I'd forgotten

Just how very much I love this song. And all the things that are associated with this song.

What song is this, I hear you ask, well its "That Kind of Love" by Alison Krauss. It is playing at the end of the Season 6 episode of Buffy, the 18th I think, called "Entropy". The one where Spike and Anya get drunk and have sex and everyone sees via a secret camera that the trio has planted in the Magic Box, and it makes everyone sad, or sadder than they were (because some of them started off feeling sad, hence the drinking and the sex).

This episode, and those following it, are awesome examples of Buffy. They are some of my favourites in fact. Especially "Grave", the finale. I love that the big bad for this Season is Willow. We spend the year thinking its the Trio (Andrew, Warren & Jonathon), but its not. This group of episodes has some quality Buffy, some good fights, some emotional stuff, and the best Xander speech ever. I could watch them over and over (which, of course, I have).

It also has some quality music. Including this song, (and "Prayer of Saint Francis" by Sarah McLachlan that just finishes the series perfectly) that I love, but I had forgotten I loved. Its like how I forgot that I loved sweetcorn. And embroidery. I mean they're all completely different, but still, I had forgotten how much I enjoyed them, and I rediscovered them recently.

Embroidery makes my fingers hurt, but it makes pretty things. Pretty things that take weeks to create, but the end is so worth the means. I put all the embroideries in frames today, it makes me feel special. That I get to show these things, these pictures, captures of my emotional mental state, to the world (or at least a small portion of it).

Now back to my original topic. This wonderful song, this beautiful song.

There are few truly beautiful songs around (in my opinion anyway). Another is "Everything" by Lifehouse. Oh and "Storm" by them too. Lifehouse are good that way (in fact Lifehouse are generally awesomely wonderful, they are maybe my favourite, if I had a favourite). I also like "Full of Grace" by Sarah McLachlan, but that's probably got something to do with its Buffy link. It plays out the second series, "Becoming Part 2" when Buffy kills Angel and sends him to hell, then runs away. That's another example of some good Buffy. I fear that all these lovely songs may be sad songs. Although Everything is a love song really, in a good way I think, so that's ok. There is hope yet.

I really shouldn't watch these particular episodes of Buffy. I end up all contemplative, and random. But they are wonderful, don't let my contemplation put you off. Others may not end up like me. I have watched them too much, and am too much of a Buffy Geek (meaning sometimes I forget that the characters and the world, and the vampires and the stuff isn't really real).

So dear world, please listen to this pretty song (That Kind of Love, by Alison Krauss), and please watch more Buffy (watch it all, the good and the bad, because it's worth it). I shall leave you with this quote, that makes me want to cry whenever I watch it, because it is beautiful, and everyone should have a Xander, oh if only he were real. So, "crayon breaky, scary veiny.....

"It doesn't matter, I'll still love you."