I am impressed by two musical artist that are new to me. One is hardly known, the other is a megastar currently that i finally got around to listening to.
The hardly known one (at least in the U.S.) is Florence & The Machine (aka Florence Welch & her collaborators). She strikes me as kind of like Kate Bush meets Sinead O' Conner meets Grace Slick, (with just a dash of Chrissy Hyde).
I CD out; Lungs.
Three videos:
Dog Days Are Over http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWOyfLBYtuU
Two versions of Kiss with a Fist
"Official"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SmxVCM39j4
An acoustic/bar version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENvihwd2bLs&feature=fvst
About two months ago i was prompted by an interview piece on TV to go on YouTube to see Lady Gaga. If you are an oldster like I, you probably heard some of "political" music back in the 1960's through the Punk and then Springsteen and the new "Americana" artists of the present.
Well, in a genre not known for political insight, (Post-rap/post-hiphop/Commercial electro-dance) you find Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known as Lady GaGa.
Her "personna" is kind of like Martha Stewart (re business/branding accume) David Bowie meets Madonna, meets Michael Jackson (when at his peak). And then, have that personna attack modern consumer/fame/cult of the celebrity culture. The attack is so complete, that many may not see it as an attack. Talk about laughing all the way to the bank... Think of a 24 year old musical version of a mean Andy Warhol.
I also think she may be the first pop artist, that the best way to experience them, is via the heavily produced, controlled "music video".
First example is the video of Telephone. She says it is about the social & electronic communication pressures on the youth now, expressed in an overall look at American culture. All three are from the CD, Fame Monster.
This ain't your dad's Woody Guthrie...and yes, that is the truck from Kill Bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6ywcBY
Two previous salvos:
Bad Romance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I
Paparazzi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKrzdaDQMw&feature=fvsr
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And there, as the world rolls round (in the stars)
I draw, but the lines move round (in the stars)
There, as the great wheels blaze (in the stars)
I draw, but my drawing fades (in the stars)
And now, as the old sun dies (in the stars)
I draw, and the four winds sigh (in the stars)
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The above flag image was made by Alex (sorry, cannot remember her last name) of Brain-Box for me around 2000 or so. It is about The Lake Superior Watershed. Here is some of the text that went with it:
You are 95% water
water is life
water comes into you every day
the vast majority of it is from your watershed
its water is its blood
your blood is its water
the quality of its water is the quality of your blood, your life
Every living thing in the watershed shares this water, this blood
all other identifications and imaginary lines we draw are crossed by this bond we share in our very cells
You are literally from your Watershed
water is life
water comes into you every day
the vast majority of it is from your watershed
its water is its blood
your blood is its water
the quality of its water is the quality of your blood, your life
Every living thing in the watershed shares this water, this blood
all other identifications and imaginary lines we draw are crossed by this bond we share in our very cells
You are literally from your Watershed
Spinning Away (Eno/Kale)
Up on a hill, as the day dissolves
With my pencil turning moments into line
High above in the violent sky
A silent silver plane – it draws a golden chain
One by one, all the stars appear
As the great winds of the planet spiral in
Spinning away, like the night sky at Arles
In the million insect storm, the constellations form
On a hill, under a raven sky
I have no idea exactly what I’ve drawn
Some kind of change, some kind of spinning away
With every single line moving further out in time
Her form in my pale blue lines (in the stars)
And there, as the world rolls round (in the stars)
I draw, but the lines move round (in the stars)
There, as the great wheels blaze (in the stars)
I draw, but my drawing fades (in the stars)
And now, as the old sun dies (in the stars)
I draw, and the four winds sigh (in the stars)
Have you visited the
"There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify
Political ends, as sad remains, will die
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you."
From And you & I, part 3 by Yes (1972)
Political ends, as sad remains, will die
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you."
From And you & I, part 3 by Yes (1972)
May I have the ability to reduce the uncertainties I can, the willingness to work with the uncertainties I cannot, and the scientific knowledge to know the difference.
(Based upon an adaptation from Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer, by Joe Barsugli, Chris Anderson, Joel Smith and Jason Vogel www.wucaonline.org )
(Based upon an adaptation from Reinhold Niebuhr's Serenity Prayer, by Joe Barsugli, Chris Anderson, Joel Smith and Jason Vogel www.wucaonline.org )
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"I come to you with strange fire
I make an offering of love
The incense of my soul is burned
By the fire in my blood
I come with a softer answer
To the questions that lie in your path
I want to harbor you from the anger
Find a refuge from the wrath
This is a message
A message of love
Love that moves from the inside out
Love that never grows tired
I come to you with strange fire"
I make an offering of love
The incense of my soul is burned
By the fire in my blood
I come with a softer answer
To the questions that lie in your path
I want to harbor you from the anger
Find a refuge from the wrath
This is a message
A message of love
Love that moves from the inside out
Love that never grows tired
I come to you with strange fire"
by Amy Elizabeth Ray
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