Posts Tagged ‘Life Would Be So Boring Without Music’
Music has always played a huge part in my life. It started the minute I got my first walkman. I would spend hours with my headphones on listening to my tapes–stuff I’d taped off the radio, 4 Non-Blondes (my very first tape, followed by Madonna’s Bed Time Stories. I’m pretty convinced that my parents entrusted [...]
The week before I left for Europe last year I was standing in my friend’s apartment chatting with her roommate, a girl I’ve known since I was in grade school, and she asked me what my travel anthem was. I didn’t have one, was my response. She told me I’d figure it out. That when [...]
*I received some good news today that I just couldn’t wait to share in another post! I GOT A JOB!!!!! It’s part time which means it will accommodate The Perfect Job and OMG I HAVE A JOB. /announcement. Continuing with scheduled programming…* Today I am participating in Where in the World Wednesdays, Classy in Philadelphia’s [...]
I was lying in bed last night attempting to sleep, the lights off with the music turned up just a little. The Bird and the Bees’ Spark was on the iPod and I shut my eyes and let myself drown in the soothing melody. I wrote about how memories are triggered by certain songs the [...]
{via} I love music. Probably more than anything else; it sets the moods for my days. It can lift my spirits, or curse me to tears. It can send me back down memory lane with only a couple chords, and sometimes those memories make me change the channel immediately or turn the volume up and [...]
Standing on your feet all day really can wear you out, especially when one foot is swollen, itchy and in pain. Not only from the fire ant bites I had gotten on the first two days, but from flip flop injuries–the worst of which was between the first two toes on the same foot as [...]
New Orleans 2010: Take Me Back to New Orleans ALL NIGHT LONG!* (Jazz Fest and the Boobquake)
2010
It had been raining for several hours, torrential downpours that soaked you if you stood close enough to the tent opening where we had parked ourselves for the majority of the early afternoon while the thunder boomed around us. Yet there we were, among the crowd full of umbrellas and ponchos outside the Gentilly Stage, [...]
