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"Right Now"

Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 1:28 pm
by megapulse
music on the radio is more to my taste of late. For one thing, pearl jam has a new album out -- and it's been something like number two on the rock charts. it's not my favorite of theirs, but i really appreciate the songs. a lot of them deal with the war and what it's like to be an american right now in very personal, first person perspectives, i appreciate that. it's sort of vague and open to lots of interpretations, which i think is nice, makes it more open to a wider variety of folks i think. i like parachutes best. it sounds like the fab five (sort of).

the cover art all of my friends agree is like, what? i heard a theory that it has to do with a green party's avocado something or other, but i don't know. it's cool to see the kids back into them. although i like eddie with the ukulele on songs like the man we'll soon forget. that's a good one.

eddie has always had a talent for taking on the point of view of different people. i think "daughter" probably won me over, but when i found out that he wrote the why go home song about his female cousin who'd had some problems with her folks, i was even more impressed. then of course there is "betterman," which is completely from a woman's point of view, and a lot folks love that song -- it's a concert sing-a-long that has always surprised me. supposedly it's about his mother (happy mother's day) but at concerts all these dudes, in particular, sing, she lies and says she's in love with him, can't find a better man, can't find a better man -- he's quite a feminist / humanist i think, whether he means to be or not. although, i think he means to be. i remember when i was in college they played somewhere down in north carolina, he got up in front of the crowd with gloria steinem beside him and said, listen to this lady, she's got a lot to say. we're not playing unless you listen to her. rather ballsy. i've always liked him for that, and i didn't even see that show; the hubby did and told me about it.

i also found out that they are doing another charity or two -- this one is for an elementary school's environmental program.

nothing beat the molo sessions though in the eddie, eddie, you are the anti-rock star, rock star for me category.

i'll never forget when they promoted nader. a friend of mine worked at some place in portland where nader was speaking and she called and was like eddie vedder is playing this, i can get y'all in. do you want to come? of course we were in mississippi at the time, so we couldn't -- it was last minute, and we just couldn't fork over several thousand dollars to fly out for the weekend. it would have been a nice thing though -- to meet eddie and nader -- she handled the pr for the whole thing. that's her job. (although she always says eddie is an asshole -- i always say, it's his job to be an asshole to you because of your job -- and i don't really want to meet him and find out otherwise)

on sunday mornings one of our nearby radio stations plays songs that they don't throughout the rest of the week, and i heard an Emmylou Harris / Mark Knopfler song this morning "Right Now" it was great. Really great, made me happy to be listening to radio again. :)

about as happy as a pearl jam album album makes me that americans still make great number two rock n' roll albums -- someone has pointed out that that's their lot in life, and the hubby agrees nirvana was always number one and pearl jam, our favorite, will always be number two. :)

a lot of folks call them the seattle survivors. i think it fits.

Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 2:40 pm
by megapulse
and right now

i do have to say, i love sunday mornings. especially mornings like this one. i'm home, alone and have some time to think, and it is nice.

although i see i'm getting an email from the hubby and saying "call me asap" -- i guess i will and finish this later.

Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 3:27 pm
by megapulse
the dire sunday morning emergency was strawberries.

we've been offered a giant bowl of freshly picked strawberries from a garderner. i didn't think the two of us and the bean sized baby could eat a giant bowl of freshly picked strawberries; as luck would have it though, the hubby is at the firestation today, and there are quite a few guys who like homemade strawberry pie, and one guy who is a great cook. so the strawberries are going to be well taken care of.

so right now the bliss of a sunday morning spent alone was interrupted, but that's okay. the hubby and a rock n' roll song is who and what i was going to be writing most of this about anyway.

a friend of mine at work keeps asking me, what do you think of the new pearl jam album? and i have had to say, i don't know. it came out on the second, and my friend had somehow listened to it online some time before, so he's been chomping at the bit to discuss it. and unfortunately for him, i just found out i was pregnant, it was the hubby's birthday, and we had our first ultra-sound all about the same time. giving the album more than a brief listen was not high on my priorities list.

but right now i've nothing else to do. (other than arrange a home for some well grown/picked strawberries)

the comment about the seattle survivors is growing on me. i really think it fits with this album well. the first song on the album is "life wasted", and it ends like this:

i have faced it, . . . a life wasted . . .
i'm never going back again.

oh, i escaped it, . . . a life wasted, . . .
i'm never going back again.

having tasted,. . . a life wasted, . . .
i'm never going back again.

oh, i erased it,. . . a life wasted, . . .
i'm never going back again.

which to me is not quite gloria gaynor's "i will survive" but pretty close to i have survived.

it's not my favorite song, although i think it's a good one if they're to be dubbed the seattle survivors -- it goes into the "present tense" sort of category of how to get over it and get on with it. they have a lot of songs like that that the hubby enjoys.

what i enjoy about parachutes is what i enjoy about all of their songs that i feel like connect me to the hubby. to me, it's about a weird sort of love that isn't perfect or really super romantic or like something in a movie or anything like that, it's just a love that at one time changed your life, and sometimes still manages to change things again:

"further back and forth, a wave will break on me today
and love, . . . wish the world could go again with love
one can't seem to have enough
and war, . . . . break the sky and tell me what it's for
i'll travel there on my own
and love, . . . what a different life
had i not found this love with you."

happy you my baby's daddy day :)