I just bought two albums that are changing my life musically speaking.
Taylor Swifts new album, when I first started listening to it I thought it just sounded like everything else she's written (duh you say, it's taylor swift! she can only be one sound hellooo) but I ignored my initial reaction and continued to listen and the songs in the middle of the album are AWESOME. Mostly, besides her vocal talent- the lyrics are really good. It's not that it doesn't bother me when women make a huge profit off pawning off general- isms on romantic mistakes we've all made in the past and regret- but taylor did a really good job. or her lyricist did.
People are gonna say I'm a trend follower, but I don't care because I used to hate country music and when I met brandon it was a constant fight over the radio knobs. I mean, seriously I'm surprised the car didn't crash a few times.
I love to sing, even when I didn't talk as a kid, I was always singing to myself. So I thought because of that I could say I appreciate music in general. But mostly I thought (and was raised to think) country was twangy, irritating, and written about three different subjects. When brandon left for afghanistan, I started listening more and more to country, I soaked it up, I did everything I could to be near it. It shocked me at first but then I gave in and fell for music that has a lot more emotion to it and talent then I ever gave it credit for. It wasn't fair for me to judge a type of music when I never even listened to it! So I guess I'm knocking my own words at the beginning of this post by not giving other people's music a chance (it's just when I hear the same song over and over and over again and it takes me ten minutes to scroll to the bottom or side or upside down to pause it or turn it off...:\) I still don't like some country artists and some songs but altogether I like country music, it makes me happy and is uplifting and it's the only music that honors the military instead of tearing it apart like everything else in this country (which only has the right to because people in the military defend that right).
Anyways, I didn't mean to write a big long blog. I miss brandon. I didn't really think he was leaving for real this weekend for drill. It's been a lonely and boring halloween. Maybe next year will be better (at least maybe next year I can carve a doggy pumkin that doesnt look like yoda) or go to arbys and eat four roast beef sandwhiches. (bad bad bad idea) or sit on the couch next to my dog counting how many times he farts or wondering what he dreams about while his mouth twitches and his paws fling back and forth twitchingly. Or figure out how to bake punkin seeds correctly.
I was even the neighbor lady who lives in the basement who didn't hand out candy and didn't open the door because dash would maul everyone with mush kisses which usually doesn't work out when the people he's mauling are under four feet tall. Any way you try to explain it, you sound like a dog person instead of a people person which people with kids and not dogs usually don't understand.
I wonder where dash is going in his dreams, probably on the walk i didn't take him on today, chasing the birds that he doesn't know are flown far away from the frost.
Am I being depressing?
Happy Halloween.
oh the second album I bought was Lisa Hannigan's Sea Sew. Buy it, or steal it. just listen to it. especially the song Pistachio. Even the live version on youtube is amazing.
lately dash has been sleeping like this.
maybe it explains his digestion issues
or maybe it was the half of a roast beef sandwhich i fed him
or the box of gingersnaps.
or the pumkin innards which he loves.
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