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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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Kitty Sillyness
Just had to share a pic of my sleepy kitty, who looks ridiculous here.
Posted by moodymistress at 9/29/2007 09:17:00 PM |
Tuesday Tunes - Week 2
From Music Memoirs
The Top 5 is tricky, since I can't remember what I bought used and what I bought new. So, doing the Tuesday meme instead.
~ Favorites
What is your favorite movie soundtrack or score? (You can tell us why if you'd like)
That's tricky. I have a strange love for the score of Pirates of the Carribean. Also Almost Famous, High Fidelity, and De-Lovely.
I know I'm forgetting something great...
What is your favorite album by your favorite artist/band?
I'm gonna go with Elvis Costello.
At the moment it's Brutal Youth.
What is your favorite music video?
I have to go with an Elvis one again-- probably I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down, where the Attractions are dancing (badly) in the street, and Elvis does various things such as eat fish 'n' chips.
Delightful sillyness.
Posted by moodymistress at 9/29/2007 09:01:00 PM |
Saturday, September 22, 2007
De Beers... De Beatles... Same Difference
Ain't I clever 
Posted by moodymistress at 9/22/2007 12:06:00 AM |
Friday, September 21, 2007
Tuesday Tunes
The new meme from Music Memoirs
Lyrics
~ How important are the lyrics to you when it comes to a song.
Extremely. They often determine which songs become my favorites and which are just OK.
~ Tell us some lyrical wisdom.
Kirsty MacColl - Innocence
It wouldn't take a long time
To explain what lies between us
And it wouldn't take a genius
To work out what the scene is
It might just take a pilot
To give you a natural high
But you're sending off those bottle tops
For your free piece of mind
And are you just waving or drowning?
It's so hard to tell when you're so far away
Oh innocence has passed you by
A long long time ago
I was the fly upon your wall
And I saw what you know
Your pornographic priestess left you for another guy
You frighten little children and you'll always wonder why
Always wonder why
~ Who writes the best lyrics and why?
Elvis Costello. I'm a sucker for a clever lyric with deep insight, great description, or wordplay. He does 'em all.
Posted by moodymistress at 9/21/2007 11:58:00 PM |
Top 5 on Friday from Music Memoirs
Top 5 songs that could be your personal theme song:
The Cure - Why Can't I Be You
Elvis Costello - Town Cryer
The Beatles - I Need You
The Jam - The Bitterest Pill
Elvis Costello (Burt Bacharach cover) - I Just Don't Know What to Do with Myself
Wow, that was depressing. Someone should slap me.
Posted by moodymistress at 9/21/2007 10:38:00 PM |
Friday, September 14, 2007
"Now that I'm alone again, I can't stop breaking down again..."
...sing Elvis Costello and Paul McCartney.
When will I ever get to post my concert pictures? There are only about 3 good ones, yet I don't even have time to sit down and edit that many. I only have time to sit here for a few minutes and type up nonsense.
I'm very, very thankful for my concerts though. I can't imagine how much more miserable I'd be at the moment without them.
I'm really feeling less than stellar at the moment. I have absolutely one real-life friend. A total of one. It's kind of been that way for a while. The other person who was closest to being another friend seems to have forgotten I exist now that she's moved. I never had enough drama in my life to hold her attention for very long anyway.
And now my one friend, my oldest friend, has zero time for me. Ok. I realize that The Latest Boyfriend must come first. I realize that it's nothing new for a girl to abandon all her girl friends in favor of a new guy.
But does every living second literally have to be spent with him? When I haven't seen you for weeks and you deign to give me 10 minutes of your time to go to the store, is it necessary for him to call you every 3 minutes asking when you're coming back, so then you decide to ditch me? I cannot believe how clingy The Boyfriend is. Worse, why do you have to race back to him whenever he texts you?
I'd been having those thoughts for weeks, and when it happened again, I nearly had a nervous breakdown in front of the friend. That is not normal. I'm usually an expert at putting on a happy face and acting like everything's OK in front of her. I have a pretty darn good, as EC & Macca put it, brave face.
She has lots of other friends. She doesn't realize that I have no one but her, and so naturally, I miss her. And it's not just that. I'm really bloody lonely. (Brit slang is so expressive.) I wish I had friends who had something in common with me. Someone who liked music, maybe.
