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Mood to Burn Bridges

Published on January 9, 2009 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

I have a lot to say right now. But I’m not in a good space to say it.

Y’all know I love Neko Case a lot. No artist moves me like she does.

Past couple days I’ve slipped back into some unhealthy behaviors; since I was a kid it is always music that helps to pull me through.

This song speaks to me because I changed for a real, a long while back now, but with that change came brand new legs and those legs slip out from under me some days and when I’m trying to assert myself I end up looking like some asshole martyr but you see, when it really comes down to it I don’t care because it is still all a learning curve and at least I’m asserting myself and making an effort to learn the correct way.  A year a go I didn’t give a shit how I came across. I know these new legs aren’t full of muscles yet, just some burst veins but I’m working out, a lot.

* SO MANY PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN MY TOWN
THEY MIND TO MY BUSINESS THEY’VE NONE OF THEIR OWN
THEY ARE SO HAPPY NOW THAT I’VE DONE WRONG
I’M SURPRISED THEY DON’T COME UP AND THANK ME

SO IF YOU HAVE MORAL ADVICE
I SUGGEST YOU JUST TUCK IT ALL AWAY
‘CAUSE MY MOOD TO BURN BRIDGES IS NOT UNLIKE MY MOOD TO DIG DITCHES
DON’T CROSS ME ON EITHER A DAY
BABY

DON’T MAKE MISTAKES OR BE HUMAN
THEY’LL SAVOR YOUR EVERY FALSE MOOD
AND THE FEAR THAT THEY HAVE, DAMS THAT WILL BREAK, IF EVER CONFRONTED WITH TRUTH

SO IF YOU HAVE MORAL ADVICE
I SUGGEST YOU JUST TUCK IT ALL AWAY
‘CAUSE MY MOOD TO BURN BRIDGES IS NOT UNLIKE MY MOOD TO DIG DITCHES
DON’T CROSS ME ON EITHER A DAY
BABY

FROM THE WELL OF THEIR HEARTS SPRINGS A POISON
THAT MIXED WITH SUSPICION AND RECKLESS DERISION AND
SOMETHING THEY READ ON A CHURCH TOILET STALL
MAKES THEM THINK THAT THEIR LIVES ARE MUCH BETTER THAN MINE ON A SOAPBOX THAT LADDERS
THEM TALL

SO IF YOU HAVE MORAL ADVICE
I SUGGEST YOU JUST TUCK IT ALL AWAY
I SAID MY MOOD TO BURN BRIDGES, MY MOOD TO DIG DITCHES
DON’T YOU CROSS ME ON EITHER A DAY

I SAY THOSE ARROWS MAY FIND ME, I HEAR YOU RIGHT BEHIND ME
DON’T CROSS ME ON EITHER A DAY

* property of Neko Case

BREAK YOUR HEART

Published on December 6, 2008 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

Sometimes nothing says it better than a song.

A personal favourite and I cried when I saw her sing it live.  Of course I did.

* Oh people downcast in despair
See the disillusion everywhere
Hoping their bad luck will change
Gets a little harder everyday

People struggle
People fight for the simple pleasures in their life
The trouble comes from everywhere
It’s a little more than you can bear

I know that it will hurt
I know that it will break your heart
The way things are
And the way they’ve been

And the way they’ve always been

People shallow
Self-absorbed
See the push and shove for their rewards
When I, me, mine, is on their minds
You can read about it in their eyes

People ruthless
People cruel
The damage that some people do
Full of hatred
Full of pride
It’s enough to make you lose your mind

I know that it will hurt
I know that it will break your heart
The way things are
And the way they’ve been

Yeah I know that it will hurt
I know that it will break your heart
The way things are
And the way they’ve been

Don’t spread the discontent
Don’t spread the lies
Don’t make the same mistakes with your own life
You know [ a little love survives ]

Yeah I know that it will hurt
I know that it will break your heart
The way things are
And the way they’ve been

Don’t spread the discontent
Don’t spread the lies
Don’t make the same mistakes with your own life
And don’t disrespect yourself
Don’t lose your pride
And don’t think everybody’s going to choose your side
Oh no…
Oh no…
Oh no…
Oh no…
No no…

*Property of Natalie Merchant

OMG they are so gorgeous

Published on November 16, 2008 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

Oh what I forgot to mention that I’m going to the New Kids on the Block concert on Friday? The love I have for my friends holds no bounds. Rhonda gets here on Wednesday she has a five star V.I.P ticket and I’m fifth row.  This is going to be one of those life experiences I’m sure.

