life in nashville is wonderful!! we are working hard at getting our apartment set up and box free. i am scouting craigslist in hopes that i will find a wonderful family that needs a nanny. our apartment complex is awesome, there are kids everywhere!!
oh yeah, and while we were driving around town today we saw sandra mccracken!! her and her husband, derek webb, are two of my favorite musicians and it was very exciting to see one of them during our first outing!! i thought it fitting that my music monday be about her. if you haven't heard her before, you've really been missing out.
here is sandra performing the title track from her new album "In Feast Or Fallow".
i could go on and on (and on) about her, but instead i'm going to go unpack the kitchen. happy monday everybody!!
-meghan
Monday, June 7, 2010
Friday, June 4, 2010
nashvillain
today is moving day! imagine me as ross, and maybe you can get some sense of my excitement.
-meghan
-meghan
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
fearful
hillary, tori and i had fun naming our fears tonight. funnily enough, we couldn't find a name for what started the whole ordeal - my fear of aquariums/large fish tanks. i'm okay with being in water, but i don't swim under it, i don't like to stand close to the big fish tanks at the zoo, and the thought of walking through a water tunnel makes my palms sweat.
not all of these are full blown phobias, but they all rang a bell with me:
hydrophobia - fear of water
nyctophobia - fear of the dark or night
phobophobia - fear of fear
phigerophobia - fear of choking
dystichiphobia - fear of accidents
some of the ones that i'm happy i don't have:
geliophobia - fear of laughter
helminthophobia - fear of being infested with worms
panphobia – fear of everything
melophobia - fear of music
jackson rathbone was recently in a movie called "dread" where his character, stephen, and some friends made a documentary about asking people what they were afraid of. being that it was a horror movie, of course everything that they feared the most started happening to them. i don't like scary movies, so i didn't watch it, but i did skip through the whole thing to the credits to hear a song by one of my favorite bands, the stevedores. getting to hear "fearful" play and seeing the guys' names was very exciting!!
here's a video of spencer, ben, jake, adam and shawn performing "fearful."
-meghan
not all of these are full blown phobias, but they all rang a bell with me:
hydrophobia - fear of water
nyctophobia - fear of the dark or night
phobophobia - fear of fear
phigerophobia - fear of choking
dystichiphobia - fear of accidents
some of the ones that i'm happy i don't have:
geliophobia - fear of laughter
helminthophobia - fear of being infested with worms
panphobia – fear of everything
melophobia - fear of music
jackson rathbone was recently in a movie called "dread" where his character, stephen, and some friends made a documentary about asking people what they were afraid of. being that it was a horror movie, of course everything that they feared the most started happening to them. i don't like scary movies, so i didn't watch it, but i did skip through the whole thing to the credits to hear a song by one of my favorite bands, the stevedores. getting to hear "fearful" play and seeing the guys' names was very exciting!!
here's a video of spencer, ben, jake, adam and shawn performing "fearful."
-meghan
Sunday, May 30, 2010
you look like a monkey, and you act like one too!
i have another cute nephew with a birthday in may! happy birthday, my sweet jacob. i really hope you have tons of fun being 3 years old. be sure to live it up, one day you'll have to go to kindergarten and face the real world. i really wish i was there to sing the duck song to you today!!
isn't he presh??!!
-meghan
isn't he presh??!!
-meghan
100 monkeys
i'm sick and frantically packing for the move to nashville, but since i started music mondays only two weeks ago i didn't want to skip one just yet. monday is my nephew's birthday, so i'm posting this a day early.
since this is going to be a short post and i'm still going through bands i saw at the sbl concert, i figured i would go ahead and talk about 100 monkeys. out of all the bands they have the most exposure and have a huge fan base, so i don't feel so bad about skimping out on their post.
there are a lot of reasons why i like 100 monkeys, and if you know me at all you've probably heard some/many of those reasons before. one of the things i love about their concerts is their improv songs. they take suggestions from the audience and make up a song about one of the topics. this not only shows how talented they are, but it gives every audience something special that won't be played for anyone else.
