5 06 pm pdt [ is it a crime ]
Is it a crime
that I still
want you and
I want you to
want me too?
Listening to Sade strongly evokes trekking around
campus my last semester of college.
When I walked home from the east village, the last time I saw Darren, I sang out
loud. I sang loudly, the same song over and over. I had sang one verse
for Darren, and I sang it to the cement of the streets, the swaying
branches of the bare trees, and the darkened windows of the towering
buildings:
Dark and tan and young and lovely,
the girl from Ipenema goes walking,
and when she passes each one she passes
goes ahhhhh...
When she walks it's like a samba
that swings so cool and sways so gently
that when she passes each one she passes
goes ahhhhh...
Ohhhhh, but he watches so sadly.
How can he tell her he loves her?
Yes, he would give his heart gladly.
But each day when she walks to the sea
she looks straight ahead not at he.
Dark and tan and young and lovely,
the girl from Ipenema goes walking,
and when she passes he smiles
but she doesn't see.
Today I learned "The Girl from Ipanema" is probably the
best known Bossa Nova. I
listed to Stan Getz for a few hours. I like to listen to the same song
over and over, and I love lyrics...
Good mood CDs for me include:
Sade's Greatest Hits
Portishead's Dummy
Bach's Brandenburg Concertos
Sneaker Pimps' Becoming X
Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
any Deep Forest
any Enigma
the Run Lola Run
soundtrack
They Might Be Giants' Flood
Dead Can Dance's spiritchaser
Paul Simon's Graceland
Thomas Mapfumo's The Singles Collection
any Ella and Louie
[By "Good mood CDs" I meant good music that is
evocative of a specific mood, but not necessarily a good mood.]
