Fuck, November was hard to get through. The On Coming Storm (depression) showed up unannounced and rained (literally and figuratively) on my mother fucking parade for most of the month. There were a lot of lows this month and the few highs couldn’t pull me out the funk. As the month is ending, I am finally starting to feel the storm pass. My family and … Continue reading Songs of My Life: November 2017
Do you know what I needed in my life this week? THIS. VERY. SONG. If you read any of my previous posts or follow me on social media, you know I speak from my heart and occasionally from my brain. I was aware this song came out this week because of a tweet by LANKS and I had made a note to “listen to it” … Continue reading REVIEW: Need You by Aeora
In 2014, I started a little website called 16 Clefs. It was an outlet for me to talk about music. I loved doing it but it kind of fell to the wayside after about a year because it was just exhausting to run. I’ve decided to bring back a stripped down version of 16 Clefs via my current website/blog. To bring 16 Clefs back to … Continue reading SOTM: Comfortable by Lanks
Someone asked if these were really songs that hit me over the month and the answer is yes. Each month new songs, new moments. They’re in the exact order from top to bottom from beginning to end of the month. Some months when I review the songs, I see patterns. Some months, I don’t see any. At the end of every week, I try to sit down and listen to the list and sometimes, as soon as I hear the song and it hits me, I make a note why it’s there. Sometimes I forget why they get dragged into the list. These songs though are part of me, part of my soul. They capture feelings I want to share or feelings I want to hide. They capture moments or thoughts. Songs that hit me the hardest linger in my head. Songs that make me smile, I go to every time I need that smile. Songs that make me teary-eyed, I ask myself why. Continue reading “Songs of My Life: July 2016”
I’m not really sure August had a “theme”…if it did, I couldn’t figure it out. Musically, the songs this month where all over the freaking place! They matched my scattered mind, thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Maybe that is the theme…scattered. Who knows really? I know, I don’t for sure. “Saying Goodbye” by Sugarcult I woke on August 1st singing this song. I kind of fell … Continue reading Songs of My Life: August 2015
July was just July. Nothing crazy happened. Nothing bad happen. It seemed too long and it seemed too short. I was madly inspired by friends (thank you Amy and to Melissa & Chris). July was just what it was and I’m okay with that. Continue reading “Songs of My Life: July 2015”
LANKS is one of those artists that manages to take sounds that might not individually appeal to one’s ears but once he combines them all together, it is a euphoric melody to the ear. I sort of imagine him in brightly lit scientific lab but instead of smoke billowing from test tubes, it’s a drum heart beat here, a distorted wailing noise there, and the sound of electricity over … Continue reading Eargasm of the Week: “Hold Me Closer” by LANKS
February was a short month but for all that is and was holy, it ninja kicked me in the face. Work made me feel like I was slowly drowning in ad plan after ad plan, stack of files after stack of files. Life saw my work out motivation quickly change from all in into, nope, not happening today or tomorrow or even next week. Somehow I survived it all. I always do. I am blessed by the Universe with inner strength even in the midst of a overwhelming, mentally exhausted breakdown of sobbing tears I remind myself to just breathe and bend, do not break. Continue reading Songs of My Life: February 2015
I posted my Top 5 Songs over at 16 Clefs last week, but here are my Top 10 songs of 2014 in no particular order. #01: “I Like You” by SAINT HUGHS – The kick ass Aussie duo of Nick O’Donnell and Drew Fellows (of 26 fame) team up with Holly Borich for a fun, dynamic, and infectious song. I can’t stop listening to it. [bandcamp … Continue reading TOP 10 SONGS OF 2014
I was a little all over the music spectrum this month, and though it’s a “light” month in songs. Each song touched my spirit in various ways and just reminded me on how to live and dream. “Tides” by Jimmy Buffett These lyrics…my life. “That the pull of the moon lingers on. Something we can’t escape…To whom it may concern, I’ve always tried to learn that … Continue reading Songs of My Life: December 2014