I Feel Fantastic
“I feel fantastic
And I never felt as good as how I do right now
Except for maybe when I think of how I felt that day
When I felt the way that I do right now, right now, right now.” -- Jonathan Coulton
It may seem strange to hear that I grew up in a household where we did not listen to much music. My mom often sang to us when we were children and my sister and I took piano lessons for a couple of years, but there was rarely music playing on the stereo (OK, I date myself) at our house. Apparently recorded music gets on my mom’s nerves.
My son JP listens to music a lot. And since he is home with us this summer, I am hearing stuff I would never find on my own. Right now I am getting so much joy from listening to songs from Jonathan Coulton, one of the musicians JP recently found. To give you an idea of what he sounds like, Jonathan Couton’s music is a bit like They Might Be Giants and Barenaked Ladies. You know, catchy tunes and understandable, witty, and intelligent lyrics. Couton writes songs about IKEA and satires about brain-eating corporate zombies. He also writes about loneliness and love.
Couton worked as a computer software writer until he quit his job in 2005 to make music full time. An early project of Couton’s was called “A Thing a Week,” where he wrote one new song a week and made it available as a free podcast. You can hear them on his website.
One Couton song I particularly like celebrates the effectiveness regulating moods with prescription medicines. That may sound like “iffy” subject matter to some, but anti-depressant and anti-anxiety meds have - at one time or another- really helped several close family members - myself included. Besides, the song is so fast-moving and joyful it just makes me laugh. In fact, I feel fantastic when I listen to it.
Kathleen Capcara
in Creativity and art
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