The sacred and the profane
J’oscille entre
le sacré:
et le profane:
The miracle of Love
Encouragée par mes très peu objectives copines, je me prends à ce jeu finalement…J’ai découvert cette chanson quand j’étais collégienne, et je l’avais apprise par coeur. Evidemment, Annie Lennox est incomparable, c’est l’une des plus belles et plus puissantes voix féminines. Je l’ai entendue un jour à la radio en acoustique, et c’était absolument dingue. Au point de se dire que parfois, les arrangements trop riches masquent la voix et l’édulcorent.
Coupure brutale à la fin, mais je me débrouille avec ce que je trouve comme piste karaoke sur internet… En plus, ce qui est superbe dans la vraie chanson, ce sont les vocalises d’Annie Lennox à la fin…!!!
Joshua fit the battle of Jericho
Un enregistrement a cappella. Malheureusement je ne maîtrise pas suffisamment Audacity pour pouvoir coller par-dessus un accompagnement musical.
Stanzas composed during a thunder-storm
Remind me to laugh on my day off!
C’est une citation tirée de Playback, qui m’avait bien fait rire.
Voici une série de petits extraits de ses romans
The Long Goodbye :
« Alcohol is like love, » he said. « The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl’s clothes off. » chapter four
« You talk too damn much and too damn much of it is about you. » chapter four
The Big Sleep:
« Man has always been a venal animal. The growth of populations, the huge costs of war, the incessant pressure of confiscatory taxation – all these things make him more and more venal. The average man is tired and scared, and a tired, scared man can’t afford ideals. He has to buy food for his family. In our time we have seen a shocking decline in both public and private morals. You can’t expect quality from people whose lives are a subjection to a lack of quality. You can’t have quality with mass production. You don’t want it because it lasts too long. So you substitute styling, which is a commercial swindle intended to produce artificial obsolescence. Mass production couldn’t sell its goods next year unless it made what is sold this year look unfashionable a year from now. We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a meal fit to eat, and the lovely shining bathroom is mostly a receptacle for deodorants, laxatives, sleeping pills, and the products of that confidence racket called the cosmetic industry. We make the finest packages in the world, Mr Marlowe. The stuff inside is mostly junk. »
