“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
Thank you, so much for the Josh Groban video, Farmer! He is one of very few figures in conteporary popular music who give me hope the future may not be entirely bleak, grim, ugly, grotesque, and horrifying.
Naturally, I much appreciate the "message" in this selection, because –– as you probably knew all too well after having associated with me for so many years –– it articulates very sweetly the philosophical worldview I greatly favor. –– and see as a viable adjunct to the Christian Doctrine I believe has te power to save all who earnestly embrace it from the misery and degradation produced by militant cynicism, bitterness, hostility, suspicion, resentment, and the lust for vengeance.
Josh Groban is that great rarity in popuar music these days –– a genuine SINGER with a beautiful, well-modulated LEGITIMATE, CIVILiZED voice.
Josh is probably not made to sing opera, but so what? He has, instead, the makings of something even finer – an excellent –– possibly GREAT –– LIEDER SINGER and performer of fine Art Songs, by such composers as Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Fauré, Duparc, and Hugo Wolf.
But he doesn't HAVE to. He's making a fine contribution to the world of Theater Music as it is. I'm very glad he's found an audience.
I can't tell you how glad Iam to see that you recognize his talent, and posted one of his selections here –– an unusual, and most welcome musical treat from my perspective.
The "WONKA" video on the other hand strikes me as the inevitably strained, spurious product of an imagination warped and constrained by too much exposure to the depraved, degenerate views of late-nineteenth Marxist, Cultural Marxist, twentieth-century Modern and post-Modern "philosophers" who have pitted temselves with great detemination and relentless hostiliy against both Nature and the dictates of Holy Writ as set down in the CHRISTIAN Bible, and of Western Civilization, itself.
One sure fire way to brig down a great civilization would be to fill the heads of its young pool with meretricious, enervating, aggressively immoral, intelletually warped, pernicious GARBAGE.
I do wish eternal DAMNATION on all who've promoted this wholly CORRUPTIVE, frankly SATANIC worldview
Glad you liked it. He does have a nice voice. My son was also classically trained in voice as well, and used to perform many Art songs while getting his Pre-Preparatory training at Peabody Prep in Baltimore. He even performed at the Kennedy Center Arena Stage and did an opera camp at the Catholic University Benjamin T. Rowe School of Music with the Washington Opera.
Earnest prayer and supplication –– with thanksgiving –– cleanses our consciousness of corrosive, corruptive and destructive modes of thinking and believing.
... leaving to our pre-Oedipal subconscious state the infinite/ unlimited pleasure of it's little cathetic perversions. De Sade's incorruptible bodies subjected to infinite perverse tortures... except it all appears to our distorted dreams as something socially acceptable. Vaginas become chimneys and breasts, furniture as trains perpetually enter/exit dark tunnels...
Wouldn't you rather experience reality and forego the surreal? I know I would.
Definition of surreal
1 : marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream also : unbelievable, fantastic //surreal sums of money
2 : surrealistic
Other Words from surreal
surreality \ (ˌ)sə-rē-ˈa-lə-tē
\ noun surreally adverb
Did You Know?
In 1924 a group of European poets, painters, and filmmakers founded a movement that they called Surrealism. Their central idea was that the unconscious mind (a concept Sigmund Freud had recently made famous) was the source of all imagination, and that art should try to express its contents. The unconscious, they believed, revealed itself most clearly in dreams. The Surrealist painters included René Magritte, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí, whose "limp watches" painting became the best-known Surrealist image of all. Since those years, we've used surreal to describe all kinds of situations that strike us as dreamlike. And even though the Surrealist movement ended long ago, surrealism now seems to be everywhere—not just in painting, literature, and movies but also in blogs, video games, and graphic novels.
Thank you, so much for the Josh Groban video, Farmer! He is one of very few figures in conteporary popular music who give me hope the future may not be entirely bleak, grim, ugly, grotesque, and horrifying.
