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7 Musical Things Meme, Part 1
My homey Dean Shareski, whose name fits Saskatechewan perfectly, tagged me for some sort of meme about something like “7 Things You Might Not Know About Me.”
Like Dean, I already did a similar meme about eight things, so pardon me for fiddling with this one for the sake of self-pleasuring.
I’m going to give it a musical bent.
7 Things You Might Not Know About My Musical Tastes
1. Joni Mitchell Slays Me
Blue Goddess.
I’ve been listening to almost nothing but Joni Mitchell’s Blue on my drives to and from my weekend work at the radio station for the past two months. I would marry Joni in a heartbeat for the mere pleasure of looking over her shoulder as she wrote her lyrics. They stand right up there with Keats and Shakespeare, *hrumph-hrumph*, mutatis mutandis, in my book. Add to that the purity of her voice as it navigates the crushingly brave but fragile melodic lines of her songs, and you can add me to the list of those who are, to quote Keats in the “Ode on Melancholy,” “among her cloudy trophies hung.”
God, Blue is perfection. Where to start? “All I Want” should be sung at every wedding:
All I really, really want our love to do
Is just bring out the best in me and you, too….I want to talk to you
I want to shampoo you
(–that “talk to you” / “shampoo you” rhyme slays me in rhyme, image, and whim.)
I want to renew you
Again and again
Applause, applause,
Life is our cause.
When I think of your kisses
My mind see stars.
I could go on and on, and will a bit more. (But you’ll have to click to read it below the fold:
