Tuesday, July 27, 2004

CHILDREN'S SOUP FOR THE SINGLE SOUL 
 

The kind of men I've been blessed, or cursed (depending on what season I am in and what they've done right or wrong) to have encountered can be described in the context of  acronyms--HHWW, TNT, SOB, and as declared by the Guinness Book of World Records to be the world's longest acronym,  NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT  (as found from the Concise Dictionary of Soviet Terminology, which translates to "The laboratory for shuttering, reinforcement, concrete and ferroconcrete operations for composite-monolithic and monolithic constructions of the Department of the Technology of Building-assembly operations of the Scientific Research Institute of the Organization for building mechanization and technical aid of the Academy of Building and Architecture of the USSR").

A jargon of their own.  But apart from a particular context, meaningless. They come  stringed, punctuated or not, initialized, abbreviated or assimilated.  Annoying but has a purpose.  

And so it is fascinating the first time I heard these guys whose work I borrow below. I thought, wow, scorned angry men and no abstractions about it.  Candid and honest without being pathetically syrupy about it. That's something new.  My kind of men.   

I've yet to read about their demography, politics  and psychology so I beg your indulgence.  I am merely basing these from what I've heard on their other tracks.   No painted whitewashed paradise. More like overcast to stormy skies.  The female face isn't even painted well in some instances but still I am drawn to listen.

There is so much to  relate to. For one, I  feel like I am the reason for those songs coming to existence.  You can sue me if you think otherwise. But if you too are single, full-blooded, biologically female, and all-too-100%-complex-wanting-simplicity, you are free to relate. 

So from  A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S.  to ABC soup.  It's not sweet. It isn't supposed to be.  Some salt, some spice. Comfort  food.  Childlike joy floating on warm, clear, light perspective.  Have some. It's rainy out there.      

  
 

Must Get Out.Maroon5.I’ve been the needle and the threadWeaving figure eights and circles round your headI try to laugh but cry insteadPatiently wait to hear the words you’ve never saidFumbling through your dresser drawer forgot what I was looking forTry to guide me in the right directionMaking use of all this timeKeeping everything insideClose my eyes and listen to you cryI'm lifting you upI'm letting you downI'm dancing till dawnI'm fooling aroundI'm not giving upI'm making your loveThis city's made us crazy and we must get outThis is not goodbye she saidIt is just time for me to rest my headShe does not walk she runs insteadDown these jagged streets and into my bedFumbling through your dresser drawer forgot what I was looking forTry to guide me in the right directionMaking use of all this timeKeeping everything insideClose my eyes and listen to you cryI'm lifting you upI'm letting you downI'm dancing till dawnI'm fooling aroundI'm not giving upI'm making your loveThis city’s made us crazy and we must get outThere’s only so much I can do for youAfter all of the things you put me throughI'm lifting you upI'm letting you downI'm dancing till dawnI'm fooling aroundI'm not giving upI'm making your loveThis city’s made us crazy and we must get outI'm lifting you upI'm letting you downI'm dancing till dawnI'm fooling aroundI'm not giving upI'm making your loveThis city’s made us crazy and we must get out

 
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Info Source: http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Acronym
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Another thing caught my attention on the WordIQ site. 
Check it out.  Again us on the map :) 
http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Acronyms_in_the_Philippines










Tuesday, July 20, 2004

H A P P Y.  
 




That's how I am these days.  I could still cry over this someone  I finally chose to give up but no longer out of despair.  I could still cry over work but frustration would no longer be the motivation.
 
I looked over to where his table is and rejoiced at the thought, finally I can fall again.  Fall down hard possibly. Yet find comfort in knowing that it can cause another inch of growth.  Or growth spurt. 
 
I paused and thought I've been happy for a whole week now and not exactly because of the possibility of romance but simply because I see myself capable of going through the ugliest and most miserable of feelings and situations, run away almost for dear life and in it all had the courage to go back and face what's seething beneath.  

Yes, I am a woman.  To my mind going 4o and all things in between.    

I am a hammock and a trampoline.
I am company and solitude.
I am power and surrender.


Ah great great to be a woman.

 

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