Sally's Song

Here's another Halloween-inspired one, from one of my absolute favorite movies of the holiday. I actually sang this at a voice recital a few years back, and now here it is revisited, with ukulele.

Happy Halloween!!! :D

Zombie - The Cranberries (Cover)

Happy almost Halloween!

In honor of one of my favorite holidays of all (and also the newest season of The Walking Dead :)), this is Zombie by The Cranberries, one of my most favoritest Irish bands.

Obviously, the song isn't actually about zombies, but war. It's emotional. If I didn't just come back from hot yoga, I might have more to say on it, but as such is the case, I am too tired to ramble about it today. I'll leave it at this: I almost cry sometimes when I sing it, it's such moving stuff.

But anyway- have a safe and wonderfully spooky, awesome, crazy, legendary Halloween... I know I will!!! :)

(My wedding is the following morning, that's why!)

Royals - Lorde (Cover)

Royals.

We really do treat them that way, don't we?

Anyone who knows me knows that I have this problem with current media and celebrities. I can get scary callous and bitter while expressing these sentiments, so I'm going to stick to the positive. This song "Royals", and most of you may have heard it, was written by Lorde from New Zealand, age 17 (Age 17!!), and was released earlier this year.

I have such refreshing respect and gratefulness for this girl for understanding and dismissing the gilded lifestyle rampant among young celebrities (and not-so-young). The song shines a glimmer of hope upon the future of popular music and the health and well-being of the younger generations... hopefully, as Lorde has said, they can see through the "b*******" strung about in popular music these days, and decide to chase a "different kind of buzz".

For me, the "high on life" phrase strikes a chord. Good music, the beauty of nature, true love, art... I've always craved a different kind of buzz, and have always been so mind-numbingly confused as to why others refuse to see it.

Besides, it's catchy. :) Enjoy!

Hey Mama Wolf - Devendra Banhart (Cover)

Favorite of Devendra Banhardt's: 'Hey Mama Wolf'.

This song is somewhat spiritual for me, and anyone that knows me well can most likely guess why. Besides the obvious lupine reasons, this song brilliantly and beautifully paints the abstract picture, in the simplest of colors (blues and greens and grays) and in the blink of an eye (more like a reel of images), a marriage becoming a family. Breathing with the lungs of nature, the woods and the mountains, and the sea, this song melds together from all cardinal directions and embraces all the elements in describing the act of a woman becoming a mother, and a man becoming a father.

This song captures exactly how I feel about parenthood. It's something life and perception-changing, and something so uniquely beautiful that it is nature's alone to achieve. It happens in its own time, when stars nestle silently into place and caressing, gripping winds decide it is to be so.

With all of the beautiful new babies coming in to my family, I thought it fitting. :) Congratulations to all of you. You are remarkable.

And though I'm not quite there yet, I believe that our babies wait for us in the sea. Swimming in the sea until we know what to call them now.