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Revolution, and Hallelujah

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

Those two days fit for hiking were an illu­sion, though meteo­ro­lo­gi­cally spring the onset of the real sea­son is elu­sive, pla­ying hide and seek, a temp­tress of sorts, allo­wing me to hike one mor­ning and cau­sing me to look for my glo­ves the next.

I’m merely going to say the Democ­rats are in trou­ble, at this point in time it’s hardly worth it to fret about as I have abso­lu­tely no con­trol over it. I don’t know if I could vote for Clin­ton. I can defi­ni­tely not vote for McCain under any circumstance.

“Democ­racy is usually the result of revo­lu­tion against plu­toc­racy” and though Aris­totle, the ori­gi­nal con­ser­va­tive, belie­ved it to be infe­rior to an aris­toc­racy — because it lead peo­ple to believe they were actually equal, he was right about Democ­racy, and I think we should take ours back. Since last night I can’t get that damn Beat­les Song from floa­ting through my head.

“You say you got a real solu­tion
Well, you know
We’d all love to see the plan
You ask me for a con­tri­bu­tion
Well, you know”

The surest path to wis­dom is to read, assi­mi­late and apply things lear­ned from those who are wise – paraph­ra­sed from John Caruso – “The Power of Losing Con­trol”. I’ll read and lis­ten, over the next few weeks, or at least as long as I can pos­sibly hold my tongue.

In the mean­time I admit to lear­ning something from Ame­ri­can idol last night. I lear­ned that I need to lis­ten to the Leo­nard Cohen song “Halle­lu­jah”, a song I hadn’t lis­te­ned to in years, ( No I never watched the OC though I was made aware last night that it was used for that night­time soap opera) more often. So see, it was worth it.

I, along with at least a million others, was on line last night, thanks to the guy who sang it on Idol, loo­king for every ver­sion of that song we could find. The Buc­kley ver­sion is bet­ter than the Rufus Wainw­right ver­sion, but I am fond of the A cap­pe­lla Imo­gen Heap cover. And who knew I actually would see Leo­nard Cohen him­self doing that song, thanks to you tube – actually it is pretty awe­some, If not for Idol it never would have happened.

I stand correc­ted once again.

The only pro­blem is she doesn’t do many verses.