30 Day Song Challenge Day 4: a song that makes you sad

No brainer. This song has been forever in my hard drive but i did not pay particular attention to it until i read about it in an interview of the lead singer/songwriter of a pretty decent alt.rock band, i forget if it’s The Decemberists or Del Amitri. When i did play it the first time i was blown away. What made the song resonate is that back then i was going through one of my recurrent two/three-week long rougher patches. Anyhow, one of the more beautiful songs from the coterie of awesome written by Ben Gibbard, Transtalanticism is beautiful, in the way it describes people moving away, another recurrent theme in Driftwoodville.

Now i must sulk about missing the DCFC gig in New York this June 1.

30 Day Song Challenge Day 2: Least Favorite Song

There are so many the question is where should i begin? To put a hindi filmy ironic twist to things this is the first song that comes to my mind. I have always hated it and i distinctly remember that i hated hated hated this aural garbage of a song from the first time i heard it when i was a wee little kid who played horrible football in yellow-green clownish football shorts.

30 Day Song Challenge: Day 1

Favorite song

As if it wasn’t more obvious.  Funny thing, the song describes rather well I have drifted over the past decade, not aimlessly but with the just right amount of downstream force. The current is weak enough to let me wander along even a little bit of upstream and a lot of sideways on both me sides. I don’t see the rest of my life to be anything different though the current is increasing in its urgency and lately I have started to feel I’m hurrying along with more of a purpose. The waterfall is not far after all.

The video is below followed by my video of Fran Healy & Andy Dunlop performing live an acoustic version of the song at a hip pub in Washington, DC suburbs of Vienna, Virginia. Now that was an awesome night!

The One Ring

or you can call it The White Mist if your know your Sergei Lukyanenko.

Do you know what it is? It’s called Forgive and Forget. The Power of Forgiveness. The purest form of Power out there available to mankind that heals but does not destroy.

I have got it. You don’t, not yet. Anyone can have it, actually, but very few can master its Power so consistently. I can. It’s a lesson I took long to learn and even now at times I feel I have not learnt enough.

And that is why, my dear, you have lost the war before you even went to the armory, before you even started plotting your stratagems. You won a few skirmishes over the bridge when the moon was full & I wasn’t looking. But it is done. Checkmate. It was over before it even started. How many times should I prove it to you? I again did. Do you not see? If not, you shall. Soon.

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Exams, life and what have you. Driftwood Life returns drifting later this week. Yaay!? Blah!