journal-06/29/01

06/29/01

life is SO good right now... so good.

no apparent reason. just a bunch of reasons put together, i s'pose.

i was just dancing wildly to a couple of prodigy songs so now i'm all energized and wired and alive, and then i thought i'd sit here and write some. ok?

it's summer and it's hot as hell and i'm happy. work is slow as shit and i don't care because there seem to be things passing the day anyway, and i could have such worse people to spend it with, so i really have no room to complain.

today when i left work i made a complete whim of a decision to turn around (veering over a few lanes away from my route home) to head over to a cd store... which sells new and used cds. i had to sit in traffic and i thought aloud, "this better be worth it."

and boy was it. see.... ok, well you know my new (not-so-new anymore) obsession with david gray? yes well.. his first two albums are unavailable in the u.s. of course (and i've had a moderately difficult time finding them online), since he's welsh, and he wasn't popular until his fourth album... so there i am strolling casually up and down the aisle.... no david gray in the used section, and i'm about to turn around and leave when i consider the new cd section. i noticed about a million copies of white ladder.... none of sell sell sell, a couple of singles, and then what's this-- one i don't recognize?

i pick it up... turn it over... read the songs on the back. it's his first album. sitting right there in my hot little hands. i didn't even bother to look at the price ($30 with tax, yikes) and i literally flew to the counter... popped it in my car and i'm in love with the first song. so much so that it makes me all weepy. now how silly is that?

getting new music is like a gift. even when i'm buying it for myself. why? because... when you're someone like david gray, the music that spills out of you is straight from the soul. he is a storyteller, he is earthy and deeply grounded, and this is so evident in his music and that's why i love him so much-- he's so damn honest. so... listening to music like this is like he (david gray himself) is personally giving me this tiny gift of a piece of himself. i love it.

this is why mix cds are a big deal to me. when i make a mix for someone, i put a hell of a lot of thought into it. i'm giving a piece of my soul to someone else with the music i choose for the cd. it's very important to me for someone i make a mix for to love it. not just like it, but love it.

i think too much about these types of things. i know.

hey, nobody's forcing you to sit here and read this, ya know.

so yes, it's hot, it's summer, it's sunny, it's dead at work, i'm writing like a fiend (not here, obviously, but somewhere much more private), i'm making connections with new acquaintances (wonder*full! i love forgetting about the plans and the errand-running and suddenly chattering and four hours later we're still chattering and laughing hysterically, having forgotten about the original plans and we don't notice because we're caught up in now) and old acquaintances too... i'm discovering new things about myself every day and i'm enjoying the ride.

what're you up to?