What is in my head August 28
28 Wednesday Aug 2013
Posted Music, Pointless Crap
in28 Wednesday Aug 2013
Posted Music, Pointless Crap
in22 Thursday Aug 2013
Posted Billboard Hot 100
inWe are back to the pre-Billboard Top Hits of the 1940’s with a classic and a favorite of my grandparents; Bing Crosby.
Song: Only Forever
Artist: Bing Crosby
Duration: 9 weeks (October 19-December 14)
Listen to my commentary on this classic song:
Link to Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNCt6hkCUic
(Billboard Logo from Wikipedia Commons)
22 Thursday Aug 2013
Posted Future
inI have a joke with my friends that I am a words gal living in a numbers world. I always wrote as a child; having notebooks, diaries, journals for every occasion. I never considered myself a writer until I got paid for it. And even when getting paid for it, it wasn’t something that came naturally to me. I have to sit down and be in the zone to write. Sometimes this consists of grabbing pen and writing for hours on just a random thought but most of the time it is days or weeks of putting off writing until I force myself take action. Writing is not my career, although I would love it to be. I seldom feel like sharing my writing with people. It could be a fear of rejection but I think what stops me most often is that I do not think people will give a shit about what I have to say. I am just a random twenty something from San Diego, what could I possibly give to the world that it hasn’t already seen? I’ll read a book or watch a movie and I do not think I could ever make that type of cohesive product.
So why am I a words gal in a numbers world? By trade I am an accountant. All day long, I am working with numbers. With numbers there are formulas, a number you are trying to reach, unlike words where you can decide where they want to go whether you follow a formula or not. This is why I struggle with keeping this blog active. When I got paid for writing, I wrote articles. My only originality was trying to figure out a different way to say something thousands of news sources across the country already said. With this blog I have the freedom to do whatever I want and sometimes that means nothing. It is almost overwhelming to try to bring the jumble ideas that goes on in my heads to paper (or screen). Other blogs have a niche like entertainment, fashion or fitness that appeals to the public and I guess I haven’t found my niche yet. Hopefully I find it soon because I imagined this blog to be where I am able to write freely and how I want to write.
And because I got all deep and emotional on this, I will leave you with a clip of my performance at the San Diego fair this past June:
09 Friday Aug 2013
Posted Billboard Hot 100, Music
inI love music. I think there are a lot of people who can agree that music is a big part of their life’s. A while ago my good friend Barbi Crash went through all the US BillBoard Hot 100 hits of the 1980s and was able to look back on how the people of that decade viewed music. It was so interesting to me because I am an admitted music snob and constantly find myself questioning some of the top songs of today. Additionally, I question my knowledge of music when there is so much music I have yet to hear. I loved his idea but I do not think I can be satisfied with just the 80s–oh no–I am going to start from the beginning. From a time before the BillBoard Hot 100 and before the “oldies”. I am going to start in 1940, when the songs were based on a poll of the top 10 record sales in the publication ‘National List of Best Selling Retail Records”. Let’s go back to 1940!
09 Friday Aug 2013
Posted Uncategorized
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