Falling in Love at the coffee shop

The song "Falling in love at the coffee shop" is a song from a young artist from the great state of Tennessee. I can say the state is great because, it is were I am from too. Anyway the artist is Landon Pigg(yes I know brutal name), he is a quirky little indy singer that I have been listening too since he came onto the scene in 2006. But, who now,(thanks to and AT&T commercial) will probably become really well know and lose his indy cred.

The video I attached is not the official video, but one that some guy made for a woman he loves, so I used it because........one, the song is about love and two.....the guy did a fantastic job and I can only imagine how great the girl this was intended for felt when she saw it.

As for the songs meaning, at first it seems to have self-explanatory lyrics....about falling in love with someone slowly, while spending time with them at low key places like a coffee shop; and then it suddenly hits you that it's the person that made all those simple things seem so special.

But sometimes I actually think that these lyrics arent so self-explanitory. "i've seen the paths that your eyes wander down, i want to come too". i think he is longing for this amazing girl that he sees in a coffee shop and other miscellanious places...
he wants to get the nerve to admit to this girl how wonderful she is and how much she has changed his life...
its a slow, beautiful, and clean love. something that is hard to come by nowadays.


Anyway, I could be wrong,maybe Landon wrote the song while drunk one night and it really has no meaning to him.............but for me, it is a song that really expresses how love should be.

Thursday's Child

Wanted to share a song from the coolest dude on the planet.......David Bowie.....Thursday's Child, off his "Hours" album from 1999 is my favorite Bowie song.

It seems to me that this song is about Bowie himself, saying that he always felt slightly out of place. He was a person with gifts and potential who never quite got off the ground, breaking his life in two (into the man he had potential to be , and the man he actually became), he feels like he was born in the wrong time, etc.

Then, he speaks of something that gives him hope. A reason that he no longer regrets his troubled life. He says "throw me tomorrow", as if tomorrow is a life preserver thrown to rescue a drowning man. For all of the hardships of his life, comparing himself to a Thursday's Child, he is now glad to be here because of his love, (the girl).

Also I think there is a component that speaks to age as he looks in the mirror. Yeah, he's getting old, but that is the past and he has new life now with his love.
Also, it may be that his song playing on the radio represents the success he's had in this life, but he knows it's really superficial (Mirror symbolizes this), and it doesn't satisfy him in a deeper way like the love he has with his girl, who is the focus of the video.

"Thursday's Child" does indeed mean "One that will go far". In this song, he reflects on his entire career, and his mistakes. He's telling himself (in the video, he tells a younger-looking Bowie he sees in his reflection) that no matter the mistakes he's made in his career, he's gone far, and he doesn't regret it.

Anyway watch the video and then draw your own conclusions

weight loss up date and pics

Hereis the latest photographs of the diet, first is my before pic and then is the most current pic.......you can really tell I have dropped weight.


before


after

Rain Dogs

Having trouble sleeping so i thought I would toss out a quick blog and talk about the Album "rain dogs" from Tom Waits. Released in the mid 80's, "rain dogs' was somewhat of a concet album about urband life in the rundown depressed sections of new york city. The whole album has a very natural, almost organic sound, when at the time most artists were using synthesizers and whatever other synth machines they could get there hands on. This was the first album of Waits that I took notice of as a teenager, prior to it's release, I had only ever really listened to a few of his songs and found him to be a somewhat, dragging lounge act, but with "rain dogs" I saw Waits take a step out of the lounge and really let in a bit of the 80's sounds. I was one of lie 7 people that bought this album, and now all these years later, it is consider one of the best albums ever recorded...........

Here below is my favorite song from the album.......it is ....."downtown train".....Waits was the origninal artist on this one..........it would be just four years later that Rod Stewart would cover the song and make it a major hit........I never cared for stewarts version........it always, at least to me, lacked the passion of Waits honest and simplistic style..........enjoy

London's Brilliant Parade

Normally I talk about indy music groups on this blog, but tonight i want to share an Elvis Costello song that I have always like. London's Brillint Parade was from his Brutal Youth Album from around 1994,it was an album where he got back together with The Attractions and Nick Lowe to produce an album that shelves the sweeping ambition that marred other albums like Spike and Mighty Like The Rose, and lets his songs breathe in minimal, cleverly detailed musical settings of real genius.

Please watch the live perfroamce below, but pay attention to the lyrics, they are clever, and really quite striking in their simplistic realism.