Saturday, June 21, 2008

Stranger in Paradise continued

I heard the version I was looking for on the radio and managed to catch enough of the words to google it.
Prince Igor - Warren G feat. Sissel Kyrkjebo

Friday, June 20, 2008

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Sadurday, June 7 - tuning into the force of creativity

You Don't Know Me (Caetano Veloso) - flipped the switch. From the album Transa: wonderful, forceful, lovely craziness.

Friday, June 6, 2008

Late May Songs

American Boy (Estelle feat. Kanye West) - on the radio all day long.

I got a sudden hankering for Walt Disney's "Fantasia", which I haven't seen since I was a kid (I won't post a video - get the DVD).
I watched it without a thought or a doubt buzzing in the background, engrossed, with such rich pleasure I might have been five years old.
It also reminded me it was my childhood dream to be a Disney animator. It must have been marvelous in those days (before they sold their souls to computer graphics).

"Va, Pensiero" from the opera Nabucco (Guiseppe Verdi) - I sang it in choir in 9th grade. It's a great shower song too. I haven't sung in the shower probably since 9th grade.
Here is another favorite shower song from back then: "Bring Him Home" from the musical Les Miserables. (We sang a medley of Les Miserables songs in the same choir.)
One more from my 9th grade choir: Jabula Jesu (Zulu folk song/arrangement). I love youtube for this.

The Ballad of John and Yoko
(The Beatles) - "The way things are going, they're gonna crucify me," I thought.