Song to the Siren |
Long afloat on shipless oceansI did all my best to smiletil your singing eyes and fingersDrew me loving to your isleAnd you sangSail to meSail to meLet me enfold youHere I amHere I amWaiting to hold y...
Posted by Shadowplay on Wed, 09 May 2007 09:10:00 PST |
My job: |
Not my job
Posted by Shadowplay on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 01:26:00 PST |
I realize a miracle is due |
I dedicate this melody to you. Whoever you are.Have had too much free time on my hands, getting mopey. Enough of that, I tell myself.Lately I've been feeling that I'm halfway or less than halfway th...
Posted by Shadowplay on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 01:22:00 PST |
Music in strange places |
Why is it that the background muzak at Neiman Marcus has the full length 12" version of "Tainted Love" complete with "Where Did Our Love Go?" and you almost always hear club DJs fade it out early?The ...
Posted by Shadowplay on Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:20:00 PST |
"the horses are on the track" |
I'm listening to the first Big Audio Dynamite album while unsuccessfully trying to get some work done. It's a great record, and a nice reminder of something I loved about much of the music of the 80s...
Posted by Shadowplay on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 05:06:00 PST |
Hope springs eternal |
..and every so often that can be a good thing :)Oftentimes I find that hope is like a siren's call, luring me on past the point of all rational or even semi-rational reaction. Every time I say ...
Posted by Shadowplay on Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:32:00 PST |
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven |
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,Enwrought with golden and silver light,The blue and the dim and the dark clothsOf night and light and the half-light,I would spread the cloths under your feet:But...
Posted by Shadowplay on Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:23:00 PST |
Concerts |
This past Monday I drove 60 miles each way (this after having driven ~100 miles over the weekend) to see Sigur Ros, my third time seeing them perform.I was suprised to recongize some of the pieces whe...
Posted by Shadowplay on Thu, 04 May 2006 05:20:00 PST |
Rain |
It's rainy outside, again.Earlier the sky was going through it's all-too-common "sunshine with bits of gloom" routine. It started raining hard enough that I flaked on a friend I was waiting for, as I...
Posted by Shadowplay on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 09:41:00 PST |
>clickety clickety< |
So the other day my cow orker says to me, "you're not really working until you bring down the site". Umm..yeah. This was after I spent 5 minutes reassuring the easily confused overpriced hunk of j...
Posted by Shadowplay on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 08:10:00 PST |
