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  So In Love
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Today, just a song that I happen to love. Curtis Mayfield, So In Love. The brass and organ riffs in this song break my heart in pieces, and put it back together again every chorus. Listening to this song feels like being in love feels to me, earnest and hopeful and sad all at the same time. Curtis's music is like that, is open and gentle and vulnerable in ways that really reasonate with me.

My life was a sad song for a little while there, but it's getting better, and I'm getting what I need. Thanks, people of mine, for reminding me what I love.

I hope you love this like I love this...



Curtis Mayfield, So In Love

and further listening...


It's All Right (with The Impressions)


People Get Ready

(Live performance circa 1988, track down the original version off the People Get Ready album with The Impressions)

We People Who Are Darker than Blue
 
Comments:
Curtis is healing music.

Hey, thanks so much for your great comment today. I was thrilled to learn about that Bicycle Kitchen site. I can just see me getting all obsessed with that too . . .sigh.

Anyway, good to hear from you.
 
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The basics... I'm 34, a feminist, lesbian, vegetarian, cat owning aspiring writer/director. After 27 years of fucking around telling myself my dreams weren't practical, seven years ago in a story that has now become legend in my life, I packed everything I owned and moved to Brooklyn to pursue life as a writer and theatre director. It's a very Madonna-esque tale ($800 cash to my name, nowhere to live, roaches, starvation and a crazy Turkish roommate) that I'm sure I'll be telling, but not now. For now, suffice it to say that this story, still in progress, has a happy ending. Or a happy middle, seeing as how I'm nowhere near being finished with anything. Life in Brooklyn is funny, scary, occasionally really hard, and everyday testing me as a person and a survivor. I think I'm passing. At least I wake up smiling every morning. The city is my lover, and like all truly great relationships, I love who I am when I am in it.



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