Thursday, June 14, 2007
Artist: Ingrid Michaelson
Who Turned Me On: itunes
Description: Singer/songwriter-interesting grown-up pop
Why I Relate: Beautifully sad
Favorite Song: Breakable
Lyric: Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?/Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts./So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess./And to stop the muscle that makes us confess.
Who Turned Me On: itunes
Description: Singer/songwriter-interesting grown-up pop
Why I Relate: Beautifully sad
Favorite Song: Breakable
Lyric: Have you ever thought about what protects our hearts?/Just a cage of rib bones and other various parts./So it's fairly simple to cut right through the mess./And to stop the muscle that makes us confess.
Monday, August 15, 2005
Artist: Bruce Spingsteen--"Devils and Dust"
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: Chance
Description: An American troubadour
Why I Relate: No one likes a good story better than I
Favorite Song: Devils and Dust
Favorite Lyric: Well Jesus kissed his mother's hands/Whispered, "Mother, still your tears,/For remember the soul of the universe/Willed a world and it appeared."
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: Chance
Description: An American troubadour
Why I Relate: No one likes a good story better than I
Favorite Song: Devils and Dust
Favorite Lyric: Well Jesus kissed his mother's hands/Whispered, "Mother, still your tears,/For remember the soul of the universe/Willed a world and it appeared."
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Artist: John Mayer
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: the radio
Description: Everyman singing about regular everyday troubles and triumphs and concerns-beautifully
Why I Relate: I have regular everyday troubles and triumphs and concers
Favorite Song: Your Body is a Wonderland
Favorite Lyric:
So fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: the radio
Description: Everyman singing about regular everyday troubles and triumphs and concerns-beautifully
Why I Relate: I have regular everyday troubles and triumphs and concers
Favorite Song: Your Body is a Wonderland
Favorite Lyric:
So fathers, be good to your daughters
Daughters will love like you do
Girls become lovers who turn into mothers
So mothers, be good to your daughters too
Monday, November 29, 2004
Artist: Johnny Cash
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: My mother
Description: The Man- in-Black, always the coolest mother-fucker in the room
Why I Relate: I respect his don't give a shit attitude, I also respect that he grew up: as a person and an artist
Favorite Song: Folsom Prison Blues, Five Feet High and Risin', Ring of Fire
Favorite Lyric: pretty much all of his lyrics sucked and could have been written by any fairly intelligent sixth grader, that said, his delivery and conviction and just sheer presence made everything he sang sound cool
p.s. I am no Johhny-come-lately and have been a Cash fan for years
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: My mother
Description: The Man- in-Black, always the coolest mother-fucker in the room
Why I Relate: I respect his don't give a shit attitude, I also respect that he grew up: as a person and an artist
Favorite Song: Folsom Prison Blues, Five Feet High and Risin', Ring of Fire
Favorite Lyric: pretty much all of his lyrics sucked and could have been written by any fairly intelligent sixth grader, that said, his delivery and conviction and just sheer presence made everything he sang sound cool
p.s. I am no Johhny-come-lately and have been a Cash fan for years
Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Artist: Tom Waits
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: Don’t remember
Description: Gravel voiced, skid-row, madman-genius poet
Why I Relate: mostly the madman-genius poet part
Favorite Song: I Don’t Want to Grow Up
Favorite Lyric:
Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you
And from a window across the lawn
I watched you undress
Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair
That rose in strangled ebony curls
Moving in a yellow bedroom light
The air is wet with sound
The faraway yelping of a wounded dog
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: Don’t remember
Description: Gravel voiced, skid-row, madman-genius poet
Why I Relate: mostly the madman-genius poet part
Favorite Song: I Don’t Want to Grow Up
Favorite Lyric:
Last night I dreamed that I was dreaming of you
And from a window across the lawn
I watched you undress
Wearing your sunset of purple tightly woven around your hair
That rose in strangled ebony curls
Moving in a yellow bedroom light
The air is wet with sound
The faraway yelping of a wounded dog
And the ground is drinking a slow faucet leak
Your house is so soft and fading as it soaks the black summer heat
A light goes on and the door opens
And a yellow cat runs out on the stream of hall light and into the yard
Thursday, September 09, 2004
Artist: The Cure
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: Erica Merchant
Description: Teenaged-angst for the very grown-up listener
Why I Relate: Robert Smith appeals to the weird, nerdy, angry loner that secretly lurks inside of me (inside us all). The Cure is my favoritest band of all time.
