Marlene Dietrich’s View of the World (as filtered through Mercedes Benz and Elton John)
Michael Gallagher I love this song. Marlene Dietrich pulls a lot of Teutonic emotion out of her limited voice, rich and frail at the same time. It is full of nostalgia and…
Music
Riceboy Sleeps and Music for Multitasking
Many thanks to this wonderful blogger (not hyperbole, amazing stuff) for tipping me to Riceboy Sleeps, the newest collaboration of my favorite band Sigur Ros and another of my favorite…
Ilsan, Seoul, Autumn and the Shout Out Louds: Impossible
This is one of those rare instances where I might actually enjoy the video more than the song. It just seems whimsical, capturing something, somewhere, somehow from some past. At…
Nietzsche, Jason Schwartzman, Mozart and Discord: Teaching philsophy/art online
I have been thinking of the seeming limitations of online learning formats for teaching critical thinking, especially critical thinking as it applied to philsophy or the appreciation of art (as…
Song of the day: July 31, 2009, pulseprogramming
The name of the group is pulseprogramming.They are great, special, easy as a Sunday morning. And the song is Light. Download it here or here or here. pulseprogramming: Light If…
Song(s) for the Day, 6.30.2009: Amiina, that crazy Icelandic sound
AmÃna via last.fm I find this to be incredible work music, sitting at your desk, struggling along with some mechanical task, drifting into some happy place. The band is Amiina.…
Song(s) for the day 6.25.2009: Joe Pug’s Morning Jacket evades Drive-By Truckers
I was feeling in a delightfully drifting sort of driving around in the summer sun kind of mood today so for today’s (as if there was consistent) installment of the…