.005//abra moore; the blow.

"How do we begin to repair this family affair"

Oh yes, it's that time again...I mean, not really since I can't bring myself to schedule these. Maybe that's endearing. Although I doubt it haha.

P.S. I think I enjoy writing next to the picture instead of above and below.

Okay so, I: Abra Moore.

This woman made me shed a tear. And I haven't done that since, well, forever. But, no, it was only a tear because I was touched. Not like full on crybaby. I'll explain that song towards the end of my Abra writing.

I've known of Abra's music since the days of Dawson's Creek.
And since then she's been a quiet calming, chill voice for me when things are so loud in life.

I'll explain, late sophomore year (2003), when I sort of was still in my "I so hate VA and miss TX and but it's growing on me phase", I sort of got detention...(I know, you're like, who gets detention anymore? It was 5 years ago so stfu though.) but yeah, so I'm like this is going to blow, none of my friends have detention and I'm not going to have anything to do but it just so happens one of the security guys (he was really cool) didn't mind if I made a mix to listen to in detention. I was told the day before I had detention that I had time to make the mix the night before. So I download some songs I'd found and among those...shizzam, was Abra Moore's "Taking Chances". I so didn't listen to much the mix other than this song on repeat. Yeah, I liked it that much. It wound up serving as an anthem of sorts because most of the time before this, I guess you could say I was so a goody-good, haha.

Following this, there was a huge piece of time where she fell off my radar (silly fucking me, what was I thinking?). Well, earlier this year, during the fall ('07), I was watching Women's Murder Club (shut the fuck up.) on ABC and I hear "Family Affair". They had it in an amazingly emotional scene between characters Lindsay Boxer and her ex-husband, Tom, speaking about her miscarriage while they were married because since they were married, they were really family, ya know?

Well, this song speaks to me in a different way. If you seriously sit and listen to her lyrics, it's so deeply about some of the love-hate relationships you have with your friends as well as family and even spouses. I love the lines "How do we begin to say 'I still love you', how do we repair this family affair...". It made me shed a tear because it sang so true for the relationship I have with my family. Definitely give it a listen (It should be on the playlist to your right following the publishing off this entry.), see if it rings true for you on anything.

Also listen to a few of my other favorites: "Big Sky" and "Four Leaf Clover".
And if you really like her awesome self: www.abramoore.com
On MySpace: www.myspace.com/abramoore

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Now, next up: The Blow.

Tell me, do you ever have like those bands or groups that you just have serious fun listening to? Like, they're intriguingly good at making you think about the smallest little things in a different light but being so witty it makes you giggle? Yeah, that's The Blow.

I'll tell you the song that seriously served as my introduction to them (or now, just Khaela Maricich. Jona Bechtolt is working with YACHT now. Another amazing group.) was definitely through the song "True Affection".

A little into spring of '07, I was riding in the car with a friend and she'd told me her mother borrowed her car while hers was in the shop and left one of her CDs in there. She decided we should listen to it, expecting to laugh at the oldies that were probably on there. To our surprise, we proceed to hear some pretty sweet tunes and we're like "whaaaaat, tell me why you're mom is hip to our kind of genre? haha". From the start, "True Affection" was catchy and so much fun with it's little snaps and it's true-to-life lyrics (at least in a few of our situations).

A lot of friends in the area caught onto how fun the song is, I put it on a mix and another friend had it on theirs. During a few drunken evenings, we played it numerous times (yeah, I don't deny my friends are pretty awesome haha). That summer following I got into a few other songs from them:

"Parentheses" (which is honestly, if i could sound any more like a pansy, adorable.),
"Come On Petunia" (there's a girl this song reminds me of, even though I'm not crushing on anyone but, this song is her incarnate...honestly though have you ever met someone that just, everything they do is like...amazing, maybe because you're crushing, but because it just is, they're that sensual? This explains it to a tee: "everything little thing she does is magic, everything she do just turns me on")
"Knowing The Things That I Know" (oh this song. It's too smart for it's own good. And although I honestly couldn't tell you what the singer herself means, it's a best kept secret for anyone that equates it to their own situation, it's secretly wise in the most perfect way. It makes you want to wink at your friends that know the feeling of this song too ;-). Something you know that they just, well...don't.)

For knowing the things that I know about The Blow: click this.
On MySpace: www.myspace.com/theblowus.

Oh and, two videos for: "Parentheses" (as adorable as the song. Sorry, I had to say it again) and "Knowing The Things That I Know":