Yeah - I wrote "tooting" in my blog name. That by itself makes my inner 5 yr old laugh hysterically!
The housemates are in CA for a couple day so I'm flying solo. I enjoy my time alone (not that it matters much except I don't hear footsteps upstairs, my internet isn't being shared, and I don't feel the need to get dressed right away out of the shower. tmi?) Because they are gone, I have the birds downstairs in my living room. They like having sound, noise and music - they like activity around them. Because of that - and because I'm not watching anything on TV right now so I can focus on stuff - I'm playing my Birthday Cd's on itunes. I have some dang good music taste ;-)
I know I've written about my various birthday cd's previously so I won't go into it, but there have been a few songs that I totally forgot about and haven't heard in a while. These songs take me right back to a time and a place. so awesome! There are times I wish I could invite you into my brain to hear what I hear when I hear these songs.
Example:
Aquarius from the musical Hair - specifically the film version.
listen to that bass line. It gets into the movement of the bus, the movement of the trees and fields, even the clip clop of the Amish horse and buggy. Heck visually you start seeing the red of the trees, then suddenly...
The rising sun behind New York City just as the trumpet comes in, heralding the arrival into the big city. I LOVE this trumpet line. (1:07) The flutes or a reed instrument echo that same line just as the burning of the draft cards starts - and after you have been introduced to the rest of the main characters. (again, the trumpets whinnying like horses)
then - 2 min in - it starts to build, like the fire they just showed, and you see two people moving, doing what I thought (way back in Jr. High when I first saw this or so) was a version of Tai Chi. Yet - it is the amazing choreography of Twyla Thorp.
Then, out of nowhere comes the voice and vision of Ren Woods - flowers in her hair, turning and turning, letting you know this is not an ordinary musical film.
I'm telling you, I think this is probably one of the best opening numbers in a musical film. And now you have an idea of what goes on in my mind.
(and now I'm listening to Ren Woods...who I didn't know had a few solo albums out. what a voice!)
ciao,
pk
listen to that bass line. It gets into the movement of the bus, the movement of the trees and fields, even the clip clop of the Amish horse and buggy. Heck visually you start seeing the red of the trees, then suddenly...
The rising sun behind New York City just as the trumpet comes in, heralding the arrival into the big city. I LOVE this trumpet line. (1:07) The flutes or a reed instrument echo that same line just as the burning of the draft cards starts - and after you have been introduced to the rest of the main characters. (again, the trumpets whinnying like horses)
then - 2 min in - it starts to build, like the fire they just showed, and you see two people moving, doing what I thought (way back in Jr. High when I first saw this or so) was a version of Tai Chi. Yet - it is the amazing choreography of Twyla Thorp.
Then, out of nowhere comes the voice and vision of Ren Woods - flowers in her hair, turning and turning, letting you know this is not an ordinary musical film.
I'm telling you, I think this is probably one of the best opening numbers in a musical film. And now you have an idea of what goes on in my mind.
(and now I'm listening to Ren Woods...who I didn't know had a few solo albums out. what a voice!)
ciao,
pk
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