Songbook

What am I listening to now: Julia Fordham - “Happy Ever After”

Nick Hornby is a wonderful Brit author that is passionate about music and writing and relationships. He writes with feeling and irony and has an uncanny way of putting a undescribable situation to words.
He wrote a book Songbook, full of essays based on songs that “popped” into his life and why and where these songs fit into his life.
McSweeney’s is a online ( and a print mag) literary mag full of satire and sometimes a hardcore essay too. Mc Sweeney’s decided to put a query to their writers to emulate something from Nick Hornby’s Songbook.
Here’s the link.
S H O R T   E S S A Y S   O N F A V O R I T E   S O N G S ,
I N S P I R E D   B Y N I C K   H O R N B Y ' S S O N G B O O K .
http://mcsweeneys.net/links/song/
The ones that stand out for me:
Take on Me - A-Ha
http://mcsweeneys.net/links/song/grady.html
I happen to think that this is a GREAT 80’s song. Put it on and I’ll still dance!

Hello it’s me
http://mcsweeneys.net/links/song/rundgren.html
Funny how music can be such a pneumonic device. Good Essay...

And my favorite essay of the moment...
Don’t worry Baby
http://mcsweeneys.net/links/song/french.html
This has always been one of my all time favorite songs and to read someone else's feelings that are quite the same as mine when it comes to the song.
And as a woman and a girl at heart...yes, I think having someone stroke my hair, hold me and tell me, “Don’t worry, baby. Everything’s going to be alright.” would be the ultimate.

Maybe I’m going to find a song and go for it. The only problem; which one?