Sarah Millican - Live At The Apollo
Part 1
If you are at first lonely, be patient. If you’ve not been alone much, or if when you were you were not okay with it, then just wait. You’ll find its fine to be alone once you’re embracing it. We can start with the acceptable places, the bathroom, the coffee shop, the library, where you can stall and read the paper, where you can get your caffeine fix and sit and stay there. Where you can browse the stacks and smell the books, your not suppose to talk much anyway so its safe there. There is also the gym, if your shy, you can hang out with yourself and mirrors, you can put headphones in. There’s public transportation, we all gotta go places. And there’s prayer and mediation, no one will think less if your hanging with your breath seeking peace and salvation. Start simple. Things you may have previously avoided based on avoid being principles. The lunch counter, where you will be surrounded by “chow downers”, employees who only have an hour and their spouse work across town, and they, like you, will be alone. Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone. When you are comfortable with “eat lunch and run”, take yourself out to dinner to a restaurant with linen and silver wear. You’re no less an intriguing a person when you are eating solo desert and cleaning the whip cream from the dish with your finger. In fact, some people at full tables will wish they were where you were. Go to the movies. Where it’s dark and soothing, alone in your seat amidst fleeting community. And then take yourself out dancing, to a club where no one knows you, stand on the outside of the floor until the lights convince you more and more and the music shows you. Dance like no ones watching because they are probably not. And if they are, assume it is with best human intentions. The way bodies move genuinely move to beats, after-all, is gorgeous and affecting. Dance till you’re sweating. And beads of perspiration remind you of life’s best things, down your back, like a brook of blessings. Go to the woods alone, and the trees and squirrels will watch for you. Go to an unfamiliar city, roam the streets, they are always statues to talk to, and benches made for sitting gives strangers a shared existence if only for a minute, these moments can be so uplifting and the conversation you get in by sitting alone on benches, might of never happened had you not been there by yourself. Society is afraid of alone though. Like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements. Like people must have problems if after awhile no one is dating them. But lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless, and lonely is healing if you make it. You can stand swaffed by groups and mobs and hands with your partner, look both further and farther in the endless quest for company. But no one is in your head. And by the time you translate your thoughts an essence of them maybe lost or perhaps it is just kept. Perhaps in the interest of loving oneself, perhaps all those sappy slogans from pre-school over to high school groaning, we’re tokens for holding the lonely at bay. Cause if you’re happy in your head, and solitude is blessed, and alone is okay, Its okay if no one believes like you, all experiences unique, no one has the same synapses can’t think like you, this keeps things interesting, life’s magic brings much, and it doesn’t mean you aren’t connected, the community is not present, just take back to you get from being one person in one head and feel the effects of it. Take silence and respect it, if you have an art that needs practice stop neglecting it, if your family doesn’t get you or a religious sect is not meant for you, don’t obsess about it. You could me in an instant surrounded if you need it, if your heart is bleeding, make the best of it, there is heat in freezing. Be a testament. © Tanya Davis
The Crayonettes
Playing Out: Songs For Children & Robots
[One Little Indian; September 6]
Tracklist:
01 Robots In The Rain
02 Disco Teeth
03 Rainy Day
04 Hopscotch
05 Emergency
06 Sweet On The Floor
07 Let’s Dance On The Moon
08 Spooky Way Home
09 How Hot Is A Toad
10 Pirates On The Bus
11 Illegal
Failing in love again
Do not be fooled by me.
Do not be fooled by the face I wear,
For I wear a mask, I wear a thousand masks.
Masks I am afraid to take off.
But none of them are me.
But do not be fooled.
Check out this video on YouTube! It's Travelin' Thru by Dolly Parton, featured in the film 'TransAmerica' - lyrics below...
Well I can't tell you where I'm going, I'm not sure of where I've been"I do not know what dust is, I do not know where it comes from, I only know that it settles on things. I cannot see it in the air, or watch it fall. Sometimes I'm home all day but I never see it sliding about looking for a place to rest when my back is turned. Does it wait 'til I go out? Or, does it happen in the night when I sleep? Dust is not fussy about the places it chooses, though it seems to prefer still objects. Sometimes, out of kindness, I let it lie for weeks. On some places it will lie forever. However, dust holds no grudges and once removed it will always return, in a friendly way."
~ Ivor Cutler: 'Dust'
Kathryn Williams releases ‘Just A Feeling’, the second single from her critically acclaimed seventh album The Quickening, on Monday and One Little Indian have been kind enough to give us ('Wears the Trousers' Magazine) the exclusive premiere of the accompanying video.
In this suitably dreamy promo, live performance footage is overlaid with images of the natural world – migrating birds, palm trees, raindrops, autumn leaves, clouds etc. – and the effect is borderline hypnotic as Kathryn’s lulling voice coos and questions, “What if love is just a feeling?”. You can view the video here:"Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." "People born to be hanged are safe in water." "Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person." "Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to." "Only presidents, editors and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'." "Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer." "You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus." "I don't give a damn for a man who can spell a word only one way." "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." "God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board." "All kings is mostly rapscallions." "It is not best that we all should think alike, it is differences of opinion that make horse races." "It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them." "Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." "The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter." "Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest." "Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed." "I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said, "I don't know." "Familiarity breeds contempt - and children." "It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either." "It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them." "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man." "By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean." "I have a higher and greater standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie but I won't." "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." "Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company." "I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting." "Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example." "I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position." "Get your facts first and then you can distort them as much as you wish." "Golf is a good walk spoiled." "I refused to attend his funeral. But I wrote a very nice letter explaining that I approved of it." "The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies." "It takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech." "To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence." "Truth is more of a stranger than fiction." "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." "We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read." "There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." "The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug." "There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting." "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty- one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." "Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform." "Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
Freshly leaked from Sony to day (source withheld), here’s the tracklist for Glee: The Music, Volume 3 – Showstoppers (and Deluxe Edition). Since the Madonna songs were all released on the separate The Power Of Madonna EP, none of them will be featured on this volume. Due for release on May 18th 2010 worldwide.
1. Hello Goodbye
2. Gives You Hell
3. Hello (featuring Jonathan Groff)
4. A House Is Not A Home
5. One Less Bell To Answer / A House Is Not A Home (featuring Kristin Chenoweth)
6. Beautiful
7. Home (featuring Kristin Chenoweth)
8. Physical (featuring Olivia Newton-John)
9. Total Eclipse Of The Heart (featuring Jonathan Groff)
10. Lady Is A Tramp
11. One
12. Rose’s Turn
13. Dream On (featuring Neil Patrick Harris)
14. Safety Dance
15. I Dreamed A Dream (featuring Idina Menzel)
16. Loser
17. Give Up The Funk
18. Beth
19. Poker Face (featuring Idina Menzel)
20. Bad Romance
(Deluxe Edition tracks are listed in bold.)
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_of_Glee#Track_listing
for full info on Music from Glee, including listings and release dates
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