Feeling and Music

I have always had a relationship with music. My parents both sing. All my sisters do too. I don't really remember not singing. (Just like I don't remember not reading something. But as always, that's for another entry, if ever I do get around to writing it.)

Spending a bit of time with niece earlier today reminded me about this relationship. It started with Cookie Monster's C is for Cookie. This progressed to all the number songs i can remember listening to and singing with from Sesame Street.

All was light and breezy. And then I came across this.

I so love this song and the movie it came from. Since I'm not allowed to post the video itself here, copyright and all, please bear while i just provide the link.(Of course, there is always a chance I'm really just a tech moron. If you can't click it. please just copy it. hee-hee! I already tried the insert link option, wouldn't work for me. )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpmILPAcRQo&NR=1&feature=fvwp

My feelings are stirred once again. Sadness for the loss of the real Johnny Castle, Patrick Swayze. A dash of happiness for seeing the dance routine I never tire of. A sense of loss too for an innocent time, when life was less complicated and people seemed to be what they seemed. My head would bob and my body would sway with Baby, reminding me of the lightness of feeling that comes over me when i get to dance.

I can be quite a sentimental person when the mood hits me. So after this song, i looked for and found this nest song. It's one of those almost unknown songs which came from one of those not so known movies (read: not quite commercial). Please allow me the pleasure of introducing you to God, Give Me Strength from a movie called Grace of My Heart.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCGTBZfaYck

Now, this song always reminds me of Vonda Shepard. Yes, of the Ally McBeal association. And then it leads me to an artist I discovered recently through a dance reality show (So You Think You Can Dance). Her name is Rachael Yamagata. The first of hers I learned of is Be Be Your Love. I met this song when I was struggling with trying to accept that the love I feel may not find fruition.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2_cX7ji0bk

And Rachael gave me another song which quite touched my heart. Exploring her songs on Youtube led me to find this version which used Cold Mountain as the backdrop of the song. I don't know how many people loved, let alone like Cold Mountain. But it spoke to me of a love between two people who shared unwavering hope, unwavering trust and unwavering determination that they will be together no matter the odds. What could be more romantic than that? How much more sublime can love be? Ah, the tears cometh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5Wm7fpIvs

All this talk of love brings me to the song I have first encountered as a teenager. Just like Time of My Life, this is a song and movie combo which will always be engraved in my heart. The song? The Last Time I Felt Like This. The movie? Same Time, Next Year. That movie never fails to make me cry.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=si_1mpmVECA

Now, that's enough sentimentality for one entry. I have so many more songs in my head and in my heart. Maybe I will have a chance to share them.

This blog, I have always meant it to be the one place where I can be myself, pour my heart out, be crazy, be a bitch, feel however I want to feel. Please allow me this indulgence. This is the one place i don't have to pretend to be smarter, or more mature. D is just D. Crazy beautiful? I'd like to think so.

(O, wala nang kokontra! LOL)