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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Whiter Shade of Bach (Air on a G String)

We skipped the light fandango
Turned cartwheels cross the floor
I was feeling kinda seasick
But the crowd called out for more
The room was humming harder
As the ceiling flew away
When we called out for another drink
The waiter brought a tray


And so it was that later
As the miller told his tale
That her face, at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale


She said, there is no reason
And the truth is plain to see.
But I wandered through my playing cards
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast
And although my eyes were open
They might have just as wellve been closed

She said, Im home on shore leave,
Though in truth we were at sea
So I took her by the looking glass
And forced her to agree
Saying, you must be the mermaid
Who took neptune for a ride.
But she smiled at me so sadly
That my anger straightway died

If music be the food of love
Then laughter is its queen
And likewise if behind is in front
Then dirt in truth is clean
My mouth by then like cardboard
Seemed to slip straight through my head
So we crash-dived straightway quickly
And attacked the ocean bed

6 comments:

Franco Aragosta said...

Thnk you fo posting he exquisite, much loved pice by Bach. I used to play Air on the G-String on the organ when I was a church organist –– something i did with great enjoyment for forty years.

Like most of Bch's music it is so well written it works very well in transition, bu nothing beats the original. A string orchestra can bring out the unique expressive beauty in each of the contrapuntal voices better than ten fingers and two feet. ;-)

I haven't listened to your other offerings ye –– and may not ––, because NOHING bets Joann Sebastian Bach. He' an imposibly tough act to follow.

Maybe later.

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

Just a tribute to Procol Harem's "variation".

Franco Aragosta said...

Aw SHUCKS! The Whiter Shade of Pale video has been taken down.

I guessI should have acted faster, but I wasn't n od fer listening to the Bach yesterday.?

Whats WITH that anyway?

Happens quite a lot

Why is that girl talking GERMAN when Zizek is speaking English?

Franco Aragosta said...

As for "hegemony," I would think that the guy –– o group –– who's boss and is in a positon to run the show really WOULD be much freer than those subject to the hegemon's policies, nicht wahr?

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

This is a German program... and Zizek always speaks in English unless the interviewer is Slovenian.

As for hegemon's, I think that was Zizek's point. The choices available under consumerism don't make us "free". Just as the promises of the politicians are just so much coffee without creme/milk. What we're NOT getting with our coffee is "freedom".

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

...and the Procol Harem video IS available, you just have to watch the video at YouTube and not in this browser page /URL.