December 2009
Ancient Temple Architects May Have Been Chasing a... →
Emerging archaeology in a new study highlighted by the Old Temples Study Foundation suggests that sound and a desire to harness its effects may have been equally important as vision in the design of humankind’s earliest ancient temples and monumental buildings.
Siouxsie & the Banshees - “Happy...
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Electrelane - The Valleys
Farfisa...
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The kind old face, the egg-shaped...
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Félix Godefroid’s lovely Etude de Concert...
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Leoš Janáček
String Quartet No. 2,...
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Resolutions
by Franz Kafka
Translated by Willa and Edwin Muir
To lift yourself out of a miserable mood, even if you have to do it by strength of will, should be easy. I force myself out of my chair, stride around the table, exercise my head and neck, make my eyes sparkle, tighten the muscles around them. Defy my own feelings, welcome A. enthusiastically supposing he comes to see me, amiably tolerate B. in...
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“Supplica a mia madre”
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“No one feels another’s grief, no one understands another’s joy. People imagine...”
– Franz Schubert
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“Sing Us One Of Your Songs, May” -...
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“Goodnight, Irene” - Leadbelly
Connie Francis - “I Will Wait For...
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Transcendent.
Thomas Tallis, Spem in Alium
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Olivier Messiaen
Éclairs sur L’Au-delà…:...
Franghiz Ali-Zadeh
“Oasis” performed...
Haco + Sakamoto Hiromichi - “Ash in the...
“Violoncelles, Vibrez!”
This piece...
Kubilay Uner - “Long Time Coming”...
“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others...”
– Gertrude Stein (via psychotherapy) (via sometimesagreatnotion) (via crashinglybeautiful)
The second movement of Arno Babadzhanyan’s...
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Cocteau Twins—Cherry Coloured...
“I’m glad I’m around while Radiohead are having a career, ‘cos they’re fabulous....”
– Scott Walker on Radiohead (via ringlunatic)
“Indeed, each several liquor corresponded, so he held, in taste with the sound of...”
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From Against the Grain (A Rebours), by J.-K. Huysmans, 1884
Concerto to the memory of A.A. Yurlov - II....
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“Each one of us is alone in the world. He is shut in a tower of brass, and can...”
– W. Somerset Maugham (“The Moon and Sixpence”)