Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Hopeless

Why is it that I am such a hopeless romantic? Why is it that I'm so drawn to the Love Story? Why is that--even though I know the couple will be together, no matter how impossible it might seem for them to be together, or how much they might hate each other at first--my heart clenches when the final obstacle in the story just seems to big to be overcome? Why do I--an English Major, for Heaven's sake!--incessantly read about the out-of-place, nerdy, high school senior who falls for the tall, dark haired, deliciously handsome guy with just a hint of a dark side who is so out of her league that it's laughable? Why do I always get chills when he finally whispers "I love you" to her?

There is, of course, an overly-simple and somewhat superficial answer to this: I want to have a Love Story myself. But doesn't everyone want a Love Story? Doesn't everyone wish to find their soul mate, no matter the cost? Surely I can't be alone in this. But there is something else going on. I look at my sisters, and they enjoy a good piece of chick-lit (they ate up the Twilight Saga just as much as practically every other woman in the western world) every once in a while, but they don't devour them like I do.

I once told someone that love stories are my bread and butter. Oh, I love every kind of book--mysteries, the classics, thrillers, historical fiction, and even non-fiction if it's well written. But nothing calls to me like the utterly predictable Love Story. No, I feel like there's a small hole deep inside of me, and I am constantly trying to fill it with these sickly sweet, wispy, fluffy story-lines. I can see you there, as you read this post. You are just sitting there, shaking your head at me and thinking "Well, that's a bit overly dramatic, Ashley." It probably is, but that's how I feel. It's an unsolvable question, a part of me that will just have to be accepted.

On a slightly different, but still related, note: I've found a new song that I'm in love with. Enjoy.


P.S. Merry Christmas and Happy New Years! Sorry I didn't wish everyone happy holidays before now.

P.P.S. As I re-read this post, it sounds kind of depressing. I didn't mean it to be depressing. It's just something I've been musing on lately. I think strangely. Don't worry about it. :)

Tuesday, September 20, 2011

New Singer (or The Post with the Incessant Parentheticals)

I love finding new music artists to listen to. I've found that some of my favorite music artists are the ones that new one has ever heard of (Priscilla Ahn, A Fine Frenzy, for example), so sometimes it's hard to find new people to listen to. I've also had a little bit of a bad weekend (did anyone else watch that disaster of a football game on Saturday?), so I definitely needed something to pick me up today.

Enter Mindy Gledhill. I was wandering around the BYU Bookstore (aka my own personal library; sometimes I read the books that they have for sell without buying them...), and a CD cover caught my eye. I immediately fell in love with the cover (the image on the video is the album cover. Isn't it adorable?!), but I hesitated because because it was sitting in the basket with the religious music (not that I don't like religious music, it's just not the kind of music that I prefer to listen to on a daily basis). So I decided to do a little research, and luckily I found her music on YouTube. As soon as I heard the first song, I knew that Mindy Gledhill and I were going to become very good friends (well, not literally, but figuratively, through the music).

This is her song "Crazy Love." I love it. It's cute, upbeat, happy, etc...ok, ok. I'll admit, the lyrics are a little bit on the stalker side, but come on. Sometimes stalker songs can be really good (remember "Every Breath You Take" by The Police? Everyone loves that song)! Trust me, you will fall in love too.

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Saturday, June 13, 2009

Jon Schmidt

I think that one of the most amazing pianists ever is Jon Schmidt. His music is so beautiful, and I love playing his songs (when I ever sit down to play at all). My favorite songs are Waterfall and Song of the Ocean, although I have a new book of his and there's yet another beautiful song called The Fishing Stream. Anyway, I just found a new Youtube video, and Jon Schmidt has done it once more, folks. He meshed the song Love Story by Taylor Swift (one of my favorite country songs to date) with Viva la Vida by Coldplay. He wrote this piece, accompanied by an extraordinary cello player, for his seven year old daughter, and I have already fallen in love with it. Here's the video: