Some more lyrics

Motorcycles in the parking lot
Revving their engines and it just wont stop
Matches and noise screaming in my head
Houston, I think we got a problem

Where does everybody go when they go?
The go so fast I don't think they know
We hate so fast
And we love too slow
London, I think we got a problem

And when I think about it
I just can't think about it
I try to drink about it
I keep spinning

Ave Mary A
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
How did you know to get out of a world gone mad?
Help me let go
Of the chaos around me
The devil that hounds me
I need you to tell me

Child, be still
Child, be still

Broken hearts all around the spot
I can't help thinking that we lost the plot
Suicide bomber and a student shot
Tokyo, I think we got a problem

But for that, they got a pill
If that don't kill you, then the side effects will
If we don't kill each other, then the side effects will
Cape Town, I think we got a problem

Ave Mary A
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
How did you know to get out of a world gone mad?
Help me let go
Of the chaos around me
The devil that hounds me
I need you to tell me

Child, be still

If the darkest hour comes
Before the light
Where is the light?
Where is the light?

If the darkest hour comes
Before the light
Where is the light?
Where is the light?
Where is the light, yeah

Ave Mary A
Where did you go?
Where did you go?
How did you know to get out of a world gone mad?
Help me, help me, let go
Of the chaos around me
The devil that hounds me
I need you to tell me

Child, be still
Child, be still
Child, be still

Another song

A current favourite.

Happy when it Rains

I put this one on FB last night, but I love it so much I have to put it here too. Plus it's been raining all morning. And if you don't love Richard Cheese, you should. Okay.

Just a song I love.

I can shake it, but it keeps going on it's own!

Love the lyrics to this. I'm not known for my dancing either.
"I exercise the moonwalk like I've stepped in shit" makes me laugh and laugh.

Love Fridays!

Ah my poor neglected blog. Love Fridays, love happy songs.


Maybe I'll see you at the Stitches and Craft show tomorrow? Ms Cate and I are going!

So...I'm a cranky old bag

aka the post where I wax lyrical about how much I wouldn't cope if it wasn't for music and knitting. As is the case with blogging and the world in general, if you want to say something, you'll generally find someone else has said it before, and so much better than you could ever hope to. All of us nanna-core types know how good knitting is for clearing the head, just the constant activity and rhythm is soothing, although for me, it can't be any harder than K1P1 when I'm troubled, or it leads to chaos.

I had a cow of a weekend, and definitely had what Holly G would call the "mean reds". I guess it's a bipolar thing, I don't know, sometimes I'm happy that I'm officially crazy as at least it gives me an explanation for my moods and behaviour. So what did I do all weekend, apart from moping and being angry? Knitted and listened to music. Specifically Billy Bragg and Bruce Springsteen. If you know me, you'll already know these two are among my favourites. I love music, I couldn't exist without it, and of course, I lack the ability to put into words the effect that certain songs and artists have on me. So thank God for my old buddy Nick Hornby. If you've read this blog before in the past couple of years, you'll also know how much I love his book of song essays.
So I'll give up now, and just quote from it:

In fact, thinking about it now, it's why I love the relationship that anyone has
with music: because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words,
something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out.

And sometimes I'm just repeating myself.

Like Nick Hornby...how many times have I listened to 'Thunder Road'? Countless. The music thing, you either get it or you don't. And if you don't get it...sorry I just can't understand you, you must be existing in a parallel universe to me. But I'll still luv ya all teh same.

Also, this post is a reminder for me to start my own aforementioned 31 Songs project...although I think the best I'll come up with is a paragraph. Challenge to self for 2009.

And here's Broooce:

Love Fridays, love Kylie

Hurrah for it is Friday! And what am I up to tonight? Going to see the lovely Miss M at Rod Laver arena with my sis and her crew. I like Kylie, (not as much as I love Britney!) and so here's a song...most unlike my usual boys with guitars YouTube that's always on here.
This one is my fave Kylie song ever:


Lovin' Fridays, brought to you by Big Cat or Tinnie Girl aka Cathy.

Going slow

What have I been up to? You've probably noticed a decided lack of posts on teh Portion lately...basically it's because in December I decided that I was going to go slow. I'm one of those people that tends to say YES to everything, without even stopping to think, when where how why, and November found me overcommitted and falling in a heap. So after birthday week, I decided to say NOES to most events, and to spend a lot of time doing nothing. (I think HP is probably glad too, because it's meant that I'm at home for a change.) I'm still reading your blogs, but maybe not commenting as much, and you'll find me on BookFace most nights as I leave the laptop signed in. My crafting output, apart from embroidery, is low also...I guess it's just overkill.

Have I put this vid up before? I think I love this boy, he can come and sing to me anytime:

I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
Of diving in too deep
And possibly the complications

Especially at night
I worry over situations
I know I'll be alright
Perhaps it's just imagination

Day after day it reappears
Night after night my heartbeat shows the fear
Ghosts appear and fade away
Come back another day

PS. is it just me or has anyone else noticed a lot of "we're sorry this video is no longer available" on you tube... and then the next refresh it works, and then sometimes it doesn't again? What does it all mean?

