Blah, blah, blah, OH - Music!
Mar. 30th, 2004 04:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sisabetI have only 39 more files to go thru and then I can go home. And Die.
I am tired. I am also screwing myself out of opportunities because I am tired. Also, I should pay bills. And go to the post office. Give more to charity. Write my development plan. Let go at the fact that I won't make as much money and get my Masters in Social Work. Except I kinda hate people.
The plan at this point was that I wold have written the Great America Novel, but that never took into account the fact they I am too lazy to actually finish a Short Story. Also, I dont wright so good.
So I would like a job where I wouldn't have to deal with people and I can sit and not do much of anything else.
cutting to talk about music
So yesterday I went to my CD Store. I was there trying to score some Son House, but no such luck. I think my dealer was put out with me for avoiding the store lately (I have been spending the bulk of my spendable money on DVDs) cause he told me he had the Robert Johnson box set come in last week - but it went really quickly. Well, of course it did. I earned bonus points when he suggested the Eric Clapton/Robert Johnson Cover CD and I was not that enthused. We listened to part of it and it was...well it was nice. I told my dealer it was very easy to listen to which prompted a rant from him about how the Blues shouldn't be easy to listen to and I admitted that I wasn't feeling anything at all. He then lamented that Clapton was gonna sell a gazillion records and he was stripping the soul outta the Blues. I gotta say - the music did sound very...clean, I suppose. Technically, very good - even excellent - but sanitized for my protection.
So I was wandering aimlessly thru the store - trying to settle in one place - he wanted me to listen to some fairly contemporary blues CDs he had and I just - well I'm not in the mood - I want Mississippi Delta pain and I want it at least old school style. I then want to transition from that into gospel blues and then straight gospel (I think he is ordering the Mahalia Jackson remasters - which...just. damn. yeah) before I transition out into something else again. Maybe doo-wop? I just need to quit listening to The Verve or I am gonna end up with six vids off the same album. Drastic measures need to be taken.
So I grabbed a Big Bill Broonzy CD (and I know he is Chicago-style - but I am broadening my horizons and much like everything is all about Angel - all the pain originated in the Delta. Even if it didn't) and a Blind Boys of Alabama gospel CD which my dealer promptly plucked from my stack and exchanged it for another - saying that I was moving to fast into strict gospel and I needed this disc anyway. Damn, he was really, really right. Like - this was perfect. The disc is called "Spirit of the Century" and I've heard a lot of tracks (reworked traditional numbers - mostly) off of it before on the radio (another truth - I was sooo musically spoiled before I moved here and I just took it for granted) but as an album it is just stunning and uplifting and beautiful and intensely mournful and just...wow. It is gonna snap me right out of my Must Vid Death mood. It also moved me seamlessly to where I needed to be and now I think I should go pick up some Staple Singers after work.
I am tired. I am also screwing myself out of opportunities because I am tired. Also, I should pay bills. And go to the post office. Give more to charity. Write my development plan. Let go at the fact that I won't make as much money and get my Masters in Social Work. Except I kinda hate people.
The plan at this point was that I wold have written the Great America Novel, but that never took into account the fact they I am too lazy to actually finish a Short Story. Also, I dont wright so good.
So I would like a job where I wouldn't have to deal with people and I can sit and not do much of anything else.
cutting to talk about music
So yesterday I went to my CD Store. I was there trying to score some Son House, but no such luck. I think my dealer was put out with me for avoiding the store lately (I have been spending the bulk of my spendable money on DVDs) cause he told me he had the Robert Johnson box set come in last week - but it went really quickly. Well, of course it did. I earned bonus points when he suggested the Eric Clapton/Robert Johnson Cover CD and I was not that enthused. We listened to part of it and it was...well it was nice. I told my dealer it was very easy to listen to which prompted a rant from him about how the Blues shouldn't be easy to listen to and I admitted that I wasn't feeling anything at all. He then lamented that Clapton was gonna sell a gazillion records and he was stripping the soul outta the Blues. I gotta say - the music did sound very...clean, I suppose. Technically, very good - even excellent - but sanitized for my protection.
So I was wandering aimlessly thru the store - trying to settle in one place - he wanted me to listen to some fairly contemporary blues CDs he had and I just - well I'm not in the mood - I want Mississippi Delta pain and I want it at least old school style. I then want to transition from that into gospel blues and then straight gospel (I think he is ordering the Mahalia Jackson remasters - which...just. damn. yeah) before I transition out into something else again. Maybe doo-wop? I just need to quit listening to The Verve or I am gonna end up with six vids off the same album. Drastic measures need to be taken.
So I grabbed a Big Bill Broonzy CD (and I know he is Chicago-style - but I am broadening my horizons and much like everything is all about Angel - all the pain originated in the Delta. Even if it didn't) and a Blind Boys of Alabama gospel CD which my dealer promptly plucked from my stack and exchanged it for another - saying that I was moving to fast into strict gospel and I needed this disc anyway. Damn, he was really, really right. Like - this was perfect. The disc is called "Spirit of the Century" and I've heard a lot of tracks (reworked traditional numbers - mostly) off of it before on the radio (another truth - I was sooo musically spoiled before I moved here and I just took it for granted) but as an album it is just stunning and uplifting and beautiful and intensely mournful and just...wow. It is gonna snap me right out of my Must Vid Death mood. It also moved me seamlessly to where I needed to be and now I think I should go pick up some Staple Singers after work.
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Date: 2004-03-30 01:47 pm (UTC)Now you've put me in the mood to play my Robert Johnson boxed set.
Okay, I'll stop before I start raving about Bessie Smith and Billie Holiday and Howlin' Wolf etc...
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Date: 2004-03-30 02:49 pm (UTC)I've never tried a download service -- I spend probably $40 a month on CDs though - mostly used and most all purchases made at this one store I like. It's weird but I am not used to any of this being *hard* to find. I'm used to tripping over it everytime I stepped outside.
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Date: 2004-03-30 03:29 pm (UTC)You and I are so looking for the same job. ;)
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Date: 2004-03-30 03:47 pm (UTC)