Songs of August 2008

Ordinary World (Duran Duran) - In the nearby Irish Pub a band started playing this song to warm up. My eyes lit up and I RAN inside and sang it without stopping for a week. It was clear and strong and washed a way all the flotsam of doubt while it played.

Shir Preida (Shlomo and Ben Artzi) - "Farewell Song". I couldn't find a clip online.

Shackles (Mary Mary)

The last two are self-explanatory - just my state of mind for a day.

Lay, Lady, Lay (Bob Dylan) - I opened Bob Dylan's autobiography where he told about playing this song to some friends, and of course it came on the radio two days later.

July, 2008 Beginning.

Livkot Lecha ("Cry for you") - Aviv Geffen
This song is associated in most people's minds with the murder of Prime Minister Rabin. I had a near terminal argument with a dear friend when it came on, and it fit my mood.

An interview with Olympic gymnast Alicia Sacramone.

Actually, it's been mostly talk radio lately:

Why I Don't Want To Power Clean 315 Pounds - Tough love from Charles Staley.
And even tougher love from Dave Tate.

I guess tough love is what I've been getting from my friend. At least I hope so.

From The Trouble With Testosterone by Robert M. Sapolsky. Here he approaches one of the questions I've been asking myself all my life. Are we our biology? Is there free will? Does it matter?

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

Thursday night, June 19

Chelsea Hotel (Leonard Cohen)

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.

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.

It followed me home...

and it was so cute, I let it stay. Though generally I loathe Greek music.
Pitzirika (Eyal Golan & Trifonas)