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2000-08-06 | 19:13:15

why am i smiling, you ask?

because i have fresh blueberries and banana popsicles in my refrigerator. that's why!

not to mention new CDs! i dropped $100 yesterday on new music. actually, old and new music, but all new to me.

right now, i'm listening to arling & cameron. electronic stuff from holland. my favorite part is their recurring sample of little kids screaming "yay!"

a friend of mine recently loaned me some pavement and built to spill. those albums were so good, i had to buy my own copies.

then mazzy star, who reminds me of desert storm since it was the soundtrack for our "first time." (tmi?) don't worry. i'm not having a relapse or entertaining any regrets. not in the least. it's more about documentation than fond remembrance.

and kirsty maccoll, who i heard once by accident on a public radio station out here. the dj said it would be tough to find as an import, but i did find it! i issued an audible gasp when i saw it on display. whoa. i love those moments of i've-always-waited-for-this-moment-to-arrive discovery. the song she captured me with is "treachery." hee hee. it is about her stalking a former fan. she follows him to the record store and he buys a cd by another girl. then he goes home, "opens HER box and dances around in his socks." ahahaha! love it, kirsty. mwaaaa!

oh, and i bought a pixies album, too. surfer rosa.

despite this influx of new tunage, my current obsession remains the beatles.

i've always dug the beatles. i remember a girl i used to work with once said: "i don't like the beatles. i never got why they were so popular." i still shake my head in the memory of that statement.

how can anyone not appreciate the beatles? that's like not appreciating pillows! "i never understood why pillows were so popular." i mean, duh! right? you don't have to like the beatles, or listen to the beatles, but you have to appreciate them for what they did for music. i insist on it!

i've owned the red double CD set for awhile and have always tapped my toes, shimmy'ed my money maker and popped my fingers to "love me do," "help!" and "i want to hold your hand." then i heard "across the universe" and "the ballad of john and yoko" and really fell in love with those four mop tops of pop.

but the pledge of my eternal devotion came only recently. i went out to hear a friend's band play. in my tradition of tardiness, i missed their whole damn set. argh! but they wanted to cash in their drink tickets, so i hung out with them and listened to some acoustic stuff in the basement of the club.

one of the guy-and-his-guitar performers covered "blackbird." i had never heard it before. i about passed out from the beauty of it. thank goodness there was a late night music store across the street. i snagged "anthology 3" and fast-forwarded as fast as i could to hear that gorgeous tune again. and again. and one more time!

that was about three weeks ago. i haven't taken the cassette out of my car's tape deck since. oh...my...god. i feel like i've stumbled onto da vinci's notebook, except it's a sketchbook of pop genius.

it's like i discovered the matrix or something. i know kung fu!

the scope, the intelligence, the humor, the pathos, the heart, the technical finesse, the exquisite melodies...my god. i understand those beatles freaks now.

yoko, oh no, oh no. yoko, oh yes, oh yes. looking through the bent-back tulips to see how the other half lives. blackbird singing in the dead of night...you were always waiting for this moment to arrive. *sigh* *sniff* *tear* *smile*

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