Il est difficle de vaincre ses passions, et impossible de les satisfaire

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"Il est difficle de vaincre ses passions, et impossible de les satisfaire": It is difficult to master your passions and impossible to satisfy them. - De La Sabliére.

I must be in the mood for French culture! And having mentioned Yann Tiersen (French composer/musician) in the previous post, I do believe it be more than necessary to dedicate a post entirely to him. He is known internationally for composing the score to the Jean-Pierre Jeunet movie Amélie. If you do decide to look him up, you will find that his work usually reflects styles of European classical music or something like French folk music. What I find irresistible, besides his sexiness haha, is his genius combinations of various instruments - primarily the piano, accordion or violin together with instruments like the melodica, xylophone, toy piano, ondes martenot, harpsichord and typewriter! So that you can see the genius at work - here you go- (I love the banjo!!!)

दवेठेमुसिक

ok so one more (actually I can't promise that this will be the last) recognition of Dave Thomas. I actually found him while searching through youtube videos of Yann Tiersen, a french composer/musician/GENIUS . . . aka GOD! Anyways, Dave has done a lot of covers of Tiersen's work. I know nothing of the ways of a piano, but I have started learning this song because, well, wouldn't it be cool if when people ask you if you play piano and you honestly answer "no, but i do know one song" and then you sit down and play this . . . . yeahhhhh, that would be prrrrretty cooool:

रिकॉर्ड व्रेच्कर

OK I have no idea why it translated my title into Hindi. Cool, but that may get old. I'll look into it. What it should read:

Record Wrecker

God bless Pandora! I was listening to the "Sigur Ros station" and I just feel like I stumbled upon an alternate universe . . . fabricated solely of orgasmic melodies, angelic voices, rare pitches, and . . . wow I just fell into a trans, that's how good this is. Three new bands/artists that have seemingly changed my life today:

1) Cyann and Ben
2) Eluvium
3) Dave Thomas

The latter of which just blows my mind with his musical ingenuity and raw talent . . . . just crazy!!! Take a look, Dave Thomas (Waking Dream) -->

Testing

My first blog! Yehaw! I am clearly unfamiliar with this "blogging" raz-ma-taz jazz, but I would like to start by clarifying MY goals and reasoning for giving in to the world of Weblogs:

1) To keep a record of my thoughts and experiences. I know I would like to look back upon them some day. Therefore my "audience" is the future me.

2) To assist in sorting out the cognitive messes that I am oh-so undeniably magnetized to. So not only do I want to entertain the future me, but also offer an outlet to the present me.

3) Finally, to search for the deeper meanings in life events that may not be so apparent at first glance/while in the moment.

That being said . . . Let's do this!