"Sgt Pepper's" & "If I Never See Your Face Again"/Long Weekends

There's almost nothing everyone likes better then 3-day weekends. I sometimes wish we had them all the time but then there'd be practically no vacations and I think we'd all split open without a summer break. (Plus, that'd mean no camp!) 3-days are also another way for America to procrastinate just a tiny bit more. Don't know about you but I certainly haven't started my homework yet.

But as weekends go, this one has been pretty good. I spent Saturday at Canobie Lake which was awesome as usual although the flying swings were broken, quite the disappointment. Sunday was spent at the Natick Mall with the lovely Marion Marsh and Sarah Heatherton. Technically, it's called the "Natick Collection," but I think that's just ridiculous. It's still a mall, people. If they want to give it a fancy new name they might as well call it the "Natick Patatick McNatick."

Anyways, the songs that came up today were "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "If I Never See Your Face Again." Both of these have terribly long titles, and therefore this post has a terribly long title. Sgt Pepper's is really one of my absolute favorite songs by the Beatles, and I love it too much to get around to the fact that they're not really singing that much in it. Whatever. Personally I think it has some great guitar and harmonies. The rhythms all fit together nicely and the song has a fun vibe to it.

" If I Never See Your Face Again" is kind of a weird one. I like Maroon 5 and Rihanna individually but I never would have bet on the fact they'd do a collaboration. I have to say they still sound kind of funky together, in both good and bad ways. Rihanna sounds a little out of place Although that's not really fair since this isn't the type of music that she normally sings. Either way I think that Maroon 5 are musical geniuses when it comes to good old songwriting.

Speaking of Rihanna, what is up with her new style and stuff? When she started off, she was all "Music of the Sun" and now she just looks like "Music of the DEATHDEATHDEATHANDDARKNESS." And she's trying to do her music videos all weird or artsy and copying Lady Gaga. (Which it seems like everyone's doing now anyway.) I think she was at her height during Good Girl Gone Bad. It was a balance between the two extremities, like she'd cut and died her hair but her songs were still sort of happy. Now when I listen to some of the stuff on Rated R I feel like I'm walking through some sort of halloween haunted house/ghetto. Everything is all minor and overproduced. If you look at her video for "Hard" and then go back to 2005 and see "If it's Lovin' That You Want" you would not believe they're the same person. Scary, isn't it?

"Let It Shine" & "Someday"/Vegetarianism

To begin, I've never made a blog before. Caroline Tegeler was in fact the inspiration for this, as I always find she has something interesting to say. We also have similar speech patterns whether she will admit it or not, and we often find ourselves interrupting each other with stories that simply need to be told. Plus, I actually have time now that the plays I've been in are all over. The other day I even got a tiny bit bored. That didn't last too long because I went into total shock about the fact that I was actually bored, and then I was too busy being shocked to be bored anymore.

I believe the point of this besides a way to get out random thoughts is that I'm going to put my iTunes on shuffle, and I'll write a tiny bit about the first two songs that shows up. And today, the song that came up was "Let it Shine" by John Scofield. The music part I think I'll keep in blue so that it stands out from the rest of this jabbering. (That word reminds me of Jabberwocky. And I bet that if you're in NHS chorus it reminded you too. Don't lie.)

The fact that it was "Let it Shine" dissapoints me a little, since this is by no means one of my favorite songs. It's JAZZ for crying out loud. But it's what came up and iTunes shuffle is a bit like life. The memories I associate with it are nice though, since they're mostly of my dad. He used to play it all the time on the piano and it was nice and relaxing. The album artwork is absolutely horrible though. It was made in 1995, which although it is the year of my birth was not a top age for fashion. John Scofield's shirt is an ugly color and it's kind of tucked into his pants, but falling out a little. And he's old, so it's not "cool." It's just weird.

Song 2 is "Someday" by Rob Thomas. Now this song I actually like. Rob Thomas is one of my favorites, except he has this strange thing about including lyrics about crying in his songs. Her Diamonds, well that one's ALL about crying. In "Ever the Same" he talks about how the girl is "falling apart." In "Give me the Meltdown..." oh that's totally self-explanatory. "How Far We've Come," even though that's technically Matchbox 20 includes the lyric "Started crying and I couldn't stop myself." Hmm. There's nothing wrong with crying, but this guy seems to be doing it quite a lot. The song Someday...is really sweet although a little repetitive. The music video includes a parade with a lot of hippies. The tree-and-people-hugging message is nice although too unrealistic for me to really accept it. But the song leaves you with a nice content feeling when it's done, which one of my favorite things about music.

In other news, I've decided to be a vegetarian for a while. The last time I tried this, it lasted about a day and then I wanted some chicken soup and it was down to not eating "red meat." And then some steak came along and that whole idea flew completely out the window. But this time I'm actually determined, and I've been keeping it up for a full week now. I can't promise it'll last but I like the effort and the idea behind it. Marion Marsh and Sarah Heatherton can testify that I restrained myself from getting chicken at the food court from that Thai place I love. I may have made some poor choices including buying a half pound of candy, but that's another problem all together. Anyways, this is my first post and I'm not sure how often I'll do this or if I'll ever do this again. We'll just have to see.