Sarah McLachlan

Heard the new song fallen on the radio today. I'm a serious fan, but I agree with jeliza that it was solid but not as compelling as some of her other songs. Then again, it seems that the single considered most 'sellable' for radio play is usually the weakest song of any album IMO. Guess I'll find on Nov 4 when the album afterglow comes out.

My first exposure to Sarah was through my ex, appleang. One of her co-workers at Bookstop (an Austin bookstore chain later absorbed by B&N) was playing it and she bought a few CDs (solace and touch) as a result. Like many artists, it took a while but it grew on me. I wasn't really a fan until I went to see a live show (with Paula Cole opening doing stuff from her first album Harbinger) on the Fumbling tour. Between a few concerts and Lilith Fair, I've seen her live many times...

So many of Sarah's songs are themes for moments of my life, feelings I couldn't express as well, or simply associated strongly with powerful memories. I'm not sure if Sarah will be too damn happy to make the same style of music now, or if the lack of drama in my own life now will somehow lessen my connection to her new music. I'll probably enjoy the new album, but still prefer 'classic Sarah' much the same way I feel about Melissa Etheridge...

Favorite Sarah songs to date: do what you have to do, ice, fear, fumbling towards ecstasy, circle, I will remember you, the path of thorns, steaming, vox

If nothing else, the Sarah fan lists will have something to discuss besides 'artists that remind one of Sarah'...

The best laid plans...

So I was going to play a Living Force game online tonight, but one of the players had a death in the family so we rescheduled for November. So I went to Poly Third Place to discover it was a total zoo because Dave Barry was speaking at Third Place--which made it the place to be if you were hoping to pick up hippy, politically minded liberterian chicks/guys. The parking lot was packed, and there were only a handful of the regulars for poly dinner in attendance. rubylou, jeliza, and drakemonger were going to try for Third Place with the bean, but after warning them of the crowd we decided to meet for dinner elsewhere instead. So, we had a great dinner at Bombay Grill and did some shopping at Half Price Books. It was nice to have some company for the evening.

I ended up purchasing a number of CDs as the Half Price had a good selection of things I had been meaning to buy for a while now: kd lang drag, melissa etheridge your little secret, jewel this way, ani difranco dilate, and sarah mclachlan mirrorball. The first two are "replacements" since Angela took those CDs in the split--one of the problems of shopping for CDs is trying to remember if I owned it before and if I have replaced it yet or not.

Listening to mirrorball I realized that i will remember you no longer yanks my heart-strings the way it once did--for a while it was Kim and I's 'song' as it were, which should tell you something about how screwed up our relationship really was :> do what you have to do of course still makes me teary-eyed: