It is Lag B'Omer and I can listen to music at last, at last, at long last! I have quite a stack of cds piling up that I haven't heard, as well as podcasts and old favorites I just plain miss. I'd only put vague thought into which I'd listen to first (it feels like my ears have been thirsty), but it's all gone out the window. I listened first to Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, mostly by accident (but I don't regret it), then the Smiths (Barbarism Begins At Home has the most brain-nailing baseline I have yet had the privilege to hear), the Cult, Steeleye Span, the Dandy Warhols, Eric Clapton, the Buzzcocks, T. Rex, and Iggy Pop, and all that is just while I load my iPod with Strangeways, Here I Come, You Are The Quarry, Swords, and two bootlegs a friend recently gave me I've been dying to hear (full of songs my ears have not yet tasted!) - all of the Smiths/Morrissey albums that came into my possession in the last month when I couldn't listen to them. I'm taking off (bonfires to light, marshmallows to toast) with twelve hours of portable music (Devendra Banhart, Forro in the Dark, the Kings of Convenience, and Eels albums also came to me a while back) and no pressing concerns until 11 AM tomorrow. I think I'll go for a hike up Temescal Canyon tomorrow after work, too.
Good times again.
I meant to write good times ahead, but I stand by what I said.
Music is on everyone's mind. I was across town this Shabbos and everywhere I went, people were itching to turn on their radios the moment Shabbos ended. A week ago Shabbos, I was sitting at a friend's table for lunch with a mutual friend I've known for a while and they outed his musical ability. He confessed to having formed a punk band in high school (what guitar player didn't?), we wandered down a list of musical influences, and he ended up serenading the table with Girlfriend In A Coma, which has to have been one of the more surreal Shabbos experiences I've had lately.
Presently listening to:
Disappointed, along with about five million others. Aural gorge. Ooo! Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me!
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