Me, Myself, & iPod
It’s startling how quickly a day can spin out of control or how quickly I can spiral into one of my moody little funks.
Last night’s BSCA was a happy little trainwreck. I didn’t have much planned or prepared and as it turns out that’s a good thing because the show took on a life of its own and I found myself just trying to keep up. The weather was bad and killed my cell signal… twice. Fiasco. In spite of that, there were occasional bouts of laughter and amusement. The bit with S.Rod and Sahm at the end of the broadcast was fun even if it was pretty random.
I woke up this morning kind of out of it but came in to work hoping to make the best of it. It took about five minutes for a co-worker to ask a question I didn’t want asked and my mood torpedoed. The question wasn’t as bad as my answer to it. It’s not necessarily a fuck up on my part — okay, it is; I should have thought of something and I didn’t. Stupid.
That combined with Charlie Doherty’s 2007 article made me want to revisit Smashing Pumpkins’ Zeitgeist. When that didn’t help, I reached for a heavy dose of Elliott Smith. I listened to Either/Or and a handful of random tracks (some shit from New Moon, and his contributions to various soundtracks including American Beauty and Good Will Hunting).
The Elliott was reflective of my mood but didn’t seem to help much. Then I got an e-mail from A.L. Harper reminding me of A Fine Frenzy’s One Cell in The Sea, a beautiful record she turned me on to at the end of 2007. Already I feel the music soothing me. This might be precisely what I need.
Filed under: Elliott Smith, Musical Musings and Random Ramblings, Smashing Pumpkins
Now I know AFF was what I needed because I chased that with some Fiona Apple (nice, but not what I was looking for) followed by some Norah Jones. Fucking spectacular. That voice, a piano, and marimbas… you cannot top that. It cannot be done.