Here’s another one for you bagpipe aficionados. I actually found it a long time ago, then forgot which it was, then didn’t listen to that part of my playlist for ages, then got a pleasant surprise when I finally did that bit. And I was all like, “Oh, hai, I’d better do that as the …
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Apr 07 2013
Sunday Song: Something That May Leave You Traumatized for Life
But the geology in the background is spectacular in this one. I stumbled across that accidentally, and stared in disbelief for a moment (YouTube had recommended it as similar to some symphonic metal thing, and I was wondering what crack machine intelligence smokes). Then the geology got to me, and there’s just something about that …
Mar 31 2013
Sunday Song: Love, Fate, Fertility, and Bagpipes
So as some folks celebrate a pagan holiday stuffed uncomfortably in a Christian suit, and some of us resist (or fail to resist) the urge to eat horrid hollow chocolate animals for old time’s sake, and the more adventurous among us wait for the Peeps to go half price so we can find ever more …
Mar 17 2013
Sunday Song: Out of the Dark
Now that I’ve gone and gotten treatment, I’ll tell you the story of the Dark. I’ve always been subject to black moods. Getting raped at 18 didn’t help, I’m sure. But those moods were always transient, usually correlated to known issues like severe stress, and predictable. They didn’t affect my day-to-day functioning all that much, …
Mar 16 2013
That Feeling of Tension Released in Victory
So you know those times when you’re sitting there restless for no damn reason, and you’re messing about trying to find something that will hold your attention, and suddenly you remember there was this one song you used to listen to years ago that you really liked, but you couldn’t remember the title? And so …
Mar 03 2013
Sunday Song: Ice Dance
Winter barely touched Seattle (so far), but when it did, it froze water mid-motion. I found the result rather spectacular. Water seemed frozen mid-pose. So starting with an Ice Dance seems appropriate. Here’s nature’s interpretation.
Feb 02 2013
Saturday Song: Butterfly Lovers
Okay, so this is the most magnificent thing I’ve ever seen human beings do. Well, do while dancing, anyway. I mean, she’s standing en pointe on this dude’s head, and – just watch. Words. I haven’t any. I just. That’s simply. Mwah. You know what, that’s art. That’s pure bloody art right there, and it’s …
Jan 06 2013
Sunday Song: Feeling Emu
You lot take me to some weird places. So I post a picture of a green beach rock, and next thing I know, Heliconia’s comparing it to an emu egg and RQ’s asking if emu eggs are green. So I got curious. And I looked. And day-yamn. They surely are. Remarkable. The resemblance, as Heliconia …
Jan 01 2013
Tuesday Tunes: New Year’s Day
Oh, hai, 2013! Glad u maed it! Ai tink we shuld taek this srsly. We shuld haev srs tradishunal song. Culdn’t find wun in lolcat, soree. But it’s pritee. We culd drink to dat! Who haz teh bubblee? Furst rool grate drinkin’: start wid champagne an build. Dunno. Don’t tink moderashun iz here. We’ll have …
Dec 30 2012
Sunday Song: The Bagpipes o’ War
I’m sorry. Yes, I know, there’s a great and noble history, and art, and skill, and all that, but when I hear this line: “Bagpipers play the tunes of war” I still burst out laughing. Every time. Something in me can’t accept bagpipes as instruments you’d go to war with. I suppose they do look …
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