Category: Tunes

Highlights from the soundtrack of my life.

Good Music and a Serene Pic

I couldn’t figure out why I didn’t feel well yesterday night. I just felt off. It was a nagging feeling and I couldn’t figure it out. I went to bed and in my YouTube feed, this song popped up. The ABSOLUTE BEST cover recorded!:

I woke up this morning and checked my phone, of course I felt off last night! Yesterday was three years to the day since the last time I worked out at Barwis Methods. Three years ago today, I was injured. My meniscus is torn. It would be another nine months before I had surgery to repair it. I am still dealing with constant pain and my knee popped out twice yesterday upon transfer. I absentmindedly scrolled through Facebook just before my Mom got here to help get me out of bed and I saw this picture:

The cliffs of Moher. How beautiful?! I swear I will get to Ireland before the end of my life!

So, I don’t feel well today. I’m pretty bummed but good music and a serene pic can do wonders for me! Michigan lost today but when I turned the TV back on, Forever in My Heart was on again. I HAD to watch it for the fourth time to hear the Irish accents and see the greenery. I really need to get there before a die!

Tune #27 Inspired by GMFB

I can’t even remember what they were talking about. I think it was something about Gardner Minshew’s performance last night on Thursday Night Football but just as they were going to go to commercial, Peter Schrager said, “Savage Garden.” Kay Adams added, “Truly. Madly. Deeply.”

I tweeted them and let them know then I am back in high school. I even embedded a picture:

The picture is 20 years old and my hair is at least 14 inches shorter now. My high school was extremely small. My graduating class was 46 students and there were two hallways and a basement in the building. The above picture was taken in one of the science rooms that were adjacent to the cafeteria in the basement.

I thought of being in the high school because I was when this song came out. I really liked it and I bought the CD single for a few dollars. I bought it from Musicland (Before it was Sam Goody). I took it to school and left it on the floor in front of my locker. It was on the floor for the entire first hour. There is a soundtrack in my head now when I think of my time in those hallways 20 years ago.

That’s the first floor of my high school. The second floor looks exactly the same. I left the CD on the second floor in front of my locker on the left side of the hall before the first classroom on the left in the picture.

Tune #25 and #26 Inspired by GMFB

I got up and out of my bed after gym if you had started. I turn the TV on but was still very much out of it until I heard Kyle Brandt. He said one lyric and I don’t even know what they were talking about but I tweeted him anyway:

Needless to say, this song has been in my head all day long!:

He talked about Limp Bizkit because Fred Durst is from Jacksonville for “Throwdown Thursday.” I actually am not sure who is the bigger 90s I can. Lisa turtle from savor the bell or Fred Durst from Limp Bizkit. Peter gave a good argument about her dance, “The Sprain”:


Kyle talked about the song, “Rollin‘.” I did on the album, ”Chocolate Starfish and Hotdog Flavored Water but that song was not one of my favorites. I preferred:

Either way, I had to look up Limp Bizkit songs from the 90s and this song was in my head and I thought of my wall mate, Marissa, at Western.

“The Corner of My Mind”

As soon as I woke up, I checked my phone and somehow ended up looking through my YouTube feed. I’m not sure why this song showed up there but I HAD TO listen to it and I was immediately taken back to being young and my Parents’ living room having a green carpet. I thought of having family picnics with my Mom, my Abuela and my Mom’s brothers, sisters, and their families at Willow park. I posted it on Facebook and tagged my two oldest brothers:

This song was in my head for most of the morning. I listened to it at least three or four times before Sean and my Mom had to move the cars out front so I decided to absentmindedly search through the Tunes tab on my blog to find a good song because I KNOW that I like all of the songs there because I posted them!

Sean came back into the house and went straight into the kitchen and opened the refrigerator. I was listening to this song and it ended just as he opened the door:

I scrolled a little bit further and I saw that I had posted this song a little while ago and I wanted to hear it again:

Sean continued to pull things out of the refrigerator as the introduction started and it was at the refrain that he stopped moving and popped his head up! He stopped what he was doing and asked me how he knows the song?! I let him see my phone’s display j The second time the refrain started. He closed the fridge and walked over to hold my phone. He remembered this song, “In the corner of my mind“ and kind of sang-along and told me that this song reminds him of laying on the floor in my Mom’s living room running his hand across the carpet.

He didn’t know the green carpet, I think that was changed out when I was in high school so he has only known her living room with a beige carpet. She has hardwood floors now though. It made me laugh that Sean had a memory from his youth just as I had a memory from my youth this morning and they both were caused by songs!

