Music

Hey, this place has been gettin pretty dead lately. How about a little Gogol Bordello to liven it up? START WEARIN PURPLE>>>NOW!

Jo Stafford died this month at the age of 90. This song, You Belong to Me takes me back to 1952, a long, long time ago, and brings tears to my eyes as it captures for me that time of my youth, when I was 23 years old.

A big thank you to Terry McKenna for reminding me with his post Jo Stafford, A Short Tribute in the great DailyRevolution blog.

Here’s Frank Zappa away back in 1974. That’s some 34 years ago, would you believe. Well, it’s pretty fresh and Frank has great fun right off the bat!

To hear Frank Zappa in a Crossfire interview back in 1986, see this post by mindserased. All he is saying, is what’s wrong with words?

UPDATES: “My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.” –Frank Zappa. See PrayerCards for further quotes and image:

Leonard Cohen sings Suzanne, a lovely mother/lover/anima figure to sooth the soul of man:

Thanks to Gillian on Indigo Blue for the link.

You Think, Therefore You Are, dedicated to Rene Descartes.
http://www.mcseavey.org/media/You%20Think%2c%20Therefore%20You%20Are.flv
The band performing the song is ‘The Theory’, and the Brain’s voice is Anastasia Gorbunova. Music is by Anastasia Gorbunova, and the lyrics are by Anastasia Gorbunova and Stuart Hameroff. Animation by Will Turner.

It’s all in your head, you see. Or is it? Nice singing, Brain!

This is a really amusing and charming video. Well worth watching.

We had a great Mem Day service in church today. That’s our UU church in Norway, Maine, pretty small as churches go, but we’ve picked up great enthusiasm in the last few weeks. Not sure why. But there you are. But getting back to the service today: Richard (that’s our minister) was in great form and had some wonderful thoughts. The thing about him is that he’s a regular person, not at all remote as some ministers, with their egos, tend to be. I get along with him great. He’s got a self-effacing sense of humor, just like me. But getting back to his thoughts, he emphasized memories, memorials, throughout the service. We were all asked to speak out and mention names of loved ones who have passed away. Many people spoke out. We must have had a good 25, maybe 30 people in attendance today. Our music went well too. Heather, our music director, led us in an enchanting and mesmerizing anthem about the Goddess, our returning, etc. Right now as I write this I can’t remember the details. So much happened today, I just can’t reproduce specifics. But we did pick up a new church member today, a very nice person named Trudi, didn’t get her last name. Our Growth Group met after church and Trudi became a new member of that. “An Inconvenient Truth” was shown at 1pm for those who hadn’t seen it. And now people are chatting and laughing upstairs while Clarissa and Eryn prepare supper so that Cynthia doesn’t have to do it.

I’m basically an atheist who wishes the world were magical. In fact, many times I feel it is magical, that the world is just amazing, and that it is amazing there’s anything here at all, and that what’s here must be precious and has to be sacred. And then I come back to earth, as it were, and realize all is dust, and from dust to dust I go: you live you die and that’s it nothing, nada, you’ve vanished into nothingness. Well, that’s about it. But in the meantime, there’s music! That’s why I keep coming back to John McCain and buddies railing and ranting in the midst of some of the most glorious music that ever existed. It’s the music I hear, not them. Behold the Lamb of God, indeed. Here the Lamb of God is love, caring, tenderness, mystery, wonderment, indescribable beauty on a plane so high it’s out of this world and trying to take me with it. I want to go but I can’t, imprisoned here on earth. Now don’t get me wrong. I don’t believe in life after death. I believe in life now, there’s only the now and if we are to find heaven we’ll find it now. OK, that’s enough of a rant for now. I gotta go — now.

Previous post without McCain and his Crazies:

Couldn’t resist posting this. See the sax player! See the trumpet player! See microphone drop! Watch the bones on the drums. And the beat goes on! Man! Is this ultimate cool!

You got to Face the Music……You got to listen to the gospel song!