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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Sunday, January 28, 2007
Because I can't sleep
A meme from Music Memoirs
The Top 5 on Friday requires too much thinking for me at this hour so let's do a really late Take Me Back Tuesday.
Tell us about your first Musical Obsession! We want to know.
Who was it?
The Beatles.
Why did you like them?
I was just inundated with them from all sides. Fortunately, instead of getting sick of it all, it was instant love. What I don't know is why Ringo was my favorite (granted I was probably less than 3 years old) until I got old enough to actually think, and he was replaced with George. Actually, I think it was because Ringo and I shared the same birth month and birthstone, and I wanted to have a big ruby ring like the one he wore in "Help!".
What were your favorite songs they did?
I remember claiming in some kind of survey as a kid that my favorite song was "Hold Me Tight." I also remember liking "Hello Goodbye," "For the Benefit of Mr Kite," "Please Please Me," "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds," "Tax Man".... Oh, I could go on and on.
Do you still like them today? Why or Why not?
Of course. Who wouldn't? The Beatles are a band you come to appreciate even more as you get older.
Heck, last night I even dreamed about Paul McCartney. He was sinking into a puddle in my driveway and holding out his arms to me, saying "Help! Help!" So I grabbed his arms and braced my feet and pulled really really hard to get him out.
My friend tells me it was symbolic of me wanting to save him from all the trouble he's in now (with the ex-wife bitch from hell, etc).
I have the strangest subconscious. At least it loves the Beatles...
Posted by moodymistress at 1/28/2007 03:37:00 AM |
Sunday, January 21, 2007
Top 5 on Friday
Stuck in the house due to freezing rain and that's my excuse to have some fun. Namely memes, other computer silliness, and watching House, Craig Ferguson, and Monk (which I haven't watched much before, but my cousin is on it for goodness sake, so I watched an epi or two).
Now the meme from Music Memoirs
Top 5 songs that make you hit the repeat button (songs that you can listen to over and over again) :
I'm feeling very 80's (musically) today....
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
Big Country - In a Big Country
Elvis Costello - London's Brilliant
(and he threw this song away! Silly boy.) The Beatles - Hello Goodbye
(This has always been one of my absolute favorites, so I had a strong urge to throw things at the TV when Target put it in a commercial) *** I'm in such a Beatley mood. I even ran across a documentary of unseen Beatles footage on TV the other day, though I had to just mute the TV and watch the band being cute because the soundtrack was utterly terrible. They couldn't afford Beatles music so they played this maudlin piano and then this odd 60's-sounding lounge music that was completely out of place. Me: "Even a Beatles cover band would be better than this!" Then I ate my words when a horrible, spiritless cover instrumental of "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" came on. I guess it was worth it to watch the guys pretend to slap Paul silly.
Posted by moodymistress at 1/21/2007 05:39:00 PM |
Thursday, January 11, 2007
Take Me Back Tuesday - Week 105
I've missed so many memes, so I'm going to do this one quickly before I have to get back to doing boring stuff...
From Music Memoirs:
If you had a time machine:
What musical event would you attend that you couldn't have otherwise.
Probably a Beatles concert, because I don't know what could possibly top seeing them all together. Sometimes I dream that I'm seeing them in concert, actually.
If you could save one musician that died tragically, which one would it be and why?
Wow. I've even contemplated that before, and it's still probably one of the most difficult questions for me to answer. The musicians that immediately come to mind are John Lennon, George Harrison, Joe Strummer, Kirsty MacColl. But only the first and last on that list were "killed," so I suppose it would be one of them. I guess it would have to be John. There's really no greater injustice than that one. The Beatles were the most famous (and best) group in the world, and that unfortunately attracted a lot of insane people--which is an injustice in itself, really. I can't let myself think about this for too long; it's too horrible. It just kinda seems to represent everything that's wrong with the world. No, with people.
If you could go back and influence either radio/or Mtv to make one song a hit that wasn't, which one would it be and likewise, if you could make sure one song wasn't a hit, which one would it be and why?
I think Elvis Costello deserved more hits. I can't pinpoint a particular song, but the best he's gotten was, what, a #2 in the UK?
If I could make sure one song wasn't a hit... there are so many contemporary songs that shouldn't be hits, but it would be nice to stop all those Black Eyed Peas songs from being hits, because then I wouldn't have had to hear them so much and feel nauseous as a result.
I was a bit long-winded with those answers, so I apologize.
Posted by moodymistress at 1/11/2007 02:17:00 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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