Category: Song of the Day
Bear’s Tapestry – Guarded Heart
Look at the moon. It travels in the sky completely free, and this freedom produces beauty and happiness. -- Thich Nhat Hanh, quoted on Twitter Actually it’s constrained by the Earth gravity. If it was completely free it would be floating through space and we wouldn’t...
Hospital Bracelet – sober haha jk unless
When I was in college and met someone for the first time, the standard question was 'What’s your major?' At the Bradley Center, the initial icebreaker was 'Did you come in a police car or an ambulance?' Some arrived without clothes; substance abusers often rend their...
Castle Club – Old Times
The very concept of home has become tarnished, misty, elusive. As never before, we are living in a rootless age. So many of us are refugees, living out of suitcases, car trunks, cardboard boxes, desperate to go back to a home that no longer exists. -- Chris Atack, The...
Low Ceilings – Just Exactly
Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die... -- Søren Kierkegaard, Three Discourses on Imagined Occasions What shall I do tomorrow? Because, you know, at some point I'm going to be dead. -- John Dredge, Twitter I...
Guest Post by Wild Daydream / Cowboy Grizzly: Stainless / Lovely Lady Night
Wild Daydream (Simeon Williams of Arlington TX) and Cowboy Grizzly (Grant McMahan of Austin TX) have been collaborating for many years. In younger days they played together in a band called The Black Hills. More recently, Simeon was the producer/mixer for Grant's...
Guest Post by Fluffy: Will Orchard – I Miss You, Like Sunday
Hi. I'm Fluffy, the cat. Today the Food Guy has a pre-existing condition to shovel compost in the back yard, so I have to write his log post for the Winternet. I am writing about a song called 'I Miss You, Like Sunday' by Will Orchard. I enjoy Sundays in the Fall. I...
Nah… – Perfect Game
Yet so pleasing the Pain is, so soft is the Dart, That at once it both wounds me, and Tickles my Heart. - Henry Purcell, The Fairy-Queen There exist almost four thousand nine-dart combinations that create a perfect finish, a score of exactly 501 points. Phil Taylor,...
See The Eye – Fake Fate
The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don’t know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened....
American Television – Great Divide
The American Dream is that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. -- James Truslow Adams, The Epic of America If Americans want to live the American Dream, they...
Long Lost Suns – Been Waiting
Before my first trip to Denmark, I consulted a travel website that offered this bit of advice: the Danes do not queue well. I’m happy to report that I observed no instances of improper queueing in Denmark. But the experience of watching lines in Copenhagen inspired me...