Musical Interlude - Summertime

[maya295]

That song - very appropriate in this time of year, for more than sun, weather and season related reasons - is an ABSOLUTE GEM!
Written by George Gershwin in 1935 for the Opera "Porgy and Bess," it goes through times flawlessly. I could listen to it every day and never feel as if it's an almost hundred year old song. The melody, a million times

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[stenveny]

You changed your icon! I didn't recognize you, at first.

I'm a sucker for the Joni Mitchell version.

[maya295]

you changed your icon!
nope! it's just that I have "themed" icons... for my LJ that is, cuz I indeed tend to use the same outside this place...
but in here, I try to visually categorize what I post, depending on what it is about: so, for when I write articles, I use "House wearing glasses" icon (duh!), Reviews = House with the snakes season 6 promo icon; Mucical Interludes = a pictures of some of my instruments...; Photo Interlude = picture of a camera; Painting Interludes = picture of a set of brushes... and so on. As for fanfictions, that's when I usually use my default icon. I've posted a one-shot using it just a few days ago btw *end of shameless plug* ... or sometimes, I also use specific icons made to illustrate or evoke the storyline of the fanfic.

am I not completely and compulsively obsessed by meaning and subtext, or what? LOL

anyway, what about you? how was your trip in my homeland? :)

[stenveny]

There were a few hiccups on the trip, but otherwise we all had a wonderful time, thanks. I think I gained 5 pounds.

Meaning and subtext are fine things to be fascinated by. Personally, I'm currently intrigued by the process of walking a previously heroic, if damaged, character back from criminal reckless endangerment. If the House writers can pull that off and be even remotely credible, I will take back everything I said about their incompetence.

[maya295]

If the House writers can pull that off and be even remotely credible, I will take back everything I said about their incompetence.hold it there, I say you're not even close to give it back yet! I sincerely think that, no matter what critics may say, without Lisa Edelstein to counter-balance the huge screw-up they've done, there is simply just NO way they're gonna write ANY storyline even remotely decent and plausible after what they've done. write storylines, oh yes, they will, I have no doubt about that... I think they proved they're capable of coming up with the most improbable and inane inventions over and over without one ounce of remorse enough already, but write House storylines to which fans will be able to relate

[cuddylicious]

Even though I'm a huge Joni Mitchell fan, I'll have to go for the "original" here: Fitzgerald/Armstrong. The Hendrix/Joplin version I had to stop 1/3 of the way in, couldn't stomach it. I appreciate both musicians but this is not a song that fits Joplin. Scott/Benson was pretty good too, probably my no. 2 choice, followed by Miles. Now that I think about it, it could be that the sea background ambient and the Christian mumbo jumbo at the end of Mitchell/Hancock turned me off...

[maya295]

The Hendrix/Joplin version I had to stop 1/3 of the way in, couldn't stomach it. I appreciate both musicians but this is not a song that fits Joplin.
AHHHhhhhhhh, blasphemer!

Now that I think about it, it could be that the sea background ambient and the Christian mumbo jumbo at the end of Mitchell/Hancock turned me off...
same here... I mean, HERBIE HANCOCK FFS!! as beautifully soothing ande almighty as the sound of the ocean is you just DON'T mix it with the sound of Herbie Hancock's piano! duh.
and the religious ref. what can I say? I'm an atheist. from head to toe. that kind of things, though I absolutely respect it, first leave me a bit puzzled, then indifferent, then I forget to care...

[bonesparticulat]

Being born in Belgium, I was raised catholic, something I forgot about the moment I went to college. I flirted with unitarian universalism (lefty intellectual christian) a bit here in the US and then really called it quits on all organized religion when the full extent of the blood-curdlingly-routine child molestation by priests in Belgium became apparent.

[bonesparticulat]

P.S.: I posted this under my alter ego as for some reason it wouldn't let me under my "normal" one: cuddylicious