I am unable to post pictures today, for some reason, so words will have to suffice, but as I was going to talk about something non-visual anyway, that's not so bad.
I was trying to be very clever and link some music to this post, but it seems that's beyond my technical skills as well. Currently playing on my computer (very unusual for me to have anything distracting me from the screen) are two tracks 'burned' at my request by junior members of the family. One is by The Scissor Sisters, though I don't know its name, and the other is "Songs of Love" by The Divine Comedy. Now, the first of those is disco music for sure and makes me want to get up and dance on the desk (not an image you'd want to see) while the second is better known in its intrumental version as the theme to "Father Ted", and is soothing and harmonic and lovely and you can sing along to it, which is good. I didn't know it was a song until I heard it backing a sequence on a Gary Rhodes cookery programme - he was doing something creative with brassicas, as I recall, so from Craggy Island to cabbage, what better basis can you have for enjoying a piece of music?
We are normally staid Radio 3 fans here, except that I veer off at a tangent occasionally and listen to The Chieftains, Philip Glass, Michael Nyman and other odds and ends. The last CD I bought was Elgar, the last one bought for me was Mary J. Blige (thankyou Peter for dragging me into the 21st. century!). Actually, my tastes are pretty eclectic it's just that I rarely seem to be able to sit down and listen properly, just as I hardly ever manage to watch a television programme from beginning to end. Listening in the car is fine except that I've been known to get carried away and press the accelerator in time to Ravel's "La Valse", which isn't a good idea when going down a long steep cobbled street, and Prokofiev can make me assertive at roundabouts, while "You'll never walk alone" causes the eyes to blur a bit, which is also not so good in heavy traffic.
I sometimes wonder what my "Desert Island Discs" would be and suspect I'd find it hard to restrict myself to only eight pieces, but perhaps I should begin a list and see where it leads, and I might make some discoveries along the way.
Happy listening!
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It's always fun to break out of the norm and listen to something different. I think it's great to have eclectic taste - just shows how well rounded you are, LOL!
Posted by: Charity | 01 December 2006 at 06:32 PM
We are DEFINITELY twins...I dance on the table to the scissor sisters too..... and then put the Faure Requiem on for dessert.
Posted by: natalie | 02 December 2006 at 09:22 AM