ardyjormkiv
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hey moggers! i would love your input...
for a class, i need to bring in a song and write down the lyrics of a favorite love song that is meaningful [not limited to romantic love]. so i'd like to hear some of your favorites before choosing...
here is a tentative list:
the turtles - happy together
franki valli - can't take my eyes off of you
the beatles - all you need is love
frank sinatra - l.o.v.e.
josh groban - you are loved (don't give up)
the cure - lovesong
miracle fortress - this thing about you
jamie cullum - everlasting love
the frames - falling slowly
read post below!
http://mog.com/ardyjormkiv/blog_post/159439
ps i really do like the coldplay single. it doesn't sound much like coldplay. hence, i like it.
hello friends!!
this quarter has been ridiculous. on top of the normal (classes, work, activities, sleeping?) i have also been in preparation for an upcoming trip to China with my school this summer.
of course, being associated with school, we get to do a big presentation and all that. i was assigned religion, but i've been spending more time researching chinese traditional and pop music!
anyway, in my random interneting, i stumbled upon Eason Chan, a huge Cantopop (cantonese pop, the other being mandarin pop) star who apparently has also acted in many movies and plays a plethora of instruments. this song in particular caught my ear and, despite the odd recording qualitiy, never fails to hit my ear the right way.
what i would love to hear from you moggers is about any overseas musical experience you have had, whether you understood the language or not, that you will never forget. i would also really appreciate any insight you might have into my upcoming trip (i have actually never left the country, besides canada). it should be quite the adventure as we will be in Beijing during part of the olympics, as well as Shenyang and Inner Mongolia.
national anthem...take 1
national anthem...take 2
it should be interesting, to say the least.
i can't believe it is MAY .
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I have only been overseas once and that was on my honeymoon in '06 to Ireland. We didn't have much problems with the language there. I have been to different parts of Mexico before but I don't know if that counts for being in a completely foreign land. I'd love to visit China or Japan. I haven't heard that much Chinese music. I posted about some Chinese electronic music here http://mog.com/fistula_spume/blog_post/115004 and some underground chinese rock here http://mog.com/fistula_spume/blog_post/145527. I like the music you posted. My wife randomly met some girl from China on Skype and helped her with her English. She mailed us a two cd collection of traditional Chinese music which was quite nice. It sounded a lot like what you posted above. How cool you get to go to China. I'm infinitely jealous. If I ever get the chance to go abroad again it will probably be to Holland to see my godson and his family.
If I may. I worked for years with a Lady who'd worked there long enough to have eight weeks of vacation each year. On her vacations she would eschew such places as Epcot center, or Paris, etc etc. Instead she'd go to Michu Pichu and climb around on Mayan Temples. Or out to Easter Island. Tibet, the Australian Outback, all kinds of places. And she'd always bring back cassettes of the folk music of the region(s) for me. Sometimes it would be tapes of village people ( no jokes Mark) singing around their communal campfires. I could never understand what was being sung, and it has never mattered. Music speaks intensely, articulately in an ethereal language of senses and emotions. A wordless language that pulses through our collective history connecting us in ways that diplomacy or trade or treaties never could
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Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed
that ones fresh in my mind because I made a post about it earlier...
Ben Folds: The Luckiest
Bright Eyes: First Day of My Life
having trouble uploading mp3 (grrrrrr) but here's the songs in video. The Luckiest video is kinda creepy though...just close your eyes and listen, ok? ;)
The one that gave me lumps in my throat when I was first trying to figure out what love was ... Shining Star by The Manhattans
it's an oooold song .... but i'm an ooooold lady :D