"Come on home to me Charlene."

Oh goodness.

I just got SO depressed for a second just now. I'm sitting here with my Windows Media Player on shuffle and what comes up but Anthony Hamilton's "Charlene".

Good lawrd, that's a depressing song right there!

"Baby I'll be sitting here waiting on you to come home again.
I won't leave. Promise, I'll be here 'til the very end.
By your side to protect you and to love and to be with you for life.
Come on home to me Charlene."

"Again"?!?! What you mean, "again"!??!? Good gog-a-molly, I know that has to be a SAD sight - a man sittin' up waitin' on his woman to come back one more time. That just seems like some terrible pain right there. 'Bout to make my head hurt up in dis piece.

But anyway...

I love visiting The Smoking Section on a daily basis. First of all, they have multiple posts in a day. Secondly, there is ALWAYS a bunch of links to music (singles, albums, discographies) that I want and forgot I wanted.

Today, I visited and saw that they posted the link to The String Quartet's Tribute to Tupac.

Can we say Miss J is HAPPY right now?!!? Yes, I think we can say that. LOL!

I've always enjoyed instrumented music. I mean, I love words and lyrics. I LOVE me some words and lyrics. Nevertheless, as a child, my mother listened to a lot of New Age music that I really and truly grew to appreciate. I even began to memorize the notes and "sing along" to those songs. Me and my Ini even went to a Yanni concert (where we were only 2 in a serious handful of black folk amidst an absolute sea of people), which I remember to this day as one of the most exciting concerts I have ever attended.

All this to say I am IN LOVE, LUST and whatever else with this String Quartet album. Oh my goodness! I am sitting here about to bust one listening to "Keep Ya Head Up". This is just string magnificence. I know Beethoven and Bach and 'nem are what strings are all about but damn. THIS HERE? This is music.

Damn-near makin' me wanna pick up a violin again and I ain't played that instrument in 'bout 11 years!

Matter fact, ummmm, I think I'm finna go research some classes I can take to get back into that groove 'cause maybe that's what I need in my life right now, some violin playing.

Hmmmmm....