Moody Mistress's Journal
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Mood:
Loving: David Tennant
Hating: cleaning
Reading: Doctor Who "Beautiful Chaos"
Music: "Blackpool" soundtrack
Watching: Doctor Who
A Hard Day's Night -
"Sorry we hurt your field, Mister!"
Wanting: a bunch of people whose names start with J...and E
Quote: "Okay...okay. I'm going to freak right out." -Agent Sands
"Oh shit!" -Elvis Costello, playing one wrong note on the piano.
Something Pretty: 
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Thursday, December 30, 2004
Maybe I'm Amazed
I was given a few amazing Christmas presents...amazing because I actually love them. One is this CD:
The McCartney-MacManus Collaboration
I love hearing demos and live versions. And the packaging for this is beautiful--done by the same...erm...company that did the Beatles Christmas collection.
I've been far too lazy to try out the Mp3 player. I'd never be able to decide what songs to put in it...or download to it...or however the heck you do it.
And then there was my best present... a halfway decent electric guitar... autographed. OMG. What got into everyone this year? I feel spoiled. Though I'm scared that playing the thing may damage it.
Oh, and,
Happy Belated Birthday to Ray Thomas
and on the 27th, to Mike Pinder (can't find a pic of him at the moment)
of The Moody Blues.
Posted by moodymistress at 12/30/2004 05:56:00 PM |
Thursday, December 23, 2004
Almost Blue
Due to lovely images such as this
I was almost in a Moody Blue mood again. (And I only had to change a few lines.)
Almost moody blue
Almost doing things I used to do
Like sighing and drooling on you
Almost all the things that your eyes once promised
I see in his too
Almost moody blue
It's almost touching it will almost do
There's a part of me that's always true...always
Not all good things come to an end now it is only a chosen few
I've seen such an unhappy couple
You're always blue
You're always looking miserable too
But when you're looking lovely there's a part of me that's
...almost moody blue.
BUT, Elvis Costello is on tour and coming to my state.
SQUEEEEEEEEE
So I'm not blue at all. Not even Moody blue.
Posted by moodymistress at 12/23/2004 07:50:00 PM |
Monday, December 20, 2004
Christmas Time is here Again...and again...and again
The new improved version of my CD is now finished. (It only took 3 tries.) I didn't want to get rid of Sting's "Gabriel's Message," but I ran out of room. I had to add my new favourites and my old favourites that I'd forgotten before.
1. Don't Need a Reindeer - The Moody Blues
2. Step Into Christmas - Elton John
3. St. Stephen's Day Murders - Chieftains & Elvis Costello
4. Star Carol - Simon and Garfunkel
5. Happy Xmas (War is Over) - John Lennon
6. On This Christmas Day - The Moody Blues
7. Christmas All Over Again - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
8. 2000 Miles - The Pretenders ***the correct version
9. Riu Chiu - The Monkees
10. A Winter's Tale - The Moody Blues
11. Little Drummer Boy - Bing Crosby, David Bowie
12. What Child is This - The Moody Blues
13. Comfort and Joy - Simon and Garfunkel
14. Little St. Nick - The Beach Boys
15. Jingle Bell Rock - Hall and Oates
16. Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney
17. Do They Know it's Christmas - Band Aid
18. Christmas Time is Here Again - The Beatles
19. The Coventry Carol - Alison Moyet
20. In the Bleak Midwinter - The Moody Blues
21. Thanks for Christmas - XTC
22. In the Quiet of Christmas Morning - The Moody Blues
23. I Believe in Father Christmas - Emerson, Lake & Palmer ***the original version, much more gorgeous than the one I'd used before
24. Ding Dong - George Harrison
25. North - Elvis Costello
Posted by moodymistress at 12/20/2004 01:14:00 AM |
Saturday, December 18, 2004
I bought the Justin Hayward DVD..."At the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame" or something quite like it...from his website for $30 and meanwhile I noticed people are buying it on eBay for $100. Not only are people going to be ripped off, but Justin isn't making profit off that. It seems purely selfish of the sellers to me.
Hmmm. Still haven't heard the Girl in the Other Room. Or Elvis's song on the soundtrack to De-Lovely.
I need to listen to December, too. I have a lack of Moodies in my system lately.
I also need to re-burn my Xmas/Winter CD from last year, which I already did once. I added 2 songs of the EC persuasion--"St Stephen's Day Murders" and "North", and replaced the Pretender's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" with "2000 Miles." But I used the wrong version of "2000 Miles" and all my favourite songs are at the beginning and end, making the middle very boring for me to listen to. I need to remedy that.
Must go. Friend is here to see a movie.
Posted by moodymistress at 12/18/2004 04:26:00 PM |
Thursday, December 09, 2004
I saw it!
Of course, Finding Neverland turned into Finding Huntersville, a town that reminds me a little of the Isla Del Muerta in "Pirates of the Caribbean": a place that can't be found except by those who already know where it is. The 2 hour drive turned into 3 hours and barely made it to the theatre in time. The theatre, fortunately, was in the nice part of town, away from the nuclear processing plant that's right next to an elementary school. They had a Coldstone Creamery and I wanted Nights in White Chocolate, but I hadn't time. (sulk sulk)
So, about the movie... I was expecting to see all the negative things I read about in reviews, but Johnny's accent did not "come and go." He was fantastic. The movie also did not seem maudlin or overly sentimental, though the very tragic ending featured what sounded like a choir of angels, and I thought that was going a bit far. Leave it to the actors to create the mood--which they did, very well, considering I felt terrible after watching that film, something that usually doesn't happen to me, especially if Johnny Depp is in it, no matter how sad it is. Of course, it's easier for a movie to get to you when you forget who the lead actor is. For making me forget he's Johnny, he deserves an Oscar, just for that.
~Also, I must remind myself to listen to The Girl in the Other Room. A not fun dream I had last night reminded me. EC and Diana Krall came over to the house for dinner or something, and DK was being very condescending, and wanted me to play this big metal cello, and EC wouldn't talk to me, and I wanted his autograph so I tried to sit next to him on the couch but he was all mean and aloof. Aargh.
Posted by moodymistress at 12/09/2004 05:51:00 PM |
Thursday, December 02, 2004
CD Time is Here Again
I have to burn loads of CDs for myself now, cos I found some fun EC stuff on the 'net. I'm going to forget some of them if I don't make a list, so here's the stuff.
~World Cafe for "When I Was Cruel"
~The live iTunes songs for the Delivery Man.. I bought 'em all last night
~KCRW Morning Becomes Eclectic show from last month
Is that all? Oh shoot.. I can't remember.
Here's what I did when I should have been burning CDs:
Ah, the joy of wallpaper.
Posted by moodymistress at 12/02/2004 06:50:00 PM |
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Watch "The Young Ones", 80's BBC show, and wish they'd made more than 12 episodes.
Drool over wonderful King of America cover.
Kidnap Elvis AND Justin Lodgey AND Paul to preserve sanity and ward off post-concert depression.
Pretty much try to stay in a constant state of confusion (like Johnny Depp) just because of the expression it leaves on my face.
Protest War
(feeling a little ambitious, are we?)
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The Parade of Progress Continues!
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