It’s almost impossible for me to think of anything for this. Not that I couldn’t dedicate songs to a number of people but I usually don’t go there and I’m not going to this time, at least not really.

Not technically old school, it will be one day. I dedicate this song to anyone whoever told me to “Hold My My Own, Know My Name and Go My own Way”. You know who you are, and though it is unlikely you read this blog, because you are either deceased or oblivious to such triviality, this debt I can never repay, and I thank you.

Details in the Fabric/ Jason Mraz with James Morrison

This link below will lead you to a performance of this in Glasgow with Toca Rivera vocal accompaniment.

This is dedicated to Everybody because everybody knows, and if they don’t they should.
Concrete Blond’s version of Leonard Cohen’s ‘Everybody Knows”.

peace

OSF sponsored by Conversations With Marva and Mrs Grapevine

The players:

Electronic Village | Kim | Kevin – A Slant Truth | Marcus LANGFORD | iriegal | John | CC Groovy | Kreative Talk | Regina | Vivrant Thing | AJ | Beleiver 1964 | SJP | BklynQueen 86 | Hey Shae | Malcolm

A year of wreck and residue, not my words, they belong to a poet, maybe Longfellow not sure. A year of wild hearts and heads not thinking clearly. I read “The Awakening”. The protagonist annoyed me. I tried re-reading “Catcher in the Rye” to make it what so many told me it was. It still wasn’t. I found success with “The Lexus and the Olive Tree”, though my heart was with “War and Peace” and “The Trial”. Still is. Some memories are seeded deep in the crevices of my brain, almost irretrievable, while some remain above the abyss ready for grasping at a moments notice should the need occur. It rarely does.

A rose did bloom and die that spring only to bloom again the subsequent fall, the autumn of the life after high school. A year so far away and gone so fast I’m not sure it occurred. But for photographs not yet faded enough to be truly old I’d be leaning on the side of “never happened”.

Then I remember the music.

You’ve all heard this before, we ( I mean you G, you too Dane) were cool, geeky for sure, we followed him to the 9:30 Club in D.C. at 15 and 16. We had his Java Joe’s cd, something you bought off the internet in 2001 (a great CD which has been remastered and re-released by the way). His first studio release didn’t occur until late 2002 making the charts in 2003. The year I graduated from High School.

“The Remedy” – Jason Mraz.
Studio Version Here

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Who didn’t love The White Stripes?

“Seven Nation Army”

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Same year, later on though. I was already outta there. OutKast,“Hey Ya”.

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Check out the players:

Electronic Village | Fresh And Fab | Quick| Marcus | Cassandra |iriegal | Mahogany | Hagar’s Daughter | Lisa C | Chocl8t | DP | Dallassouth | John | CC Groovy | Kreative Talk | Regina | Clnmike | Vivrant Thing | AJ | Sharon | The Creole Pimp | Invisible Woman | Believer 1964 | SJP | Bria | BklynQueen 86 | Hey Shae | From the Battlefield | Thembi | D Spot | Malcolm | Pop Art Diva | Pjazzypar | Kevin