May 28th, 2008
Jerome White Jr.
Some afternoon coolness.
Reading WAPO’s A Far Cry From Home, featuring American Born Enka singer Jerome White Jr. I had to look him up on You Tube, as I’ve never hear of him, or Enka for that matter.
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Posts Tagged ‘music’
March 6th, 2008
Revolution, and Hallelujah
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.
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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.
February 14th, 2008
Anyone Who Had a Heart
As promised, though some of you listed your song early, in the comments of previous posts, I asking you to tell me your favorite song with “Heart” in the title. The only requirement is that it has the word “heart” in the title. At some point I will compose a list of songs and the links to the people and their favorite “heart” songs, calling it “Hearts in the Blogesphere” or something equally ridiculous.
A little late as I was without electricity yesterday because they shut off some grids to fix the massive power outages, from ice, in the county. I hope to be back online tonight.
My contribution to fun, links and Valentine’s Day.
I’m going with “Anyone Who Had a Heart“ a much covered song written originally for Dionne Warwick by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. This song has been covered extensively most recently a not bad version by Atomic Kittens.
I think Dionne Warwick’s version is the classic, though Luther does a kick ass version as well.
Happy Valentine’s Day
