Songs Revisited

Okay...I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to get all crazy-depressing on you last night. I apologize. It was bothersome. For all involved.

I just realized two things...
1. I really should be sleeping right now.
2. This weekend has been full of old songs that I decided to revisit. It's been kind of wonderful.

These are songs that I was once in love with and then let fall by the wayside. It's not that I stopped liking them, it's just that I stopped being obsessed with them.

For instance, my mom and I listened to 'Seasons of Love' from 'Rent' today while driving around. 'Seasons of Love' was once my ringtone. THAT'S how obsessed I was. But I realized today that it had been a really long time since I last listened to it. But I still love it.

Same with 'Defying Gravity' from 'Wicked.' I unabashedly (is that a word?) classify it as my all-time favorite song. But I hadn't listened to the original in a while until today, when I sat in the Giant Eagle parking lot with my mom blasting it and just being generally epic. (Wow, that was paradoxical...).

All weekend, old Idina Menzel songs have been competing for my attention and devotion. I've lost count of how many times I've listened to 'Where Do I Begin' and 'Perfume and Promises' this weekend. Her 'I Stand' album is coming up on it's second birthday, and I was remembering how freaking awesome her concert was.

I was more recently obsessed with Ingrid Michaelson's 'Far Away' which is quite possibly the most adorable song EVER. I let it fall away for about a month and today I can't stop listening to it. I literally almost translated the first bit of it and turned it in for a Spanish assignment that I had to do.
"I will live my life as a lobsterman's life on an island in the blue bay. He will take care of me, he will smell like the sea, and close to my heart he'll always stay. I will bear three girls all with strawberry curls, little Ella, and Nellie, and Faye. While I'm combing their hair, I will catch his warm stare on our island in the blue bay."
(PS - the assignment was to write a paragraph about my life in 10 years. Hello. Everytime I consider that IN MY NATIVE LANGUAGE - aka English - I start to panic. Why do I want to talk about it in Spanish?)
(Hint? I DON'T.)

Sara Bareilles's 'August Moon' is fantastic. I knew this several months ago and then forgot about it. Then I listened to it again. It is still wonderful. Also if you haven't checked out her cover of 'Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay,' YOU SHOULD. (Yeah I became re-fascinated by it this weekend too). (I think I have a problem).

Anna Nalick's 'Drink Me' has been coming back to haunt me all weekend as well. It was the inspiration for my Twitter nickname as well, so possibly that's been rehaunting (definitely not a word...yet) me for over a week.

Anyway, not that this blog post really had much of a point. It's just that I love rediscovering things. But I'm going to bed now.