Blogs are so passe and pretentious. Oh well, here's my blog about music that's stuck in my head when I wake up in the mornings along with adventures of the Cash family and wacky wacky crazy wacky shenanigans.
I'm a huge fan of any song that's about bass. I especially love sea bass- it's delicious and doesn't hardly taste like fish. I HATE when my fish tastes like fish.
LOL YOU GUYS! THIS SONG ISN"T ABOUT BASS IT'S ABOUT BASS!
Here's "All About That Bass" from Meghan Trainor, which of course is the latest anthem for women with heavier builds. I actually really dig the song and I'm a huge fan of the message that goes along with it.
WARNING: Just a bit of PG-Rated Language in this song.
Back in 2001, I took a course at the community college about songwriting. I really enjoyed the class and learned a lot. I finished with an "A" and learned that if songwriting doesn't come to you naturally that it's extremely laborious.
During the course, we would spend a lot of time analyzing pop songs and the way in which they're structured- we would bring in a song we like and play it in front of the class while breaking down the way its structured.
From the beginning as we practiced this exercise, our teacher made a rule that nobody was allowed to bring in any songs by Tori Amos, that her music didn't follow any "traditional" pop song blueprint and would therefore be difficult to analyze.
At the time I remember thinking, "psssh! Tori Amos, who could ever like her!" Little did I know that 15 years later I would have become an enormous fan of her work. She's perfectly capable of writing a traditional pop song, and often does it, but since she's so tremendously talented she often times steps outside of what tradition would expect of her.
Today's song comes from Amos and it's the title track of her 1992 debut album "Little Earthquakes." The song is about instability and how little things (earthquakes) can often set someone off, or make them lose his/her footing. I would dare to say that this song steps right out of the barriers of what's expected in "normal songwriting." I'm also quite surprised that of all her songs this is the one I would be writing about, but it was the one stuck in my head- so here it is...
Did you survive all seven minutes of that song? Are you ok?
Like her or not, I think few can deny that the woman is streaming with talent.
This song of course is from the incomparable Leslie Feist (known simply as "Feist") and it the hit single from her 2007 album "The Reminder."
This particular melody weaseled its way into my head yesterday morning when my 4 year old son worked his way into our bed at 4 in the morning. An argument ensued (yes, I argue with a 4 year old, he's stubborn!) and I told him he needed to get back in his bed. He wouldn't go, of course, so I had to count. "Jude, get back in bed right now. One...... two...... three!"
He didn't go. But the one, two, three, made me think of this great song by Feist and so here it is for all to enjoy.
My son has been giving us a lot of trouble lately. He wakes up a lot in the night, has mood fits and even punched me on the lip yesterday. He made me bleed. I was equally angry and proud at the same time.
We've been concerned for some time and decided on a whim to test his blood sugar this morning. My family has a history of diabetes and I myself am I hypoglycemic. Sure enough, when he awoke this morning his blood sugar was 32. 80 is normal!
Luckily we knew how to check his blood sugar and we ran a series of tests (Have you ever poked a 4 year old's finger to make him bleed. FYI he doesn't like it!!) and it turns out the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Looks like I'm the proud father of a hypoglycemic!
This may not be over, but for now I'm relieved that we've figured out that his grouchy moods likely have to do with low blood sugar. We'll be feeding him every two hours to see if this is a fix to this grumpy and hyper kid.
