A new song

It´s been a while but I think it´s time to do the song writing thing and, well, write songs. I have several ideas as to where I want to go but I´m wanting to explore a little of that Spanish awesomeness (as in from Spain) and see where I end up. What´s not so awesome about it is that Flamenco-ish songs in English feel sort of...umm, weak. I guess it can be done, anything can be done but the soul of Flamenco speaks Spanish. It´s literally like the blues in Spanish or Chinese, it can be done but somehow it´d sound a bit off.

Here's 3 more Granada pics. I was going to move on to Some Irish pics but it seemed like the topic fit better with these. Alhambra window overlooking la ciudad antigua, some sweet graffiti in town and the awesomest flamenco show inside a cueva (cave) that has been turned into a restaurant. The place is owned by the artist who hire the cooks and they've been playing and performing there for generations.

Listening to: Chambao- Pokito a Poko..The style is called Nuevo Flamenco and it's very close to what I'm thinking about stylewise. I need to get my brain a bit more used to the style. I love their melancholy mood, still very lively and latin but a bit of a chill mood.

Granada, tierra soñada por mí
mi cantar se vuelve gitano
cuando es para ti...
mi cantar...hecho de fantasía
mi cantar...flor de melancolía
que yo te vengo a dar.

Granada, caminos angostos
tan llenos de hisotrias.
De amores sonrisas y llantos
en tardes sentir..
Me llueves de prisa y aveces
Hasta me envenenas.
Me encanta en tu humilde posada de tapas vivir.

Mis pasos ya rotos descansan
en noches oscuras.
Tus vientos moros respiro y siento vivir.
Yo miro y admiro los bellos ojos
que inspiran todo mi existir.
Y juntos asi morimos
pensando manana
sera churro y chocolate.

Sueno Andaluz

So I keep being bad @ this blogging game. I'm making too much of it. Anyway I can't allow myself to return from Europe without posting. I feel I'm backed up even on blogging about the trip. AAAGGH so much to say about it I won't even try.

Feelings- As new and awesome that everything was I felt that Espana was about relationships for me. This was with both my wife and our host Lindsy. We spent just about as much time as possible together during our stay there. We ate, drank, went places stayed home, did nothing, talked about anything, stayed up late, shared the same room and slept, or not, then slept in as able.
We had a very interesting background and scenery but truly it was more emotional for me. Getting to know Lindsy better and enjoying her willingness to share all of her space, even her bed, well she slept on the other bed. She took care of us and even opened up and let us into her life. Then being able to spend time and experience Europe and Spain for the 1st time with Nita and just being with each other, worrying only about what to see next and where to eat. , Taking it easy and just having fun. Feeling closer and more connected. I felt both not ready to leave yet and satisfied enough to feel the trip was worth while even though we still had another week to go in Ireland.

As for me...well it felt, like I'm in my own world or dimension where I'm thouroghly enjoying all this that I wrote about but in the end it's still just me. I was feeling nostalgic about the whole experience even before it ended. It has been difficult getting over it or even fully grasping what it's all about but it's alright. The whole experience with Nita is still happening and I'm enjoying it a lot still but Espana, well something very familiar about it for me culturally or maybe it was that place was like a true link between us I guess. I'm thinking that the Oliver's aren't originally from Spain but they might've been in Spain for several generations before moving to Puerto Rico....just like the Barahonas. This is based on some stuff I read today.

So I'm having a great time here but a little something stayed back in Granada and I thought I would figure it out by blogging but I guess not, well not yet right?

Listening to: 2 bands, Huecco & Chambao, I don't have Huecco's music yet but Myspace is awesome for that sort of thing. This is Rock en Espanol from spain, introduced by Lindsy and awesome, with attitude, I'm still learning them. Chambao I have but it truly took life in my life while in Granada and it just feels right. modern yet very spanish, somewhat flamenco. It really feels like the experience to me and it makes me smile.

Un poco de mi nada

So Today it'll be a little something of that nothingness.
Don't know, it's a music or a prayer to the wind, well it feels like that sometimes doesn't it? Well it does to me. I can escape on my own @ times and cry out for someone to care. Someone but not just anyone and that's just it. That's, like, REALLY it. We like to pretend that anyone will do but it's not true, not at all. This tendency of being all inclusive when deep down we're not really @ all. Maybe not even with ourselves, we can try to be and maybe we're even supposed to try to be...are we? but it's not really, not from deep. I know a couple of people that really manages to do it, and mean it but i do mean, like, a couple. The rest of us, maybe we'd have an easier time if we were just honest and open our eyes and @ least see it ourselves even if we don't tell anyone else how we think that we are...the limit. This sounds like a conversation I had last night but I'm really not thinking about that @ all it's more about me than others, today anyway. HA!

It's a good summer day today, I woke up thinking it was Monday and, well, I figured it out before I got up though so it feels like an extra day. yay!!


Listening to: The Script-The Script. I love finding new music by myself (new to me)! they're pretty awesome, but this is for the softies. It's very friendly music for the happy souls to sing!! It's like Jason Mraz meets The Police. like literally, it's very unapologetically Police influenced Jason Mraz music. That equals awesome on my book. here's a happy pic for The Script!!

