Rachel's Vital Music

I'm a transgender woman who has loved music for as long as I can remember. My earliest memories are of sitting on the floor and listening to 45's and 78's. Music is the essential part of my life. Over the years I made many attempts to make a list of my favorite music. In 2011 I came up with the idea of http://scotts-vital-music.blogspot.com and creating the list by posting a song every day. When I transitioned in 2015 and changed my name I created this blog to continue the project...

Saturday, June 26, 2021

"Lost in a Lost World" by The Moody Blues

This was my dress for today, 6/26/2021. A few days ago I went over to Lancer and took some photos of my Mazda RX8. I have decided to try to sell it. I found this dress in the Mazda.

There was a place I used to go that had a dress code and many of my dresses were too short. Showed too much leg LOL 😆 I kept this dress in my Mazda for the case where the dress I was wearing that day was not approved. I would just pull this dress over the offending dress.

I loaded a bunch of the old metal parts and some old computer stuff into Acadia's truck to take to the metal recycling today and the hazardous waste. But when I went over there, I found the metal recycling places were all closed on Saturdays now.

So I headed out to the Salt Lake County Waste Management. I was passing this power distribution area and thought it would be a good place for a photo. But I had forgotten to take the camera with me.

I don't think the woman at the kiosk I went to knew about the metal recycling there and wanted to charge me $15 to dispose of the metal. I was like no thanks and just dropped off the computer stuff. All the metal is still in the back of Acadia's truck.

Later I took my Prius and drove back out to the power distribution thing. When I got there I realized I had forgotten the camera AGAIN! Argh!!! I was fucking frustrated! I sure as hell wasn't driving out there a third time.

So I took some packing tape I had in the glove box and taped my phone in the window of the Prius and took this photo. It was backlit so you cant see the dress very well. I took the second photo when I got home so you could see the dress better.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdnBHAac9VM

Sunday, February 28, 2021

"Private Idaho" by The B-52's

This is my dress for 2/28/2021. I had as story for today, but it has been a bad day and I'm not up for typing it. I rock!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n_Tg8iHwZ8

YouTube (audio): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxHyliIspkA

Saturday, February 27, 2021

"It's a Beautiful Day" by The New Seekers

This is my dress for 2/27/2021. I hadn't really thought about it until I looked in the mirror in the ladies room at the grocery store and realized I had worn a black bra under a white dress. Oops!

I was playing that CD I'm holding in the car today. I recorded that CD in December of 2014 as a Christmas / New's gift for friends and family. The title on the copy I'm holding ids "Rachel's Happy New Year". Since I was only out to a few people at the end of 2014, many people got a CD titled "Scott's Happy New Year".

2014 was really the first year of my life that I really found happiness. When one of the songs on the CD titled "It's a Beautiful Day" came on I told Acadia the story about that particular song.

Starting around the first of September 2014 I volunteered at the front desk at the Utah Pride Center every Tuesday morning. As a side note: I didn't dare let the neighbors see me in women's clothes at that point, so I would wear a men's T-shirt and jeans over them and then take them off when I was stopped at red lights.

Anyway, I was playing a very old cassette tape in the car on the way to the Pride Center and the song "It's a Beautiful Day" started playing. I looked around at the beautiful sky, the sun was out and I realized that it was an absolutely beautiful day. And I was on my way to the Utah Pride Center that was like heaven on Earth at that point because I could be ME, a WOMAN!!

I cried all the way to and from Smith's Marketplace tonight thinking what that CD represents: the first year of my life that I found joy and happiness!

I'm absolutely certain that was the very first time in my life that I ever thought it was a BEAUTIFUL DAY!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_3YKrM_I9U

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRq4srko0yk

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9uHUwYrJNs

Friday, February 26, 2021

"Goody Goody" by Rachel Edwards

I decided to wear my "Flapper" dress for 2/26/2021. But I couldn't think where to take a photo of me in it. It occurred to me that I had worn this dress to karaoke, at the SunTrapp for the New's Eve Party at the end of 2019. I thought I'll go take a picture at the SunTrapp and have a beer at the same time.

Michael walked in just after me and we started talking about the Mazda. He said he was a "car whore", so I said I'm a car whore too. Then he said "so you're a car whore and a dress whore.". To which I replied "pretty much, yeah". LOL I completely forgot about "shoe whore" too. ;)

Anyway Michael turned on the stage lights and took these photos for me. If you you see this, Michael, Thnk you again!!!

YouTube: https://youtu.be/NargJ0Uu9cw

Thursday, February 25, 2021

"Radioactive" by Marina and the Diamonds

This was my dress for 2/25/2021. It was a bad day, it was high stress and it impacted my MS symptoms. My balance ws horrible. I tipped over at least a dozen times. So I didn't actually take a photo yesterday. This photo was taken last week of me in the same dress.

It occurred to me that I could bring the old distributor cap and spark plug wires into the house and use them as a pattern to assemble the new plugs and wires.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dU7GoCKSQfg

Wednesday, February 24, 2021

"Head Games" by Foreigner

At the end of last year I was thinking I had a hell of a lot of dresses and I decided to count them. I counted almost 90 (and there is likely more). At the first of the year I thought it would be fun to wear a different dress each day and see if I could make it into April without wearing the same dress. Starting on January 3, 2021, I wore the first dress in this quest. Then a friend suggested I post them on Instagram. Now I think I'm going to start my blog again and post them here as well.

So the above dress and shoes are the ones for 2/24/2021.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzjg4v7bd1U