Friday Music Blog: At World's End

My obsessions know no bounds. Some say I have the making of great stalker material, but I like to think I'm more along the lines of: joie de vivre.

We all know Captain Jack has been my raison d'etre--okay, probably still is. (Harry does run pretty neck and neck, but if both of them were going to get hit by a bus, I'd save Jack first.)

Last Friday, after a spectacular bit of drinking with Sin at the local Trops (I had a half pina colada, half rum rummer, which was funnily enough called: A Pain In The Ass--how apt), we roamed around a bit and ended up at the local Target. We roamed the mall; but I soon began hunting for POTC: At World's End, the soundtrack.

One of my favorite music purchases for me is to buy soundtracks. I must own more soundtracks than...well, anyone. I have a Harry Potter one, yes. But Target did not have said soundtrack; the mall closed and I couldn't return to the music store and get the lone copy they had. Sin and I parted ways around 10, and I darted off to the local Wal-Mart to find the soundtrack. (I can be very relentless in my pursuit of something, I know.)

And there it was. A lone copy--right there at eye level--and I skipped out of the store (after I paid for it) and played it all the way home. And all week, really. At work. In the car. If I had a CD player in my room, I'd probably play it for when I went to sleep at night. I went and found the lyrics for the "Hoist the Colors" song; and I sing along with the little boy in the first track. (The words are very interesting by the way.)

My favorite track is probably #11. It's the one where Jack and Davy fight on the main mast. I love that...bit...the rise and fall of it. It's so exhilirating. The track that immediately follows is the one that's for Will and Elizabeth--and it's so romantic and heartbreaking, I get choked up all the time listening to it.

Do you like movie soundtracks? Do you own any? Which ones and why? And can you listen to a soundtrack and pinpoint where in the movie we're at?

Friday Music Blog, a Possible New Routine

I thought I would start a routine. Mondays are probably “Random Hellion Topics” and Wednesdays would be my movie blog; and Fridays, joyful, wonderful perfect Fridays would be music. *hops in the air like King David*

This week since I’ve been on such a Stranger Than Fiction kick, I thought I would focus on my favorite song from the movie, “Whole Wide World.” If you’ve known me more than five minutes, you know I obsess easily. POTC comes to mind. (5 weeks, guys! FIVE WEEKS! 35 DAYS!) And if I fall in love with a song, I will play it over and over and over again. Case in point, in college, while dying my hair (which is approximately a 45 minute process), I put George Strait’s Famous Last Words of a Fool on repeat as the girls were dying my hair. Around minute 43, my friend Nicki, who is unaware a ‘repeat’ button exists, asks, “When does this song end?” (*sounding faintly desperate, faintly depressed*) “Oh, I’m sorry, I have this on repeat. It’s been playing again and again.” Nick’s face was actually quite priceless in that moment. I’m still not allowed to play that song in her presence.

Such is the case with “Whole Wide World.” I wasn’t content with just getting the movie. I had to buy the song. Then I put the song on repeat one day, and had my door shut (so the co-workers wouldn’t catch on)—and listened to it in absolute bliss. The song is 2 minutes and 59 seconds long. There are 480 minutes in an 8 hour day; so I got to listen to approximately 160 times. Before anyone starts sending me Xanex for my OCD, I *did* put the song into a mix of songs the next day. So now I only get to hear it about 7 times a day.

Now that everyone is thanking God that they don’t actually have to hang out with me in real life, let me repeat that moment in the movie when Harold sings this song is so sweet…and sexy. He has his eyes closed, he’s not a great singer—but Ana watches and we see her start mouthing the words with him. “I’d go the whole wide world, I’d go the whole wide world, just to find her…I’d go the whole wide world, I’d go the whole wide world to find out where they hide her….” Then Ana sits by him, he sings another half-verse and she attacks him with a kiss. Which is good because I was getting ready to attack him with a big wet one if she wasn’t going to!

And if anyone watches How I Met Your Mother, there is an episode that features a song that plays over and over again—and it’s quite funny.

Is there any song you don’t get tired of? Why? What magic does it conjure for you?

Hellion's Music Blog

So like a week ago I got Gary Allan's greatest hits. I have his other CDs. If you only own one country CD, it should be his Smoke Rings In The Dark. Hot, hot, hot. I think my favorite song on this album is "Cowboy Blues"--where it has the lines, "I strap on my guitar like a .45; I pray each night my aim is true; I'm shooting for the heart of looking in your eyes; singing the Cowboy Blues..."

I barely know what it means. It doesn't really matter because he could be singing out of the phone book, and his growly, moany, dark-sinful-wicked voice would make it sound like... *pauses to think of the perfect metaphor, gets distracted by his photo* Sex? The man sounds like sex in the summer rain. Really good sex in the summer rain.

Although what would I know about really good sex, let alone RGS that occurs in the summer rain? It was the best I could explain it, being anytime I hear him come on the radio--time just stops for me and I'm totally into the moment that is Gary Allan. Nothing else matters but this moment with him. (Now if I could only have some sex that was like that.)

Anyone else want to check out his tattoos? Anyone else ever heard of him? Favorite songs or tattoos?