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De andre har gått og lagt seg. Jeg er småsjalu. Jeg er også trøtt. Jeg fikk ikke sove i natt. Sist jeg så på klokka var den ti over halv fem eller seks. Jeg husker faktisk ikke om det var 05.42 eller 04.42. I hodet mitt er det bare «halv fem», men samtidig er jeg sikker på at det var 05.?? som jeg så på displayet. Det er ikke så lett å huske, jeg var allerede ganske ør av å IKKE FÅ SOVE. Da jeg la meg trodde jeg at jeg kom til å sovne ganske snart. Sånn ble det altså ikke. Jeg våknet forresten også av mareritt et par timer med dårlig søvn senere, men jeg husker overhodet ikke hva jeg drømte om, annet enn at det ikke var monster, men heller virkelighetsorienterte redsler som skremte meg.

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«Talk Talk Talk Talk» er en skikkelig fin sang. Jeg husker da musikkvideoen var helt ny, og KM delte den på FB. Jeg så den, men syntes bare den var «meh» og ikke noe spesielt gjen-hørbar. Nå har det gått over to år, og jeg hører på den nesten daglig. Lurer på om det samme kommer til å skje med den siste de ga ut, den med teddybjørnen. Den var også bare «meh».

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Det er et par utrolig irriterende fluer i rommet, som surrer og surrer rundt, og setter seg på ALT man ikke vil ha fluer på. Savner virkelig Vapona på dager som dette, men er vel hjerneskada nok som det er.

15.00

De andre er nå våkne.

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Obsessing about music is slightly less disturbing

than all the other things I often end up obsessing over.

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So this has been an ODD week.   I think I might have acquired one new song per day to obsess over, or at least it feels like it.  Might’ve been every other day over two weeks, instead of one.  tbh, I`m fuzzy.  I haven’t been sleeping much.

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Ramin Djawadi – Mhysa

I don’t watch Game of Thrones (I`m saving it, gdi!), but I almost always try listening to music on my Tumblr dash in case it is any good, and quite often it is. Mhysa is one of those I clicked on earlier today.  It’s only been a couple of hours, but it has been playing on almost consecutive repeat since then.

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Ramin Djawadi / The National – The Rains of Castamere

Are you KIDDING ME, Matt Berninger sings a song from Game of Thrones?? *happy face*  Seriously, Matt’s voice is TO DIE FOR (horrible joke is horribly too soon) and I have loved this band for about a year, now.  I didn’t even know they were an indie rock band, which they are according to Wiki.  What does indie even mean, does this make me a hipster or something? *puts on sunglasses but decides against it as it makes typing confusing*  I was introduced to their beautiful song Fake Empire through a certain someone’s Twitter, and have listened to every single song on their discography since then (but Fake Empire is still my favorite).  That Matt sings the already beautiful song The Rains of Castamere just makes me love him (and his voice) even more.

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Halia Meguid – Ravenstag

Halia wrote this wonderfully dark song inspired by the TV show Hannibal.  It has only been out for a week, and it is absolutely beautiful.  It was the only thing I could listen to earlier today, as I tried to go to sleep in the morning hours with noise and sunlight all around.

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Show Death your middle-finger
Walk past corpses and onslaughts
And show the whole wide world our
full-filling  inner thoughts.
But the tickets into Heaven
were sold-out all the same 
And the price for alteration
To be élite in name
Was that we became the others
We were like the others
We were like the others

And we won’t get any further,
We’re back at the start;
But nobody will mourn us,
We’ve played out our part.
We forget the whole damn business,
It doesn’t mean a thing!
We should have gotten further,
But we were shortcoming;
We were like the others
We were like the others
We were like the others

– Kent, Dom Andra

This is what happens when I try translating songs from Swedish into English, whilst still trying to rhyme and keep the original meaning at the same time.

‘Tis not easy!  But good fun.

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This beautiful piece of music is currently the only thing keeping me sane. …-ish.

There’s no accounting for taste, I know.  But here you have it, my perfect track. Maybe I`ll change my mind in a few weeks, maybe in a few years. Who knows?  But right now, this (and most of the other tracks created by the same genius) is the musical incarnation of beauty to me.

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I`m back to being stuck on movie music again.  I don’t think it’s going to last as long as it has previously, since my “normal” collection has expanded so much lately (due to some very good recommendations this year) and taken over my listening time.

