March 27, 2003 :: Thursday
08:50 PM
Music
Spin on a Red Brick Floor
Rock 'n roll saved my soul and music brings me alive! Music! Is there a song that makes you have to get up and dance? Something that makes you have to move, bounce up and down in your chair, flinging your arms about? I hope so! Music is the breath of life to me, every emotion pouring out of one song or another, joy to make me dance madly about, sorrow to make me weep for the sad things, anger making me stamp my feet and throw my fist in the air! The peacefulness of the night on the trip home after an evening of friends, food and wine, tiredness at the end of the working day and the rush hour traffic, the excitement of other countries in songs in foreign languages, Gaelic, German, Russian... It all depends on the song and writer, it's all there in one song or another.
For the record, atm, it's Natalie MacMaster's The Drunken Piper. It would also be her New York Jig if I could just get it downloaded from Kazaa. And sometimes it's The Captains of Orange Street which reminds of Duncan and Amanda in the Highlander ep where she was a Rowdy Girl. Or Belinda Carlisle's Mad About You, or Leann Rimes' But I Do Love You...or Nanci Griffith's Woman of the Phoenix and Three Flights Up and Morning Song for Sally... I'm gonna go listen to some more music and dance the house down!
Spin on a Red Brick Floor
Well I could use a little spin on a red brick floor in a crazy old bar where Tim locks the door and the walls are ringing, the strings are gonna bend, it's a buss on the cheek from all my old lovers again
and it's the Blue Ridge Mountains at the full of the night, it sure feels good when you cross that line tonight, tip my cup, I holler at the moon, I said the Great White North, honey, here's to you, sleep tight
and I've gone crazy on this road with all of this traveling alone but the asphalt is burning tonight
oh the New England spring's been good to me, there's been a warmth of linen and good lines to ring, but now I miss my native tongue cause New York City sort of brings out the stupids in me
I got one more stop down in Tennessee, my sweetheart's there and waiting on me and then it's on down the road, kicking east Texas dust, I'll catch my breath of that hot Houston neon buzz
and I've gone crazy on this road with all of this traveling alone but the asphalt is burning tonight
and I could use a little spin on a red brick floor in a crazy old bar where Tim locks the door and the walls are ringing, the strings are gonna bend, it's a buss on the cheek from all my old lovers again
yeah I could use a little spin on a red brick floor in a crazy old bar where Tim locks the door and the walls are ringing, the strings are gonna bend, it's a buss on the cheek from all my old lovers again
-- Nanci Griffith, On Fair Summer Evening, recorded live at Anderson Fair in Texas
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Jeff [April 1, 2003 08:46 AM] I was interested in seeing that you don't write so much at the moment. I'm the chap who moves the boxes from one end of the room to the other for Cleophas; sometimes they can be really big heavy cartons full of heavyweight freshnjuicy editorial sheets and folders he's written. My back's not what it woz you see... and I, I, I... woz wondering as a fellow Blog industry person whether you have any need for an experienced carton box carrier specialising in blogs? Preferably much smaller + lighter boxes travelling across smaller rooms. ;-) Someone’s just told me ! It’s April the 1st.
alice ttlg [April 1, 2003 09:22 PM] LOL! Certainly you can move boxes for me! Mine are smaller and lighter but I'll warn you that I have many, many, MANY boxes because even tho there's not much here now, I have all this old stuff that I want to add and it all has to be moved from other there to over here...and then some of it has to be moved back over there and some goes in that corner, and I dunno, I think some of it should go off this way, don't you think? Or would it look better on that side? Let's try it out both ways and see which is better...