Well, yesterday, Sarah and I ran up to Denver (A first for Sarah) and paid a visit to the Cherry Creek Apple store. The reason being, DemonPod, my iPod, was acting up. In fact, it died. After a short visit to the "genius bar" I was given a straight from the factory 4th generation iPod. The same as what I had before, and not a new, video, 5th generation iPod, but oh well. I have christened the new iPod "David" after several people in my life named David who have influenced my musical life. Hopefully David will be a better iPod than the last. But seriously, if I were my iPod, I'd lose my mind too.
In music news, I have been listening to "The Doves" lately. Worth all of the hype I'd been hearing. Other bands of note, The Caesars' "39 minutes of bliss" and Sun Kil Moon's latest album "Tiny Cities."
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The people named David that have influenced my life are namely, my dad, who while he likes approximately 1% of the music I do, encouraged a love of music from my earliest days. Mom, I would've named it after you, but iPods just seem like male things.
Other Davids include David Bazan of Pedro the Lion, David Bowie, David Crowder of the David Crowder Band, and King David (a wicked harp and flute player...) At least I didn't name it dyzkp.
Okay...hey...1%is better than nothing, right? And I'm thrilled you enjoy music and the messages it brings, no matter What the venue. Love ALWAYS, Dad "David"
PS - Check and answer your emails sometimes, okay?
What the… what about the greatest rocking David of ALL TIME, David Lee ROTH!!?
Yeah. Ummm… so I never heard of any of those bands you mentioned. You know what I need? I need some sort of, like, segment… incorporated into a radio show that I would listen to… something that plays for me music that I'm NOT listening to, but that I should be… suggestions?
:) Don't mind me. I'm hopped up on hot dogs and kpmktlab, which is my favorite Iranian dish.
I thought of David Lee Roth, but he hasn't influenced me nearly as much as you. Or Jim. Jim, do you like David Lee Roth?
Ryan. I'm working on it. Dude, you'd think I recently had a month off of work or something.
Dad. I check my email. I thought I wrote you guys a letter a couple days ago. Did it not get there? If so, I'll csygc it to you again.
That's it for now.
Actually, it's just lyrics from the song "I've got a bad liver and a broken heart" by Tom Waits.
The last few weeks, I've had the title of the blog be different lines from Tom Waits songs. In my mind, he's one of the best songwriters ever, and can paint a picture with whatever words he uses. It just seemed like a good theme. I was planning on changing the subhead to reflect the quote by saying what song it's from.
Thanks for saying I'm a caring person. I try to be. In this quote, the whole usage of the phrase "cross to bear" and "double-cross" is just too cool for me. I love the way he uses the unexpected to grab your attention and tie you to the characters in his songs.
A couple weeks ago, it was the song "Whistle down the wind" with the quote "She was fifteen years old, and she'd never seen the ocean..." which begins my favorite part of the song, about a girl who leaves everything she knows for no reason. It's not that it hits home, it just hits. Anything that can stir your heart like that is cokszj.
Well, that's it for now.
Gotta go to work.
Peace.
You just love that "gotta go to work" line, don't you? LOL . . . Yes to David Lee Roth as a singer and entertainer, but not as a person. I even liked some of his solo work in the 80's. Now I can completely understand the "differences" between he and the rest of the band, both in the 80's and present day. But he is nowhere near as over the top and complete gone as Axl Rose. Axl had even more possibilities and flushed them all down the ckvgi without thinking. . . BTW, do you ever listen to mainstream music anymore? And you didn't answer my question about the Fender I asked previously either.
And for goodness sakes, respond to your parents email! I think you should take at least one day a week and listen to nothing created after 1986. Find the groups, songs and albums that influenced the artists you enjoy today and listen to them. Find out what it was that inspired them and see if you get similar inspiration.
And go to work!
Jim,
I still have the fender, and I've been working on my self taught guitar lessons a bit lately. Hopefully more in the near future. I do listen to stuff older than 1986, and I completely agree with you that it's necessary. I've been listening to Elvis Costello's "This year's model" and Alice Cooper's "Billion dollar babies" lately. "The Wall" and "Small Change" by Tom Waits have been popping up as well.
Thanks for the input on David Lee Roth. I don't know enough about him to say whether he's a foffs or not.
Sarah and I are going for a walk at the Garden of the gods. See ya later.
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