when it came time for improv suggestions jerad went from one side of the stage to the other getting ideas. lindsey,tori and i were on the front and were able to yell "ellen degeneres" when jerad looked at us, and we were so excited when he announced that the song would be about ellen!! we've wanted to be able to suggest a song about her for a while (we think if she hears about it she'll put them on her show) and it made the sbl concert that much more memorable since their song was from our suggestion. out of all of the concerts i've been to of theirs, it was definitely my favorite improv.
if you watch the video below you can see me give the suggestion to jerad. the spotlight followed him around and landed on my face right when i talked to him!
-meghan
since this is going to be a short post and i'm still going through bands i saw at the sbl concert, i figured i would go ahead and talk about 100 monkeys. out of all the bands they have the most exposure and have a huge fan base, so i don't feel so bad about skimping out on their post.
there are a lot of reasons why i like 100 monkeys, and if you know me at all you've probably heard some/many of those reasons before. one of the things i love about their concerts is their improv songs. they take suggestions from the audience and make up a song about one of the topics. this not only shows how talented they are, but it gives every audience something special that won't be played for anyone else.
when it came time for improv suggestions jerad went from one side of the stage to the other getting ideas. lindsey,tori and i were on the front and were able to yell "ellen degeneres" when jerad looked at us, and we were so excited when he announced that the song would be about ellen!! we've wanted to be able to suggest a song about her for a while (we think if she hears about it she'll put them on her show) and it made the sbl concert that much more memorable since their song was from our suggestion. out of all of the concerts i've been to of theirs, it was definitely my favorite improv.
if you watch the video below you can see me give the suggestion to jerad. the spotlight followed him around and landed on my face right when i talked to him!
-meghan
Friday, May 28, 2010
j-biz is the shiz.
today has been fun. joy beth is here with her sweet friend lauryn and there are 5 mattresses stuffed into my room for a never ending (until saturday)slumber party. after a joyful reunitation last night we stayed up late acting silly and slept in (not too) late. we spent the day by the pool laying out, reading, listening to music and playing in the water. after that we came home and grilled hamburgers and hot dogs, which were oh so delicious. we then played quelf and hilarity ensued. after that we had the first watching of new moon together. if you know us or like the twilight saga then you understand the seriousness of this. and now here it is 2:30 in the morning and we have spent the past several hours ranting about boys.
i really like it when joy beth is here.
-(barely awake)meghan
i really like it when joy beth is here.
-(barely awake)meghan
Monday, May 24, 2010
the kissing club
in keeping with my attempt to post about all of the bands i saw at the sbl show, today i think the spotlight will do well to shine on the kissing club. i already made mention of this one man band, aka jake miller, when i talked about the stevedores. i think what i said about him was "jake miller is so sick on his guitar i have no words." hard as it may be, i'm going to try to find some.
just listening to jake on tamuawok. (the stevedores) or his myspace is impressive, and seeing him enhances that many times over. if you watched the vid of the stevedores like i told you to, then you've already seen him flip out on his guitar, complete with head thrashing and body spazzing. what came after that during his solo set had a different tone and feel, but was still equally amazing and exciting. he came in jamming to a song about locomotives and went out yelling about dancing all night to the water in the pipes. oh, and he also made a cameo appearance during tin tin can's set on the bongos. anything you can't do jake? no? i didn't think so.
jake got started by playing "the displaced persons song" with ben johnson (100 monkeys) on the bass and zach arlan (drew & the medicinal pen) on the drums. can i just say, i absolutely love this song. it's one of my favorites for a couple of reasons, the first being the guitar break in the middle. secondly, the lyrics by thomas pynchon are really, really well written and continue building until reaching my favorite line. "we were made for song and sin" are the words that close the song, being sung over and over by a gravelly voice deep with conviction. the first time i heard that i thought it a good definition for humans, and to me song and sin translated to praise and depravity. i realize there's a slight error in my revelation - we weren't actually meant for depravity, but for praise. but God knew the fall would happen, and still used our sin to bring glory to His name.
