writer. singer/songwriter. techie geek. princess of random.

Bob Dylan is pretty much the songwriter/musician that I want to meet.  He’s such a great lyricist and his songs are so powerful – whether it spans politics, religion, or love.  There’s just this earthy-quality to his work that I really love.  I’m late in the game in appreciating his work (kind of happens when you’re born a few decades after…) as I first began my real exploration of his work in his album Modern Times.  His most recent album after that just dropped today.

I’m sampling it right now off of Paste Magazine’s Stream: Album Stream: Listen to Bob Dylan’s Together Through Life :: Featured Audio :: A/V :: Paste.

My first impression?  It’s great.  My favorites so far?  Jolene (not a cover of the Dolly Parton song), This Dream of You (sounds reminiscient of Spanish music in my neighborhood growing up), and I Feel a Change Comin’ On.

Les Miserables

With all the Susan Boyle craze (isn’t that story awesome?  I tear-up every time I see that YouTube video), it made me remember how much I loved Fantine’s “I Dreamed A Dream” from Les Miserables.  I used to karaoke on YouTube video because it helped me with stage fright for a time, but I’m better now so the less evidence of how much I can embarrass myself, the better, and since SingShot/EA Karaoke died, I figure I could just put my random karaoke renditions here to get it out of my system.  It’s my blog after all.

So I’m no Susan Boyle vocally (and let’s not even talk about all those established Broadway greats), but here we go…

Update: Just read about this Susan Boyle Fan Site – http://susan-boyle.com/.  Looks ridiculously inspiring.