the Dalaverse

Short bit. Trying desperately to finish this silly thing off.


( Nothing New Under the Sun: Snakes Alive! )

OMG OMG OMG how could I have watched series one TWICE and not realized it had special features???

::dies of Jack Dav cuteness overload::

How is it possible that we can have six Van Morrison albums plus a Best Of compilation, and have not one of them contain "Someone Like You"?

I hate jonesing for a song I don't have access to. It doesn't happen very often, but when it does, the need creeps into my brain all insatiable until I feel like I'm going to go fricken inSANE if I don't listen to that particular song RIGHT AT THAT VER Y MOMENT.

The last time this happened was at school, when I needed to hear "Bell Bottom Blues" and I didn't have any Clapton except for "Sunshine of Your Love" on the soundtrack from "The 60's" and "Wonderful Tonight" on my Sappy Love Songs Mix (and "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" off the White Album, if I'm just counting guitarwork). Anyway, I was positively haunted during the day and it half it took to download a clean copy. I looked up the lyrics and memorized them, hummed it constantly, could not get it out of my damn head. And then, AND THEN Daddy brought Clapton along for the drive home, so I stole his tape. And one of the first things I did upon getting my computer set up in my room was burning myself a Clapton mix. Thus endeth the story of My Love for "Bell Bottom Blues."

I still don't have "Someone Like You," though, so I don't feel any better. Sigh. I will pop in Moondance as a substitute.

Heh. I don't even like Van Morrison all that much. But I do remember playing a trivia game in ninth grade Algebra II, in which one of the questions was "This famous Van shares a name with a Door," and I was the only person in the entire class who knew it.

Actually, that was the same year that Schultz told us some science term that gets acronymed as CCR and he said it was one of his favorites, because it was a great band, and did anybody want extra credit for telling him the real name of the band. And I said it, and he looked surprised and asked how I knew that, and I said it was because my dad rocks hardcore.

Those were perhaps the two occasions in high school when having my taste in music didn't totally suck for me. No, scratch that -- also the thrill I got when they played "Brown Eyed Girl" every year at Homecoming.

It cannot be said enough. I DIG MUSIC. I could go on and on with this useless post forever.

ETA Combing amazon to find out what album it's on and holy crap the man has recorded a lot of music.

Dagnabbit I've been through three pages, where is the bloody song?!

I cannot go to sleep until I find it.

I know it's not on a Them album because it's late Van. It SHOULD be on Avalon Sunset, but it's not.

It wasn't an original composition for the Ashley Judd/HUGH BABY movie, was it? It couldn't have been, they used it in "Bridget Jones's Diary" too...

I've hit import albums now. That's not a good sign.

OMFG on A Sense of Wonder, there is a song called "Boffyflow and Spike." That is HYSTERICAL and totally worth this fruitless search.

Alright. I've gotten to 80 items and I've hit singles and reissues. Either it was written for the movie or I missed it somewhere. I'll do a more thorough search tomorrow.

No idea why this has suddenly become so important to me. It's not like I'm going to run out and buy the album.

Giving up for the night.