she’s back!
being fully in character i got a bit bored of my blog and wandered off. typical me typical me typical me i started something….
so anyway.
i’ve just signed up to spotify pro after a muso-ish friend recommended it. means i can use on my iphone so suddenly am able to listen to all sorts of new music and theoretically widen my increasingly lazy range of stuff i like. course so far i can’t resist behaving exactly as always and have simply uploaded a load of “old fav” playlists and listened to them. i will do better. can’t expect to shake off the ennui if i don’t try eh?
the old playlists were quite illuminating though. i have one of 6 songs associated with my husband / wedding. a total joy to hear. upbeat, funny, dancable – marvin gaye, mary j, eels, mint royale. really a nice listen. to be fair its not all joy - quite a bit about having fun in spite of everything – how appropriate – and theres an absolute horror in there about jealousy from buena vista social club which we hadn’t translated before he chose it for the wedding but then thats totally on the money too – and you have to take the rough with the smooth don’t you?
then i have another that reminds me of my recent and disatrous emotional misadventures. a short playlist that runs from whimsical through wistful to yearning and defiant – arctic monkeys, yeah yeah yeahs, charlatans, queens of the stone age. sounds ok in theory but all downbeat ones really not so much fun. and much less me.
this tells me nothing i didn’t already know (cf kylie post from way back) and yet at the same time was most instructive. somehow listening to your feelings played back at you is much more powerful than thinking or talking them through – which i got bored of ages ago anyway.
am keeping the playlists as a stark reminder to focus on the positives. thats what gets you through.
