Halfway thru December, 2008

Watching the Wheels (John Lennon) - This is one of those songs that makes me want to play guitar (so I can sing).

Maybe You Are (Asaf Avidan) - link to his MySpace. It's the 5th song.
I'm just reading Bob Dylan's autobiography (Chronicles volume 1), wonder what he'd think of this 2008 folk singer.

November 2008

Into My Arms (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds)

Listened to this song in a loop from Jerusalem to Hadera.

Sultry

Why Don't You Do Right. Jessica Rabbit... You just can't take your eyes off her.

Harley-Davidson, mid-October

There are these moments when everything comes together. A fog lifts. Mundane objects you were gazing at become clear and crisp. Your blood seems to be pumping stronger. Every thought that wells up in your mind tastes delicious. You savor every song that comes on the radio.
Weak (Asaf Avidan & the Mojos)
I'm sure everyone will have their own explanation, be it spiritual, psychological, new age mumbo-jumbo, the freaking "Zone". I just know it's all biochemistry but I can never put my finger on it exactly. It probably has something to do with a strong cup of "Bahia tea" (with cocoa and coconut flavors in it) and a higher than usual ratio of dietary fat, but those two factors are not enough. I'm going to keep chasing it until I find out what it is that suddenly makes me feel like a Harley Davidson and when I have the Golden Snitch in my hand I will cure the world.

Feeling weak in the knees

Layla (Eric Clapton) again, but for a different reason.

Vidui (Confession)
Words: Alexander Penn. Music: Sasha Argov. Performed by Yehudit Ravitz.

Songs of August 2008

Ordinary World (Duran Duran) - In the nearby Irish Pub a band started playing this song to warm up. My eyes lit up and I RAN inside and sang it without stopping for a week. It was clear and strong and washed a way all the flotsam of doubt while it played.

Shir Preida (Shlomo and Ben Artzi) - "Farewell Song". I couldn't find a clip online.

Shackles (Mary Mary)

The last two are self-explanatory - just my state of mind for a day.

Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob Dylan) - I opened Bob Dylan's autobiography where he told about playing this song to some friends, and of course it came on the radio two days later.

July, 2008 Beginning.

Livkot Lecha ("Cry for you") - Aviv Geffen
This song is associated in most people's minds with the murder of Prime Minister Rabin. I had a near terminal argument with a dear friend when it came on, and it fit my mood.

An interview with Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone.

Actually, it's been mostly talk radio lately:

Why I Don't Want To Power Clean 315 Pounds - Tough love from Charles Staley.
And even tougher love from Dave Tate.

I guess tough love is what I've been getting from my friend. At least I hope so.

From The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert M. Sapolsky. Here he approaches one of the questions I've been asking myself all my life. Are we our biology? Is there free will? Does it matter?