Can't even Pull off Angsty...

Well, as seems to be my M.O. - I had high hopes of sticking to a writing schedule with the Sunday Picture Challenge being a fiction installment and a post later in the week on something more 'coast-y'.

One post in and I lost all ideas.

And interest.

I wish I could pinpoint a cause.

Life is good around here.

Maybe that's the problem.

I have no angsty, dysfunctional complaints.

I mean, take a look – even the first 10 random songs on my ipod are happy...

American Kids

Kenny Chesney

First off, let it be known that I have exactly ONE Kenny Chesney song on my ipod. I hate to admit that there are a handful more of his that I like, as long as they are the more Trop-Rock and less of the whiney country ones.

Second, note that this song is about people who have everything and are enjoying it.

Hello, I Love You

The Doors

A love song in its most bare element...and Jim Morrison...come on, long haired hippy with a smokey voice....

Hot Fun in the Summer-Time

Sly and the Family Stone

Its right there in the title. Hot fun. In the Summer....

Whenever I Call You Friend

Kenny Loggins

Of note, this was the FIRST Kenny on my playlist. He will always evoke good 'feels' for those early adult days when nothing was complicated.

And, its a song about friends no matter what...

The Way

Fastball

So, this one I had to look up.

I was ready to blame this one on the kids and their one time joint use of our i-tunes account until I listened to it.

On the surface it is a song about two people chucking everything and taking off together. Living the dream. Oh sure, it is probably, in that 90's manner, a superbly depressing take on excess but on the surface...well...its right there in the refrain:

"anyone can see the road that they walk on is paved in gold

and it's always summer, they'll never grow old"

This is the most accurate description of my current situation there ever was.

Chasing Hemingway's Ghost

Scott Kirby

The story of an artist following his dream.

Or, how I like to see myself...

Hungry Heart

Bruce Springstein

This may actually be the saddest song on the list. Guy deserts wife, meets some tramp in Kingston, leaves her too...

But Bruce is notoriously hard to understand and there is just something exciting and energizing about the music...

The Tiki Bar is Open

Jimmy Buffett

(written by John Hyatt)

Alcoholic on the wagon falls off because the Tiki Bar is open...

Again, maybe if you scratch the surface not the most inspirational.

But, its summer.

This is a bouncy, happy song.

And we just got back from an awesome Tiki Bar in Chicago...

Three Dots and a Dash - the wall of skulls as you wander down the stairs from the alley...
Three Dots and a Dash is morse code for V as in Victory

note the 3 dotes, and 1 dash garnish

the signature drink and glass

Lucky

Jason Mraz

The song's title is LUCKY.

Come on people.

Brown Eyed Girl

Van Morrison

This actually had me laughing out loud.

For starters, who doesn't love a good Van Morrison tune. And this one is such an iconic song.

A friend of ours, who played drums in a weekend band, once lamented the fact that all they every do is play Brown Eyed Girl, left our table when the break was over to return to the first request of the second set from the table full of bridesmaids – you guessed it – Brown Eyed Girl.

Also, I am a Brown Eyed Girl.

And, if you haven't noticed, every RomCom this side of 2005 is required by law to have at least three Van Morrison songs in it.

I was a little sad to see my new favorite song – Havana by Camila Cabello – didn't make the random cut. But hey, its my blog and I can add her in just like this...

Here's wishing each of you a non-angsty, happy-go-lucky playlist and summer.

I'll be back, eventually.

Hope you will be too!

the result of Three Dots and a Dash...
exotic flower and skull pics sold separately