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Too strange and wonderful not to share

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, Weirdness, tagged , , on November 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Beauty calls forth love

Posted in Music and Musicians, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 23, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Lately I’ve been bringing CDs to work and ripping them to my hard drive so I can have music to rely on while I’m doing the really tedious parts of my job. (The tedious parts that involve sitting at my desk and writing SuDoc numbers by hand with a pencil and stamping documents and [...]

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“They want us to do ‘A-Train’ again”

Posted in Links, Music and Musicians, Society, tagged , , on April 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

New Yorkers celebrate the centennial of Duke Ellington by way of his most famous tune.

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Your earworm of the day

Posted in Art and Artists, Music and Musicians, Videos, tagged , , on April 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Susan Boyle, mezzo-soprano

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, tagged , on April 17, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’ve just listened to the video that everyone’s recommending–the middle-aged Welsh lady who sang on Britain’s Got Talent.  Holy harpsichord strings, Batman, has that woman got a set of pipes, and style and presence to boot.  I wish her all the best, because forty-seven is not old!

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Let us funk

Posted in Humor, Music and Musicians, Weirdness, tagged , , , on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Yesterday over brunch with friends, my husband and I, having survived the Palm Sunday liturgy as organist and alto respectively, proposed a setting of the Mass using propers from the works of George Clinton and related performers, as follows:

Introit: “Get Up Offa That Thang”, James Brown
Gradual/Alleluia: “Think”, Aretha Franklin
Offertory: “Booty Body Ready for the Plush [...]

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More Hedwig music for you

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, the work, tagged , , , , on February 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Here’s my other favorite song from Hedwig and the Angry Inch. What other rock musical has a song based on a myth from Plato’s Symposium?

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It seems the stranger’s always you

Posted in Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, tagged , , , on February 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

This song has given me an earworm today though I listened to it a couple days ago. It’s also one of my favorite songs from this wonderful movie.

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For Imbolc

Posted in Music and Musicians, Wheel of the Year, tagged , , , , on February 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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You are what you eat, and then some

Posted in Buddhism, Film and Pop Culture, Music and Musicians, Wheel of the Year, tagged on December 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

And in my experience, you write what you read, and listen to, and pay attention to.  Herewith, a listing with some commentary of my own recent and current media intake:
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The Sharing Knife: Passage, the third in Lois Bujold’s latest series.  I am tempted to summarize this book as “Fawn and Dag meet Huck and Jim [...]

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