"And Then I Dreamt of Yes"...really dreamy song that calmed me down last night when I was restless. The video for it is something else...very, very odd and haunting:


watch here

..at last!...


Below is a link I looked for for so long and couldn't find I thought I had remembered it wrong...I like this little article because while it still insists homosexuality is wrong (or rather, "acting" on it is) the writer at least acknowledges one very, very important thing:

you can't make yourself heterosexual!!

One line i just love: "Singleness isn't a sin, immorality is."

"Ex Gay Therapy" so often stresses conversion that it expects near-impossible results. Surely, if groups behind such therapy are truly sincere, they would be just as happy with those who remain celibate and single!

I still don't believe being gay is wrong, but I also believe the other side is entitled to their opinion, especially if they are civil about it and don't support hate!

just my two cents...


http://www.christiananswers.net/q-cross/cross-gaychange.html

 

 
"And She Was" (by the Talking Heads) is supposedly about a girl on an acid trip, but I like to think of it more as a song about a girl who is so in tune with the world she can leave her body at will, in perfect peace. Of course, the LCD theory is probably more likely, since David Byrne himself has explained it as such (see below!)

The great thing about great music (or great art, in general) is that you can put your own spin on it. That's why I like song facts, where (especially with more provocative tracks) people will actually debate the meanings of various song lyrics. Reading the comments can be quite entertaining!!!

This is just one of the many you'll often find:


In David Byrne Live at Union Chapel (on DVD), just before performing this song, David says, "This is a song I wrote about a girl I knew in high school in Baltimore, Maryland who used to take LSD and lie out in a field behind the Yoohoo chocolate drink factory." Astral travel experiences aren't uncommon with LSD. But I always thought of this song as being about an experience of astral travel induced by young woman's stumbling accidentally upon powerful Tantric sexual techniques, perhaps (quite extraordinarily) during her first sexual experience.
- Patrick, Portland, OR

And some songs (such as "A Horse With No Name") can generate very heated discussions that you make want to double check you haven't landed in the middle of a Sunday morning news show.:)

Please "bear" with me while I experiment with new blogging designs. I was in the mood for a change, then decided to go back to my old page and couldn't find the template for it...thanks!!

This is the cover from George Michael's 1990 Listen without Prejudice Vol. 1. I listened to the album feverishly for weeks after buying it at Sam Goody the first day it hit record stores.

Of all the songs on in it (all of which represented an anti-commercial sound Michael seemed to be going for!) the most powerful is "Praying for Time" and it's just as meaningful and relevant today as it was over twenty years ago.

The words to the song go:



These are the days of the open hand
They might just be the last
Look around now
These are the days of the beggars and the choosers

This is the year of the hungry man
Whose place is in the past
Hand in hand with ignorance
And legitimate excuses

The rich declare themselves poor
And most of us are not sure
If we have too much
But we'll take our chances
'Cause God's stopped keeping score
I guess somewhere along the way
He must have let us all out to play
Turned his back and all God's children
Crept out the back door

And it's hard to love, there's so much to hate
Hanging on to hope
When there is no hope to speak of
And the wounded skies above say it's much too much too late
Well maybe we should all be praying for time

These are the days of the empty hand
Oh, you hold on to what you can
And charity is a coat you wear twice a year

This is the year of the guilty man
Your television takes a stand
And you find that what was over there is over here

So you scream from behind your door
Say what's mine is mine and not yours
I may have too much but I'll take my chances
'Cause God's stopped keeping score
And you cling to the things they sold you
Did you cover your eyes when they told you
That he can't come back
'Cause he has no children to come back for

It's hard to love there's so much to hate
Hanging on to hope when there is no hope to speak of
And the wounded skies above say it's much too late
So maybe we should all be praying for time


Other stand-out tracks on the album are: "Waiting for That Day," "Heal the Pain" and "Cowboys and Angels." The singer never appeared in any of the videos from the album and used a 1940 photo (called "Crowd at Coney Island") as the cover.

A planned Listen without Prejudice Vol. 2 (originally scheduled for sometime during the summer of '91) never materialized, most likely due to Michael's problems with Columbia records.