El Retorno

Hmmm. Funny that when I actually sit down to write a long overdue blog there’s no internet. But pretty quickly I figured that I can write it elsewhere and just paste it on Blogger once it decides to come back. I apologize to the few of you who have actually been waiting to read something for awhile now. I hope I don’t disappoint.
The hardest thing for me is actually getting things started, like this blog. Once I get going I’m a bit more likely to finish or keep going but that getting started part is pretty brutal form me. Also, if I stop or stall @ some point it’s the hardest for me to start over, which is what happened the last few timesI tired to get going. I’ve had to sort of re-start 3 times now, although I’ve only blogged twice and they were both on the same day…the third blog sort of doesn’t really count...well no not really right? So I decided to write a little bit about my difficulty with starting things that are not really moving.….ummm yeah I just wrote about it.

So I’m trying to tackle my pics and sort and organize them. This is somewhat of an overwhelming project since, as many of you know, I take millions of pics each time I get a chance. I’ve been sorting the last few thousand as I upload them unto my PC. Getting to the older ones will be pretty insane since they’re so many. We’ll see where that ends up @. I’ll probably work of some of the latest ones after I finish writing about doing it…but maybe I’ll facebook or read the news and distract myself instead..oh wait still no internet. Hmmm so maybe I’ll nap then ;-). Ok I’ll do some pics 1st. here!! look @ some of my new c-ville friends. Annie, Kristen, Chicho, Yamaya and my crazy punk friend Jordan.



Listening to: Slipknot-All Hope is Gone
What can I say? I like meat. It’s a pretty sweet album if you’re into a little… ummm no, a whole lot of anger from time to time…it grounds me… Bryn and Nate know what I'm talking about?

P.S.
Thanks Kimberly, I stand by my previous statement about how awesome U R.

Great Blogging News

On the blogging front, which has - I admit - been woefully inactive recently, I have great news to proclaim:

1.) You can now subscribe to my blog by e-mail! Just put your e-mail address into that little box in the sidebar, do what the nice computer tells you to do, and you'll find an e-mail in your inbox each and every time I post.

Which I promise will be ever so much more often now that I know all of you are reading. The more people sign up the more I will post. It's like a fundraiser for school! The more people buy chocolate bars, the more soccer balls we'll buy. I promise I'll write one post for each person who signs up. . .

2.) Kimberly Glick is probably the coolest person I have ever met. You all should read her blog, too. (Absolutely Perhaps) Also, she's really good at technical things like getting subscription by e-mail set up.

3.) You can also now post comments to my blog.

4.) If you don't read my blog, sign up, and post comments, Jonathan the meanest swordsman-in-an-apron around will come and totally kiss your ass.

4.) I am going to post my photos on this blog now. Because I am a photographer.

5.) I know 8 languages. I just didn't want all of you to know because you're the jealous type.

6.) Um. I count really well. That's why there are two number 4's on this list.

Music & Lyrics

Well the first blog was painless and it took almost no time. it sort of left me wanting to write more so here's number 2.
Currently playing: Mix Cd Lindsy gave me. latin, rock, folk, old new, and everything in between
Music...aahhh I have more music than most people I know. I'm a fan, like a true fan! Also, I have the widest range of musical taste of anyone I know, is that a good thing? I love and own the cheesiest music you could imagine and love and own the hardest, heaviest, nastiest stuff you've probably never heard. I like to think that it's an ability to truly get where the artist is trying to get at. It makes a fool out of me when I listen to a mix CD like this one. I'm like ahhh what is that? and that!? Then if the lyrics catch me I may end up backing up, googling it and checking out the lyrics with the music.***

I'm always looking for good lyrics. Most, if not all, of my favorite artist are big influences for me lyrically speaking. Some will literally get me writing something or thinking hard about it by the end of a disc almost always. These are mostly Latin artist. Most recently Jason Mraz has caught my attention lyrically. He does get a bit poppy @ times and I think it's unnecessary but I can get over it. This thing some songwriters have, they just want a band. I just wish some of them would sit with a piano or a guitar and just play the songs instead of being distracted with tall the other crap. Pretty much every single one of my favorite songwriters have done it. They all have these songs in their repertoire that are just painful to hear.


***NEW RULE!!
When you're reading lyrics, DO NOT read ahead of the song, read the lyrics as they are being sung. The idea for them should be to facilitate your understanding of what is being said as they are sung. like subtitles when you watch a Foreign movie. Most songs, I'd say, are mostly about how the idea is expressed rather than what is actually said. Allow the song to actually take you, with music & Lyrics, where it intends to, In it's own pace. It's like someone telling you everything that happens in a movie right before you watch it. You can still enjoy the movie and all but but it's always better to find out what happens as it unfolds and I think songs should be the same @ least until it gets to the "repeat chorus X8" part.

It's pretty much the only way to get the true magic of Nirvana since it's hard to make out what Kurt is saying most of the time, sometimes he actually doesn't say the word it self but rather a mumble that has the same amount of syllables and some of the same vowels. Their lyrics aren't very deep but the emotion coming through, as Kurt mumbles what he intends to be the words, really paint the picture.

david