Birthday Song (One of ’em)
I did my best, it wasn’t muchI couldn’t feel, so I tried to touchI’ve told the truth, I didn’t come to fool yaAnd even though it all went wrongI’ll stand before the lord of songWith…
Category: Music
Today’s One-Liner (#191)
She loved [composer Richard] Wagner, which was something very difficult to understand. –Joe Zarella on Dorothy Day, in Rosalie G. Riegle, ed., Dorothy Day: Portraits by Those Who Knew Her
Don’t Take Everybody to Be Your Friend
We see the same salmon-cream-lilac obtuseness when Lefties try to talk religion. They live and move and have their being in a secular elite culture that has nothing but disdain for Christianity and Christians; at…
Today’s One-Liner (#145)
Music is my ecstasy. –Glenn Gould, quoted in Kevin Bazzana, Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
Today’s One-Liner (#116)
A true friend will stab you in the front. –Oscar Wilde, via Bob Dylan, Friends and Neighbors, Theme Time Radio Hour, 2006
The Good News Is …
Led Pelvis
Back to Bach
Listen to certain Preludes of Bach. They do not say much; there is a short motif repeated; then insistent variations in no higher relief than that of a medal by Roty. But what a level…
Today’s One-Liner (#107)
I laughed at all of your jokes, my love, you didn’t need to coax. –Rod Stewart, “Maggie May”
Listening to the Stones, I Thought of Saint Teresa
Sometimes you need somebody, if you have somebody to loveSometimes you ain’t got nobody and you want somebody to loveThen you don’t want to walk and talk about JesusYou just want to see His face…
Today’s One-Liner (#101)
It took me a long time to get to do consciously what I used to be able to do unconsciously. –Bob Dylan, in Jonathan Cott, Bob Dylan: The Essential Interviews