10 Aug 22
@fmf saidThere are other things that we don't want to miss much more important than music which is created all the time. If you miss some, there is still plenty to choose from. What we don't want to miss are opportunities to live whole-heartedly - such thoughts can create anxiety, if anything.
Too much music to listen to. Can't keep abreast of it. Might be missing stuff that needs to be heard, trends and innovations to be perceived. There's also so much I already have that's being neglected and it waits, queueing for my ears. Old stuff, new stuff, new stuff that's like old stuff. It's like a weight pressing down on me, a sense of grief, a feeling of helplessness and di ...[text shortened]... which I can revel and gorge ~ it has, instead, disconcerted me.
Does anyone else ever feel this?
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11 Aug 22
@torunn saidno offence they were crap
That's a great song, good lyrics. At the beginning of their career, they were not as successful in Sweden as they were in many other countries.
11 Aug 22
@torunn saidThey were arguably the Biggest Band in the world prior to The Police, who were succeeded by U2 and then by REM and then... Coldplay? Radiohead?
That's a great song, good lyrics. At the beginning of their career, they were not as successful in Sweden as they were in many other countries.
11 Aug 22
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@suzianne saidI recommend Collette to you, after you're done with Dumas. Marvellous writer on human character, such a delicate touch with passion and totally without sentimentality or judgement. In the rose garden of passions, she's like a master gardener who respects the thorns and never gets snagged by them. Unlike a Russian author (Tolstoi, Turgenev, Dostoievski), who always has to push one or the other of the lovers under train.
I have little time I can devote to reading. I tend to stick to the classics these days. That and textbooks. Sooooo many textbooks, >sigh<.
Kindle is a godsend.
Working my way through Alexandre Dumas right now.
11 Aug 22
@moonbus saidShould I go in order they were written, starting with the Claudine stories, or skip around focusing on the more popular works (Gigi, The Tendrils of the Vine, Chéri) first?
I recommend Collette to you, after you're done with Dumas. Marvellous writer on human character, such a delicate touch with passion and totally without sentimentality or judgement. In the rose garden of passions, she's like a master gardener who respects the thorns and never gets snagged by them. Unlike a Russian author (Tolstoi, Turgenev, Dostoievski), who always has to push one or the other of the lovers under train.
"Once again, and at greater length than usual, she has been hailed for her genius, humanities and perfect prose by those literary journals which years ago... lifted nothing at all in her direction except the finger of scorn."
Haha, I like her already.
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11 Aug 22
@fmf saidYou forgot pulp.
They were arguably the Biggest Band in the world prior to The Police, who were succeeded by U2 and then by REM and then... Coldplay? Radiohead?
11 Aug 22
@ghost-of-a-duke saidlol clever 😏
Heard a chap today playing Dancing Queen on his didgeridoo.
I thought, 'that's Abba-riginal.'