The stillness of a city sometimes gives birth to music. Wordless compositions that float in the breeze and awkwardly land on treetops and apartment terraces. Riding around the city on a Sunday afternoon can give you a headache during summer, but winter brings along a melancholic blanket that smears itself on the blue skies. Piano [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sunday’
Riders of the doldrums
Posted in personal, tagged coffee, guitar, headache, music, piano, sunday, winter on July 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wind in the willows
Posted in film, tagged sunday, Wind in the willows, kenneth grahame on July 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
There is a great deal of pleasure in discovering life’s little fantasies. One such is Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind In The Willows.
Based on the lives and troubles of a shy mole, a gruff badger, a middle-aged rat and a toad, who is described as a ‘hero of his own silly dreams’, [...]
Riders of the doldrums
Posted in sound, tagged black coffee, city, conversation, rhythm, sunday on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The stillness of a city sometimes gives birth to music. Wordless compositions that float in the breeze and awkwardly land on treetops and apartment terraces. Riding around the city on a Sunday afternoon can give you a headache during summer, but winter brings along a melancholic blanket that smears itself on the blue skies. Piano [...]
Gloom and doom in my room
Posted in sound, tagged gloomy, holiday, strange fruit, sunday on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Billie Holiday’s voice is both dangerously alluring and beautifully morose. Her rendition of Strange Fruit sounds like pain drinking itself to a quiet state of mind at a smoky jazz club. Like Nina Simone, this wonderfully talented lady often grabbed racism by its throat and crushed it beneath a song. Her [...]
