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q nerd q nerd home about links hooray for craigslist i m getting a bookshelf i m getting a bookshelf i ve been browsing craigslist recently in order to see if i could find anything funky and neat for the new apartment or at least listings for garage sales and the like today though i m picking up this i am probably entirely too excited for a 20 used bookshelf but i m pretty sure my ginormous oxford english dictionary will fit on it which will free up a lot of space on my other bookshelves even with that space though i m probably going to have to buy another set of bookshelves to match the ones i already have when it comes to moving though that s the one thing i m not looking forward to moving all the books i ve already packed four boxes of books and i haven t even touched the books in my office or in the family room yet it s never a fun process moving but it s even less fun for a bibliophile not only are books heavy dead weight but packing and unpacking them takes forever as well still despite all of my grumbling i really am looking forward to moving while the process will be a pain in the ass it will be nice to become more fully invested in the graduate school and social lives i ve slowly begun at school plus this year i m the social chair of the english graduate organization so living near campus will make that aspect of the year go a lot better edit boo for me as i completely misjudged the size of that bookcase and the oed definitely won t fit on it ah well perhaps i ll use it for the materials related to my thesis june 15 2008 at 11 52 am 1 comment burning down the house i love torch songs if the term is unfamiliar wikipedia describes the torch song as follows a torch song is a sentimental love song typically one in which the singer laments an unrequited or lost love where one party is either oblivious to the existence of the other or where one party has moved on singers predominantly female of the pop vocal tradition are referred to as torch singers when their repertoire consists predominantly of such material torch singing is more of a niche than a genre and can stray from the traditional jazz influenced style of singing although the american tradition of the torch song typically relies upon the melodic structure of the blues another thing people who know me know about me aside from my rampant congenital negativity is that i m a giant sap chick flicks weddings and that sort of thing i m there so it s no surprise that i m a fan of love songs in general the problem though there s a lot of really shitty love songs out there let s face it there s not often a lot of complexity in songs of requited love i love you so much i long for your touch i love you so dear whether far or near and that sort of sing songy hallmark card music tend not to work for me i mean there are exceptions there are good happy love songs out there but the sheer amount of crappy trite ones makes sturgeon s law look optimistic and are probably what give the entire sappy song category a bad name i mean after hearing things like this on the radio every hour i d be singing down with love myself i think it s from the late 90s if i m recalling correctly i love you always forever near and far closer together everywhere i will be with you everyday i will devour you i m sure we could come up with a gigantic list of songs like that i honestly love you for yet another example but as i said earlier today s not a day of oooh hate kill hallmark card songs rather it s a day celebrating the sad the wistful and the unrequited the torch song let s face it the problem with the happy love songs is that there s little drama little conflict little to make the lyricist stretch his or her wordplay they joke about moon june swoon rhymes for a reason you know the unrequited and longing parts of torch songs provide drama uncertainty and universality almost everyone has either worshipped from afar or been rejected at some point in his her life and still despite that shared experience that evokes empathy and connection the torch song is often more personal more divergent from the common experience because it becomes the story of one person but one most can relate to whereas the fulfilling love songs tend to sound the same in many respects here are a few torch songs i particularly enjoy listed by rendition rather than lyricist hallelujah leonard cohen 1984 lyrics 1988 lyrics i love just about every version of this song every combination of verses every version by every artist who recorded it the 1984 version from various positions doesn t have quite the same torch song gutpunch as the 1988 version from cohen live though one of the things i like about both versions are the way they end on a surprisingly sweet touching note lyrics from the 1988 version but there isn t much variation i did my best it wasn t much i couldn t feel so i learned to touch i ve told the truth i didn t come all this way to fool you yeah even though it all went wrong i ll stand right here before the lord of song with nothing on my tongue but hallelujah instead of regretting the past the voice remains thankful despite all the heartache a surprisingly sentimental closing from someone who sings all i ve ever seemed to learn from love is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you and if you ve never heard the song you can check out various renditions at my old kentucky blog you don t know me ray charles lyrics i really don t have much to say for this one but it is so super good it s a perennial on my saved song list on my space radio it comes on so many stations too the standards station the blues station the 50s station the love song station and one country station i think everyone is supposed to like ray charles please call me baby tom waits lyrics streaming audio i just love this so much tom waits for the win as the kids say there s just something about the narrative of the doomed relationship and the lovers that keep struggling in it that gets to me one for my baby frank sinatra lyrics i mean wow it kind of echoes what scott mccloud writes in understanding comics about the strength of cartoony comics art that we re able to project more of ourselves if the elements are more universal so we see human being rather than this specific human being but it does it lyrically the speaker only refers to the story he is going to tell but never tells the actual story by the end he thinks the story has actually been told and in a way it has just not explicitly la vie en rose edith piaf french lyrics english lyrics i have no idea what she s saying and when it comes to songs i never trust the versions translated into english but it melts me every time it may not even be a torch song for all i know ok torch songs list your favorites three two one go june 11 2008 at 9 02 am 4 comments older posts categories blogging comics film general hip hop interior design literature personal reviews the low road uncategorized blogroll wordpress com wordpress org feeds entries 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