Vanishing Act
Music
Vast has temporarily taken over my playlist. I have the album “Music for People”. It’s not that I think Jon Crosby’s any kind of great genius, or that his music’s groundbreaking and original, it’s just exactly what I feel like listening to right now. A fine blend of instrumental/authentic sounds, a fine balance of edgy riffs and soaring strings; it’s really not the best description, but I usually think of Crosby as a sort of NIN, U2, Depeche Mode wannabe, but with his own distinctive sound. His sound is distinctive in the way the Tea Party’s sound is distinctive – it has to do with the chord progressions used and the modes played in, but I’m no musician, so don’t ask me for the details. If you are a musician, please try to refrain from laughing aloud.
Emiliana Torrini is, and always has been, amazing. If you’ve never heard her music, give it a listen.
It might have been a while
Since you’ve been loved
Like you should be loved
It might have been a while
Since you’ve been kissed
Like you should be kissed
...
It might have been a while
Since you could trust
That someone really cares
When people like us
Meant to go ‘round in pairs
Summerbreeze is blowing through your window
And summerbreeze is blowing through your hair
Something in your eyes that took me by surprise
Don’t tell me that it ain’t there
That’s all I have to say about that.
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Fairy Tale
I was going to post the first installment of the fairy tale Pappel requested today, but I decided not to. Instead you just get the first paragraph. Names, you ought to know, are subject to change.
It was a place called Wasteland, and it deserves no other name than that. It was a patchwork of dying fields and sunken dirt roads. Its people were world-weary, weather-worn giants who spent their days working and their nights telling stories to their spouses and children around the fire. But in this, the fourth year of the third cycle, the people were distraught, and the whole of them were on the verge of utter despair, for the curse had not been lifted and the cycle was almost over. If the curse was not lifted before then, Beloved –the self-named witch who was anything but – would come to rule over them, and all that was once good in the land would certainly be lost.
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Blogosphere
Like Rome?. I’ve been following the Roamin’ Roman for a while. It’s still not the first place on Earth I’d want to go, but neither is it the last. There is definately a lot to see there. Amy Welborn is also in the area. Rome, that is. Not Manitoba.
In case you missed it, The 2006 Catholic Blog Award results have been in for some time. Not a bad way to kill a few hours a week. As you know, I’m partial to Father Dowd’s, who recently posted a great meditation on what Christianity (Catholic) consists of, in practical terms.
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Literature
Not like I could possibly make my reading list any longer than it already is, but I’m interested to know what other people are reading these days. I’ve been given two books to fill my Break:
The Last American Man by Elizabeth Gilbert, and
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
I know very little about either. Perhaps I’ll report when I’m finished.
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Well, enjoy the break, if you get one. If not, just keep doing whatever it is that you’re doing.