Junk Music Generation

You know how some people rant 'n rave about all their favorite musicians or bands from their adolescent/young adult years? Like, "Man! Van Halen, Rolling Stones, and The Doors were awesome! - they really rocked!!"

Well, here's how "cool" I sound when I repeat something similar but using musicians/bands from my time, "Man! Vanilla Ice, Paula Abdul and MC Hammer were awesome! - they rocked!!


...and wait, I almost forgot, so did Milli Vanilli!! - ooooo, blame it on the rain yeah yeah...

So maybe these songs are dorky and don't have a profound message...but hey people - like I had a choice? It was a junk music revolution and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to dance in front of my entire family to songs like "Ice Ice Baby!"

I have a signature Ice Ice Baby dance if you ever want me to perform it for you...haha!!

So with junk music under my belt without effort (born into it), and some music exploration over the last decade or so, I would say I have quite a variety of lyrical knowledge. This is not saying I know all music (by any means), but I do know a ton of dorky music (like the ones listed above), and some artists such as;


They Might Be Giants, Violent Femmes, Melanie Safka, Loreena McKennitt, Bone Thugz n Harmony (haha), Cyndi Lauper, Dixie Chicks, Fiona Apple, Fleetwood Mac, Tracy Chapman, and even Hootie and the Blowfish, to name a few.

One group I've noticed that everyone knows except for me (that cover bands always sing) is the Beastie Boys - somehow I never listened to them during my journey to musical enlightenment, but I'm not sad about it - I don't really care, I just sit those songs out and drink a little more of my Crown 'n Coke to get ready for the next song I most surely will know;)

So basically I'm the girl that knows pretty much all of the cover band type music - plus a little hippie stuff, and the current teenie-bopper music you hear on the radio.

This is me giving you permission to laugh your ass off if you see me dancing to any of this music - it may be dorky, but then again I'm dorky - so we're a perfect match (me and my music).

What's Your Word or Phrase?

Have you ever thought about what word or phrase you would use to describe yourself?

Like if we were to describe certain cities, states or countries in one word maybe these are a few examples of what we'd use;

Austin = Active
New York = Success
Michigan = Depressed
Amsterdam = Quaint
Paris = Stuffy
India = Prayer (per the book I'm reading)
Rome = Sex (per the book I'm reading)

In attempting to find one word to describe myself, it was difficult. Instead I found two phrases that really seemed to sum me up (at this time in my life), those are...

"Butterfly in Chains"

and

"Fallen Angel"

As for one word, maybe..."Lost!"

Butterfly in Chains represents how it feels as though I'm ready to fly away towards the unknown, following my passions and desires, fulfilling as many dreams as humanly possible, exploring the world, and ultimately finding myself again - but the chains of life have a hold on me and so I sit here in chains like houdini trying to pick the lock and free myself.

Fallen Angel represents the amount of effort and the amount of years I had passionately put towards being as perfect as God intended me to be, then a decade later having all that hard work come crashing down on top of me. I have officially fallen - but I still know I have an angel in me that will figure out how to get back up and become the woman God had planned me to be. So I've only fallen for a moment - but will rise again in due time.

Lost represents how I'm torn between the two phrases above.

Butterfly in Chains + Fallen Angel = Lost

It's amazing how much you realize about yourself by just searching for your "word". Just when you think you've found the word, you think harder about it and realize there's an even better word. Here's to you and finding the word that best describes you at this time in your life.

Sincerely,
Lost