i am not really going to sit here before you and start bleating about work because a) it is work (and "work is good") and b) there's really nothing SO bad about it that would be worth going into with you tonight (i.e. "no one will die" except maybe me, a little bit, inside, every day until this project ends).
but let's just say, of late, what has transpired between the hours between 9:30 and 6:30...and then 7:30 to midnight has left me dumbstuck and directionless. i'm doing my best to hoop-jump and juggle but i'm losing my footing and my grip. everyone is unsatisfied, including me.
i''ll be working from home the rest of the night. that's not too bad a thing. 30 rock will be on later...and i can listen to music all night too.
in lieu of a happy pill, i'll be listening to happy music...
*** my sister wore deep grooves into one track on the lp :"i confess." i don't think I fully appreciated that ultra cool song at the time, in part because it was hers. if i was gonna like the english beat at all, i needed my own songs. the sweet "tears of a clown" and the frenzied "sole salvation" were really the only two tracks i bothered with.
but in listening to "the best of" on the ipod, i've discovered the charms of others.
especially "best friend." this brings out the teenager in me.
how about saxa in this video? love him...
and this is sweet:
*** finally...back to "sole salvation." i fell in love with the tempo changes, the bass, the horns... but i have never really known the lyrics (except "we never feel the power of our own hands...do it right, do it now here there everywhere shouting out i'm as mad as hell...stop being a baby!...stop! ... have a heart but don't take mine" and something later on about "a woman's understanding." and obviously, "sole salvation"). i just dance around to it.
but it turns out there are a hell of a lot of words in between, so many more than i could have imagined, so this little video was informative AND entertaining. love that the producer even added caveats about spelling, technical credits and citations.