 

‘Soundtracks’ would be the only genre I actually sort by.  When listening to my other stuff, I don’t care if it’s classical or R&B or hiphop or rock or trash.  I listen to what I want to listen to, and genre makes no difference in that regard. There’s no accounting for taste, I guess.  But I just don’t care about what genre I`m listening to.  Unless all movie music would be its own genre, that is.  But hey, there’s a lot of difference there too!  I don’t like to mix Hans Zimmer with Alan Silvestri, for example.  Actually, I`m not sure if I like to mix any composer like that at all, now that I think about it.  Zimmer and Harry Gregson-Williams go well together, but since  that’s an intended co-operation, I`m not sure it counts. Because it’s Remote Control Productions.  It’s just different.

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As it is with nearly all composers, most of Alan Silvestri’s stuff sounds the same.  His use of beats and repetitive percussion and then the equally repetitive softer parts just gets a bit much sometimes.  That’s why I really liked the main theme from Captain America, he makes such a recognizable theme, impossible to confuse with other stuff of his!  Ah, but then he does the action-scene music, and it’s like listening to Van Helsing all over again.  Not bad at all, don’t get me wrong, I love that soundtrack as well, it just gets a bit boring after a while.  He goes a bit beyond what I`m used to hearing from him in the Avengers soundtrack, which is probably why I like it so much.  It’s just brilliant!

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I`m currently caught up in the epic that is this new Norwegian(!) composer who sounds a lot like Hans Zimmer.  My brain may have melted a little.  Pardon my meltdown, but this guy has made something so spectacular that I`m AMAZED that I had not even heard about it before now!   Just… listen!

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After ten years of my dad playing his favorite classical music over and over (and then whistling the tunes over and over without noticing), it became a bit much. Not that I hate the music itself or anything (I really do love it), but too much is too much.  There is a limited number on how many times I can hear Vivaldi’s Four Seasons without tiring of it, as it is with all other music.  It’s a shame, really.  Because I still love these old tunes (like Für Elise; still one of my favorites), they just don’t resonate right.

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Leitmotif (Freya and Goldene Äpfel) uit Richar...

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I have suddenly re-developed an intense like for Richard Wagner’s music.  I do admit to a particular interest for Das Rheingold.  Even though I have never actually listened to any of it in detail before now, I find myself recognizing nearly all of the leitmotifs immediately.  Having grown up with this kind of classical music around me, it is of little surprise to me.  It is in fact rather comforting, maybe in the same way that a prodigal lullaby may trigger certain pleasant memories of childhood.

This is what Der Ring des Nibelungen is to me;  a prodigal memory.

I was listening to a soundtrack by Howard Shore (I am not going to mention which one, but the answer is not at all elusive),  and it struck me how similar his style is to Wagner.  All composers have their unique traits, their ‘thread’ of sorts, and I also find that all composers have their ‘threads’ lead back to some major influences in one way or another.  Not at all surprising, to be sure.  It is, after all, the nature of all things to stem from another.  It’s unimportant.  What I was thinking of was rather: how similar some of Shore’s traits were to Wagner’s.  And that’s what got me listening to Der Ring des Nibelungen again.

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Das Rheingold  (Entrance of the Gods)

English: Leitmotif of Siegfried - early form

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Day 28 – A song (that) you are obsessed with

Massive Attack  –  Teardrop

Josè Gonzàlez  –  Teardrop

And if you didn’t know this by now, then I am a little bit dissapointed in you.

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Promt:  What’s the best way to listen to music?

Headphones, because your ears need more damage done to them!

Although I love blasting the speakers of any car I can, there’s just something better about headphones..  Mainly the fact that they are made for blasting out sounds in higher quality, straight into your ears!

The fact that I`m currently loaning a pair of extra high quality headphones (resulting in some serious hearing damage) might have something to do with me being biased.  But hey, I`d answer headphones any day!

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Promt:  Three overplayed songs you love anyways:

Telephone by Lady Gaga

Feel by Robbie Williams

Toxic by Britney Spears

I was thinking of using the overplayed songs in my own gallery, but then realized that it would be impossible to choose only three. So I went for the songs that are always featured on every popular radio channel every time I happen to turn one on. And yet, I still love them!

