Diamanda Galás Concert

The Diamanda Galás Concert yesterday was great. She was singing so loud and shaking and moving around in her chair, it's the kind of music that can only be made very passionately, it's hard to keep still, because it makes you go out of control. She pounded that piano like she was murdering it, she actually even broke a key.

Everybody in the audience loved it, of course. People clapped their hands and stomped their feet and whistled and woo'd. She did some different songs, in some different languages. Her voice was perfect, of course. It ranges three and a half octaves. I'm no expert on these terms, but basically, she can scream pretty dang loud.

She looked fabulous, of course, at age 53, long black kinda messy looking hair, long black dress with some frills on it. She performed each and every song completely perfectly, not a single mistake in her voice. I love her music because it's so passionate. It can be about passionate sex, passionate love, passionate heartbreak or passionate disgust, it doesn't matter, all in all, passion is all the same.

In other news...

...My practice at the kindergarten is going great! I have lots of favorites, in fact, I think basically every child there is my favorite, but in a different way. Some children are just cuddlier than others, some are just cuter than others, some just need a lot of special attention and some just remind me of someone I know... So they're all special to me and they all have their unique qualities.

...I think my dad had a birthday recently. Oh, yes, he turned 57 the day before yesterday. I wonder if he got any presents.

...On the 21st I'll go on karate camp. It will mostly be younger kids there, I think, but whatever, it seems fun, sure, why not?

...On the 30th, my darling Fruppy is coming here. I love him so much. There are no two people closer than me and him.

...And Jackie, my darling, I will always love you, but I can't keep dreaming about being with somebody who will never love me. I miss you so much.

If I Was An Animal... I'd Be A Cobra

Art formMusic

CityStockholm

ColorBlack

CountryKingdom of Sweden

DiseaseAutism

ElementFire

Fantasy creatureFairy, so I could fly

FragranceTar

InventionThe soul... The discovery of it

LandscapeA dark summer night and a fire

MetalGold

Part of my bodyMy tiny waist

ReligionSecular Humanism

SeasonSummer

SongScream of Love by Diamanda Galás

SoundA scream

SportYoga

And if I was a time of the day... I'd be the night

ALSO

I just recently found out that Bo Diddley or as his real name was Ellas Otha McDaniel died on June 2. Rest in peace! He was a wonderful musician.

The 116 Greatest Songs Ever!

Why 116 I do not know. I just tried to put down lots of songs that I like. Perhaps there are lots of songs that I like more than some of those but that didn't get on the list, perhaps some of them aren't in exactly the order I like them. But hey, I spent lots of time trying to write down my favorite songs and put them in the right order and it's not so easy to remember all my favorite songs or decide in which order I like them all and I really can't spend forever on one list, so I guess I think this list is quite good enough!