Favorite Song: Just Like Heaven
Favorite Lyric: (I could go on forever!)
(Boys Don't Cry) Misjudged your limits/Pushed you too far/Took you for granted/Thought that you needed me more/Now I would do most anything/To get you back by my side/But I just keep on laughing/Hiding the tears in my eyes/'Cause boys don't cry
(Icing Sugar)Your delicious/Dreaming/Slack jawed/Green eyed/Rub my nose in/Icing sugar/Smooth as/When this cold and deadly/Blade/Kissed the fruit/So soft/And gently breathing/Under your skin
(Shiver and Shake)You're just a waste of time/You're just a babbling face/You're just three sick holes that run like sores/You're a fucking waste/You're like a slug on the gir/lOh you're useless and ugly/And useless and ugly/And I shiver and shake/When I think of how you make me hate
(why Can't I Be You?)You're so gorgeous/I'll do anything/I'll kiss you from your feet/To where your head begins/You're so perfect/Yes, you're so right as rain/You make me/Make me/Make me hungry again/Everything you do is irresistable/Everything you do is simply kissable/Why can't I be you?
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: Erica Merchant
Description: Teenaged-angst for the very grown-up listener
Why I Relate: Robert Smith appeals to the weird, nerdy, angry loner that secretly lurks inside of me (inside us all). The Cure is my favoritest band of all time.
Favorite Song: Just Like Heaven
Favorite Lyric: (I could go on forever!)
(Boys Don't Cry) Misjudged your limits/Pushed you too far/Took you for granted/Thought that you needed me more/Now I would do most anything/To get you back by my side/But I just keep on laughing/Hiding the tears in my eyes/'Cause boys don't cry
(Icing Sugar)Your delicious/Dreaming/Slack jawed/Green eyed/Rub my nose in/Icing sugar/Smooth as/When this cold and deadly/Blade/Kissed the fruit/So soft/And gently breathing/Under your skin
(Shiver and Shake)You're just a waste of time/You're just a babbling face/You're just three sick holes that run like sores/You're a fucking waste/You're like a slug on the gir/lOh you're useless and ugly/And useless and ugly/And I shiver and shake/When I think of how you make me hate
(why Can't I Be You?)You're so gorgeous/I'll do anything/I'll kiss you from your feet/To where your head begins/You're so perfect/Yes, you're so right as rain/You make me/Make me/Make me hungry again/Everything you do is irresistable/Everything you do is simply kissable/Why can't I be you?
Friday, August 20, 2004
Artist: Shawn Colvin
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: Austin City Limits on a slow TV night
Description: Folk-country
Why I Relate: Just plain good music/lyrics
Favorite Song: Polaroids
Favorite Lyric:
But I had a dream last night
Of lovers who walked the plank...
Coming to rest on this ship of fools
He just took polaroids
Of her smile in the light
Of the dawn of the menacing sky
And before they went overboard
She held up a card
And it said Valentine
Who Turned Me On to the Artist: Austin City Limits on a slow TV night
Description: Folk-country
Why I Relate: Just plain good music/lyrics
Favorite Song: Polaroids
Favorite Lyric:
But I had a dream last night
Of lovers who walked the plank...
Coming to rest on this ship of fools
He just took polaroids
Of her smile in the light
Of the dawn of the menacing sky
And before they went overboard
She held up a card
And it said Valentine
