Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Songs I Somehow Never Heard - Maps
I've been gone a while... well, if 11 days is a while... I don't know if I even have any readers left? I wasn't off doing anything wild and exciting. In fact, I think that's why I haven't blogged. However, next week I'm going to New York to look at pictures of My Morning Jacket (because I haven't seen enough of those, right?) so maybe I'll have something mildly interesting to say about that. If you're in NYC you should check out the show. Sam Erickson has made a lot of purty images of the hubs & his compatriots.
ANYWAY... the first time I heard this Yeah Yeah Yeah's song was... err... about a month ago when they were on Saturday Night Live. They performed "Maps" as their second song and I was all like - hey, maybe I dig this band that I before tonight never cared about at all. Their A&R guy is a friend of mine and I told him I really enjoyed the musics and that's when I found that a) the song is old and b) apparently I've had my head in the sand because it was a big hit. Then it turns out that no one I know could believe I'd never heard it.
ANYWAY PT 2... okay, that was probably a boring explanation for how I discovered "Maps" but whoosh! I've been working on some fictiony things, and it's become the go-to song for getting me in the mood to delve inside the minds and hearts of 18 year old magical assassins. It's killer for sure.
Soon it's time for So You Think You Can Dance so w00t! for having something new to write about (I tried to watch Fashion Show but Isaac Mizrahi, God love him, is no Tim Gunn and Kelly Rowland... not even gonna go there). I have seen some movies lately - Adventureland (made me want to start Vladventureland the All Vampire Amusement Park, but I couldn't get any bites on that one HAW HAW HAW), Wolverine (poor Hugh Jackman, poor Taylor Kitsch, I mean, my God, I'm even going to say poor Ryan Reynolds. Velveeta to the nth degree), and Star Trek (I say "live long and prosper" to this reboot! Haw Haw again!).
Okay, back to being depressed by the season finale of House.
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last week i saw jon brion & the section quartet perform this song. i could tell the crowd knew it, lots of giggles at the string arrangement, but it was new to me, too. funny how some stuff just gets by you. fun fact: i can't name two radiohead songs. just the way things work out.
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