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Time Warp

I've just come back from a wedding. It's 3:08 AM and I've discovered that the time of my posts is all wrong! Don't know what is going on there, but there it is!

What I've learned tonight: You DON'T change your wedding date to get a band with an accordian, you DON'T serve soup at 2:30 AM and you DO, by any means, change the seating chart so you DON'T sit next to a) your parents, b) a drunken uncle or c) anywhere near the band but close to an emergency exit!

Take this wisdom to heart and remember: Nazdravlja se s človekom, ne s pijačo! (Wouldn't have worked in English, so just go with it!)

Movie Night

Well, not exactly. It was a night of film music. The Logatec Wind Orchestra performed the most famous pieces of film music from Star Wars, Superman, The Magnificent 7, Jurassic Park, James Bond and of course Morricone's masterpiece from the Dollars trilogy.

All in all it was a great show. The orchestra took a while (about half way into the Star Wars piece) to get warmed up and pull it together but when they did, they were unstoppable. Alongside the music, they also prepeared clips from the films acording to what the music was describing. Seing as it is very heard to time live music to a specific time frame, they did a great job. They were pretty much on point the whole time and when they slowed down, someone pushed the pause button and waited it out. It looked pretty funny but it worked.

There we loads of people there and, of course, nowhere to sit. So, we stood in the back for a couple of "songs" and than we found a seat in the very-near-by pub and tried to guess the film. The most comfusing was James Bond. We couldn't figure it out until about a minute into the piece when the famous theme began. And all through the piece there were strange parts that weren't at all tipical for the film.

As the last number they played music from a 1957 Slovenian film "Ne čakaj na Maj" (something like "Don't Wait for the Month of May") which was pretty much just the title song and not much else. I wouldn't say it qualifies as film music because the song itself is pretty famous around here.

I love good classical music and I love music for film, fo for me, this was a great night. I remember the orchestra being better but they have a lot of new young people now and they are trully on their way to their foremr glory. One of the trumpeters even transcribed the 20th Century Fox theme for the wind orchestra (it was originally composed for simphony orchestra) and that to me is very impressing.

I leave you with the song "Ne čakaj na maj", composed by Borut Lesjak, lyrics by Fran Milčinski

This morning I was woken up by the monstrous voice of one of my personal greates, Mr. Mike Patton. This is a song he produced in his project Lovage which I just love. The album is called Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady by and I believe it's the sexiest music I've ever heard. It's steamy hot, creepy and dramatic and it just gets my juices flowing. Anything Mike Patton puts his hands on does that for me, really, but I'll talk about that some other time. For now, enjoy Anger Management.

my inner demons compel me to be here

your cheeks are flush like rose petals

you're consumed with rage but i'm consumed with you

our eyes intertwine through the haze

intoxicated by your bloodshot stare

in all of my dreams i never thought i'd see

a face that could launch a thousand ships

and the music was like wind in your hair

the moonlight caressed your silhouette

kiss of ocean mist is in the air

why must god punish me this way

lay down my hand the next move is yours

as you undress me with your frozen eyes

in all of my dreams I never thought I'd see

an endless love to share my blue lagoon

and the music was like wind in your hair

the moonlight caressed your silhouette

kiss of ocean mist is in the air

why must god punish me this way

happiness is hard to come by

but I've had my fair share

the satin sheets, the lemon peels

the minor keys, the major pills

we've climbed the mountain, saw the top

and planted the apple seed

and can't you see we could've had it all

and the music was like wind in your hair

the moonlight caressed your silhouette

kiss of ocean mist is in the air

why must God punish me this way

and the music was like wind in your hair

the moonlight caressed your silhouette

kiss of ocean mist is in the air

why must god punish me this way

why must god punish me this way

this way, this way, this way ...

Ready to Start

I've just listened to the new Arcade Fire EP or Single or a pre-album or whatever you may call it for the first time. I believe it is called The Suburbs, the songs are: The Suburbs, Month of May, Ready to Start (hence the title of this post) and We Used to Wait.

My first thought was: True AF but not really. Sounds kind of wierd but there it is. Wierd is the oppinion, not the music. Well, just wierd enough. And now I'm babbling.

I loved Ready to Start and I've already posted these words on my FB wall (as I am one to do):

"If I was scared, I would

And if I was bored, you know I would

And if I was yours, but I'm not..."

Right after posting this I realised it would cause some raised eyebrows and trigger a chain of worried comments since I have a boyfriend, but nothing yet. I'm not holding my breth.

So, back to the music... Before I get into it, I'd just like to say that I've only listened to it once and my oppinion may change.

It's not as epic and pompous as I remember AF to be. It's much more playful, lighter and more "la-di-da", but it's still tipical AF off-beat, cool hippy music. Win Butler's voice makes it more AF than anything else. Without him the music would be very different. Just wrong.

The moment that Month of May began to play, I was convinced that I had my winamp player set on random. The song begins as a punk-biker's hymn would. "Wierd", I thought as the lyrics at one point say: "In the month of May, everybody sing love." But what do I know. I haven't had time to read, understand and interpret the lyrics yet.

I used to really love AF but I kind of lost track of what they were doing, as I often do. The same thing happened with me and Interpol (at this moment, I'm brushing up on their discography).

I've been "preparing" for the Bilbao festival that begins in about a week and a half and I've had Pearl Jam, Skunk Anansie and mostly Faith No More in my ears the whole time. A friend, who is kind of an alarm clock and calendar for music and concerts, kept nagging me to get back into AF and Interpole since they both had some new stuff out recently. Tonight I decided to take him up on his nagging and I am NOT sorry!

And here's the thing. This is why I love music so much and can never get enough of it, ever. I listen to something new (or old-new as odds would have it) and I get swept away. And I keep getting swept away each time I listen to the same thing and find something new to inspire me.

I guess this is not a bad first post. I've written about music I listen to, about my future plans and about how I feel about music. This blog will also feature some other aspects of my life that are in any way affected by what I listen to or, well, don't. There is not a lot I don't or won't listen to at least once and I have an opinion on everything.

Expect concert and album reviews, my own jammering about music, useful tips on jogging, sometimes even cooking but it's all mostly music. If you have something to say, don't hesitate or hold back. I'll try to keep my answers and posts as up-to-date as I possibly can.

As I've said in the description, I'm writing in English because sometimes it's easier to get it out when words get stuck in your mouth. I wonder who said that... I guess it's my quote now. I can, however, quote an Ani Difranco song: "I can't shut it now 'cause there's something in it."

P.S.: I'm just discovering how much I've missed Interpol and that they're the perfect jogging music. You get so into it that you forget you are actually torturing your knees and spitting out your lungs.