lindsay's exiled vox

where oh where to blog

Hmm... not so sure about this typepad thing. I have transferred this blog to lindsayerika.wordpress.com as well and, while it's a bit more of a mess over there since it couldn't put my music up and -ugh- I can't embed and so on, I'm still thinking I may end up blogging there instead of here.

Yeah, yeah, I don't blog much these days, but I still need a home for my stuff. And somewhere to put my NaNoWriMo updates.

So - if anyone has actually followed me over here from vox - you may want to subscribe to me there, too.

Ugh. Such a mess. As though I didn't already have enough tedious things to sort out, what with all my backlog of photos and my website I've never gotten around to redesigning. Now I'm going to be fixing links in old posts and finding ways to link to all the music I had. Vox, why'd you hafta go away! :(

we run things

Can I just say 'wow'? Jamie Cullum's latest album, The Pursuit, came out a couple months ago, but I couldn't bring myself to listen to it just then. (My head wasn't in the right place, and I didn't want to taint the music by associating it with what was going on in my life.)

 

Well, yesterday I finally gave it a listen, and... he did it again. Just when I think he is already the greatest - he tops himself. This is a musician that truly evolves. There are still jazz songs and sounds in the album, but then he comes out with stuff like We Run Things and I'm blown away. I can't really explain it, but I just found myself so excited that this was a Jamie Cullum song. It's somehow a meld of many of the different genres I love listening to. (And I was not surprised to see his brother Ben co-wrote it with him, as Ben does some electronica-type stuff.)

 

When I try to describe Jamie's music to someone who hasn't heard of him (which still happens far too frequently - why do people still not know who he is?) and I tell them that he does jazz and so much more, they still make comparisons to that Buble character or maybe Harry Connick. Ah, but they're crooners. They're like Frank or Dino to a Louis Armstrong. All excellent, but just not the same thing. Jamie Cullum is the grit and the experimental and the evolution; always growing and trying new things, rather than just trying to sound pretty or being satisfied with simply making a new arrangement of an old standard.

 

I may be obsessed with this song for a few days...

We Run Things

Jamie Cullum

love-love. lindsay

the beat stuff

Hannah Georgas "The Beat Stuff"

Deepak Chopra: Only Spirituality Can Solve The Problems Of The World

Deepak Chopra: Only Spirituality Can Solve The Problems Of The World:

Article by Deepak Chopra. Please note the difference between ‘spirituality’ and ‘religion’ while reading (commenters on the page seem to have missed that point).

Where My Books Go

“All the words that I utter,
And all the words that I write,
Must spread out their wings untiring,
And never rest in their flight,
Till they come where your sad, sad heart is,
And sing to you in the night,
Beyond where the waters are moving,
Storm-darken’d or starry bright.”

- Where My Books Go by William Butler Yeats

a reminder

VNV Nation - Arclight

VNV Nation

“Forget your fear and want no more.” … This is Arclight by VNV Nation. I often want this song to be one of my mantras, but all too often I forget. But I think we can all use little reminders like this.  …“Seek no more for hollow answers - answers that lay within you all along.”…

a different valentine's

Send Me On My Way

Rusted Root

I sometimes like to share music for various holidays. This being Valentines and the Chinese New Year, and knowing how some folks love Valentine’s, some hate it, and some just feel sad, I wanted a song that could make any one of these people happy today. And I could think of no better song for some general warm fuzzies ready to move into a new lunar year than Rusted Root’s Send Me On My Way.

trails

Trails

Kyle Mann Combo

Trails by Kyle Mann Combo - a band from Chicago. (Though the MySpace page is now just Kyle Mann, so… maybe scratch the ‘combo’ part.) Still a killer song. Of course, a better fit for the theme of this blog would be a song called Just Let Go, but Trails just fits my mood at the moment. Maybe I’ll do the other later.

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

- Oscar Wilde

holiday in my head - '09

Well, it's Christmas Eve. I figure it's about time I keep with my holiday pseudo tradition of sharing a few songs. Fill out the rest of your playlist with this post and this other post.

First some twinkly:

Some interesting versions of carols:

A couple classics:

And one for fun:

Wiper Blades

Heywood Banks

Merry Christmas!

love-love. lindsay