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owlectomyI'm making a playlist to encourage myself because I'm doing public readings on March 18th and 19th, which I'm really psyching myself out about. And the thing is, typically, I don't have trouble once I'm actually up on stage. It's just that before that I'll work myself up into a panic. So it's all music about "Do your best! Be awesome!" and things that just make me happy.
(I've had only one bona fide dreadful experience with public speaking. I had saved my paper onto a floppy disk and taken it to the friendly neighborhood copy shop for them to print it out; they got a corrupted file. I screamed and panicked and finally decided, well, I'll take some time and think about what I was going to say, and I should be okay as long as I don't have to go first.
I had to go first.)
Japanese songs:
Revolutionary Girl Utena OST -- Rinbu Revolution -- Let's live our lives heroically, let's live them with style, indeed.
Shiina Ringo -- Maru no uchi Sadistic -- It's a song about coming up to Tokyo to pursue a career as a musician, and being completely poor and freaked out about it, but just so completely in love with music that nothing else matters. Also, it's about riding the subway in Tokyo, and therefore it makes me happy.
Bump of Chicken -- Diamond -- "It doesn't matter how many times you fall over."
Masami Okui -- Sou da, zettai! -- Don't you need just a little corny J-Pop? "Even if it's not 100% perfect, isn't it just your heart that really matters? And even God up there will say, hey, you did good."
English songs:
Bruce Cockburn -- Get Up Jonah -- This really isn't so much a happy song! And I don't want to appropriate a serious and protesty song to be just about my own anxieties. But ultimately this is a song that says, Hey, when you've got something important to do, you can't hide from it just because you're scared.
Bruce Cockburn -- Lovers in a Dangerous Time -- Sometimes all I need to hear is, "You gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight."
Indigo Girls -- Let It Be Me -- I have no commentary, this is just one of those songs that makes me feel strong.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch -- Wig In A Box -- It's hard to explain why I adore this song so much, except to the extent that it's about... the slow realization that you have the right to be the person that you are.
Leonard Cohen -- Anthem -- I know it's a cliche, and yet, "Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything -- that's how the light gets in" is the best statement I can think of for the theme of "Love Story."
Mountain Goats -- Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton -- I think this is my favorite song about how important it is to be allowed to dream ridiculous dreams. It's incredible, to me, how economically it manages to sketch out that feeling of getting together with your friends and putting yourself towards something you care deeply about.
"When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you."
Stan Rogers -- The Mary Ellen Carter -- The video is introduced with an Inspirational Story; the song proper starts at 1:40. "And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow, with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go -- Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain, and like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again." This is my favorite song about a boat.
Wicked -- Defying Gravity -- "Too late for second-guessing, too late to go back to sleep, it's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and leap... it's time to try defying gravity."
(I've had only one bona fide dreadful experience with public speaking. I had saved my paper onto a floppy disk and taken it to the friendly neighborhood copy shop for them to print it out; they got a corrupted file. I screamed and panicked and finally decided, well, I'll take some time and think about what I was going to say, and I should be okay as long as I don't have to go first.
I had to go first.)
Japanese songs:
Revolutionary Girl Utena OST -- Rinbu Revolution -- Let's live our lives heroically, let's live them with style, indeed.
Shiina Ringo -- Maru no uchi Sadistic -- It's a song about coming up to Tokyo to pursue a career as a musician, and being completely poor and freaked out about it, but just so completely in love with music that nothing else matters. Also, it's about riding the subway in Tokyo, and therefore it makes me happy.
Bump of Chicken -- Diamond -- "It doesn't matter how many times you fall over."
Masami Okui -- Sou da, zettai! -- Don't you need just a little corny J-Pop? "Even if it's not 100% perfect, isn't it just your heart that really matters? And even God up there will say, hey, you did good."
English songs:
Bruce Cockburn -- Get Up Jonah -- This really isn't so much a happy song! And I don't want to appropriate a serious and protesty song to be just about my own anxieties. But ultimately this is a song that says, Hey, when you've got something important to do, you can't hide from it just because you're scared.
Bruce Cockburn -- Lovers in a Dangerous Time -- Sometimes all I need to hear is, "You gotta kick at the darkness till it bleeds daylight."
Indigo Girls -- Let It Be Me -- I have no commentary, this is just one of those songs that makes me feel strong.
Hedwig and the Angry Inch -- Wig In A Box -- It's hard to explain why I adore this song so much, except to the extent that it's about... the slow realization that you have the right to be the person that you are.
Leonard Cohen -- Anthem -- I know it's a cliche, and yet, "Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything -- that's how the light gets in" is the best statement I can think of for the theme of "Love Story."
Mountain Goats -- Best Ever Death Metal Band In Denton -- I think this is my favorite song about how important it is to be allowed to dream ridiculous dreams. It's incredible, to me, how economically it manages to sketch out that feeling of getting together with your friends and putting yourself towards something you care deeply about.
"When you punish a person for dreaming his dream, don't expect him to thank or forgive you."
Stan Rogers -- The Mary Ellen Carter -- The video is introduced with an Inspirational Story; the song proper starts at 1:40. "And you, to whom adversity has dealt the final blow, with smiling bastards lying to you everywhere you go -- Turn to, and put out all your strength of arm and heart and brain, and like the Mary Ellen Carter, rise again." This is my favorite song about a boat.
Wicked -- Defying Gravity -- "Too late for second-guessing, too late to go back to sleep, it's time to trust my instincts, close my eyes, and leap... it's time to try defying gravity."
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4/3/10 02:41 (UTC)(no subject)
4/3/10 03:04 (UTC)負けない事
投げ出さない事
逃げ出さない事
信じ抜く事
駄目になりそうな時 それが一番大事
Wonderful earworm.
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4/3/10 03:23 (UTC)A wonderful earworm, yes.
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4/3/10 13:10 (UTC)ETA-- that video has appalling sound, now I'm awake to hear it properly. This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDXtNBc0ml0&feature=related) is what it's supposed to sound like.
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4/3/10 06:28 (UTC)I have a kind of Ganbatte! playlist that's about a mile long, but didn't have these. Will listen later!
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5/3/10 18:35 (UTC)