F(r)iction

A month, a year, a decade. Does it matter? It's quiet now; I can almost hear the faint droplets of the water from the kitchen sink, and the rustle of the sheets from when you used to be mine. I can almost make out the click clacking of your spoon and fork as we eat, and the clatter the plate makes when you drop it, because you are endearingly clumsy.

... Sometimes, when I'm alone at night, at the moment before my mind drifts off into the land of make believe, I can almost hear you tell me you'll see me in your dreams.

One day, Two days, one week, one month, one year.
The days roll by slowly but it feels like I've been living a lifetime.

Morning comes, and I'm greeted with the faint smell of coffee being ground by the cappuccino machine, and the rustle of the newspaper's pages turning. As you turn up the volume on the radio when Put Your Head On My Shoulder comes on, I complain and tell you to keep it down; I'm not yet finished dreaming, I'm not ready to wake up and face the long day ahead ... You know sometimes I think that maybe, just maybe, I haven't quite woken up yet.

Old School Music

The reason why I love McFly's 'It's All About You' (see last spazz entry) is because it's reminiscent of the kind of music my dad used to play on our vintage looking jukebox, years ago. It was the music I grew up listening to; I was used to the doowop shidoobidoowop beats and harmonizing vocals of 4 strapping young men with mop top haircuts. It's really been a while since I last listened to anything other than Super Junior, which is good or bad depending on how you look at it. So after hearing It's All About You play in the background of one Korean variety show I was watching, a light went on in my head and I quickly opened Google and searched. And it was there, right there, the song I had been looking for for two years. I didn't remember the words (which is kind of stupid, because it repeats over and over again) so I didn't know where to start looking before. 

The song reminded me why I love old school music so much. Music from the fifties and sixties speak of a time when love was pure and free, when boys would send telegrams to the girls and would serenade them at school dances. It was a time of ice cream dates and amusement parks, not clubs and bars and alcohol. Bicycle rides and balloon skirts and bow ties.It was like love was just love, and sex wasn't a means to an end.


  I embedded a few of my favorite oldies songs, for your listening pleasure. 

 Gary Lewis and the Playboys - Save Your Heart for Me

This song, from the whistling in the beginning to the end, just speaks about love in its purest, most unadulterated form. The mood is just so much about teenage first love, and how Boy & Girl have to be away from each other for the summer. Best lines of the song:

When the summer moon is on the riseAnd you're dancing under starlit skiesPlease don't let the stars get in your eyesJust save your heart for meWhen you're all alone, far away from homeSomeone's gonna flirt with youI won't think it's wrong if you play alongJust don't fall for someone new

The Beach Boys - Little Surfer Girl

This beat of this song is just so... kilig, for lack of a better word. The harmonizing vocals of the Beach Boys gives off a longing tone, and it's as if he's begging her to be his Little Surfer Girl. Cheeseballs, I know, but it's nice. :) Favorite lines:

So I say from me to you

I will make your dreams come true

Do you love me? 

Do you Surfer Girl?

  The Beatles - This Boy
Even back in the day, a jealous guy would express his envy of another dude hanging out with the girl he likes by singing a ballad, instead of beating him up in a bar. Kidding aside, the song is just really sweet and omg, just listen to it already. HAHA! Favorite lines:

Oh and this boy, would be happyJust to love youBut oh my ahhhhhhhThat boy, won't be happyTill he's seen you cry

... See what I mean? Doesn't listening to those songs make you want to step into a Time Machine and rewind back to the days when things were simpler? Sometimes, I really feel like I was born in the wrong decade. I should've been born in the fifties.

It's All About You

 

This song is so amazing, I feel so inspired right now I want to draw and write and make music and paint and dance around my house but I can't because there's still things that have to be done. Years ago, I heard this song play and I searched for it high and low but I couldn't find it. Then today... Today I found it and oh God. I am so incoherent right now. 

Will edit later, when I'm done doing the elliptical :/