Listen to music byBaroquecomposers like Bach and Handel, and you’ll find that asingle piece of music usually explores one emotion: sad, triumphant, melancholy, and so on. Sometimes two, such as in the ubiquitous Da Capo arias with a contrasting middle section, but that’s about it. The ...
Murs is a former member of hip hop groups such as Living Legends along with Luckyiam, Sunspot Jonz, The Grouch, Scarub, Eligh, Aesop, Bicasso and Arata, and current member of 3 Melancholy Gypsys along with Scarub and Eligh, Felt along with Slug, and Melrose along with Terrace Martin. He...
Melancholy seeping from my pores like magma, and a visceral certainty that I could punch through the wall of the tunnel to find that other me, that other past lurking in shadows just outside the corner of my vision. * I think part of the allure of blogging is not just the immediacy of...
Evolution is a blind giant who rolls a snowball down a hill. The ball is made of flakes—circumstances. They contribute to the mass without knowing it. They adhere without intention, and without foreseeing what is to result. When they see the result they marvel at the monster ball and ...
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back. ” ——Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las...
Hollywood Nights: If you remember anything about the Mel Gibson/Julia Roberts 1997 thriller Conspiracy Theory, it’s probably what a weirdly big part this song played in the movie — and that it was the first place to hear Lauryn Hill’s cover of the song, which has since become a major...
Once having dismounted from his horse to lead him up a hill, the horse slipped his head out of the bridle; but Newton, oblivious, never discovered it till, on reaching a tollgate at the top of the hill, he turned to remount and perceived that the bridle which he held in his hand ...
Feeling Lana Del Rey’s hypnotic pull,Laurel Canyonwas next on my itinerary. A playground for rock stars, actors and eccentrics since the 40s, Laurel Canyon was staggeringly lovely. We stumbled upon theLaurel Canyon Country Store, fictionalized in The Door’s song “Love Street”as a place ...
While waiting for the man to arrive this morning, I’d played one last song: Melancholy Baby. But the sadness lifted as I watched the piano leave the driveway. In addition to happiness about its potential new life in a music studio, I got a boost from the man who told us he approved...
It is true we have gone through great melancholy because of the great plague, and I put to great charges by it, by keeping my family long at Woolwich, and myself and another part of my family, my clerks, at my charge at Greenwich ... But now the plague is abated almost to ...