My Top 5 Songs

'Sweatin' to the oldies', one might say in these dog days of summer. 'Sweatin'" was an aerobics/exercise routine from maybe 10 years ago.  Anyway, yea, this is one hot summer, and we are barely into it. Recently I completed a small part in a movie, and I acted in a play.  For the former - fun, and I was lucky enough to use the day on set to cement some acquaintanceships - well, they can't call them 'friendships' exactly, and I doubt they were 'cemented'.  but I saw movie crew I had worked with in the past. That's a good thing, because they might keep me in mind for future roles. For the latter - the play - well, that was OK. Good and bad. Mostly negative - this was a dinky play that wasn't even very good.  Some of the people were so hard to deal with. They were always stressed, curt, and swearing.....it's ok, it was decent acting experience, although a small role (as usual). I have an audition coming up for a one act play. ...

Things are moving along nicely with the new full time, "REAL" job which is professional and in my field of study. Not much to complain about there since I can now rebuild my savings, which were destroyed from underemployment for 3 years (!) and graduate classes the last two semesters. School - that is a different story. I've been taking graduate level classes. I am so weak on the undergrad stuff (being so long since I've seen it!) that I spend way too much time on homework reviewing the basics. I am not sure if pursuing a graduate degree is even worth it at this point. No car - sold the junker a month or so ago. As far as "junkers" go, that car was in pretty good condition. It just needed so much mechanical work that I did not want to pay for. I don't mind having a car, and saving money I'd otherwise spend on gas, insurance, etc. But...despite the good news (school notwithstanding), I am still alone. How is it possible to have no friends? I don...

There is a disconnect in my chart keeping - I stopped, for some reason, in March of 1998, then continued my charts in April 1999. This will drive me crazy in the future if I want to look up a song. OK, this is weird - Adele DEBUTS at #1, and knocks GODSMACk down a notch. I never expected this to happen. I NEVER like vocal performers. But hell, she has good songs; I usually don't enjoy a lot of vocalist performers, but she's definitely an exception. The "Someone Like You" performace at the Brit Awards (see video below) is phenomenal. It is so rich, so perfect, so deep. She was so beautiful and voluptuous. Her face was like a modern Mono Lisa, but twice as beautiful. What a great, but sad song. Why did it debut at $1? Well, I ended a relationship in early March. This will undoubtedly be the last one I ever have. I just can't imagine doing it again. It was a complicated thing - she lived over an hour away for starters. So I happened to come across Adele...

Adele is so cool. I am swept away with the two songs I know from her. One of those songs - well, see below! The other I only heard recently, and was so moved by it. I guess that I like her modesty. She's not arrogant, maybe a tad shy. I tend to not like vocalist performers, but Adele - wow, I never would have guessed how much I'm inter her right now. How y'all doing? I'm OK, I guess. Still chronically underemployed, and no closer to choosing a long term life path. There are things I'm getting into, like music and acting, but those things aren't worth mentioning until/unless they become viable, real things, and not just hobbies. Enough said about that...As always, it's fun to look at the charts from a decade ago. I actually wrote to Michele Crispin, telling her how interesting and cool her cover of "Rapture". She actually wrote back! That song by Linkin Park is the only one of theirs that has charted on my Top 5. I just don't like them that ...