I don't have much in common with her anymore, but that's fine by me if she'd even say it was OK for us to, let's say, have lunch just once, after not seeing one another for 2 weeks while she sees The Boyfriend multiple times every day. (He's the clingy one in the relationship, so I can't help but wonder if she might tire of it eventually.)
Well, I guess I'm doing this so I won't end up saying any of it to her. My semi-nervous breakdown ("Gee, I don't get to see you very often, I can't believe you have to go already") seemed to affect her for about 60 seconds.
I only ever had about 3 at a time, but still... Where the heck did all my friends go?
When you can't find your brave face, just blog.
Posted by moodymistress at 9/14/2007 11:00:00 PM |
Top 5 on Friday
Delivered straight from Music Memoirs to my blog...
Top 5 depressing songs:
Oh God. This could be a very long list. But I'll try to keep it to 5.
John Lennon - Mother
Simon & Garfunkel - Richard Cory
(At the end, he "puts a bullet through his head." Not your best moment, Paul.)
Elvis Costello - Either Side of the Same Town
(song about a breakup/divorce...
Now it's hard to act like strangers/When we used to be so strong/
Everything is changing/ And most of it is wrong...)
Roy Orbison - Crying
The Moody Blues - What Am I Doing Here
(anti-war song.. "Tenderly bury the fair young dead," etc)
Posted by moodymistress at 9/14/2007 10:49:00 PM |
Friday, September 07, 2007
Elvis loves to torture me
Just look at what he's done now.
http://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070906/ENTERTAINMENT01/709060309/1005/MTCN0303
"I recorded some new melodies for some of my older songs, and for a gag I recorded them on just a cassette player. And I didn't have a microphone so I plugged in headphones into the tape recorder, because you switch them backwards, they work as a microphone. I didn't want to be like a Luddite, so I put them on a CDR, and I put 10 of the CDRs in 10 copies of the best of record that we released in April, and hid 'em in the shops in America, just to see whether anybody bought records anymore. And as nobody's found 'em yet and it's now September, I guess nobody buys records anymore. But somewhere somebody's gonna get a little surprise one of these days . . . They're gonna be in Wal-Mart or somewhere, and they're gonna buy one of these records and they're gonna discover a little free gift from me. . . . There's not enough fun with the business of music. It's all very serious. The record thing for as long as it's gonna last, it needs a little mischief put back into it."
Well, great, Elvis. Some uneducated Wal-Mart shopper is going to pick up your Best Of and think, considering that it is a Best Of and all, "Hmm, I don't know much about Elvis Costello but I'd like to try." And then he'll get the bonus CD and have no idea what it is.
I know there's a 0% chance that I'll get a bonus CD but I've been resisting the urge to get these comps for quite a while, and now I think I'll give in and just do it, if only to prove to EC that people do still buy CDs.
Posted by moodymistress at 9/07/2007 09:34:00 PM |
Top 5 on Friday from Music Memoirs
Top 5 albums with unusual titles:
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
Pink Floyd - Umma Gumma
Frank Zappa - Burnt Weeny Sandwich
(I'm pleased to have come up with some unusual artists this time as well.)
And a late Take Me Back Tuesday - Week 139 :
Are you a completeist when it comes to your favorite recording artists? (Meaning do you have to have everything they release even if its another best of compilation or something of that nature)
In a word: YES. Most definitely. It's almost sad, really. Did I need 3 Pogues Best Of's? Probably not. Do I need the 2 new Elvis Costello comps? No, but I'm probably gonna buy them.
Have you ever bought more than one copy of a certain album? If you did, tell us why.
Yes. Elvis Costello's The Delivery Man: 1 when it was released on CD, 1 when it was expanded on CD, 1 vinyl version. And his Mighty Like a Rose: 1 original CD version from a friend, 1 expanded CD version, another expanded CD version cos I think I ordered it by accident or something idiotic like that. I can't remember :) My record is 3 or 4, though.
Which bands make up the majority of your collection? How many CDs, Lps, cassettes etc?
The Moody Blues, The Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Pogues. I couldn't even begin to count them.
Do you buy an album from a band just because you like them or do you wait until you've heard it before making the purchase?
If I really love them, I'll just buy it. If I only know a few songs by an artisit, I'll try to hear more of the tracks first.
Posted by moodymistress at 9/07/2007 09:13:00 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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