Life has been an absolute whirlwind of craziness this past week with midterms, minor advisement, graduate applications, work, sickness, and frustrating complacency in all other areas due to the busyness of work and school. Today has been a long day in Oceanside working on the many papers and projects I now have to focus on. I did take a musical break though which is the real topic of my post.
I have discovered free mp3 downloads, which are now my favorite thing ever. I’m listening to my new playlist right now actually–Building 429 rocks! I also discovered that I can sing again–always my favorite discovery after being sick and unable to produce a note for a good week. It just kills me to not sing, but I was able to belt out some showtunes today–good times. While doing homework for my group project…which is a completely different blog post and one full of anger and frustration so I will probably not post anything unless I get a bad grade in which case I will need to vent, anyway I was looking up Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical “Oklahoma” and discovered this country singer named Billy Gilman. Oh my gosh. I have officially developed a crush. That hasn’t happened in a long time! Haha, I can name on one hand my celebrity crushes as they don’t happen often, but I think what got me hooked on this one was the song I first heard was one he sang when he was a child star. His voice as a kid was incredible! He was like 11 or 12 and is the most endearing little guy ever with his little country twang! I looked up his stuff now and it’s definitely different from what it was before, obviously puberty does that to a person, but I still like it. You just have to really switch your ear to hear a guy and not a child. But I like contemporary country that doesn’t have a heavy amount of twang to it, and he fits that bill with his new stuff. It’s clean too, which is always refreshing. I read his bio and discovered he’s my age…was born a couple weeks or so after me. Random, huh? He’s not bad looking either. So, I have a crush haha. I feel very young and immature for saying so. But, it has given me a rather nostalgic feeling for the past. I remember what it was like to be captivated by someone. I had forgotten for a time. God has been working on my heart lately though. He’s breaking down the walls of my hurts of the past and fears of the future and helping me to trust completely in his plan and not close myself off to whatever he has for my future–even if that means a relationship, which I have been very against for a long time now. It’s still a gradual work in progress of me submitting to that, but I think maybe my celebrity crush is one small way that I am becoming more open to the future path God wants to take me on.
2 Comments
October 11, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Makin’ me cry again.
October 17, 2009 at 11:32 am
Love that song! It’s so beautiful.
And trust me, you’re not the only one to have a crush on him…you should see http://www.billygilmanfans.com where about half the people are obsessed (in a good way, of course).
He’s also very nice in person.
And his new songs are on http://www.myspace.com/billygilman.