Music moves me more than anything, with being outdoors and with nature a close second. Music and song take me back. MUSIC IS A TIME MACHINE! Pop in some Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral and I'm back to wearing my Doc Martins and feeling like the weird Goth girl in a Christian school. Hearing Dixie Chicks Cowboy Take me Away brings me back to my senior year in high school. I can still feel the sand beneath my toes and the stinging in my eyes from the bon fires on a Southern Californian beach. Amores Perros sound track (an AMAZING one at that) will bring back images of a summer as an undgrad when I got my heart eviscerated. The songs that bring me back to being a Grad student usually consist of Smack That, Kanye West Gold digger.
Which I immediately associate with no study, going to Tequila Hoppers, and understanding the pain of Jagger bombs.
Enter Feist The Reminder. This album was given to me as a gift by my cousin at my bridal shower for an ill-fated engagement. I associated this warm album with the hot IT guy who came into my life. The guy who all the girls talk about, the guy who looked amazing in jeans, and drove a fast car. The guy, who would never admit it to my face, was a little nervous about reaching out to me. Brandy Alexander fills my head with the image of watching the sun setting in the September/October evenings. Those Californian evenings when summer wants to hold on a little longer, and my heart is being filled with the apprehension of new love and laughter.
How my Heart Behaves and I can't trust myself with loving you (not Feist, but John Mayer. By the way, this is a sexy as song) reminds me of my heart giving way to my hesitation in this new relationship with a man who was not anticipated at all in my life. I felt so many conflicting emotions at the time, not wanting him as a rebound, giving him the time and space he deserved in my life at the time.
1234 : When the dust had settled in the chaos that was my heart (this took like a solid year and some therapy) I could rejoice in the simple joy of loving and living life with my now husband.
No song will trigger the sheer excitement and apprehension I felt as I waited in the wings of our wedding venue. I heard this music start and I knew that once my bridal party started it was only going to be a matter of time before I saw the person I'd be spending the rest of my life with. My heart still races when I hear this song. I try not to hear it often, because I want to preserve that emotion for as long as I can. I grabbed my fathers arm, saw our guests before us, and walked into the rain with a sense of relief that my partner in crime was at the end of that walk.
I have too many songs that I couldn't possibly put down here. Wildfire by John Mayer will remind me of the bringing in the Southern feel of Louisiana as we explored New Orleans and learned about Scott's family. You been catchin on like a wildfire. So much music, but although we may have our first song La Vie en Roseas husband and wife. He will always be my Brandy Alexander
He's my Brandy Alexander Always gets me into trouble But that's another matter Brandy Alexander
I'm his Brandy Alexander Always get him into trouble I hide that I'm flattered Brandy Alexander
