I ran into the Czeslaw Milosz (that’s “Nobel Laureate Miolsz” to you) poem below, in one of this month’s magazines. I avoided typing it in by finding a copy already on the web along with a reading of the poem in it’s original tongue. Song on the End of the World On the day the world ends A bee circles… Read more →
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Religion and Spirituality
I got into a huge debate today about the distinction between religion and spirituality, and the relative worth of the two concepts. Instead of boring you with more of my cocky atheism, I’ll just quote a Zen story that I think captures the whole thing: The Real Miracle When Bankei was preaching at Ryumon temple, a Shinshu priest, who believed… Read more →
The Great Song Of Indifference
One of my favourite music videos of all time, for Geldof‘s second-best song. The woman playing the bodhrán–the one with all the stage presence of a bass player–scares me. A lot. Read more →
Mixing It Up 2: Late Night Giddy
So, for the second disc, the idea was to gather together some upbeat and amusing songs; songs to keep you feeling a bit silly during long night drives. Maybe songs to keep your spirits up when cold rain is falling on you in the dark. As with all these mixes, these are only a subset of the songs I have… Read more →
Mixing It Up 1: Immortal Tunes
“I believe that when you’re making a mix tape or CD, you’re making history. You ransack the vaults, you haul off all the junk you can carry, and you rewire all your ill-gotten loot into something new. You go through an artist’s entire career, zero in on that one moment that makes you want to jump and dance and smoke… Read more →
He’s not Stewart…
…but Rick Mercer is probably the funniest current events comedian we have here in Canada. I got a chuckle out of his recent From The Desk of Stephen Harper bit. Here’s one little bit: 4. Open and Accountable government. Yes the catch phrase open and accountable will not go away. We are prepared to use it every day and every… Read more →
A pop culture holding action
Two other projects and my day job have temporarily distracted me from keeping up with this blog. As a penance, and a way of quickly knocking out a post, I present some video links that I’ve run across in the course of doing one of those other projects. Each of these can be offered as a solid argument that EVERYTHING… Read more →
The 80s: Age 7 through 17
Wow. If you’re my age you’re going to totally suffer some productivity loss playing with this MASSIVE list of links to 80s music videos on YouTube. (Yes, the page is in Spanish. No, it won’t be a problem for you.) Also, you will probably want me to remind you about the site that makes it easy to download these videos…… Read more →
Car Mix July 2005
The fact that my car is awesomely set up for listening to my (apparently discontinued) portable MP3 player (on which I may post more later) means that 99% of the time when I am driving I am not making use of my car stereo as anything other than a way to route sound to my speakers. Since I mostly drive… Read more →
Mr Bloody Africa
So, I have nothing but respect for Bob Geldof. ‘Diamond Smiles‘ is definitely one of my all-time favourite songs. ‘The Fine Art of Surfacing‘ is one of the best album titles ever. And ‘The Vegetarians of Love‘ is one of the most-played discs in my collection. Hell, I even read his autiobiography, and I don’t read biographies. And that’s not… Read more →
First bookstore splurge of 2005
I had my first slightly ridiculous bookstore trip of the year today, prompted by what amounts to a 40% off sale on in-stock hardcovers at my local megastore, and I thought some of you might be interested by what was in the basket. First up were a couple of really heavy items: The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes – I’ve been… Read more →
