Feeling Yourself Disintegrate ( #BOTB & #IWSG )

       Just the other day I celebrated another birthday.  Seventy-five years old seems so unreal in many ways.  But I can feel the effects:  I am disintegrating in one sense and yet I feel fantastic for the most part.  Much of the time I feel like I did in my twenties or thirties.  However, the reality exists that I am getting old.  I am in a process of deterioration.  I hope it keeps on feeling as good as it does now...

Battle of the Bands

 

        Battle of the Bands is the blogging event started by Far Away Series and  StMcC Presents Battle of the Bands.   I do this event  each month on the 15th and the 1st of the month.  The premise is simple:  Listen to the songs presented below and then in the comments vote for your favorite and tell us why you liked it.  Then visit the links listed near the bottom of this post for more Battle action.

  

Feeling Yourself Disintegrate

        A year ago I used this song in a Battle in which I used the original version by Flaming Lips against another relaxing dreamy song.  To me this is one of the most beautiful songs I've heard.  And it seems so relevant as I get older.  

       Here are two versions that I find particularly nice.  Take a listen and then tell us which one you like best.

Kathleen Edwards  "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate"  (2015)

The Bad Plus  "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate"   (2009)

Time to Vote!

       Don't disintegrate yet!   Vote now please.   Which song interpretation do you prefer?  Battles are no fun without you the reader participating.    Hopefully you have an opinion of some kind.  You don't have to know about music to have an opinion since it all comes down to your own personal taste.

        Please vote on your favorite by letting us know your choice in the comment section and tell us why you prefer the version you chose. Then after you've finished here, please visit the other blogs listed below who may or may not be participating this time around. And if you've put up your own BOTB contest let us know that as well so we can vote on yours. I don't know if anyone else will be doing a Battle this time around, but you can still check out these sites.

Here are some other places where you might find BOTB posts:

 StMcC Presents Battle of the Bands
 
'Curious as a Cathy' 

Sound of One Hand Typing

Landmark Sounds (Diedre Knight)

BATTLE OF THE BANDS BY DEBBIE D

Trivial Music Silliness

Mike's Ramblings

Results on Monday February 9

       

      At least we'll say that for now.  It's probably when it will happen, but plans can change.

The Insecure Writer's Support Group

Join us on the first Wednesday of each month in Alex J. Cavanaugh's Insecure Writer's Support Group--a forum of writers who gather to talk about writing and the writer's life. For a complete list of participants visit Alex's Blog. 
     The co-hosts for the February 4 posting of the IWSG are J Lenni Dorner, Victoria Marie Lees, and Sandra Cox.

February 4 question - Many writers have written about the experience of rereading their work years later. Have you reread any of your early works? What was that experience like for you?

    Through the years I have often looked back on old writing that I've done and often I have been somewhat surprised how well my writing seemed at that time.  Just the other day I was looking at a comment I had left on someone's blog post about ten years ago and thought to myself, "Did I really write that?  It seems so well expressed."   Same goes with writing from my college days fifty years ago.  I might find an old paper that I had turned in for an assignment or a short story that I had written and be quite surprised at how mature my writing had seemed back then.  

         Recently I pulled down from my closet a box of some of my old writing that I was planning to go through.  The writing goes back to my high school and college days and I think I'm going to find some writing that seems almost unrecognizable now as something I had written in the past.  Was I a better writer back then?   Am I starting to forget words and concepts as I grow older?  Maybe, but I'm not sure that this is the answer.  Probably I just haven't been writing enough lately.  

       I guess I need to start writing more again to hone my skills.  Couldn't hurt.  And maybe my mind will sharpen as well.  More writing would be good.  I need to do that.

      Did you seem to write better when you were younger?   Do you still care about writing as much as you did in another time of your life?

       

Another Rainy Morning ( #BOTB Results )

        It's raining in Los Angeles again.  After a stretch of unseasonably warm summer-like weather, I sense the onset of winter in the air when I step outside.  Can Christmas be far behind?  Is another year about to end?  What's happening!!!  Just me I guess.  So here's something else...

Battle of the Bands Results

       My most recent Battle had a pretty low turn-out as they have been of recent times, but it was a balanced return.  Without my vote it's a tie and I'm kind of split on mine.  I have The Herd album which I acquired on vinyl back around 1970 or so while scouring a cut-out bin.  I enjoyed the album then and liked it enough to keep it when I purged much of my collection.  

     Zoot on the other hand was totally new to me, but their song  is a style that I probably prefer to the British Invasion style of the Herd.  I really like them both for different reasons.  I think I'll leave this contest as a tie as it is with my own taste.

Final Vote Tally

Zoot                4 votes

The Herd        4 votes

bands with members who became famous elsewhere ( #BOTB ),

          We've been having cool nights and balmy days after a bit of rain to usher in our new year.  It's Los Angeles after all and I guess that's what we should expect at this time of year.  For whatever it's worth.  And really how much is it worth just to say this?  How about we do this....

Battle of the Bands

 

        Battle of the Bands is the blogging event started by Far Away Series and  StMcC Presents Battle of the Bands.   I do this event  each month on the 15th and the 1st of the month.  The premise is simple:  Listen to the songs presented below and then in the comments vote for your favorite and tell us why you liked it.  Then visit the links listed near the bottom of this post for more Battle action.

Other lives/lifetimes

      In the mid-sixties in opposite parts of the world--Britain and Australia--two mildly successful rock bands were formed that would later give us a couple of big stars in the music world.  And that brings us to another Battle of the Bands.  Take a listen to each song and tell which you like best...



Zoot  "Eleanor Rigby"  (1970)

     Not only did Zoot give the music world the beginnings of The Little River Band, but even more famously this band yielded the heartthrob star of the eighties, Rick Springfield who most notably recorded "Jesse's Girl" as well as making a number of appearances on the popular soap opera General Hospital.  They released this Beatles song in 1970 and charted in Australia reaching #4.  







The Herd   "From the Underworld"  (1967)

      Peter Frampton became the pretty faced guitarist and vocalist for the band The Herd in 1966 when he was only 16.  The band charted with mild success in Britain and then Frampton went on to form the band Humble Pie to an even greater success.  Then he went solo and eventually put out his immensely popular live album in 1976.  Here is one of his "hits" with The Herd...

Time to Vote!

       Before you too become too famous to vote on these Battles, take a moment.   Vote now please.   Which song interpretation do you prefer?  Battles are no fun without you the reader participating.    Hopefully you have an opinion of some kind.  You don't have to know about music to have an opinion since it all comes down to your own personal taste.

        Please vote on your favorite by letting us know your choice in the comment section and tell us why you prefer the version you chose. Then after you've finished here, please visit the other blogs listed below who may or may not be participating this time around. And if you've put up your own BOTB contest let us know that as well so we can vote on yours. I don't know if anyone else will be doing a Battle this time around, but you can still check out these sites.

Here are some other places where you might find BOTB posts:

 StMcC Presents Battle of the Bands
 
'Curious as a Cathy' 

Sound of One Hand Typing

Landmark Sounds (Diedre Knight)

BATTLE OF THE BANDS BY DEBBIE D

Trivial Music Silliness

Mike's Ramblings

Results on the day that I put them up

 

      It will be soon I assure you.