on the importance of music
i haven't been to a concert in a while - i think the last time i went was last fall. but i have tickets for the hillside music festival later this month. it's a weekend thing, friday through sunday, but i'm only going friday night because a couple of my favourite bands are playing: the lowest of the low, and the weakerthans. i've seen both of them before but this will be a cool, earthy outdoor venue. i've never been to the hillside before, but every summer, they attract some great bands - many or most of whom are canadian. and it's close to home...
if you were a reader of my old diaryland blog (the entries are still up), you'll know that music plays a big role in my life. most of my current favourite artists are canadian, and indie. there's a small venue here in town that i go to when these musicians pass through. sometimes i go alone, sometimes with a friend.
and now that i have my ipod, i take my entire cd collection wherever i go! it's awesome.
i'm still thinking about my project, where i take songs from different periods of my life and write about them. they're not necessarily my favourite songs, but they're songs that invoke some kind of memory or emotion from the past. i think my list is up to 13 songs. i want to get to 20, then i'm going to start writing about each one. the idea comes from nick hornby, and his book "songbook". the first printing of this book came with a CD. maybe when my book comes out, i'll include a CD!
so i don't feel like typing in all the songs from my current list, but the bands include:
beatles, replacements, the band, neil young, the tragically hip, lowest of the low, chris brown and kate fenner, the weakerthans, rheostatics, simon and garfunkel, electric light orchestra, michael hedges.
i just had an idea... maybe i'll start a brand new journal book just for this purpose. hmmmm now i'm talking...
:)
if you were a reader of my old diaryland blog (the entries are still up), you'll know that music plays a big role in my life. most of my current favourite artists are canadian, and indie. there's a small venue here in town that i go to when these musicians pass through. sometimes i go alone, sometimes with a friend.
and now that i have my ipod, i take my entire cd collection wherever i go! it's awesome.
i'm still thinking about my project, where i take songs from different periods of my life and write about them. they're not necessarily my favourite songs, but they're songs that invoke some kind of memory or emotion from the past. i think my list is up to 13 songs. i want to get to 20, then i'm going to start writing about each one. the idea comes from nick hornby, and his book "songbook". the first printing of this book came with a CD. maybe when my book comes out, i'll include a CD!
so i don't feel like typing in all the songs from my current list, but the bands include:
beatles, replacements, the band, neil young, the tragically hip, lowest of the low, chris brown and kate fenner, the weakerthans, rheostatics, simon and garfunkel, electric light orchestra, michael hedges.
i just had an idea... maybe i'll start a brand new journal book just for this purpose. hmmmm now i'm talking...
:)
posted by owen at 11:22 AM
4 Comments:
You rock...but you already know that, dont you? Thanks for all your mucial introductions to me...you're the best!!
Dude - I think Barnes and Noble has a journal specifically for music. To write what you love, what you want, all that stuff. I've seen it before, not sure if they still have it...might be worth checking out.
you kick ass,
Alecia
Ha!
So funny that we chatted about this concert today and I hadn't read this post yet.
I have only one thing to say I AM SO JEALOUS!!
:)
p.s.
I can totally relate. Music is vital in my life. It says things I can't say, expresses feelings I can't express...can definitely be my best friend (and my worst enemy).
Life would be so much less without music. So many songs for so many moods and time periods in my life. Looking back there are songs that I don't really care for now but still mean something to me because of what they meant to me at the time.
Oh and a comment to Chris' comment...here all this time I thought 10,000 Maniacs was just Natalie Merchant (haha jk). I love her then and now.
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