MY LIFE - Flashback to planning my 50th bday

MY LIFE - 50 For My 50th Day 27: "Sleepwalkin'" by The Violent Femmes and other coming-out-of-depression songs

For an explanation of "50 For My 50th", go here - http://oldermusicgeek.blogspot.com/2013/08/entertainment-50-for-my-50th-50-days-of.html

Well, eventually I pulled myself out of my depression and came to terms to my other psychological.

There was no magic spell or sudden event that changed me. I wasn't in a sappy movie. Can't even say the love of a good woman cured me, since this was before I met my wonderful wife.

No, what did it was years of therapy, the right medication, and me working through my problems. Little by little, with years of long and hard work.

It wasn't fun, but it was worth it. Made me a better person. Rather have not gone through it, but didn't have much of a choice in the matter.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vn2SencrSL_0ujzefX_Bfc_j-KJhKJzSUTDJi3CiQs8/edit?usp=sharing



A playlist of out-of-depression songs including "Sleepwalkin'" by Violent Femmes:



Click the link below to listen to my monstrosity of a playlist, OlderMusicGeek's 50th B-Day, on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/user/127676752/playlist/1bRKV8LHJIL3JQih1ZSq76

MY LIFE - 50 For My 50th Day 17: "Take Me To The River" by Talking Heads and other tunes about my marriage falling apart.

For an explanation of "50 For My 50th", go here - http://oldermusicgeek.blogspot.com/2013/08/entertainment-50-for-my-50th-50-days-of.html

Well, I stated before, I entered into a marriage that I should have never should have entered.

And it reached a head when my wife went to visit her African home for six months.

I ended up exploring my transgender issues and cheated on my wife.

She wasn't pleased when she found out.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vn2SencrSL_0ujzefX_Bfc_j-KJhKJzSUTDJi3CiQs8/edit?usp=sharing



A playlist of songs about my marriage falling apart including "Take Me To The River":

Click the link below to listen to my monstrosity of a playlist, OlderMusicGeek's 50th B-Day, on Spotify:

http://open.spotify.com/user/127676752/playlist/1bRKV8LHJIL3JQih1ZSq76

ENTERTAINMENT - Why Violent Femmes' Classic Debut Still Seems So Young, 30 Years Later

And this is why, 30 years later, this is still my all-time favorite album!

Their debut represents more than just the height of the band's commercial success. Although virtually ignored upon its release, the album has since been regarded as emblematic of the teenage experience, youthful frustration pinned and preserved.

Part of the reason the album endures is the music itself: simply constructed songs with sticky melodies, sung by a young man with a conversational delivery and a voice like a fire-truck siren, backed by frenzied bass playing and primal, intuitive drumming. The performances are burning things, alternately spare and spacious, then suddenly taut and rigid and nervous. Things never fall apart, but they continually threaten to. The lyrics are gutting and funny, too: sordid but somehow pleasant teenage confessionals penned by an actual teenager. Even when the words temporarily slip into inanity, the off-kilter vocal performance lifts them, twists them, and lends them an extra edge of weirdness that pushes them back into the personal. "Blister in the Sun," the Femmes' bip-boppin' ode to drugs, "big hands," and nocturnal emissions, is clearly the single of the bunch, but nearly every track is powerful, deranged, and yes, likeable.

http://m.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/04/why-violent-femmes-classic-debut-still-seems-so-young-30-years-later/274991/

ENTERTAINMENT - The Violent Femmes self-titled debut album at 30

It was 1983. And a co-worker/friend/fellow alternative music fan brought over this crazy new album that he said I just had to hear and make a tape of. Otherwise, everything else here is the same for me!

http://www.theawl.com/2013/04/the-violent-femmes-the-violent-femmes-30

MY LIFE - 50 For My 50th Day 10: "Kiss Off" and "Add It Up" by The Violent Femmes and other angry. lonely tunes

For an explanation of "50 For My 50th", go here - http://oldermusicgeek.blogspot.com/2013/08/entertainment-50-for-my-50th-50-days-of.html

Okay, this is the last post about being a sad, lonely nerd.

But the truth isn't I wasn't always sad! Sometimes, I got angry!

Thought life was totally unfair! Wanted to know why life treated me this way. Later, I realized a lot of it had to do more with how I was living life than how life was treating me.

But if any album caught how I was feeling at that time, it was The Violent Femmes' self-titled debut album.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Vn2SencrSL_0ujzefX_Bfc_j-KJhKJzSUTDJi3CiQs8/edit?usp=sharing

A playlist of angry nerd songs including "Kiss Off" and "Add It Up":



Click the link below to listen to my monstrosity of a playlist, OlderMusicGeek's 50th B-Day, on Spotify:
http://open.spotify.com/user/127676752/playlist/1bRKV8LHJIL3JQih1ZSq76

ENTERTAINMENT: The 15 Best Songs That Are Totally About Masturbation

Prostitution may be the oldest profession, but masturbation is the oldest pastime. And while there are many memorable cinematic masturbation scenes-a quick polling of CRACKED deskies produced titles like Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Porky's and American Beauty-only CRACKED intern Ryan Grim could come up with a single song on the topic, and he was masturbating when we asked him. In other words, the Internet could use a definitive list of songs that are totally about masturbating.

http://www.cracked.com/article_15114_the-15-best-songs-that-are-totally-about-masturbation.html

ON OLDERMUSICGEEK'S STUPID ENTERTAINMENT STUFF: "MUSIC: Fifteen Albums In Fifteen Minutes You've Heard That Will Always Stick With You"

click on the title

ENTERTAINMENT: Question From FormSpring.Me - If you could only listen to one song for the next month, which would it be?

If you could only listen to one song for the next month, which would it be?

I actually don't think I could do that. It would drive me nuts. I listen to my 120 gig iPod on shuffle constantly. I'd rather just not listen to music that month!

But if I had to choose a song, right now at this moment I'm really into "Bad Dream" by Violent Femmes. I'd probably hate it - or any song - if I had to listen to it over and over again for a month!

Ask me anything

FROM OLDERMUSICGEEK'S STUPID ENTERTAINMENT STUFF: "MUSIC: My Top Ten Albums" (just click here)

ON OLDERMUSICGEEK'S STUPID ENTERTAINMENT STUFF: "MUSIC: Favorite Bands A to Z Survey" (just click here)

ENTERTAINMENT: Some Independence Day Music

My brother, Harmonica23, put these up on his Facebook page.


To quote my brother - "What better way to celebrate this all American holiday than with an American band singing about American music."

American Music -Violent Femmes
by radarhead

ON ANOTHER BLOG: "MUSIC: My Most Played Music On IPod For March 2009 (For Real, This Time)" on OlderMusicGeek's Stupid Entertainment Stuff

ON ANOTHER BLOG: "PERSONALITY: Questionnaire Using Song Titles" on OlderMusicGeek's Stupid Tests And Quizzes (just click here)

ON ANOTHER BLOG: "MUSIC: My Most Played Music On IPod For February 2009" on OlderMusicGeek's Stupid Entertainment Stuff (just click here)

ON ANOTHER BLOG: "MUSIC: Corrupting My Much Younger Brother With The Violent Femmes" on OlderMusicGeek's Stupid Entertainment Stuff -click here