“In My Mind”
Amanda Palmer
I heard this song while watching the McMenamins Theater slide show before A Wrinkle In Time began. The line, “In a future five years from now/I’m one hundred and twenty pounds” caught my ear and I snorted in amusement. I’m often guilty of living a perfect life, but in the future. I didn’t have my phone with me, so when Matt returned from a phone call, I asked him to text me “Amanda Palmer 120 pounds” so I would remember to look her up. He wanted to know why I was having him text Neil Gaiman’s wife’s name. And that’s how I learned that Amanda Palmer and Neil Gaiman are married and have a child.
“The Way It Seems To Go”
Rachael Yamagata
Continuing on the theme of finding songs through movies, this was the end credits song in the film Lucky Them. A film which I am realizing I did not review on this blog. Now I must go back and do that.
Anyway, I like Rachael Yamagata’s stuff and this was a nice addition.
The other thing both songs have in common is that I wrote this post at work and didn’t actually re-listen to the songs. Time will tell if I like them or not.
Old-school:
“Glycerine”
Bush
Here is a song I will happily listen to when I encounter it. It’s very early-adulthood swirling sadness for me, but I like how plaintive it sounds.
And the song that is not going on the song of the month playlist because it is a super earworm:
“Sober Up”
AJR
If this song didn’t include so many ways to get stuck in my head, I would like it better.
It amuses me that you are anti earworm (I kind of like them…okay until they get annoying…I just realized that as I typed and I am leaving it here) and yet your catchy earworm gets a cameo here!
Also I enjoyed your Palmer/Gaiman share!