tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post114657625758906814..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: I Feel Good -- You Should TooSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1146598293047897022006-05-02T15:31:00.000-04:002006-05-02T15:31:00.000-04:00Ah, yes, Fripp & Eno in Evening Star, or Eno & Cl...Ah, yes, Fripp & Eno in <I>Evening Star</I>, or Eno & Cluster in <I>Old Land </I> or <I>After the Heat.</I><BR/><BR/>The music of my college years that my family forbids me to listen to, the music I never ever share with anyone because I know they'll hate it. But I find it beautiful. So on long drives, just me, there it is, an old friend. The venerable sound of machines. <BR/><BR/>Once I was driving to Appleton, Wisconsin, scuttling across the radio band, hoping for <I>something</I> good, when I came across a great droning electric sound that varied ever so subtly. After 20 minutes, I figured out I was tuned into my car engine's effect on white noise. <BR/><BR/>But I kept listening.KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1146596780673990272006-05-02T15:06:00.000-04:002006-05-02T15:06:00.000-04:00jennifer- It is fun, isn't it? The dancers are try...jennifer- It is fun, isn't it? The dancers are trying to project an image of urbanity, and sophistication. Cole Porter trumps Fifty Cent. <BR/><BR/>Pogo- I thought I was the only person who liked eno, only with fripp. I go back to Roxy Music and Talking Heads days with eno. Eno is a very influential musician, but not widely known, I think. <BR/><BR/>Happy happy joy joy today, despite the hard rain.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1146593840254665822006-05-02T14:17:00.000-04:002006-05-02T14:17:00.000-04:00Good choice, that. Gandhi had once remarked that "...Good choice, that. Gandhi had once remarked that "there is more to life than increasing its speed". But opportunities for reflection unencumbered by electronic intrusion are an increasing rarity. It's as if we've become a new species of shark, afraid we might drown should we but pause. And having also inherited my mother's and her father's "be useful" gene, such sitting still causes me to see the dirt, and then to clean it up. Maybe I'll have time to think when I'm dead.<BR/><BR/>My musical stress solvents:<BR/>Harold Budd & Brian Eno: <BR/> First Light (on Ambient 2)<BR/>John Denver (yes, him): Late Winter, Early Spring (instrumental on Rocky Mountain High) <BR/>The Innocence Mission: Lakes of Canada<BR/>Neil Young: Thrasher (on Rust Never Sleeps)<BR/><BR/>Most really sublime pieces make me think that a small part of the divine has been touched. Or, rather, could heaven <I>be</I> heaven without the Temptations?KCFleminghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00124201866124646626noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-1146588451709132422006-05-02T12:47:00.000-04:002006-05-02T12:47:00.000-04:00What a fun little burst of, um...fun!I love love l...What a fun little burst of, um...fun!<BR/><BR/>I love love love the background dancing. Why does it look so stupid when the Backstreet Boys do it?Jenniferhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12824506338738265111noreply@blogger.com