Category: Song of the Day

In popular fiction, a Coming of Age event - accompanied by mild trauma, often of a sexual nature - is required to ferry one across the Rubicon that separates Childhood from Adulthood. I feel somewhat cheated by having never experienced such an episode. One day I was a...

Married people pledge love for each other throughout eternity. Well, now, that is easy enough but does not mean very much, for if one is finished with time one is probably finished with eternity. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Kierkegaard’s young aesthete therefore...

There was a time, eons ago, when I knew with one hundred percent certainty that a particular co-worker would knock on my door every Sunday afternoon. Bill would enter my apartment - invariably shirtless as he was one of those men who simply can’t stand to wear a shirt...

Real solitude comes from a stable heart that does not get carried away by the pull of the crowd, nor by the sorrows about the past, worries about the future, or excitement or stress about the present. -- Thich Nhat Hanh I go into solitude so as not to drink out of...

You listen to a song, like any Beatles song, those are all sad songs sung happily. You would never know what they were going through individually. -- Colin Wilde, Black Thumb Too much happiness can be a very annoying thing. As much as we all strive for happiness,...

From the moment we descended out of the trees of the Serengeti - a decision we immediately regretted when we found ourselves pursued by an enormous carnivore comfortably ensconced on four legs and baring a magnificent set of teeth - we have been running from or to...

Which came first, summer or the pop song? The two are indelibly linked. When God tilted the axis of this Earth and sent our planet forth on its journey round the sun, He cued up His Summer Songs mixtape on the Holy Walkman - God being rather Old School when it comes...

There is one thing I can say for certain: the older a person gets, the lonelier he becomes. In a sense our lives are nothing more than a series of stages to help us get used to loneliness... If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets. -- Haruki...

Music exists only in the moment of its performance. Music always expresses the immediate in its immediacy. Music, like time, is measured but immeasurable, is composed but indivisible. -- Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Listen: Billy Pilgrim has come unstuck in time. --...

We are going to the moon; that is not very far. Man has so much farther to go within himself. -- Anaïs Nin From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million...