Quick Christmas post

On the CD player now:

Arvo Part's Te Deum - some of the most powerful music I have ever listened to. This is deep emotional music stripped back to its bare essentials, where even the pauses - the short aching silences - grab at my heart.

And when, almost at the end, the choir sings in full voice, accompanied by the full orchestra:

Fiat misericordia tua, Domine, super nos,
quemadmodum speravimus in te.
In te, Dominus, speravi:

The might of the heavens come crashing down on me.

Then that single quiet unaccompanied voice pleadingly sings that line again:

In te, Domine, speravi:

So fragile, so vulnerable.

So utterly alone.

This is awesome music.

Merry Christmas to everyone.

nice graphics

Too busy ATM for anything other than this clip - I love animation (of all sorts):



from shirleyheezgay

Look out kid, it's somethin' you did, God knows when, but you're doin' it again...

A rather odd mix on rotation on i-tunes at the moment. Enjoying the lyrics in the Dylan song 'specially.

• Better Off Alone Grinspoon
• Spider Pig The Simpsons Movie Soundtrack
• All I Want Is You U2
• Rock Show Grinspoon
• Black The Sun Alex Lloyd
• Green Alex Lloyd
• Amazing Alex Lloyd
• Subterranean Homesick Blues Bob Dylan
• Love Is Like Oxygen Sweet
• Sunday Bloody Sunday U2
• Dead Eyes Opened Remix Severed Heads
• The Big Boss Groove The Style Council

... the pump don't work, cos the vandals took the handles.

My Sunday night play list

Got these songs on rotation at the moment, winding down for another week.

"Enjoy the Silence" Depeche Mode
"You were always on my mind" Elvis Presley
"2+2=5" FourPlay
"Amazing" Alex Lloyd
"Black The Sun" Alex Lloyd
"Telephone Line" ELO
"Heart's a Mess" Gotye
"Cloudbusting" Kate Bush
"Blue Monday" New Order
"Creep" Radiohead
"50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" Paul Simon
"Scarborough Fair" Simon and Garfunkle
"The Boxer" Simon and Garfunkle
"Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me" TISM