sleep? bah.

[dragonlady7]

I don't practice Santeria
I ain't got no crystal ball
If I had a million dollars well I'd
I'd spend it all.

Yeah, the playlist's still going.

what I really wanna say
I can't define.

(That's Sublime's Santeria, by the way, off their self-titled album. An excellent car tape because the bass is strong yet actually interesting.)

And I'm still going. I'm kinda sleepy but not sleepy enough to sleep.

I'm writing, but I'm writing stuff that I already knew I was gonna write. I even have first drafts of much of it. Some of it's even been posted before, in earlier draft form. And i doubt I'm improving it that much.

So I should go to bed.

But it's still raining, and I'm still not ready to sleep. And I'm not going to try, because I'd wake Dave up again.

I'd try sleeping in my own bed, but there's too much crap on it from me rearranging my room today and not finishing putting everything away. My room may never be clean. Yes. I was just using Dave for his not-covered-in-debris bed.

I don't think too much
I been drivin' all night long.
(Driving All Night Long, Ryan Adams (written by Bruce Robinson))

I can't update this; livejournal is down, status.livejournal.org is down, and when lj is down it makes my MovableType blog choke and die because the crosspost function has no error tolerance. So, I guess it's a sign. Bed. Fictional characters might let me sleep now.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Bruce Robison.

Who also wrote that ballad, "Travelling Soldier". Beautiful song.

Great Americana songwriter, but it's a shame that more people hear his songs covered, since he has a nice voice.

darius

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[(Anonymous)]

That MP3 isn't Ryan Adams. That is Bruce Robison.

I was a little suspicious, since "Drivin'" didn't seem like something Ryan Adams would cover, especially since he seems to have moved on from alt-country Jesus to this weird mix of Coldplay, Replacements, and avant-garde Radiohead.

Adams has that adenoid thing going on, like Paul Simon. Robison has a nice tenor, with just a little suggestion of a twang. The lucky dog is also married to a Dixie Chick...I believe the hottie fiddle player.

That was quite a bit of alt-country music trivia. I'm a hick, but an educated one.

darius

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[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Really?
Dude, it sounds like him.

And why, at the beginning of the mp3, does the singer say "this is an old Bruce Robison song" (I did hear that there was no N but wrote it wrong), if he IS Bruce Robison?

Good thing I posted it. My music collection is more eclectic than my education is.

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[(Anonymous)]

My bad, I missed it -- but it's still definitely not Ryan Adams. The original sounds very similar. After a quick bit of MP3 digging, backed up with google, it's Jack Ingram.

Jack Ingram's also of the same ilk; Texas alt-country singer songwriter. He wrote this uber-catchy called song called "The One Thing" which wouldn't get out of my head for the better part of a month.

"One thing good as gold,
I'm nothing without you to hold
One thing I know in this world
Is I need you to be my girl..."

So simple, so catchy. I think it's a sad day when if you're looking for clever-but-catchy hooks, just-long-enough guitar solos, and nice tenors (heck, even political statements), country and americana will do you much better than rock.

darius