Comments on: Still Loving Fleet Foxes

By: janice

janice — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:59:34 +0000

By the way, Davina, did you have a chance to check out the Falling Slowly post I linked to in this post? Once is a fabulous music-filled film you might enjoy. The music won an Oscar.

By: janice

janice — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:56:34 +0000

Thanks, Connie! That would be so much fun… I experience so much of my world through music, lyrics and rythm. It would be a very self-indulgent course though… you’d be able to meander through a life-symphony that would require you to learn Greek and submerge yourself in Middle Eastern belly dancing rythms, as well as tap your feet to blue grass banjo and Blue Ridge mountain music and fiddles and haunting music from the Scottish islands. I also have Céline Dion in French, Gloria Esteban in Spanish and a collection from Portugal, Paris, Argentina and Chile.

By: janice

janice — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:41:46 +0000

Hi Davina,
I’m thrilled that you want to buy it! I went through a drought phase, too, where the only music I seemed to listen to in the car, for example, was the radio or CD’s my kids had bought. Having said that, though, my daughter has amazing taste in music and an eclectic collection and she’s made me great playlists for my MP4 and let me upload some of her CD’s. Any time you want, drop me an email and let me know what’s in your CD collection and I’d be happy to send you snippets of CD’s you might like to explore. That’s what we’d be able to do if we were able to meet for coffees and chats at home or in a real café. My musical tastes have evolved weirdly over the last few years, but there again, so have I.

I’m glad you liked that line from the post; it’s one of my favourites, too. My family don’t understand why I like to keep some memories potent, but now that I’m having the odd age-related memory blip, I’m so glad I’ve accepted the possibility that my memory may appreciate ‘triggers’ when I get older. I loved this post when I rediscovered it; I wrote so much better last year and need to do the work that’ll get me back to that place.