I am not a fan. Not.At.All.

C.J and I were talking over email as we often do, here is an excerpt.

Me to C.J:

so umm can you believe i am going to the new kids concert! that is how much i love rhonda. holy shit i will NOT be able to stop laughing. taking 100 pairs of ear plugs. im seriously afraid that the place will smell like wet pussy from all the riled up ladies. ew gross times 900.

C.J back to me:

You are talking to a man that got swept into a Robbie Williams Concert on a wave of Estrogen. 95% of ALL un-planned births (Actually both pregnancies and births) are because of New Kids concerts. Please please please play it safe. Tape it up before you leave the flat. It’s the safest way. be it Sello, Gaffa or Duct….. tape it up before your journey.

Good thing Adam had that there vasectomy.

John Denver

Published on November 15, 2008 by Corinna Carlson | 0 Comments

I have never hidden my love for John Denver.  Even as a kid when my friends would come over for lunch and we’d have Kraft Dinner feasts, I had this habit of putting on the John Denver and performing full solo air band performances with perfect lip synching and ‘dance moves’ to good ol’ Johnny D.

Over the years many people have given me a lot of John Denver CDs as ‘gag gifts’ which to me are the best because I can’t own enough John Denver. When my parents moved to Bali I came into the possession of all the piano books my mom and I used to use. I would play Today constantly.  His music is pretty easy to play and being that I already liked him I used to play a lot of John Denver on the piano.

He also sings my favourite Christmas carol Please, Daddy (don’t get drunk this Christmas) and he isn’t making light of alcoholism. John would’ve never done that. He did NOT want to see his momma cry.

I also have John Denver and the Muppets Christmas on CD and let us not forget I don’t even like Christmas AT ALL.  ‘Cept for some Christmas songs that is it the rest can kiss my ass.  I also own a doctored copy of John Denver and the Muppets Rocky Mountain High.  I guess they didn’t want parents to have to explain plane crashes and death to kids or something because the plane crash scene in which John Denver doesn’t even die in and some silly muppet crashes the plane into the lake has been taken out.

Even though I think I only remember it because I’ve been told about it so many times I did get to see him live at Canada’s Wonderland with Gordon Lightfoot when I was seriously little. I do know that some of my memories from that day are legit but I was pretty little.  Seriously sucks he died before I got to see him as an adult.  Speaking of Three Chord Gord, as a kid I LOVED Kenny Rogers and HATED Gordon Lightfoot I would whine and complain whenever my parents would put him on but I could not get enough of Lucille and Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town.  Now those are about the only two Kenny Rogers songs I can stand and I fucking love Gordon Lightfoot.

I’ll have to accept that I’ll never get to see Johnny D and Three Chord Gord bust up the stage together and just be happy I get to make Adam as jealous as a pig staring at another pig rolling in shit and that pig can’t reach the shit because I got to see Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Van Morrison together at the same time.  Not on stage together at the same time though as IF their egos could have withstood that, their brains would have exploded and everyone would have been covered in musical genius brains, they couldn’t afford that.

Did you know that John Denver was one of the first artists to stand up against musical censorship?  I know, totally A.W.E.S.O.M.E.  I think it is funny that my parents never knew that till I told them but my mom always knew his real name and I always have to look it up. I just did, he was born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr.

The moral of this post is that John Denver makes me happy like sunshine on my shoulders, and blossoms still clinging to a vine.