Songs of the Week: Livin' It Up



It's not the first time that those who come here have heard La Springfield channel the inner black woman in Gamble & Huff's "Live It Up." It's the young Dusty doing her best to incite happiness. It's the time of year when we straddle that fine line between happiness and depression. Many opt for the frenzy of desperately seeking joy. Those are the folks who keep a thin veneer on their loneliness. Many genuinely enjoy themselves. Some are recalling the very good times and make a valiant attempt at rekindling the youthful flames. Some are just flames in and of themselves.



Curtis Stigers' joyous celebration of New York follows our Dusty with "New York Is Rockin'" and there is every reason to celebrate the USA's greatest city, albeit not its most beautiful. It's easy to identify with NYC once one has reached a venerable stage in life--using "venerable" for lack of better terms and as a euphemism for those stages that everyone reaches willy nilly. Stigers' ditty opens us to the world around us and focusing on that often makes the passage of time more palatable. There is an entire universe at one's disposal and it is more often than not enjoyable.



Love can make you do right; Love can make you do wrong.



It's the Rev. Al Green who takes us back to reality with "Love & Happiness," emphasizing perhaps what it's truly all about. Hey, worshipping at the altar of male flesh is something done relatively well around here; therefore, this post is adorned with fine exemplars of the same. Perhaps that's not really love, but it is a very enjoyable substitute. OK, it's hoped that you get it, dear reader. The world outside and inside can be a very unhappy and sometimes frightening place on its very own and if we let it be so. It becomes livable when we let ourselves experience those "places" that are enjoyable on a subjective level.



OK, here's the message: Enjoy what is at hand. Life is short. Pack up all your cares and woes--even if it's just for a moment. Reality will set in soon enough.

Anyway, dear reader, live long and prosper.

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