1. Diamanda Galás - Scream of Love

2. Diamanda Galás - Eyes Without Blood

3. Diamanda Galás - I Put A Spell On You

4. Rezsõ Seress - Szomorú Vasárnap

5. Joy Division - I Remember Nothing

6. Joy Division - In A Lonely Place

7. John Cale - I Keep A Close Watch

8. Sweetbox - Everything's Gonna Be Alright

9. The Cure - The Same Deep Water As You

10. Clannad - I Will Find You

11. Mary J. Blige and Method Man - You're All I Need

12. Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone

13. Dave Bainbridge and Joanne Hogg - Until The Tide Turns

14. The Blue Nile - Soul Boy

15. The Danse Society - Somewhere

16. Joy Division - Decades

17. Neil Young - Like a Hurricane

18. Bill Withers - You Just Can't Smile It Away

19. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah

20. The Police - Every Breath You Take

21. Diana Ross and Marvin Gaye - You Are Everything

22. Corvus Corax - Mille Anni Passi Sunt

23. Hocico - Nightmare

24. Iona - Divine Presence

25. All About Eve - Martha's Harbour

26. Diamanda Galás - Insane Asylum

27. Lacuna Coil - Enjoy The Silence

28. Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

29. Gene Loves Jezebel - Kiss Of Life

30. Roberta Flack - The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face

31. Diamanda Galás and Jane's Addiction - Sex Is Violent

32. Diamanda Galás - Gloomy Sunday

33. Billie Holiday - Gloomy Sunday

34. Leftöver Crack - Heroin Or Suicide?

35. Jimmy Witherspoon - Everything But You

36. Skip James - Devil Got My Woman

37. Luther Allison - Reaching Out

38. Corvus Corax - Rausch

39. Loreena McKennitt - Skellig

40. Enya - I Want Tomorrow

41. Diamanda Galás and Recoil - Strange Hours

42. Hocico - Spit As An Offense

43. Corvus Corax - Zauberlehrling

44. Runrig - Abhainn an t-Sluaigh

45. Clannad - Northern Skyline

46. O'Jays - Now That We Found Love

47. Jimmy Reed - Big Legged Woman

48. Jimmy Reed - You Got Me Dizzy

49. Luther Allison - Serious

50. Jimmy Reed - I Wanna Be Loved

51. Frank Stokes - Stomp That Thing

52. Fiona Kennedy - Riverdance

53. Lead Belly - Black Betty

54. John Lee Hooker - Think Twice Before You Go

55. Jimmy Reed - Bright Lights, Big City

56. Jimmy Reed - Honest I Do

57. Venetian Snares - A Lot of Drugs

58. Bo Diddley - Bring It To Jerome

59. Mance Lipscomb - God Moves On The Water

60. Sonny Terry - Lost John

61. Adiemus - Adiemus

62. John Lee Hooker - Devil's Jump

63. Howlin' Wolf - Smokestack Lightin'

64. Pink Floyd - Keep Talking

65. Mississippi John Hurt - Nobody's Dirty Business

66. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades

67. Skip James - Shake 'Em On Down

68. Mississippi John Hurt - Stagger Lee

69. Bo Diddley - Bo Diddley

70. Luther Allison - Life Is A Bitch

71. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

72. Kate Bush - Cloudbusting

73. The Chi-Lites - Oh Girl

74. Ma Rainey - C. C. Rider

75. David Honeyboy Edwards - Gamblin' Man

76. Brownie McGhee, Lead Belly and Sonny Terry - How Long Blues

77. Mamie Smith - Sweet Man O'Mine

78. Skip James - I'm So Glad

79. Mance Lipscomb - Ain't It Hard?

80. Leonard Cohen - Waiting For The Miracle

81. Skip James - Worried Blues

82. Skip James - Crow Jane

83. Odetta - God's Gonna Cut You Down

84. The Blue Nile - From A Late Night Train

85. Mance Lipscomb - So Different Blues

86. Mamie Smith - No Good Man

87. Skip James - 4 O'Clock Blues

88. Mamie Smtih - So What Papa?

89. Mance Lipscomb - Sugar Babe

90. Mamie Smith - Harlem Blues

91. Mance Lipscomb - Baby Please Don't Go

92. Mance Lipscomb - Going Up North To See My Pony Run

93. John Lee Hooker - I'm Gonna Kill That Woman

94. Clannad - Blackstairs

95. Skip James - How Long Blues

96. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

97. Mance Lipscomb - Angel Child

98. Cage and Darryl Palumbo - Shoot Frank

99. Nine Inch Nails - Mr. Self-Destruct

100. Clannad - Newgrange

101. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly

102. Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

103. Corvus Corax - Tanzwut

104. John Lee Hooker - Tupelo Blues

105. Cornelis Vreeswijk - Somliga Går Med Trasiga Skor

106. Máire Brennan - Against The Wind

107. Nine Inch Nails - Closer

108. Kool Rock Steady - You Ain't Nobody

109. Mance Lipscomb - Mama Don't Allow

110. Ray Charles - Hit the Road, Jack!

111. Supertramp - The Logical Song

112. Michael Sembello - Maniac

113. Junior Wells - Sweet Sixteen

114. Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave - Some Velvet Morning

115. Mance Lipscomb - Big Boss Man

116. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit