tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727377311092372823.post6504855338685571393..comments2023-12-16T10:33:35.607-09:00Comments on Things That Are Not Bagels: Music Speaks to the Soul (Noses Only Speak to the Brain)Elisehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17825243696645323675noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727377311092372823.post-53383262576866457192011-07-18T15:17:03.897-08:002011-07-18T15:17:03.897-08:00Linnea, this is the best comment I've ever got...Linnea, this is the best comment I've ever gotten! I laughed out loud when I started to read it on my iPhone and it just kept going and going! I had a friend who used to leave voicemails like this, back when you couldn't skip them and had to listen to the whole thing, just to be obnoxious. And I love the whole circular thing about the favorite lyrics/best lines! ;)Elise M. Seatonhttp://thingsthatarenotbagels.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727377311092372823.post-24638324351689441412011-07-17T15:19:26.969-08:002011-07-17T15:19:26.969-08:00I am, as my friends will sometimes say, a music-ba...I am, as my friends will sometimes say, a music-based life form. I have a brain for lyrics and so certain phrases from songs get stuck in my head and they also attach themselves to memories. One of my more ironic favorite lyrics is from Alkaline Trio (more on that in a minute) and says "All of my favorite singers have stolen all of my best lines" which, the first time I heard it was like 100 kinds of revelation, because... YES! Exactly! Only... now the best way to describe it is with a line from one of my favorite singers... grrr...<br />Anyway, Alkaline Trio. So, they're a band I never would have heard if it weren't for my friend Nick (the one on the punk band, not the one from broadcasting classes, and not the one in dental school... in case you were keeping score. I was going to say "the cute one I had a crush on and wanted to date me" but... well, that doesn't clarify anything as it turns out). He made me a mix tape (which happened to be on a cd) and we sat outside somewhere listening to traffic talking about some of the lyrics of their songs like "crack my head open on your kitchen floor to prove to you that I had brains" which is very... graphic and gory, but also sort of poignant of the kind of frustration that seems very common when dealing with boys. Anyway as a band I have 0% to do with their lifestyle and sometimes completely disagree with the stuff they say, but then they turn some phrase like "I can hardly wait until I get the sun and my lips both pressing on your skin" and that seems so... perfect and passionate without being coarse or offensive. Same song as the "favorite singers" quote. Song is called Blue Carolina and I love it. It... it's just perfect in a lot ways. "I feel you missing from my heart, a part was kidnapped from my soul." YES! Exactly! <br />This is the longest comment in the history of ever, and it's like the rambley voicemail that I leave on people's... I was going to say answering machines, but no one really has those anymore do they? <br />Anyway, yes, music takes me RIGHT BACK to places in the past, and I think my friend Andrew even wrote an article for our college newspaper about it before he was my friend Andrew... so... there's that.<br />Man, I have to end this before it gets (even more) awkward!<br /><br />BYE!Linneanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727377311092372823.post-32474520443532528462011-07-05T23:40:38.558-08:002011-07-05T23:40:38.558-08:00I feel the same way-- the lyrics get me some of th...I feel the same way-- the lyrics get me some of the time, but the movement of the instruments is what really stirs my soul. And it's amazing what an old favorite song can do for your mood.Elise M. Seatonhttp://thingsthatarenotbagels.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727377311092372823.post-46702967954069826972011-07-03T18:49:56.924-08:002011-07-03T18:49:56.924-08:00Hi...first time reader and commenter, here. I who...Hi...first time reader and commenter, here. I wholeheartedly agree that music indelibly imprints on our minds. The only reason I know my 3 times tables is because of Schoolhouse Rock. (And, I only know my 3s, because that was my favorite song.) Getting an iPod made my house cleaner, because it made cleaning it not so hideous. I don't think I really have many emotional links, but I can remember being high school age, sitting outside my house in the car, after getting off work at Burger King and being so depressed, and then my favorite song coming on the radio and it just lifting me out of my funk. And two answer your question, it is the music itself, not the lyrics that get me. The lyrics are secondary.<br /><br />I also have a cat that will not let me sleep. 3:40, every morning, howling for no good reason.LoriOnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727377311092372823.post-67001523769946694042011-07-02T10:18:24.717-08:002011-07-02T10:18:24.717-08:00I love when I find out that my quirks are not as q...I love when I find out that my quirks are not as quirky as I thought! I mean, it's probably not a universally acknowledged quirk, but it's good to know that at least one other person (who is not related to me) does the same thing. :)Elise M. Seatonhttp://thingsthatarenotbagels.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-727377311092372823.post-41682876523488079592011-07-01T22:43:57.520-08:002011-07-01T22:43:57.520-08:00I still count days in sleeps. Honest.I still count days in sleeps. Honest.sweetstuffnoreply@blogger.com