it all away..." Brilliant.

New order The perfect kiss


I stood there beside myself,
Thinking hard about the weather
Then came by a friend of mine
Suggested we go out together
Then I knew it from the start:
This friend of mine would fall apart
Pretending not to see his gun,
I said "let's go out and have some fun"
I know, you know, you believe in a land of love
I know, you know, we believe in a land of love

I have always thought about
Staying here and going out
Tonight I should have stayed at home,
Playing with my pleasure zone
He has always been so strange,
I'd often thought he was deranged
Pretending not to see his gun,
I said "let's go out and have some fun"
I know, you know, we believe in a land of love
I know, you know, we believe in a land of love

When you are alone at night
You search yourself for all the things
That you believe are right
If you give it all away
You throw away your only chance to be here today
Then a fight breaks out on your street
You lose another broken heart in a land of meat
My friend, he took his final breath
Now I know the perfect kiss is the kiss of death

Kabre' Cyntanna today

Meriam and Courtney come through and show mad love.

Much respect to Rick James

After watching a live concert by Rick in Germany three times in a row, I had to write a little something about him. This man is the best. When he sang "Big Day" I almost wanted to stand up and sway. From wikipedia:

"Rick James (born James Ambrose Johnson, Jr) (February 1, 1948 – August 6, 2004) was one of the most popular artists on the Motown label during the late 1970s and early 1980s. James was famous for his wild brand of funk music and his trademark braids, sporting them well before the style was popularized. As time went on, James was given the unofficial title The King of Punk-Funk."

All hail The King of Punk-Funk.

re-Feisty-ized

I spent all of yesterday hooking up a clean install of Ubuntu 7.04. I took the time to install every codec, including aac support for all of my iTunes-ripped cd's. I installed Amarok as the default music player, and used the cp -r command to copy over my directory of 95 gigs of music from my Lacie drive. Finally, I backed up some cd's and dvd's using k3b and k9copy. Yes Virginia-I'm leaving you for Ubuntu.