We Love That You Love Music, David!

By tracewillow

This tweet must have caused some of us, amusement.   It did me.   Didn’t we know it already? from years past?

But I’m so glad David sent it.   It has given me alot of relief too.  I want to think that he sent it out of a moment of total immerse in music euphoria.   I want to think that he is excited with the music he wrote.   I want to think he re-discovered his love of  writing songs.   I want to think that he remembered how music exuded from his pores and flowed from his cells.

David has begun to talk about his music again:   “the song he was finishing”  ..  “the Spanish song”  ..  now his “Gosh I love music!”

All’s well that ends well!

I believe we no longer have to worry too much, even though our speculations, sometimes bizarre and sometimes humorous, have been rampant.

Hm .. I think I can sleep well tonight.   And, hopefully, all the nights after that.   🙂

 

A Spanish Song?

By tracewillow

It is truly exciting that David has been sending almost daily tweets.   Combined with the tweets sent by people who have met/bumped into him, we are getting alot of news about what he has been doing since he returned.

Besides connecting with Papi (nice family-man David!) … and jamming (can he help it, the music-man that he is!)   and meeting loads of girls (did we not say he has grown up?   Passionate love songs soon, David?   😉   )   he has of course been Eating and marvelling at some unusual dishes again!

And meeting more girls!

These tweets are all well and good.   It’s great to know that David is back to doing what he liked doing before the Mission …  eating tasty unusual food .. connecting with family …  and having grown up and enjoying the company of girls and the girls as usual, loving being in his presence …

BUT THIS IS THE BEST NEWS OF ALL!!!

David Archuleta @ DavidArchie

It’s been a nice week.   A highlight: we got a Spanish song (the first one) written

Never thought I could’ve done that before   🙂

Is this the “unfinished song” he tweeted about earlier?

Much as I’m elated with the news that there is some indication of music at last and that he tweeted about it, there are a couple of questions from this tweet which have mystified me:

“the first one”  ..  does it mean there will be more?   A whole album of Spanish songs?   It does make a certain amount of sense since David’s mind must be steeped in everything Spanish for the moment after having spent 2 years in Chile.   However,  most of us don’t understand Spanish.   Does it mean we have to attend Spanish classes soon?   😉

Who is the “WE”?   As our dear AAM’er Shirley hinted:  Could it be Papi? whom he went to visit and spent some time with?   I was amused with that suggestion but of course, with David, anything is possible.   Maybe it is Lupe?   .. or Abuelita?   .. or even pre-Mission David Archuleta vs post -Mission David Archuleta??   😛

Or, as some have suggested, the other half of the “WE” could be a Spanish songwriter/ex-mormon missionary named Escobar, residing in Utah?

I am not much bothered as to who he works with in writing his music, but please do hurry and sing something soon, David!!!   🙂

Jammin’ And Having Fun!

Always knew David is an old soul!   🙂

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Looks like his short crop is here to stay.   😉

And everyone is liking it!   🙂

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Potential college mates?   😦   🙂

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Must be so lovely meeting up again with an old friend.   🙂

Wishing Wanting Hoping

By tracewillow

“It’s time to do it.”

Do what, David?

Is he WISHING to go back to Chile?

Is he WANTING to go for a college education?

Or is he HOPING to re-start his singing career soon?

Whatever it is, it sounds very much like he is on the verge of making a firm decision – and No Regrets.

Or is this tweet one of David’s random quotes picked up from a fellow-Utahn who is a well-known rugby coach named Larry Gelwix whose life history, and that of his team, inspired the film Forever Young.

Larry Gelwix also said ” Have you ever felt you completed something but you could have done it better?”

Whatever prompted David to send this tweet, it is putting a lump in my throat.   Is David talking about a firm decision made about his music… or is it something else that we don’t know about?

Why do I feel that a foreboding is imminent  … or is it the looming of  a huge sense of elation?   …   I really can’t tell.

Much as I am often intrigued by David’s sense of fun in communicting and vague sense of mystery in tantalising his fans, I am now all over the place reading this tweet.   I don’t like this feeling.

That’s the trouble with David Archuleta.   He has the ability to send us into a state of delirium –  the pits of doldrums or the heights of  ecstasy.

Oh well, we asked for it.   Let’s just wait and see.

Still Waiting

By tracewillow

Archies are immeasurably resilient … but they are also an impatient lot.   Including moi.   🙂

Expectations are high and unrealistic that David should literally jump from the plane straight into the recording studio  .. exchange his missionary scrolls for music scores and badass lyrics .. achieve a super-fast hair-growth ..  and totally resume his rockstar persona in a flash.

This “can’t wait …!” syndrome needs re-programming to “just gotta wait .. ”  –  I tell myself  ..  and to you.   😉

Patience (oh no! not that word again!!) is not an absence of action – says American Bishop Fulton J Sheen.

Rather ..  he says, it is timing.   It waits on the right time to act  ..  for the right principles and in the right way.

While we frustrate ourselves in a “Still Waiting .. ” mode, David has been keeping himself busy, or so I think from what I read on the net.

First he has been playing “catching up” with his sisters drawing squiggles on some game called “Snap something or other” – the full name of which alludes me at the moment.   Then there is some bonding in Spanish with dear Papi, and probably exchanging some fashion tips with each other on “how to best wear plaids”.

Then meeting up for breakfast with Shay must have been more than “entertaining” being choked on toast and Shay’s bizarre jokes and bigger-than-life kinda fun.

Meeting up with neighbours is a big thing for David despite his constant introspectiveness and because of his generosity of spirit.

Then of course there is the gastronomical aspect.   Bet he has covered all the cool restaurants.   Going to a Banana Leaf Restaurant?   Is it the same as our Malaysian Mamak ones??   The food looks the same to me.   🙂

I have often wondered why banana leaf and not just plates.   Anyway, I digress …

His gourmet journey continues….  he was caught red-handed by this nice lady in a cheesecake factory.   And her daughter tweeted it – fuming and “way jealous”!   Who wouldn’t be?!

 

A N D    …   Is this piece of news after his visit to the office of Seventy3 Music pertaining to work and preparation for music business soon?  …   or is it another piece of Archies’ speculations about music or otherwise?   😉

 

A Lesson In Spanish

WHAT?WHAT? …WHAT’S HE SAYIN’??

Lyrics of a new song in Spanish???

DECIPHERED!   ( … I think!)

How nice!   Now David can converse in Spanish with Papi.   🙂

Now … would David be dropping us some hints that he will be singing us some Spanish songs in the next album??   Food for thought indeed.   🙂

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Thrashing Out The Fears With Smiles And Music

By tracewillow

Yes David, we all have our fears.   What are yours?   🙂

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Are you masking your fears with constant smiles, David?

Concealing the worries and pressures you carry with you?

Are you struggling with uncertainties you do not want known

Camouflaging doubts with smiles on cue?

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Open up, reveal your grief and fears, David

Pen down your tears, uncover your anguish deep inside

Let us be your pillar, your inspiration

With your music, you can in us your woes confide