Last night I was watching a new episode of "Medium" and became enthralled with the haunting song that kept playing in different spots throughout the episode. As is usually the case (but not always because there have been some "iffy" ones this season) "Medium" was heartfelt and mesmerizing. Long after it was over I couldn't stop thinking about THAT song so I did what I always do when I've just seen a tv show and there is no credit given to a featured song...I went online.

Thanks to someone who really knows his music stuff I found my answer on the Internet Movie Database, though this thread:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412175/board/thread/155421133



After finding out the title I then went onto Amazon's website and bought the song:
http://www.amazon.com/Playground-Love/dp/B000TEVI3U/ref=sr_shvl_album_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1263664530&sr=301-1
(I use Amazon because it's digital library works on all MP3 players.)

"Playground Love" (like many Air songs) is deceptively light and frothy and just below the surface. This particular song opens with drums and piano and everything is low-key and sensual, yet somehow disturbing...it has also been featured on "The Virgin Suicides" soundtrack.

I am complete mush when it comes to Snow Patrol...like the way I feel when I get novocaine or go under before surgery or take too much Nyquil and am so utterly out of it and pleasantly unaware that nothing bothers me at all. It's not that Snow Patrol is boring or too easy on the ear. It's just that they are so relaxing and their music so warm for a group with the name Snow in it...

On their most recent outing (a two disc retrospective with the new "Just Say Yes" included) I find myself liking so much I'd never heard before and taking in the old stuff with pleasure all over again...

I've five-starred the ones that I think are absolutely knee-buckling in their beauty and peacefulness...



1. Chocolate
2. Chasing Cars ***** (their most well-known but still their most beautiful and sad)
3. Crack The Shutters
4. Set The Fire To The Third Bar *****
5. Crazy In Love
6. Just Say Yes
7. Batten Down The Hatch *****
8. You’re All I Have
9. Hands Open
10. Cartwheels *****
11. The Planets Bend Between Us (2009 Version) *****
12. Ask Me How I Am *****
13. On-Off *****
14. Making Enemies
15. Run (Live at the Union Chapel)

CD2

1. Take Back the City *****
2. Shut Your Eyes *****
3. An Olive Grove Facing The Sea (2009 Version)
4. Run
5. Give Me Strength
6. Signal Fire ***** (also appears on the Spiderman 3 soundtrack...heartbreaking!)
7. Spitting Games
8. Open Your Eyes *****
9. Dark Roman Wine
10. Fifteen Minutes Old
11. You Are My Joy
12. Golden Floor
13. Starfighter Pilot
14. PPP
15. Chasing Cars (Live at the Union Chapel)

My favorite book of all time starts off like this:

"Katherine Muller had been dead for five years and two months the morning Isabelle received the letter from her."

Is there anything better than the first time we read the first sentence of what we feel will probably turn out to be (for each of us, the reader) the best book we ever read? No matter how much we reread and still love an amazing novel, nothing quite measures up to cracking open the beginning pages and not knowing what is ahead of us.

"Medium" is a great supernatural drama--or at least, I think so:)!--but it's also a great show about dreams and is often a surprisingly good representation of how dreams work and just won't go away until they want to...

Many people probably feel their dreams are fairly mundane and rarely psychic, but sometimes (if you're lucky) you're blessed with strong dream recall and vivid night time adventures where anything can and does happen.

On "Medium" Alison Dubois uses her dreams to help the local police and District Attorney's office solve crimes...obviously I don't think her being psychic is very common or realistic. What I DO find accurate is how troubling her dreams often are to her and how they aren't always clear cut or even really the right picture when it comes to what she's actually dreaming about...there are few times when she actually sleeps through the entire night undisturbed, and this, too, is something I can relate to...

(more on this soon)

(from Tripp Photography website)


"In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream."--Luigi Pirandello




I dream a lot about mailboxes...specifically the one from my first home that I grew up in during the 70s and 80s...I remember my dreams very well, probably because I keep a dream journal right next to my pillow and take melatonin most every night.

The first dream I remember is from the mid 70s when I was six years old and wanted a Batman Action Figure more than life itself...my family and I had gone out to Security Square Mall the night before (back when Security Square was a very cool mall!) and I had practically drooled over that one particular action figure at Kay Bee Toys (I think that was the name of the store)...