Lucky Me & The Little Things

I’ve been so busy tracking down the music that’s been memorable to me throughout my life just for fun, and then I thought it would be fun to post them in the blog here. I am going to try to keep things chronological, but with my memory (or lack thereof) things are likely to overlap here and there.

Until I find another way of doing this I am going to have to put up youtube versions of the songs. I love WordPress, but it’s set up in a way that doesn’t allow for many of the music blog posting options that are out there. This will have to do.

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I am going to start off with a song from an album that I remember first paying attention to when I was young. It’s a from an album called Firebird, by Osao Tomita, where he’s taken these classical composed pieces and gone all electronic on their asses. Now don’t go thinking that this is setting the tone for the other soundtrack songs, it really doesn’t. There is only one other classical composed piece of music later on, and that’s that. After my parents divorced, me and my brothers spent every other weekend with my dad. My dad would often play this album on his stereo, and soon me and my brother started requesting he play it again, over and over as the music was so varied and dramatic that we would often imagine cartoonish sceneries along with it, and compare the ones we were imagining at any given time. According to my friend Leeann this was probably a side effect of us inhaling the lingering smoke from my dad’s ‘special cigarettes’ (This is in Holland, where we like our weed legal remember). But I remain convinced that it was just the music and our wild imaginations.

This weekend I had my first show of the year; the Designers Downtown Market. I’ve done this show many, many times before when it was named the Crafter’s Flea Market, and I am excited about the change of focus for this market as it brings more of the customers that would buy my goods to the show, as opposed to the people that get inspired by my things and then go home and try to make something like it themselves.

The show had been delayed a week due to weather issues, and though the morning started off a bit brisk, it ended up being an incredibly gorgeous day where the temperature was just right, the sky was bright and the people were cheery. I even got a sunburn to boot!

I loved my spot, on one side I had the lovely Amy Keith, who’s goods and person I adore- My home is just about turning into a showcase of her smaller pieces. On the other side was the booth of Karess Krafters, which was responsible for the delicious scents of her goods that enveloped me for the entire length of the show. I could not have asked for a better location.

Sales were decent too. Though I didn’t sell a ton, the average sale was well above the typical show sale so that helped! Karol from Surcee in Apex will occasionally come to this show to find some new goodies to sell in her shop, and so she came by my booth to purchase some earrings and necklaces at the end of the show. If you are in Apex, be sure to swing by and check out what she got.

The best seller once again this time were the vintage wallpaper reversible earrings! I love to see how excited people get when they see them. Note to self: I am going to have to make a lot of stock on those before the next shows hit!

Oh! And before I forget,  LocoPops was there and I had my very first ‘gourmet frozen pop’- the coconut mango one, and boy howdy was it delicious! I plan many many trips to their new Hillsborough location. My plan is to eventually have tried every single taste combination they make. In a hurry!

The participating vendor list for The Handmade Market has been posted, and it’s a beauty! I am really pleased with the mix and talent of the vendors.

Of course I always feel regret for the incredibly talented people that didn’t get in this time. We have such a limited space to work with, and so much vendor interest we only get to choose a small percentage of all the businesses that apply. But on the other hand it’s always exciting to see the product and representation growth of vendors who have previously not been selected, that have been juried in this time around. I can honestly say that I feel for the people getting the ‘sorry, not this time!’ email as I’ve got quite a selection of those myself and they are never fun to get. BUT, they have always helped me grow my business and taught me not only how to receive rejection in stride, but to take a lesson from it and turn it into something positive. I really hope that others can receive it like that too.

So, check the vendors out and start getting excited about May 3rd! I know I am.

I’ve really been getting into finding and listening to all the music that I’ve fallen in love with over my lifespan. I have started added them all to a play list and I guess it’s sort of becoming a sountrack to my life. Almost every single song I am pulling into this list pulls up vivid memories of the cities I lived in at the time I fell in love with the song, and the people I was around at the time. But then there are also songs that aren’t significant at all in that sense, they are just songs that stir something deep inside me, like they make my soul vibrate along with it like a string on a guitar does when another sound is in tune with it.

I love music. I absolutely love, love music. But I have a terrible memory, which also means I often forget the songs I love so much. Somehow I’ve been slowly recalling them all one by one and finding some other gems along the way. Listening to them just put me in a different state.

So there’s this one sing that I am trying to recall so that I can add it to the list, that keeps being at the ‘tip of my tongue’ but I can’t recall enough of it to look it up. All I remember was what it was a huge hit when I lived in LA briefly in 1996ish and it had one of those parts where it had an electronic voice that may have possibly said something like “I…. something something” I repeat this electronic sounding voice saying “I!” often to Greg in the hopes that it can help me or him recall the song. He says it’s not helping though, I can’t imagine why not!

(edited to add…)
I got it , I got it!! I heard a bit of a song earlier today that reminded me of the way the song I’ve been trying to remember starts; which then caused flurries of lyrics to filter into my head; which then caused me to google them with fury; which then brought me to this youtube video, and that was it!!! I’ve added it to my playlist now. Pffffff

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I don’t actually know what’s up with the kissing Dutch boy and girl. The wooden shoe I get. But this kissing pair? Does it imply that the Dutch like to make out? Well, I guess I would have to say that in my case this is very true, very true indeed. Give me a good make out session at any time and I am a happy lady. Maybe they are on to something?

This video, I am in it! ‘T was never a great big hit, but I used to catch it every now and then on MTV Europe. So check it out, but don’t blink! It’s me at 3:01, 3:03, and 3:07. Did you catch it? No? Try again!

Yes, I am indeed painting my toenails on a toilet bowl.

Unfortunately the very sexy Michael Hutchence and his band shot the day after the models did, so I never got to meet him. I still love pulling this random fact out at a most unsuspecting moment though, “Say, did you know I was in an INXS video?”

This little man, I’ve been informed today, is diagnosed with Autism. Fortunately a very high functioning version of Autism that is, but autism non the less.
Though it feels odd to slap such a big ‘label’ on what’s been hindering the little guy’s development in certain areas, for me the news has oddly caused a great feeling of relief. As I met with the child psychologist today, who has been one of the team of people that’s been observing and testing Nolan along with interviewing me and Greg for the past 6 months, she pointed out all of the different behaviors that they observed in him and I saw with my own eyes how point for point they lined up with Autism diagnosis. I realised then that not only all his weird little oddities were not in fact that weird or odd, but ways he deals with the world around him, but we now also have a direction and incredible amounts of resources and aid to help him (and us) deal with getting across those obstacles that are keeping him from applying the incredible amount of information he absorbs on a daily basis, and applying it in the practical world around him. After seeing him increasingly struggle in many ways doing just that over the past few years, and now knowing that he’ll get help with that is a great feeling!

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Good luck!