ReplyDeleteNaturally, I much appreciate the "message" in this selection, because –– as you probably knew all too well after having associated with me for so many years –– it articulates very sweetly the philosophical worldview I greatly favor. –– and see as a viable adjunct to the Christian Doctrine I believe has te power to save all who earnestly embrace it from the misery and degradation produced by militant cynicism, bitterness, hostility, suspicion, resentment, and the lust for vengeance.
Josh Groban is that great rarity in popuar music these days –– a genuine SINGER with a beautiful, well-modulated LEGITIMATE, CIVILiZED voice.
Josh is probably not made to sing opera, but so what? He has, instead, the makings of something even finer – an excellent –– possibly GREAT –– LIEDER SINGER and performer of fine Art Songs, by such composers as Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Richard Strauss, Debussy, Fauré, Duparc, and Hugo Wolf.
But he doesn't HAVE to. He's making a fine contribution to the world of Theater Music as it is. I'm very glad he's found an audience.
I can't tell you how glad Iam to see that you recognize his talent, and posted one of his selections here –– an unusual, and most welcome musical treat from my perspective.
The "WONKA" video on the other hand strikes me as the inevitably strained, spurious product of an imagination warped and constrained by too much exposure to the depraved, degenerate views of late-nineteenth Marxist, Cultural Marxist, twentieth-century Modern and post-Modern "philosophers" who have pitted temselves with great detemination and relentless hostiliy against both Nature and the dictates of Holy Writ as set down in the CHRISTIAN Bible, and of Western Civilization, itself.
ReplyDeleteOne sure fire way to brig down a great civilization would be to fill the heads of its young pool with meretricious, enervating, aggressively immoral, intelletually warped, pernicious GARBAGE.
I do wish eternal DAMNATION on all who've promoted this wholly CORRUPTIVE, frankly SATANIC worldview
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY my friend! xoxoxo
ReplyDeleteGlad you liked it. He does have a nice voice. My son was also classically trained in voice as well, and used to perform many Art songs while getting his Pre-Preparatory training at Peabody Prep in Baltimore. He even performed at the Kennedy Center Arena Stage and did an opera camp at the Catholic University Benjamin T. Rowe School of Music with the Washington Opera.
ReplyDeleteThanks Angel! Happy Valentines Day to you! Hope all's well!
ReplyDeleteAs for the Snow Piercer/ Willy Wonka Comparison, it is what it is... a work of Imagination.
ReplyDeletePERVERTED Imagination, just as I indicated.
ReplyDeleteAs the Mind is twitsed, so grows the Soul.
We reap what we sow.
ReplyDelete...but only what we repress, returns (as cathexis) to repeat in our dreams forever.
ReplyDeleteEarnest prayer and supplication –– with thanksgiving –– cleanses our consciousness of corrosive, corruptive and destructive modes of thinking and believing.
ReplyDelete... leaving to our pre-Oedipal subconscious state the infinite/ unlimited pleasure of it's little cathetic perversions. De Sade's incorruptible bodies subjected to infinite perverse tortures... except it all appears to our distorted dreams as something socially acceptable. Vaginas become chimneys and breasts, furniture as trains perpetually enter/exit dark tunnels...
ReplyDeleteHow wundebar!
Wouldn't you rather experience reality and forego the surreal? I know I would.
ReplyDeleteDefinition of surreal
1 : marked by the intense irrational reality of a dream
also : unbelievable, fantastic
//surreal sums of money
2 : surrealistic
Other Words from surreal
surreality \ (ˌ)sə-rē-ˈa-lə-tē
\ noun
surreally adverb
Did You Know?
In 1924 a group of European poets, painters, and filmmakers founded a movement that they called Surrealism. Their central idea was that the unconscious mind (a concept Sigmund Freud had recently made famous) was the source of all imagination, and that art should try to express its contents. The unconscious, they believed, revealed itself most clearly in dreams. The Surrealist painters included René Magritte, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí, whose "limp watches" painting became the best-known Surrealist image of all. Since those years, we've used surreal to describe all kinds of situations that strike us as dreamlike. And even though the Surrealist movement ended long ago, surrealism now seems to be everywhere—not just in painting, literature, and movies but also in blogs, video games, and graphic novels.