Song of the day: Part 1.

I have been thinking about music a lot lately... mostly because I can think about it without thinking about anything else, but also because I can listen to music while I work and therefore it isn't on the procrastinations. A bunch of my friends are doing the song per day quiz that circled the blogisphere and is now a cool thing to do on facebook. I did the quiz back when, and I thought about doing it again via facebook then decided that I was just trying to procrastinate. I still consider it, it is still procrastinating. I then thought that perhaps it would be fun to do a similar thing with less guidelines, sort of a song that you want to write about today for whatever reason kind of thing. Because often I will get a song in my head, or a song will make me think of something... probably because that is what music is made to do. And so I thought that would be fun, rather than just the walls of musical text I have been presenting lately, a little more thought out, ordered, concise. Anyway, this is my first attempt at that, and if it doesn't work out for us, it may be my last.

My song of the day is Fire of unknown origin by the Blue Oyster Cult.

I came across this song watching Supernatural, and I wasn't familiar with it, probably because it was released and had it's heyday in 1981 which was before I was born. I am pretty sure this more mellow, less 80s metal version that I like is a cover but I don't know by whom and it may just be rebalanced or a weird recording. I like that it is kind of eerie. Because of the Supernatural soundtrack, and because I have been really busy, I have been listening to a lot of 80s rock lately (probably early 90s and late 70s too but you get what I mean by that kind of rock right?). The thing about 80s rock is that it is entertaining without being invasive, you don't have to listen to it if you are concentrating but if you want to rock out a little you can, and it makes you life seem SO much more epic because that genre of songs have been based on movies soundtracks so they make you feel like you are participating in a weird slow motion montage of your own, that someone somewhere has decided to emphasize that you are building up to something even if you don't know what.

"Swept her up and off my wavelength

Swallowed her up
Like the ocean in a fire
So thick and grey"

I think today I found a way to channel something I am angry about into something creative, and I am cautiously optimistic about that. Sure, I don't have time to actually do it, but at least I have found another option.