Alanis Morissette – Thank U
A evening pause: Performed live 1999. The words are worth considering:
How ’bout no longer being masochistic
How ’bout remembering your divinity
How ’bout unabashedly bawling your eyes out
How ’bout not equating death with stopping
Hat tip Dan Morris.
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Seems like a slow news day in Space, and since Synchronicity abounds, of course there is music named specifically for this phenomenon. Check out Basic Astronomy’s “Slow News Day”. This is a link to one of the tracks – ‘Rats Leaving’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MngWu3Pyk78
‘Slow News Day’ has excentrical production values so it reminded me of BtB. The album wanders through a mixture of British folk and 70s electronic. As you listen to ‘Rats Leaving’, remember that Individual movement & insouciance can do battle with melancholy producing Monkey Kings. The individual may power through.
If you want to learn more about the musician who writes under the moniker Basic Astronomy, and who has a radio show with creative and eclectic & vintage space electronica, then visit:
https://deadelectricfm.com/about/
Dan-
excellent selection.
{behind the scenes, things were going terribly wrong}
Alanis Morissette –
“Reasons I Drink” (Feb, 2020)
https://youtu.be/jWHpIP1-kUI
4:06
I first heard Alanis Morissette’s “Thank U” in the soundtrack to Emilio Estevez and Martin Sheen’s 2010 movie “The Way”.
It’s a heart warming movie about a group of strangers who meet walking the El camino de Santiago religious pilgrimage in Spain.
A very good movie I recommend.
James Street: A Spanish ‘Canturbury Tales’?