Tune #23 & #24 Inspired by GMFB

This morning, I turned the TV on just in time to see the opening credits of GMFB. I didn’t even have my contacts in. Kyle immediately started talking about last night’s game. Jameis Winston threw a touchdown pass to Chris Godwin in the end zone. I was so groggy but to hear Kyle say that the Panthers got, “God-smacked” made me smile internally. For the rest of my life, I will always think of Jack at the grill shirtless in khaki shorts shaking his hips to this song by Godsmack:

It was too early to focus on anything but I thought of this album from high school:

But, more importantly, when I really think about Godsmack, I remember being in the pool with all of my clothes on because I get thrown in Add Sean’s great grandparents’ houseand I remember with fondness seeing Jack shake his hips to the music wearing nothing but his khaki shorts. I was pregnant and none of the family knew yet aside from me and Sean’s dad.

I absolutely love that show! It helps me acclimate to being awake and I believe I had just put my contacts in when it was announced that Adrian Amos from the Packers was going to be on the show. Kyle talked about his interception in the end zone last week on Thursday. Before the commercial, Kyle said it was, “Pack to reality.” REALLY?! Soul II Soul?! As the commercials started to play, I remembered being a young child and hearing my oldest brother play the song before he went out:

I tweeted Kyle that his song references were, “🔥🔥🔥” and Nate Burleson liked it and another tweet I sent Kyle talking about the segment that he and Peter were on wall street.

I absolutely love any interaction I have with anyone at the breakfast table or in Culver City (Will Selva)! I always complement wills ties and tell him that, “his tie game is 💯” because it is! Kay liked two of my tweets as well and replied to my #DarkHairDontCare tweet. 😄😄😄

Tune #21 & #22 Inspired by GMFB

I’ve posted both of these songs before but this morning, Peter Schrager said that his least favorite football tradition was, “Seven Nation Army.” What?!

I absolutely LOVE hearing that song at college and/or professional football games! I tweeted him to tell him that. Needless to say, this song has been in my head all day!

Later in the show, Kyle was wearing a tuxedo t-shirt (which Sean has too. But it’s probably too small for him now) and he was the bartender for the other hosts. To end the segment, he quoted Semisonic. “You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.” This song was also in my head throughout the day.

Lenny

I have been utterly and completely blown away by the damage and destruction that hurricane Dorian has inflicted upon the Bahamas! I am absolutely speechless when I see all the footage of the destruction and I have cried a lot. I was watching Chris Cuomo last night and Lenny Kravitz was on.

First of all, I did NOT know he was Bahamian! And secondly, I was surprised at how HOT he still is! He is just the coolest! I went shopping with Sean for some jeans for him today and as is our custom, we left the mall and went to eat at A&W in the surrounding parking lot. I don’t get out of the car very easily anymore so we ordered drive-through and ate in the car, facing the mall.

As Sean divvied up the food, this song came on the radio:

I just saw him in an interview last night! He was wearing sunglasses but he had some cool shorter locks and still looked just as sexy! I remembered a few years ago that Sean told me that girls in his class were surprised that Cinna (from The Hunger Games) was playing the guitar during the halftime show for the Super Bowl with Katy Perry.

Sean knew who he was because I had already told him that Lenny Kravitz was a bad a** rocker! And he had grown up hearing him because I listened to his songs often.

I appreciated hearing this song from my past, I think it was the Christmas before I had Sean that I was given this album for Christmas from his dad. After Lenny Kravitz played, Everclear came on (Because I listen to music from the 90s and 2000s on the radio). I don’t care! I’m old! I am OK with that though. Hearing music from my youth reminds me of being able-bodied. It’s kind of bittersweet but I like remembering being, “able.” I think it’s crazy that those memories are pretty distant now but they all immediately come crashing back when I hear a good song from my past!

September 2019 Faves

Binging the first season of Euphoria was pretty good. Things weren’t like that in my high school! This song has stuck with me regardless of the terrible things that were going on during it.

Gavin has also made a come back recently. One album on my Apple Music app. reminds me of my first apartment. When Sean came out of his room as I was listening to it one day, apparently it also reminds him of it too! He knew all the words and I have to say it surprised me and made me smile.

Mind-Blowing

I finished watching the first season of Euphoria last night. Parts of that episode were completely mind blowing! I can’t seem to get this song out of my head and I try to block out what was going on while this song was playing. During this episode, it was really is terrible for Cassie! To know what’s going on in this episode, you have to get through all eight episodes of the first season. Crazy! I haven’t started watching season two yet. My, “Binge game” is NOT what it used to be because I am having a hard time staying awake during the day these days. There is preseason Lions football today so I may have to start watching season two when it comes out.

Tune #19 & #20 Inspired by GMFB

It was a rough morning this morning. I watched GMFB in silence and struggling to wake up. Kyle Brant made two references to songs from high school and early years of being a mom.

The first song reminded me of getting my eyebrows waxed the summer after my junior year. NOT a fave tune but I haven’t been able to get it out of my head today!:

He referenced Hoobastank. He says that this song was a terrible song but I really dug it! I never saw the video until today because back then, I had a two-year-old so I didn’t have time to watch MTV.

I watched a lot of the Wiggles back then. This song was my favorite but it didn’t come out until Sean was almost done watching the Wiggles. I think he may have been almost 4: