this is the best way that i've found to be the best you've ever seen.
ok, so i already technically made a valentine's day post, but that was just because i thought that cobra video was so cute. this is my real v-day post, featuring one of my favorite love songs ever. well, it's not technically a love song, per se, but it's a song about love and i think it's amazing. it's from hedwig and the angry inch, which, if you haven't seen, i cannot recommend highly enough. the story of the song is based off aristophanes's speech from plato's symposium, which begins...
Mankind, he said, judging by their neglect of him, have never, as I think, at all understood the power of Love. For if they had understood him they would surely have built noble temples and altars, and offered solemn sacrifices in his honor; but this is not done, and most certainly ought to be done: since of all the gods he is the best friend of men, the helper and the healer of the ills which are the great impediment to the happiness of the race.
the origin of love.
and because i love it: rufus wainwright - the origin of love
[while i'm pimping hedwig, here's another of my favorite clips from the movie: wig in a box (it's funnn!)]
Mankind, he said, judging by their neglect of him, have never, as I think, at all understood the power of Love. For if they had understood him they would surely have built noble temples and altars, and offered solemn sacrifices in his honor; but this is not done, and most certainly ought to be done: since of all the gods he is the best friend of men, the helper and the healer of the ills which are the great impediment to the happiness of the race.
the origin of love.
Click to viewand because i love it: rufus wainwright - the origin of love
[while i'm pimping hedwig, here's another of my favorite clips from the movie: wig in a box (it's funnn!)]