[lit-ideas] It was a dark and stormy night...
- From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 05:51:32 -0700 (PDT)
...Not. But it was the middle of the night when the power went out, the best
time to have a power failure no doubt, but waking up into it was like being
in one of those stalactite/stalagmite caves when they turn the lights off. And
so quiet. I was reminded of Thomas Hardy and his descriptions of what life was
like for his characters in the villages after the sun went down, without
electricity. I once wandered around by moonlight during a power failure.
Until then I had never noticed how much ambient light is cast by just houses
having their lights on. It's really quite beautiful on a moonlit night, but
still not as dark as for Hardy's characters, who had no paved roads to reflect
moon and stars.
It's Friday, I thought maybe some music might be fun. Starting out with a
classical piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaNgpXCdaOs&feature=related
Moving on to something a bit less cheerful. This had always been one of my
favorite songs that had been redone by a rock group. (Apparently the premise
is if the light shines on you, you get released. It therefore has to be a
relatively new song, of the fossil fuel age at any rate.) Here's a non-rock
version that is better I think:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQpw37Tru9k&feature=related
And moving on, or back, in time and place, this really needs to go under the
category of songs turned into other songs. Very beautiful in my opinion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdjYlrvVFNo&feature=related
And ending with a little polka from the celluloid screen, a bit of engineered
corn for breakfast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUuCi4tOvQ8&feature=related
Andy
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