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 A blog about music from my unique perspective (also a spot for some poetry I’ve written) |
A blog, generally about music, usually for projects hosted by Jeff-o'-lantern 🎃  . I may also write about the 48-Hour Media Prompt Challenge if I don't feel like writing a story or poem inspired by the given song. Other bits of poetry or different topics of discussion might end up here as well.This is the poem which earned my blog its first ribbon, courtesy Citizen Journalist: 8/25/25   "Renewal"   ![Merit Badge in WDC Media Prompt
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This was the idea of iKïyå§amhain  , for "Writing.Com in Wonderland"  1. Melancholy: a collie wearing a watermelon costume 2. Serendipity: when you slather Dippity Doo on your Saran wrapped sandwich 3. Theosophy: one of those "people pairs," specifically Theodore and Sophy 4. Watershed: what happens when your dog comes in out of the rain and shakes 5. Waverly: watching the ocean waves while climbing a coconut palm 6. Mondegreen: when your leftovers start looking like they've been "laid on the green..." 7. Footloose: what happens when the Halloween skeleton is left in the closet for too long 8. Foresight: that third eye in the middle of your forehead... 9. Jigsaw: when someone joggles your arm as you're doing something delicate and precise... 10. Frenetic: when you get a new hairstyle by sticking your finger in a light socket 11. Background: the ground in back of the haunted house (where the graveyard is) 12. Graveyard: when the owl in that tree looks down at you like "you shouldn't be here..." 13. Wednesday: the day all the Weds get nesed. 1. Wonderlanditis: when one gets lost down the rabbit hole and can't get back home 2. Conflusticated: a state of frenzied concern and flustered anxiety 3. Dracognomist: a gnome who rides dragons 4. Ghostethtician: someone who makes ghosts beautiful 5. Planchard: a type of lettuce used in Wonderland 6. Yukgort: a creature something like a yak, but with six horns and leathery skin 7. Slindering: the art of sneaking past your dozing spouse while holding a tray of snacks 8. Fraxidallion: a fractured medallion that's been glued back together, usually with magical properties 9. Endronititis: when a lazy person starts taking root and turns into a tree 10. Libriascale: arranging all your books on the shelf in rainbow order of their spine colors 11. Thenoscope: a telescope that lets you see into the future 12. Delgradosis: what happens when you take a train to sightsee and it won't let you off So... Yeah    Let me know what your favorites are! |
| My sixth Barrel of Monkeys track is a single off of the 2022 Imagine Dragons double album Mercury Act 1 & 2. I chose this because I was getting tired of trying to find ID tracks with slightly over 25 million streams. For some reason their tracks either have a gazillion views (on YouTube) or surprisingly few. I don't have a Spotify account, and it's rather difficult to access streaming stats per song. This, obviously, has way more than the challenge requirements. What it Sounds Like Sharks is a spartan song, with a simple bass line and production reflective of Rick Rubin’s influence. My first impression was that it had a demo feel, perhaps because of the real instruments combined with the synth effects. (The bass line is actually identical to another single off of Act 2, Bones. But that's a different story…) It has a spooky sound, of course, suitable to the theme, complete with unnerving laughs and ominous popping bubbles added at the beginning of the second verse. Now that I think of it, it resembles one of Michael Jackson's horror type songs, something that kids love to be scared with. What It Means Thematically, Sharks reminds us that everyone is a shark. It deals with envy, backbiting, and toxic behavior, while also reflecting on the brevity of life and how one tends to become the very thing one dislikes. For some reason, kids love this song. I've never liked real sharks, for much the same reason that dinosaurs never interested me. I would think Sharks is even a bit creepy for kids, but it's more playfully exaggerated than truly sinister, and it does teach an important lesson about human nature. The music video for Sharks is the cat's pajamas. I absolutely love it. The evening it came out, I must've watched it a million times on loop. It portrays a story purportedly inspired by the movie Ocean’s Eleven, where some kind of carefully planned heist is taking place at a landmark casino in Vegas. As a person who doesn't watch movies, I thoroughly appreciate the effort that went into creating a mini-movie for this song. I also love how a folding smartphone is prominently featured; some people might laugh at the commercial aspect of that, but good grief, the only other time I've seen those is when I played with the test devices at Best Buy  Personal Significance Sharks was released in June of 2022, during a time when I was still finding myself after the pandemic and a toxic job. I found comfort in the relatability of Dan's words, seeing my own experience reflected, especially in the second verse: “don’t you let ‘em see you struggle - hiding your tears/ crisis, take advantage of your niceness… prey on your fears.” I made an art piece for this song… Technically, it was supposed to be a birthday card for Dan Reynolds, to be posted on my Twitter page and appreciated by the fandom, but I was in the process of pulling away from social media and ended up missing the day entirely. I think I posted it a year later, but by then everything had changed and it lacked significance. I got the idea because the band released an animated lyrics video of Sharks in time for his birthday - I think it had something to do with National Shark Awareness Day - and I took a screenshot of the phrase “you're a light in the dark” and thought it applied nicely to him, so embellished it. I must've listened to Sharks a gazillion times, between my initial release analysis and watching the music video and streaming it on my personal offline shuffle mix. Like all the tracks off of Mercury, I wore it threadbare and haven't really played it much since joining WdC. I'm glad to have a chance to give it a fresh listen with good earbuds. Words: 640. |
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