Again

So here it is, another blog about a song I like.

Esperanza Spalding. She's a talented bassist and singer, graduated from Berklee College of Music and was asked to be a professor after crazy huh! Anyways, shes a girl with real talent. Her song "Precious" is probably my favorite. Really deep song. Lots of things to ponder here, create new thoughts, but yeah well here are the video/lyrics.

Love me or leave me, but please don't decieve me

and say you'll love me how I am

You love the way I fit some ideal,

Not the real woman you've yet to understand

See, love ain't all heaven, and I am no angel

But I do the best I can

You always wanted something more from my body

And said you needed something more from my lovin'

But all you got was me and that's all that I can be,

I'm sorry if it let you down

Now it's no nice excuse, but all the magic was used up on trying to uphold

Some kind of tame, flattering persona that

Soon enough was getting real old

It takes more than pressure to change rock to diamond,

Now all you have is sand slipping through your fingers

You always wanted something more from my body,

And said you needed something more from my lovin'

But all you got was me and that's all that I can be,

I'm sorry if it let you down

But I'm not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy

Tryin' to explain and being ashamed of things you think are wrong with me

I'm not gonna sit around and waste my precious divine energy

Tryin' to explain and being ashamed of what you think is wrong with me

Set you up, you say I set you up

Like I was different than what I am offering you now

Let you down, you say I let you down

And drove your heart around

Did you forget about all the love & the acceptance that you promised me too?

So today, I had to go to UCI to take a test, and the only music playing was from the radio

almost all of it had no real value to it so annoying...

someone should invent something where you can access your iTunes library

from your car, how awesome would that be?

I notice alot of my blogs have to do with music, sorry if it gets annoying

to everyone (or no one) who reads this, enjoy anywayss

blurbs

today, i had nothing to do, so i decided to go to barnes and nobles and look for things to read. I across some really interesting stuff.

One on this japanese scientist who decided to study water and the crystals they form. really interesting. im not sure how he did this, but he had water and put words printed on paper into them such as "beautiful" "hate" "anger" even things like "thank you" and "mozart". Then he took pictures of the crystals that formed to each corresponding word and it was nuts how things like beauty and wisdom had perfect crystals formed, and words like hate had very broken crystals or no crystals at all. "heart broken" even had a crystal in two pieces. the book had a bunch of pictures and everything it was really coool.

the second book was by a musician who became a neuroscientist, and wrote a book about music and the brain. it was so awesome! it talked about why we like certain music, how music affects us and i really cant begin to describe everything that was in it. it really got me interested...

also, some good advice i found just reading through other things. it was talking about relationships with people, specifically when arguments or issues happen. when two people fight, they usually take a side over and issue and they each take one side and fight. what it was suggesting is that you should both take the same side and fight against the issue, i guess this way is that you get rid of the issue and not one another. i thought it was pretty helpful advice, i mean ive never really thought of the situation in that way, see what some curious reading can do? i'm definitely going to go back, read random things, im always up for learning something new or reading something new

sorry this blog is just a bunch of random thoughts, though i think its worth atleast for me to write or put down somewhere.

im still listening to michael jackson songs everyday, am i the only one? timeless music, seriously.

summer feels extra long, i guess that is cause i do have a month longer than the previous years, but each day feels longer too.

what else, im really excited for college now UCI is gonna be fun zot zot, but i miss alot of people now and i am going to miss alot of people even more when school actually starts

i really miss playing music in a big setting, the only chance i get now is with Mr. Torns summer band, which is awesome, but i wish there were more opportunities. i especially miss jazz, gah, some of the song we played were just crazy, Last Season, always got to me. everytime i listen to it i still get the same feeling.

summer jazz band was super fun forgot to mention that,got to play with some people ive never played with before, awesome music too.

speaking of awesome music, dont you just love those songs that just grab ahold of your insides? recently ive been finding alot of music like that.

i think james taylors music is timeless, i watched a live concert dvd the other day with my family during lunch, it was great. you should all have some of his songs if you dont already.

well this has been a run-on blog, peace

cuerpo y alma

This is super random, but here's the lyrics and a video for probably one of my favorite jazz standards ever, Body and Soul. Here's Chris Potter, whatta monster..haha well in this case a very soulful, emotional monster

My heart is sad and lonely
For you I sigh, for you, dear, only
Why haven't you seen it?
I'm all for you, body and soul

I spend my days in longin'
And wond'ring why it's me you're wrongin'
I tell you, I mean it
I'm all for you, body and soul

I can't believe it, it's hard to conceive it
That you'd turn away romance
Are you pretending? It looks like the ending
Unless I could have one more chance to prove, dear

My life a wreck you're making
You know I'm yours for just the taking
I'd gladly surrender myself to you, body and soul

My life a wreck you're making
You know I'm yours for just the taking
I would gladly surrender myself to you, body and soul

Jazz Classical Pop & Sex

Here's an interview from Charles Mcpherson, a jazz saxophonist. I was just watching his interviews for fun since I might attend one of his concerts at Anthology woo! but then he started talking about different music, as well as Shakespeare, and why only a few people may really enjoy it, and I really started to listen. As someone who listens to classical and jazz music a lot, (thats not all i listen to as well), I agree with alot of things he says, he speaks the truth in my opinion... but Watch it! I tried to type out the part of the interview I liked the most, so sorry if a couple words are wrong, itll start around 4:00


"The difference between that music, jazz music and classical music is that, the marketing ability to sell that music has nothing to do with sex.. none. none! Okay, if you take the element of the sexual component, out of pop music, i dont know if that would sell. So when you go to classical concert and youre into classical music, sex persay really doesnt have anything to do with it,if the music has something to do with it..its the same thing with jazz, so if you love music, you love the music. You dont love the way the persons pants fit, or the dress, or how handsome or ugly or pretty or unpretty a performer is its like, how do they sing, what does the voice sound like, this is what youre into. These two musics classical music and jazz music and maybe other musics too, are dealing with music, pure music, like it or not. Has nothing to do with the trappings, pop music in the whole pop consciousness, the whole thing is trappings. Its green smoke, its a guy killing a chicken on the bandstand, its somebody coming making an entrance from the top of this wall on a string, its a guy putting his guitar on fire, its somebody half naked, thats what, if you take all that away... no i mean because people like jazz because they like billie holiday because she could sing her butt off, not because..her buns were this way or that way or shes got green smoke coming out of her ears or she just killed a bunny rabbit.. soo as long as the level of consciousness is like that, which is probably about 4 inches below the naval, then itll never be, neither will shakespeare, neither will jazz, itll never be fertile(word?), maybe that will change.."
- Charles Mcpherson

Just some food for thought. Whatever it is, whether its music, or people or anything, you should appreciate something for what it really is, or for who they reallly are. Dont get caught up with the trappings, its about the substance not the shine. It's annoying, I hear people say or read comments about music artists like "omg she is so sexyyy id wife her" or "mmm i want him now". Now, I know its normal for people to say things like this, but the thing is I hardly hear or see things like "wow thats such a great song" or "i can totally relate to this". There'll always be things like this going on I know that, but I just feel theres a real lack of appreciation for real music these days, and that people and especially the media focus on the things that really don't matter, like looks, sex appeal, what people are wearing. There's a lack of appreciation for a lot of things that are really valuable like literature, art and music. I dunno..

Anyways, the music in my life is awesome. Summer band with Mr. Torns is crazy, we're playing such awesome music. And today summer jazz just started, and its fun! It's been too long since I've really written a blog, the past couple have just been lyrics/videos..I guess this is kinda the same haha but I feel like I wrote more of what I felt this time. Woo!
Till next time