Crossing An Unexpected Bridge to Friendship Called Music

Hooray for embedding videos! I just might be getting the hang of this blogging thing. It originally started as an experiment in professional development (as public relations people, we are encouraged to stay abreast of all social networking avenues), but enough expounding, let's get to the music.

My buddy Tanner is my exact opposite according to Myers-Briggs personality typology and we never realized we could be friends until we crossed a somewhat unexpected bridge to friendship called music. One day we sat and discussed bands. He shared one. I shared one, and the rest is history—a sweet percussive, lyrical and melodic history.

This is one of the groups he exposed me to. The example song he chose was not quite what I like, but this one I discovered later and it is exactly what musical dreams are made of. The band is B. Reith and the song is Just for You and it is just for you.

Music and Humor's love child

If you want to know how I am feeling, you can try asking, but if you want to know how I am REALLY feeling, you should look at my "recently played" ipod playlist. How I am feeling on any given day governs what I listen to.

Dave Barnes' Carry Me Through is my musical journal entry for today. I could tell you why, but once again, the music is much more honest than I.



P.S. Dave Barnes is amazing. Not only can he sing, but he is funny! I'm pretty sure Music and Humor fell in love, had an unrestrained night of steamy passion and nine months later, Dave Barnes popped out. The music part is obvious, but the more reticent humor part can be found in his youtube videos such as Balumtine'th Day and every one of his Christmas Extravaganzas.

P.P.S. Crap, I just found this one and it's awesome. You might have to listen to it as well...

Build Me a Sunset with Your Set of Paints

I had never heard of Ari Hest before I heard this song, but now that I have, I will never forget his name. There is a lackadaisical almost daydreamy-like quality to his song, Cranberry Lake. Build me a sky, build me a scape, build me a rice house on Cranberry Lake. Float on our backs, drawing figure eights, we drift for miles on Cranberry Lake.


I've never been to Cranberry Lake, but every time I listen to this song, I feel like I've been there every summer since I was a kid. More than anything I just want to fill a bathtub up with this song and sink my tired body into it and forget about life for a while.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tRttUGoG0k

The Mummies are the Drums and the Astronauts are the lyrics

Not much to say about this one. It kinda speaks for itself. I will tell you that my buddy who does a lot of work with local movies showed this to me yesterday and I am a fan of Daft Punk. I like the simplicity of the video and the fact that each set of characters respresents a different part of the music. The synthesizer girls just might be my favorite.

I've been doing a lot of acoustic as of late, so I thought a little techno punk might be in store. Hope you like it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9MszVE7aR4

The Angel Has Landed

Here are the two songs that acted as a backdrop for an unexpected trip to St. George and Zion's National Park. As we drove through God's exhibit of sculpted red rock, we listened to Coldplay and took pictures from the car window. We clung to chains and scratched the underside of heaven.

2,000 miles is a beautiful ballad with piano accompaniment that conjures up thoughts of winter, longing and relationship loss.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tV6aHJ0z-g&feature=related

Til Kingdom Come has a folky feel to it that is reminiscent of riding on a train in the back country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NMxT1DYfaM&feature=related

and the acoustic version isn't half bad either, check it out:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZFCeiVEEcc&feature=related

One of these days I'll learn how to actually hyperlink the music videos to each of these songs. Until that day, you may just have to look them up manually...I think I just figured it out.

I could spell confusion with a K

What can I say, I'm a sucker for a heart-melting ballads. And I can honestly admit that I have some Something Corporate on my Ipod, but I can't name one song they sing, but when Konstantine came on my Ron Pope Pandora station the other day, I couldn't help but drop what I was doing. Maybe it's the cascading arpeggios of the piano or the troubled teen-like quality of Andrew McMahon's voice. Either way, it makes for an achingly poignant reminder of how difficult relationships can be. Enjoy...Oh, and P.S. While writing this post, Drunk Girl by Something Corporate has been playing. Guess I can name one more of their songs after all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMwI1DlZpyY