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Day 27 – A song that you wish you could play (on the piano)

David Bowie – Heroes

Oh hai, another Bowie-song?  What can I say, I love the man!  And I`ve been trying for ages to learn this song, but it’s impossible… It’s just not meant to be.

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Day 26 – A song (that) you (can) play on an instrument

David Bowie – Life on Mars

Oh well, I can play quite a lot of songs on the piano, but this is (to date) my favorite one, both to play (along with Bowie) and also to listen to alone.

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Jeg sitter i dette øyeblikk og hører på Alexander Rybak som synger Viva La Vida av ColdPlay der borte på Vollane (aka Nabohagen)!  Jeg HAR LYST til å løpe bort dit igjen og bli med på allsangen av refrenget, som jeg er bombe-sikker på atte kommer etterhvert sånn at alle kan synge ÅååÅÅÅÅÅåååÅÅH!!

Flashback til to timer tidligere idag:

Jeg sitter på Vollane og hører på øvinga til fyrverkerikonserten ikveld, og mens jeg satt her og koste meg, så fikk jeg plutselig øye på Alexander Rybak i et av partyteltene ved siden av stadionbygningen!  Veldig artig, selv om jeg ikke engang er fan av pjokken!   Nei, jeg tok ikke bilde av ham.

Flashforward 30 minutter:

Okay, så tok jeg noen bilder av ham alikevel.  Han sto jo nesten rett foran meg!  (Jeg tok ikke no bilde mens han sto noen få meter unna meg.  Jeg er ikke manisk fan heller, fyren må få LITT privatliv oppi alle fjortisjentene, ‘aight?)

Han stod skikkelig nærme en liten stund, før han fikk en telefon og løp avgårde langs stranda (der jeg bor) og ble borte.  Jeg så ham senere løpe tilbake samme veien, men da var jeg allerede tilbake på egen veranda.

Og fyrverkeriet har ikke engang begynt enda!

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Day 25 – A song that makes you laugh

Hugh Laurie – Little Girl

Oh, my word!   How can I not laugh??

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Day 24 – A song that you want to play at your wedding

Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes – (The) Time Of My Life

What were you expecting?  Hey, what was I suspecting?  I was honestly going to pass this question and give it all up, until it suddenly hit me!  This might be the only romantic song I know of that would fit, if I was ever to go through the long-winded, utterly boring and completely useless ceremony that some people feel the need to go through in order to prove their monogamous love!

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Day 24 – A song that you want to play at your funeral

Day 23 – A song you would like to be played at your funeral

Blau / Krzysztof Kieslowski & Zbigniew Preisner – Blau Closing Credits

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If I actually have a funeral, which is against my own wishes, I would want this beautiful song from the soundtrack of the French movie  Trois Couleurs:  Blau.

An absolutely wonderful movie, by the way…

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Day 22 – A song that you listen to when you’re sad

Sia – Breathe Me

When I’m sad, I usually listen to music that makes me happy again, or I would only fall into a down-spiraling depression.  This one and Hurt does that to me.

Breathe Me is one of my clockwork songs, the ones that instantly set me in a certain mood.  The way Sweet Head makes me happy and Hurt makes me sad, Breathe Me makes me extremely sad and depressed.  It was my clockwork-emo song when my mum was in the hospital with some serious complications.

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Day 21 – A song that you listen to when you’re happy

Hans Zimmer – Discombobulate

Correct answer would actually be every song on the list, from 01 to 28!   (Excluding 02 and possibly 24)

This one was harder than I originally thought, because it’s which song I listen to when I’m already happy, and not a song that makes me happy.  So I had to imagine what kind of music I put on when I`m already in a good mood, and of course Sherlock Holmes popped up.  No surprise there, really.

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Day 20 – A song that you listen to when you’re angry

Black Sabbath – Paranoid or Planet Caravan

I don’t get angry.  If I ever do, it’ll only last for a few seconds, and I won’t listen to any music then anyways.  I might get sad, hurt, irritated or I might be PMS’ing, but angry is not really present in my current emotional vocabulary.

My dad once called Marilyn Manson my ”angry-music”, but I actually listen to metal (and such) when I`m in a good mood, so that’s not right either.

My two (very different) choices represent a few other feelings.

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