I like this

Sorry for the lack of posts lately, I've been super busy. (Blah.)

Tick Toxic

And here's a couple of fave songs put together, I luvs me a mash-up.

Gimme more

Didn't achieve anything today, due to being unwell. So nothing of consequence to blog about. But you all know of my love of Britney, so here's a Britney song...as performed by "Australia's own" Sia Furler. This clip is just audio, no visuals. Hope you like.

Another happy song

One of my faves...I couldn't find an "official" clip for this one, so here's a live version.

Happy Enz

A fave song from one of the best albums of '82. Someone should do a ripper cover version of this.

Happy aeroplanes over the sea

As some people may know this song is one of my faves ever. I was trawling you tube to try and find a decent cover, but not many of them really do it for me. However, this one deserves an honourable mention as the Swedish boy is so damn adorable!

Lyrics:
"What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all around the sun
What a beautiful dream
That could flash on the screen
In a blink of an eye and be gone from me
Soft and sweet
Let me hold it close and keep it here with me

And one day we will die
And our ashes will fly
From the aeroplane over the sea
But for now we are young
Let us lay in the sun
And count every beautiful thing we can see
Love to be
In the arms of all I'm keeping here with me

What a curious life
We have found here tonight
There is music that sounds from the street
There are lights in the clouds
Anna's ghost all around
Hear her voice as it's rolling and ringing through me
Soft and sweet
How the notes all bend and reach above the trees

Now, how I remember you
How I would push my fingers through your mouth
To make those muscles move
That made your voice so smooth and sweet
And now we keep where we don't know
All secrets sleep in winter clothes
With one you loved so long ago
Now he don't even know his name
What a beautiful face
I have found in this place
That is circling all around the sun
And when we meet on a cloud
I'll be laughing out loud
I'll be laughing with everyone I see
Can't believe
How strange it is to be anything at all."

I decided to also post this one because this guy makes me nearly wet myself every time I watch it. I think it's the "licorice" part that gets me. Enjoy, hopefully.

Blokes with guitars make me happy

High Fidelty meets Rockwiz meme

Becky over at the Small stuff has a rather goodly musical post in response to last week's Fave Friday theme, so I thought I'd play her meme too.

1. Your first musical idol.

A couple - Rolf Harris - all that singing songs, wobble boards and painting. And the Beatles - because of that Beatles cartoon that used to be on.
Also as kids we used to love the episode of the Goodies 'Almost Live' where they sung various songs... I can still sing you 'Throwin' Up' or 'Cactus in my Y-Fronts' or 'Funky Gibbon' or 'Nappy Love' to this very day.


['Almost Live' is on You Tube here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3.]

2. Your biggest musical shame/embarrassment.

Probably the fact that as a teenager I did indeed go to Band Camp.

3. Your special musical talent?

Mine's a bit like Becky's here, I can make up words to songs and make them fit, or make up silly songs on the spur of the moment. HP is the mega-talent at this, his silly songs are extremely good. We like a good sing along.

4. A musical thing that you wouldn't do in public.

Does dancing count as a musical thing? You won't get me to dance.

5. The last band you saw live.

Was the Moffs last month, for old times' sake. I was supposed to go and see the Reels and the Models the other week, but totally mixed the dates up and missed it (I had a ticket and all!!) Spewin' mate, because I LOVE Dave Mason. (How cute is this clip from 1988? By the way Reels = embrace the irony and sillyness and just enjoy)

6. Favourite live music experience.

Argh so many! The Go-Betweens on my 18th birthday are a pretty good memory.

7. If you could see any band/musician live tomorrow, who would it be?
The Avett Brothers. I know they're all hairy and not purty and all, but they kill me. Listen to this one:

I won't tag anyone, but play along if you like.

For Pip

Bah to the ARIAs! First off, some fun:


And some Countdown goodness:



Harmonica James? What harmonica? [You probably only need to watch the intro to this one, unless you're a Crawl fan. I must admit I have a soft spot for Guy and his mullet.]

Here's Bop Girl again! ahahha.

78 was gr8!!

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...and I was 8.

This clip is firmly entrenched in my memory from Countdown:

As a little kid, I thought Kate Bush was totally freaky. (But good.)

By my decree

Retro Rock n' Roll, originally uploaded by mandyrocksout.

And to justify my self indulgence, let's make today 'Blogtoberfest Fave Friday'! What's one of your favourite songs ever? You Tube it or just tell us all about it and why you like it.
PS. If you play along with "love Fridays" don't forget to do that as well.

PPS. I think I got around to nearly everyone in Blogtoberfest and commented...if I didn't call by your blog, it's because work blocked it as a "chatroom"...yes it does that to some blogs all the time. Particularly Linda and Anastasia. And yes, I should be working.

PPPS. I better do my own meme! This song makes me think of being a teenager in the 80's, to me it's the musical equivalent of one of my favourite films. I love the lyrics, the sense of yearning, loss and possibility it contains, and the Triffids were a great band. The vid is a bit naff, but hey, it was the 80's.

One of my more recent faves would be this one.