Category Archives: Music

Vertical Horizon

Song #9 Vertical Horizon’s Everything You Want

Why I Picked It: I had a couple of songs rolling around in my head, but because the Buffy/Xander shipperdom I have long been affiliated with has picked up steam (unfortunately not for “yay, this shipperdom is actually gonna happen” reasons), I was reminded of a song that reminded me of the shipperdom: Vertical Horizon’s Everything You Want.  Side note about the B/X link, I am a semi-retired fanfic writer and helped founded the online B/X community.  You can laugh, but it’s been very good to me and my writing, and the B/X fanfic community is one of the best – though I might be bias.

The Beatles - Abbey Road

Song #8 The Beatles’ Something

Why I Picked It: Something is my favorite Beatles song and is off of the Abbey Road album.  I was blessed earlier this year to be able to hear Paul McCartney play it on ukulele (my instrument and one of the favorite instruments of the late George Harrison) at Coachella 2009.

Why I Like It: Not to sound cheesy (and this is going to sound cheesy), but I think this is my favorite Beatles song because whoever I end up with, I hope that the sentiments of this song is how he’ll feel about me.  You may now proceed to gag or go “aw” .

Jim Croce

Song #7: Jim Croce’s Time In A Bottle

Why I Picked It: This song came to mind a few weeks ago and I was reminiscing about high school choir – we sang a choral arrangement of it and I didn’t know how it actually sounded until years later when I in college.  My H.S. biology teacher Mr. Clark was quick to jab on facebook that I wasn’t old enough to reminisce about the song!

John Butler Trio - Grand National Album Cover

Song #6 John Butler Trio’s Funky Tonight

Why I Picked It: I had no idea what to pick today, so I randomly played my music until I found something – John Butler Trio and their Funky Tonight song from their Grand National album.  John Butler Trio is an Australian-based band that I learned about from my friend Cela.  Cela had spent sometime studying abroad in Austrailia and when she came back they were playing at – of all places – the Borders bookstore on Hollywood/Vine.  They proceeded to absolutely floor me with their musicality, especially John Butler’s guitar playing.

I haven’t written a uke song in awhile, but my guitar is currently out of commission.  It’s autographed so I need a new one – lest I want to make the guitar un-autographed!

So I picked up my ukulele and started writing a song on a work break.  A couple of sessions I got a nice little demo song up.  Check it out on my ukechick myspace: http://www.myspace.com/ukechick (I was too lazy to upload and put it up here, not to mention uber-busy!).