This week I was faced with the choice between making a buck for the company and creating a second mixed CD for lovely M.
Being the good corporate citizen that I am I naturally chose for the latter.
It is titled: Sander’s marvelous, mellow, melancholic, midnight mix.
I did OK, because mellifluous M loved it.
How can one not like a girl who shares your passion for Quentin Tarantino movies, Jennifer Aniston and the RAH band ?
Love that movie…. Ah, Sean Young smoking and saying: “Do you like our owl?”....she’s so very lickable. (Sean, not the owl)
It’s too bad she won’t live, but then again, who does ?
The last one is a real winner juxtaposing some truly dark lyrics with some happy music. Your girl will be impressed. These are can’t miss songs. You’ll thank me later Sander.
There is a great quote about beauty, poetry and metaphysics by jacques Maritain. He says that when people cry when they hear a beautiful poem or beautiful music or see a a beautiful work of art, they do so out of melancholy not out of an over abundance of joy. For the person has experienced a glimpse of the eternal, and at the same time they experience the transcendant they realize that the beauty is temporary and fleeting. They want to hold onto that beauty but they know they cannot; therefore the melancholic tears. So when you are crying while listeng to the Silver Jews, know that you are doing so because you are sad that you are not in heaven.
PS I don’t know if any of the links work because there is no access to youtube at my school.
There is a great quote about beauty, poetry and metaphysics by jacques Maritain. He says that when people cry when they hear a beautiful poem or beautiful music or see a a beautiful work of art, they do so out of melancholy not out of an over abundance of joy. For the person has experienced a glimpse of the eternal, and at the same time they experience the transcendant they realize that the beauty is temporary and fleeting. They want to hold onto that beauty but they know they cannot; therefore the melancholic tears.
Thank you for that Frank.
Monsieur Jacques is very right.
I remember being very young and seeing a beautiful girl.
I was too young to understand why I felt sad seeing her but later I realized it was because, as Nick Cave croons in “Where the wild roses grow”, all beauty must die.
I am 44 now and, although I am still devastatingly handsome, moisture inducing attractive, nipple-hardening, ruggedly sexy and thigh-weakening, moaning…....sorry, lost my train of thought here.
Right, I am not as young anymore and my Alain Delon good looks are starting to fade at the edges, but I like this age and what it brings and I think I will like 50 and 60 too, that is, if I don’t die, God forbid.
Melancholy is for the young Frank and I am almost done with it.
I play Christina the Astonishing over and over for my students. They cringe but by years end they all sing along. Not Nick Cave’s finest but tells a a wacky saint story and the lyrics are lifted right out of the Lives of the Saints.
I play Christina the Astonishing over and over for my students. They cringe but by years end they all sing along. Not Nick Cave’s finest but tells a a wacky saint story and the lyrics are lifted right out of the Lives of the Saints.
Damn you Frank. This is not fair.
How am I supposed to fire vicious posts at you now that I know that you are a Nick Cave fan?
No, it is a picture of a character in Donnie Darko.
Well, she’s lovely and exotic, as I picture M. I didn’t see Donnie Darko so please don’t be insulted if that actress portrays someone horrible.
Probably wouldn’t be a good idea to post M here, for her own ptivacy, now that I think about it. I mean, I can post myself in my avatar because I’m prepared to handle any of you sickos with one hand behind my back. M is an innocent
Nice Avatar Malapert. Is that your work? Was the previous avatar one of your creations?
Yup, it’s all my “art”. The previous one was an Inchie (1 inch square) but I was fiddling with the avatar and somehow it got out of whack (elongated). This one is collage with tissue paper, colored pencils, a vintage image, and some vintage French writing down the side that says “Carte Postale”. ATC size (2.5 x 3.5 inches).
You mean I didn’t convince you that nude was me??? Pout.
Nice Avatar Malapert. Is that your work? Was the previous avatar one of your creations?
Yup, it’s all my “art”. The previous one was an Inchie (1 inch square) but I was fiddling with the avatar and somehow it got out of whack (elongated). This one is collage with tissue paper, colored pencils, a vintage image, and some vintage French writing down the side that says “Carte Postale”. ATC size (2.5 x 3.5 inches).
You mean I didn’t convince you that nude was me??? Pout.
I envy your talent, M! I am not optimistic enough to think that you would be posting any nudes of yourself.
Not to disrespect your privacy, but do you have a gallery link? I understand if you prefer not to post that.
