34/35 - ... / In the Blur of Fast Forward I Falter Again

Double Duty again.  What we have here is a little group I stumbled on thanks to the now delayed G.I. Joe - Retaliation trailer.  That trailer had a pretty happening remix of the White Stripes song, Seven Nation Army.  Like many posts before...I looked up the trailer, found the artist, and downloaded the song.  Then I went back for more.

Song 34
       "A Dream Within a Dream" from The Glitch Mob off their album, Drink the Sea.

First off, I love the name of this band.  I would realize after downloading their stuff, that I already had one song from the Tron Legacy: Reconfigured album.  Soon I had everything of theirs I could get my digital mittens on.  This may not seem like the type of music that brings Autumn to mind, but this particular track really does it for me.

When I hear this song I can't help but imagine a movie trailer for my, as yet incomplete, fantasy epic book series.  And that story always makes me think of Autumn.  Again, fantasy-adventure-magic all feel better experienced in Autumn.  The music in this track just go to a bunch of different levels, and take me into a lot of aspects of this story I'm creating.

In fact, it has even helped me with some plot and pacing.  So take a listen.  Let it take you on your own adventure.

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The next tune is kinda happy yet haunting.  I'm not sure when I came across this person as a musical artist.  Well, she was in this little movie in 2004 called Phantom of the Opera.  She played Christine, and sang her own parts.  I was captivated.

So, I knew she could sing.  I didn't know that she recorded an album in 2007.  I just remember hearing this song, maybe she was on a late show, and being quite impressed.

Song 35
        "Slow Me Down" from Emmy Rossum on her album Inside Out.

The cool thing about this song, is that all the sounds were made by her.  There is no instrumentation on this song at all.  It is all her voice.  150 different parts and harmonies.  As stated before, I'm not in the know about what makes music work...but this song is impressive, and just ethereal.

The song talks about slowing down in life.  To stop rushing from one thing to the next.  To just stop and smell the roses kind of thinking.  The lyrics come across as a plea from Rossum to help her.  That she wants to stop the rat race, but needs someone to teach her how.

The obvious season connection is that things, at least nature, seems to slow down this time of year.  And this song just kind of takes me to a grey Sunday afternoon, and the sun just keeps peeking out from behind the massive storm clouds that never really let the rain out.

Well, that's what I see.

Alright people, that's it for today.  Go.  Listen.  Enjoy.  Slow down, and love life.

grace, peace + hope
-Jesse