a "message on the moon" later came "linden tree", which is absolutely one of the sweetest songs in the world. when i saw jake perform "linden tree" in birmingham it was done as a solo and i loved it, but the addition of molly mcdonough makes it that much better.
then came "i can't tell," followed by an amazing and heartfelt cover of spencer bell's "nerve damage." getting to hear spencer's songs played is something i always look forward to when going to see 100 monkeys, and i was so happy to see other bands perform some as well. i also really appreciated the seriousness of the moment amongst everyone there. towards the end of the song is when 100 monkeys comes out to join the kissing club, and usually there is screaming and cheering right in the middle of the song. the afternoon sbl concert was different - the lone song of spencer's that jake sings was finished uninterrupted.
after the monkeys came out, missy liu (drew & the medicinal pen) joined them for a party during "water in the pipes," which was an excellent ending to a rocking set.
how appropriate that today's music monday is about the kissing club, as just a couple of hours ago jake posted a new song on his youtube channel!!! it is from his upcoming ep hooks, which is due out in july!
i know it's a lot of videos today, but if you're a music lover you'll really be doing yourself a favor by watching all of them. you can also watch the kissing club's entire set from the show lindsey, tori and i went to by clicking here and skipping to 00:49:00. you're welcome.
-meghan
just listening to jake on tamuawok. (the stevedores) or his myspace is impressive, and seeing him enhances that many times over. if you watched the vid of the stevedores like i told you to, then you've already seen him flip out on his guitar, complete with head thrashing and body spazzing. what came after that during his solo set had a different tone and feel, but was still equally amazing and exciting. he came in jamming to a song about locomotives and went out yelling about dancing all night to the water in the pipes. oh, and he also made a cameo appearance during tin tin can's set on the bongos. anything you can't do jake? no? i didn't think so.
jake got started by playing "the displaced persons song" with ben johnson (100 monkeys) on the bass and zach arlan (drew & the medicinal pen) on the drums. can i just say, i absolutely love this song. it's one of my favorites for a couple of reasons, the first being the guitar break in the middle. secondly, the lyrics by thomas pynchon are really, really well written and continue building until reaching my favorite line. "we were made for song and sin" are the words that close the song, being sung over and over by a gravelly voice deep with conviction. the first time i heard that i thought it a good definition for humans, and to me song and sin translated to praise and depravity. i realize there's a slight error in my revelation - we weren't actually meant for depravity, but for praise. but God knew the fall would happen, and still used our sin to bring glory to His name.
a "message on the moon" later came "linden tree", which is absolutely one of the sweetest songs in the world. when i saw jake perform "linden tree" in birmingham it was done as a solo and i loved it, but the addition of molly mcdonough makes it that much better.
then came "i can't tell," followed by an amazing and heartfelt cover of spencer bell's "nerve damage." getting to hear spencer's songs played is something i always look forward to when going to see 100 monkeys, and i was so happy to see other bands perform some as well. i also really appreciated the seriousness of the moment amongst everyone there. towards the end of the song is when 100 monkeys comes out to join the kissing club, and usually there is screaming and cheering right in the middle of the song. the afternoon sbl concert was different - the lone song of spencer's that jake sings was finished uninterrupted.
after the monkeys came out, missy liu (drew & the medicinal pen) joined them for a party during "water in the pipes," which was an excellent ending to a rocking set.
how appropriate that today's music monday is about the kissing club, as just a couple of hours ago jake posted a new song on his youtube channel!!! it is from his upcoming ep hooks, which is due out in july!
i know it's a lot of videos today, but if you're a music lover you'll really be doing yourself a favor by watching all of them. you can also watch the kissing club's entire set from the show lindsey, tori and i went to by clicking here and skipping to 00:49:00. you're welcome.
-meghan
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