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Monday, May 11. 2009

Inspiration and the gods

One of us quoted Dylan recently, who said something like "You got to take your inspiration wherever you can get it."

And we recently posted the lines which begin "Sing, Goddess...." Thus acknowledging that the Goddess is the author, not the man. The man is the messenger.

It reminds me of what my pastor once said to me when I asked where the preaching came from: "I stand up there, and the Holy Spirit uses me. It just flows out. I have nothing to do with it."

The definition of "inspiration" is "the immediate effect of God or gods." How wonderful is it that the word doubles as the medical term for inhaling, and that "expiration" doubles for exhaling and for death?

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Our Essays, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss, The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 17:15 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

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http://oceanskies79.blogspot.com/2007/03/listen-to-beethovens-sixth-symphony.html

Great inspiration here --listen to the ten minute first movement while reading the musicology and watching Von Karajan (try, try not to think about politics) and the Berlin Philharmonic work out.

#1 buddy larsen on 2009-05-11 18:32 (Reply)

"Awakening feeling of joy of Springtime in the countryside" is one of several translations of Beethoven's own thumbnail description of that First Movement. Watch the elapsed time on the youtube, the 35 seconds between 5:15 and 5:50 are just pure magic.

#1.1 buddy larsen on 2009-05-11 18:40 (Reply)

wot a idjit --it's the 90 seconds between 2:30 and 4:00 that i meant to high-light as particularly enthralling. And it's only 8:50, not 10:00, long. i could hardly have gotten more wrong than two out of two.

#1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2009-05-11 18:57 (Reply)

No problemo, Buddy. The whole thing is enthralling. And Solti did some good Beethoven stuff too.

#1.1.1.1 Skookumchuk on 2009-05-11 19:44 (Reply)

thanks, skook --i'll look him up-- have heard the name often, and wanted to hear him.

--ain't youtube grand?

#1.1.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2009-05-11 19:52 (Reply)

Youtube is the best. Also, I think Von Karajan may have recorded the Beethoven symphonies several times. 3 or 4 at least. So ya can take yer choice.

#1.1.1.1.1.1 Skookumchuk on 2009-05-11 19:57 (Reply)

And while it is the Guardian, this is interesting (from Theo):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/11/somali-pirates-london-intelligence

#2 Skookumchuk on 2009-05-11 20:08 (Reply)

you know, without reading it (yet), i had the thought sometime back, that Lloyd's will be eating high off the hog on this piracy situation --insuring 'risk' after all is a different animal when it's not just mother nature anymore.

#2.1 buddy larsen on 2009-05-11 21:27 (Reply)

As of late last year, the industry average was approximately 30% of the insured value of the hull for every day in Somali waters. Don't know what it is now, or what the values are in the Gulf of Aden or the mid-Indian Ocean, but it ain't cheap.

#2.1.1 Skookumchuk on 2009-05-11 21:50 (Reply)

Lord a mercy --a 30 (probably now higher) premium on what has to be a 5000 to 1 shot --yessir --those pirates are working for the insurance companies --i mean, accidentally.

#2.1.1.1 buddy larsen on 2009-05-11 23:12 (Reply)

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