vomiting through cyberspace

There’s a traffic jam inside my head now, and at the same time a steady flow of ideas and thoughts yet to be materialized. Somehow I need to release even bits of them or else all these cars and trucks of thoughts would just end up hitting and bumping at each other. I’ll try to be as coherent and as comprehensible as possible. Haha.

For this month I plan to bide my time with more of my usual day chores and some “self-teaching activities”, and hopefully because of this, LESS FANGIRLING HOURS. I’m keeping my fingers crossed with that one - so tight hopefully I could still type properly. Haha. Yes, I still love David Archuleta, but I realized that there are a lot of things beyond tuning to his twits 24/7, watching adorable videos of him and voting for him in all these universe-wide polls. I want to channel my fangirl love and devotion on things that could help me grow as an individual (oh man, so cheesy). 

Channel my fangirl love and devotion on things like reading. Yesterday I finished (finally! With a deep exhale of relief) PAULO COELHO’s collection of stories, “Like the Flowing River”. I borrowed it from my friend Kim last May and decided I will read it in a much slower than I usually do, since it’s a collection of stories, therefore gave me more space to digest them. There’s a lot to love about this book, as other Paulo Coelho works. Perhaps I should dedicate a separate blog entry for it. It came to me at the right time and I really appreciate Paulo’s amazing stories and hard-hitting and remarkable wisdom. I would buy myself a personal copy - after all, a good book is always a good investment.

Because of “Like the Flowing River”, and all these multitude of his references of interesting writers, poets and philosophers, he, although indirect, reminded me (and a great deal at that) of the value of reading, and not just reading, but reading a lot. And oh, not just reading a lot, but comprehending a lot as well. I know we can’t know everything in this vast universe, but maybe we can try.

Channel my fangirl love and devotion on things like music. And SARA BAREILLES. It’s only recently that I’ve downloaded her full album. Before I only had “Love Song”, “One Sweet Love” (which is my favorite) and “Bottle It Up” in my player. Oh yes, David Archuleta had a lot to do with this (isn’t he such a good influence on me? Ayihee) because he is a big fan of hers. I was reminded of this a few days ago when I was checking his Twitter (excuse my plugging, follow His Highness, the King of Twitter, and that’s official! It’s DavidArchie.) and saw Sara Bareilles’ tiny-winny pic on the rows of people Archie follows, then I remembered too, that I am also a fan. So there goes “Little Voice” (the title of Sara’s outstanding album) as an addition to my growing music library in iTunes.

Pre-iTunes days I lived with casette tapes and not-so-gigantic (but equally loud) stereo then the component was invented thanks to the unwavering human desire to outshine himself where I played non-stop albums of my fandoms. Back then I had the fascination for memorizing and studying lyrics and finding lines where I can mostly relate to and considering it as my favorite. Haha. The era of obtaining intellectual propery for-we-swear-it’s-personal-consumption-so-please-don’t-sue-us-we-respect-these-artists more popularly known as piracy came and since I’m playing music through the computer so I got a bit lazy obtaining lyrics from these music sites. 

So much for laying down a chronicle of my musical habits, I resurrected my fascination for studying lyrics. A lot of artists are lined up - Paolo Nutini, James Morrison, Leigh Nash, Marit Larsen, Kate Voegele, etc. The first one, a while ago, was Sara. Oh man, song after song I am just blown all the more away with the way she writes her lyrics and how the emotions of the words are conveyed so fittingly with catchy, unique melodies. And she doesn’t just write about love songs, it’s a variety of things, like dreams, solitude, music. And she writes with conviction, wit, and sometimes humor and sarcasm, so that gives her more credibility. I’ve found another favorite songwriter. *rock* And perhaps, I should also dedicated a separate blog entry for her!

My recent Facebook status is attributed to her:

Oh well it may not be a beautiful poetry, but hopefully a song that sticks out, sticks around and sticks through.

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Woohoo, the last time I blogged this long was when I blogged about Archie and my fangirl love for him. )