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Day 07 - A song that remind you of an event
Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
If you’ve ever been to Arlington Stadium in recent years you will have noticed that when the opposing team reaches into their bullpen during an inning, this song comes on.
They put flames up on the screens and blast some Johnny Cash and everyone claps and sings along, and it is all normally a really good moment. Because there has to be something wrong if they are reaching into the bullpen in the middle of the inning; meaning you are winning. Or about to. Or on the verge of a serious comeback.
So every time I hear this song I am 2000 miles away back in Texas sweating my buns off cheering along as a new pitcher from some team I don’t like takes his warm-up pitches.
I guess you could say it’s on the soundtrack to my life.
Because those games, those days with my family, are some of the best memories of my life.
Go Rangers.
Day 06 - A song that reminds you of somewhere
Gone Gone Gone - Robert Plant & Allison Krauss
I wouldn’t think that the singer from Led Zeppelin and a country bluegrass singer could come up with a sound that works; much less a song I would like.
But every time I hear this song I am back in the back art building putting together a penny tree that was refusing to work.
I eventually got that stinking penny tree finished, and went out and bought this album Raising Sand. I still like to listen to this song when I’m creating.
Check it out.
Day 05 - A song that reminds you of someone
You Only Get What You Give - New Radicals
I don’t care if you don’t like this band. This song and Mother We Just Can’t Get Enough are some of the best happy day jam songs ever. In fact they are both on my happy day mix tape.
Every time I hear this song I see my wonderful roommate Raylee singing next to me singing at the top of her lungs with the windows rolled down.
I can taste the sea and salt in the air and feel my hair blowing around my face and I know I’m drinking either a Sonic or Starbucks beverage (our drugs of choice).
Every time I hear this song I’m reminded that friendships do make it through and that if you drive fast enough and sing loud enough you can be infinite; you can leave the world behind.
Day 04 - A song that makes you sad
Dance Russe - Hurt
Don’t get me wrong; I by no means dislike this song. In fact I think it is quite beautiful; the raw raspy voice, the lyrics, and I’m always a fan of a good guitar solo.
However, it reminds me of leaving and sadness and friendships lost.
I had a boyfriend once who started to love this band. And like with any relationship I picked up a few habits that just absorbed into my person.
I think relationships are beautiful like that. You come in just you; but somewhere it becomes them and you. Fighting the good fight.
So I have a love for Eminem that I did not discover on my own, I listen to Painting Flowers at least three times a week, I love The Spill Canvas, The Rocket Summer, and Bruno Mars. And Hurt. I love this band.
So one of my ex-boyfriends played this song the day he drove away from my house to go off to college. And though I suppose I didn’t want to admit it at the time I knew we were never going to make it while the lyrics said don’t you let go of me.
Such a hard time.
Wanting different things in life is not a bad thing, or a wrong thing. But I still wish I could tell the high school me that.
I’m glad that everything in that situation worked out for the best. But the song still holds the sad spot for today.
Still, it is beautiful.
* Please ignore the use of Papyrus in this video. I couldn’t find a better quality. And yes, I died a little inside posting this on my own Tumblr. Ahhh, the pains of being a graphic designer.
Day 03 - A song that makes you happy
Rhianna - We Found Love
I’m not always one for top 40’s music. But every so often my brother and sister will come to me with a song and say that I’ll love it. That it defies the normally low standards of their music tastes.
This was so true for this song.
I can’t help but dance, sing, smile and jam out when this song comes on. And it has been all over the place lately.
I don’t even mind.
I’m not one for techno, or over-repetition. And this song has a lot of both. But something about the drop and the lyrics is so beautiful.
I mean who doesn’t want to find love in a hopeless place.
Basically it doesn’t matter what place I’m in. This song makes me happy.
This is so true. And anyone who believes differently is a…. well. I don’t know. I can’t think of anything that doesn’t sound mean. But seriously, check out some hand drawn type on the internet. It will change your life.
Typeverything.com - Lettering by Lee-Ann Donaldson
I realized that I never fully updated my tumblr after the end of last quarter. And I had a post mentioning that one of my final projects was to design print and implement a car wrap.
Let me tell you, I was not super stoked for this project. I just didn’t think designing a car wrap for a corporate company could be any fun, and wrapping this car looked like a time consuming waste of time.
So that being said it was, of course, one of the best projects I’ve ever done. I had an epiphany while doodling in the corners of my art history notebook that I didn’t have to do a boring corporate company. I could make this fun. And what got me into art in the first place…? Doodling. Massive, long, drawn-out doodles on graph paper and ruled paper and blank paper. Doodling with Sharpies.
At one point I owned every color of Sharpie they made. I will swear by Sharpie. I will lay my life down for them. They are amazing and you don’t have to be an artist to use them. It truly is an all purpose marker. They make them thick, they make them thin. There is a Sharpie color and weight out there for every person alive. I truly believe that.
So I sat down with 24 hours until this thing was due to print and doodled the heck out of my marker paper, scanned it in, and hoped to God that it printed well.
When I picked it up from press I already knew I was in love, and due to a short stint at a company one of my friend’s mom owned called White Hat I could work a squeegee. We would take vinyl stickers and place them on toolboxes and clipboards and such.
So I sat down and wrapped this car for about 5 hours. And let me tell you, that was some of the best 5 hours of my life. Seriously, there is nothing like putting a record on and looking up 5 hours later wondering where all your time went. I love being that absorbed. It lets me know I chose the correct career path in life.
Seeing this car finished made me so happy.
It needs to be my personal car.
You didn’t think I would wrap anything other than a mustang did you?
Day 02 - Your least favorite song
Stay- Sugarland
I’m not a huge lover of country music; however I am from Texas and I’ve been spotted once or twice two-steppin’ with a cowboy. Seriously, only once. Or twice.
Still, on Sundays my dad makes breakfast, normally my favorite pancakes, and while he is cooking he likes to turn on the Country Top 40 on TV. In that setting I always appreciated the simple lyrics about life, love and death that is the typical motif in country music. So yes, in a moment of confession of a crime that would probably get me kicked out of my liberal arts school: I will admit to liking some country music.
There are songs like Amarillo Sky that feel so much like Texas that while I am in Georgia and feeling slightly homesick I tend to listen to. Just to feel like I am back in a land with no trees, few people and open spaces. Because sometimes, that is just what I need.
But on the other hand there are songs like this, that I hated so much that I steered clear of country music for months because it was on so often. There is nothing I like about it; not the music, the video, the lyrics. Nothing. I can’t even really explain why. But it repulses me and it was EVERYWHERE for a while.
To be honest it has ruined a lot of Sundays.
Luckily I have many more to look fondly on.
Day 01- Your Favorite Song
After Hours- We Are Scientists
This is hard to do. For so many reasons but the main one being that my favorite song changes daily. So I decided to go with my favorite over the longest span of time. It has come and gone and come back. So for me, that is standing the test of time.
I first heard this song my senior year in high school the day I got my acceptance letter to SCAD and the day after I had quit softball for good. That night, like every weekend night me and my friends went driving around and playing games like remember when while drinking Sonic cokes and listening to top 40’s music.
When I went home I wished the night hadn’t ended so soon, because I knew everything would be changing soon as we all went our separate ways. But listening to that song reminded me that tomorrow would hold more of the same with those people and that I’d stay as long as I could.
Plus, now that I’m a senior in art school I am soaking up so many hours that other people throw away with sleep. And this song always manages to keep me company.
