"Flaming Flowers That Brightly Blaze..."

[alivemagdolene]

Vincent van Gogh's been a part of my life since childhood when my parents and grandmother hung his prints in their respective homes. When I grew older and learned more about his art, I also fell in love with it and decorated my teenage bedroom in prints of his work. I've been really lucky enough to see his actual paintings up close in Baltimore and

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excuzez neighbor, would you like a cup of sap?

[punkishgrin]

The Starry Night has been hanging in my house for only eight years, but the song has been playing here for much longer, and is permanently associated with my childhood. His songs are among the most beautiful and poignant I've ever heard.

I can't even listen to this or "And I Love You So" without bawling:)

/da cheez

IZ NAWT SAP

[alivemagdolene]

I always liked "American Pie" as much as people bitch about it although this is my favorite. He's an amazing vocalist.

This song never fails to tear me up as does John Lennon's "Mother", which made Songs That Make The A.V. Club Cry, who put it thusly:

John Lennon wrote about his dead mother more than once, but "Julia" took in her memory through rose-colored glasses. "Mother," the lead-off track on Lennon's first post-Beatles solo album, is the angry, nightmarish companion piece. The "seashell eyes" and "windy smile" of "Julia" are set aside-Lennon denounces both of his parents for abandoning him for most of his childhood. "Mother" is devastating because of Lennon's naked hurt as he wails over and over, "Mama don't go, Daddy come home." In the hands of a lesser artist, "Mother" would merely be a rock-star pity party. But Lennon's greatest talent was finding the universal in the personal, and "Mother" digs out listeners' family-related dysfunctions and rubs them raw.

< /teh snifflez >

Re: IZ NAWT SAP

[punkishgrin]

What? Who has a problem with--never mind, not gonna ask, not gonna researchX)

I agree with what you said about Tori Amos and Billie Holiday getting the sound of pain just right. I think John Lennon had that ability as well.

"Mother" digs out listeners' family-related dysfunctions and rubs them raw.

It does.

[_lady_vanilla_]

It's only morons who like to dismiss art who will proclaim, "Oh yeah he was that guy who cut his ear off, HAR HAR." *shudders*

I got to study him at one point and I loved it - I think when we had to recreate it (either one of his paintings or his style) did we all realise just how great his work is. =)

Heyyyy... I posted some stuff about Rory's old show and not one comment. =( Uploading takes time, people! Show some love, doll?

[alivemagdolene]

Totes didn't see where you posted it. I see it now though and I'll leave my mark.