I love music. To death. I love music to death.
I love that song that you hear with your eyes closed and you forget where you are. The song doesn’t necessarily need lyrics or any intricacies at all. It can be a simple melody on a piano, guitar, drums, bass, strings, tuba, it really doesn’t matter. There is a song that you hear and when you hear it you feel it. You can feel it make your eyes shut, your mouth smile, and your head goes to a different place. For that moment, for however long that song is, you are gone. Every care you have is replaced with the thought provoking sounds that swirl your head and make you love this world and love the people in your life. It’s amazing to me how music can do this.
So, now you probably know that I’m listening to music. I will tell you that I am listening to a playlist I created while in college titled Sleeping Music. As the title suggests…it’s to help me sleep because I suck at sleeping. I have sucked at sleeping ever since I was a child. It contains 5 songs and the total time length of the playlist is roughly 30 minutes. The tracklist is:
1. Fyrsta ferð – Sigur Ros. This song is off the movie soundtrack they did for Hlemmur. It’s an Icelandic documentary (I do believe) about one man’s struggle with alcoholism. I have never seen the movie, only clips on youtube. This song is so beautiful. If you have the time and desire, find it, listen to it.
2. The Wider Sun – Jon Hopkins. This song is off his album Insides. Fantastic album and this is the opening track. All violins. But, don’t let this track fool you into what the album sounds like. It is an electronic album. But, it’s awesome. I call his music Melodic Electronic. I’m not trying to be hip or catchy, that’s just what it truly sounds like to me.
3. Happiness – Jonsi and Alex. This song is off their album Riceboy Sleeps. Which is a powerhouse of beauty. This is the first track of the album and it really sets the tone for the rest of it. Happiness is such a fitting title for this song as it does just that. Makes you happy.
4. Stokkseyri – Jonsi and Alex. They only have one album out so you guessed it, this is off Riceboy Sleeps too. Beautiful flowing piano riff in this song. I don’t know much else to say about this one. It’s great.
5. Indian Summer – Jonsi and Alex. This is the final song on the playlist and it’s my favorite off the album. This song is basically in two parts. The first sounds like a piano being played under water. Very reverberated (did I just verb reverberate?) song. Such a simple first half and so powerful. Truly amazing. But, the second half of this song? Wow, forget about it. Don’t even try to wrap your head around it. Unbelievable. So gorgeous. It’s all violins with Jonsi’s beautiful and elegant voice swirling with the violins. This song is my song that I fly away to. This is the song for me that I talked about in the beginning. I can close my eyes and listen to the last half of this song and truly believe I’m somewhere else. No drugs either! Wherever I want to go, I can close my eyes and play this song and float there. I think about so much. Maybe too much. My head thinks it might explode and so do my eyes. It’s a fascinating feeling. Oh, and the song ends with Jonsi holding one note for a good 20 seconds.
I don’t know if you’ll read this. Anyone. But, if anyone does, I strongly suggest checking out the songs I just listed. If you are only going to choose 1, though, (jerk) then I would suggest track 5. But, keep in mind this is a sleeping playlist so don’t expect to be rockin out with these songs. If you want to have your emotions pulled at and do a lot of thinking about things? Yeah, check out Indian Summer. Do not operate any heavy machinery, though. Bad news.
Ever have big ideas that you know you can do and you want to do and you think that you will do them only to have that strong feeling of productivity go away within the next hour? It’s a bad feeling because you know the feeling. The idea comes and you fall for it every time. You think, “This! This again! Yes! I love that idea! This will happen. Today is the day. I feel like I can do this today.” *an hour later* “I’m doing something else…” Yeah, it just…I mean it happens so frequently. Too frequently. I’m not lazy. I just get so excited for something that I know will let me down because I won’t do it. Sucks. Like writing a book. I want to write a book. I’m not sure what about. But, something. Well, it has to be something right? You couldn’t write a book and then when people buy it the pages are empty and they say, “What is this?” and you say, “Oh, it’s the book I wrote.” I mean that just doesn’t happen. Well, it could happen but you would have people returning your book immediately. They wouldn’t buy it, though. Books are cool like that. You can read every book in the world without ever buying one. I mean, you see a book in a book store and pick it up and read it. You don’t have to pay. They could have security or time limits on books ya know. That might cause a surge in the buying of books. But, that doesn’t seem to be a problem. I think the book industry does alright.
So, maybe this will turn into a music blog. Who knows. I’m not going to lie and say I’m going to update this thing a lot. Look at the last time I posted. JUNE. The last time I posted something was in June. Then, well now this one is from December. 6 months apart from each other (math holla). But, I will try. I want to try. Bare with me all of the 0 people who read this. I don’t even read this. I type this with my eyes closed as I eat a sandwich. I have no idea what any of this says.
