It's My Life ( #BOTB )

          

   Do you sometimes look back upon your life and think "I should write an autobiography"?   Or think of some period of your life that might be good material for a memoir?   Maybe you should write it.  Maybe I should too.  It's my life after all.  And that sounds like a cue for...

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.

It's My Life

     This song originally by the English New Wave/Synth Pop movement band Talk Talk was a big favorite of mine back in the eighties and the band produced music that I continue to enjoy to this day.  Talk Talk did not achieve the recognition that I think they deserved, but "It's My Life" did reasonably well on the world wide charts.  Years later the bigger rock group No Doubt released their excellent version to even greater chart success.  I think they are both good.  Which one do you like best?

Talk Talk    "It's My Life"  (1984)

No Doubt   "It's My Life"  (2003)

Time to Vote!

        It's your life, but put some fun in it by voting on this Battle.   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 in a week or so

         You've got time to vote, but don't wait!  Do it now!  I'll tell you who won later on.  And in the mean time I need to work on my autobiography.  It's my life.

Imagine That! ( #IWSG )

    Where am I?  What am I?  Why am I here?  We have questions, but are we asking the right ones?  Sometimes I ask just because. Answers aren't necessarily necessary. It's just something to do.  Or maybe something to write about...

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 November 5 posting of the IWSG are Jennifer Lane, Jenni Enzor, Renee Scattergood, Rebecca Douglass, Lynn Bradshaw, and Melissa Maygrove.

 

November 5 question - When you began writing, what did you imagine your life as a writer would be like? Were you right, or has this experience presented you with some surprises along the way?

        I'm not really sure that I thought much about having a writing life.  I thought about writing more than I actually wrote.  And still do for that matter.  I still don't have a life as a working money-making writer, but I do write sometimes so I'm a writer in a way.  So no real surprises there.  I write. And that's about it. If I didn't have a blog to vent on then I'd be accumulating notebooks.  More notebooks than I already have.

        What would my life as a writer be like?  I guess I already know and I don't know depending on how I look at it. So my real question now is:  What should I fix for dinner?  And will I have time for a nap?

Drunk and Crazy ( #BOTB )

    

    I'm not drunk and crazy, but I'm talking about the song "Drunk and Crazy" which is actually not the real name of the song.  It's just what some people call it.  Crazy isn't it, but "crazy" it isn't.  Read on and find out...

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 thHe links listed near the bottom of this post for more Battle action.

Bolivian Lament

       In this Battle I'll be sharing covers of one of my all time favorite rock songs. It's a "rock en español" song that was a big hit for the Argentine group Enanitos Verdes in 1994 and that's how I first heard it.  However, it was first recorded by Alcohol Etílico (Ethyl Alcohol) in 1986.  The song as recorded by Enanitos Verdes was frequently played on Los Angeles Spanish language rock stations back then and I was captivated by it.  At the time I was dating my present wife who is Latina and sometimes I would knock on her door to pick her up and I'd sing the chorus "here I am drunk and crazy" and she would get a big kick out of that.  I think she might have also appreciated that I was singing to her in Spanish--and that I actually wasn't drunk and crazy.

     This Battle will feature a showdown between two live recordings of the song.  The first will be a more recent performance of the song by the original artist and then a version as performed by a female artist.  See which you like best....

Alcohol Etilico  "Lamento Boliviano"   (2006)

Ana Victoria  "Lamento Boliviano"  (2014)

If you are curious about the English translation here is a link to a version that is sung in English and displays the lyrics as such.  Kind of strange lyrics in a way, but I guess it's about Bolivia, so there. Please do not vote for this version as it is here for your reference only.

English version:   Bolivian Lament

Time to Vote!

        Don't use the excuse that you don't understand Spanish!   Enjoy the music!  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 November 8th or Sometime Around Then