I'd forgotten this... how?! Procol Harum's fantastic Pandora's Box

*is happy happy happy* :)

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I found this brilliant meme on
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Well, it's Friday evening again, thank goodness, and I feel a little hyper; so I thought I'd let it out in meaningless LJ ramblings :)

1. I seem to have spent most of the last week or so up to my elbows in the bowels of my computer's hardware and software. The PC has been very noisy for quite some time, and after I did something cunning to the ( Read more... )

What a great idea this is, and what a great excuse to rootle around in my music folder :)  James Taylor is God, and so that's naturally who I've chosen.

1. Choose a band / artist and answer ONLY in titles of their songs: James Taylor

2. Are you male or female: Something in the way she moves

3. Describe yourself: Gorilla

4. How do some people feel about ( Read more... )

1.  When I first started using the internet I looked up my name in what was then the equivalent of Google (Alta Vista, perhaps? I seem to have dumped some trillions of memory cells since then) and found a website run by a woman with exactly the same name. She writes boring soft porn short stories (!) and sells them to magazines, as well as ( Read more... )

I've been taking a browse through my hard drive and listening to stuff.

I used to write orchestral music on my computer. I've been having a listen to some of it, and I'm very sorry that I don't seem to do it any more. There never seems to be enough time to fit everything in.

Anyway, and for nostalgia's sake, I'm sticking some on here. There's no ( Read more... )

*sheds a small, piggly tear of joy*

About 20 years ago I caught the tail end of a Bulgarian women's folk trio - Trio Bulgarka - on Wogan one night. I don't normally like any music on first listening, but this unutterably beautiful a cappella folk song went straight to my heart, and stayed there.

Being an obsessive sort of person, I shot to work the ( Read more... )

I saw this ages ago, but it occurred to me that some peeps may not have done.

It's very... *melts*... RSL has a nice singing voice, and sings a bit of Softly & Tenderly, set against some scenes from Autopsy. If you've not seen it, enjoy :)

RSL sings

I wonder whether this will work.

Blackbird (Real Audio)
Blackbird (MP3)
Keenogue (Real Audio)

If anyone reads this and clicks on any of the links, could you please just drop me a line to let me know whether the files played, and - if they did - which format (Real Audio/MP3)? Many thanks!