It all started in 1995. My little sister bought front-row seats at Phantom of the Opera, at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London, as wedding presents for us. In 1998 our software team was recognized by management, and with the bonus that was paid out I purchased tickets to see Phantom of the Opera, at The …
Category Archives: Music
Code Monkey
Code Monkey Words & music by Jonathan Coulton Code Monkey get up get coffee Code Monkey go to job Code Monkey have boring meeting with boring manager Rob Rob say Code Monkey very diligent but his output stink his code not functional or elegant what do Code Monkey think Code Monkey think maybe manager want …
When you were mine
I am still trying to track down the definitive list of the top 10 breakup songs – apparently George Michael’s “Careless Whisper” got ranked #6. Personally I think “When you were mine” would need to be in there somewhere. First recorded by Prince, in 1980, it seems this track has been covered by a fairly …
Turn of the year
Bilbo’s walking song (as he is leaving Bag End, in “Fellowship of the Ring”) seems somehow appropriate: The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger …
Enjoy the Silence
I ran across Lacuna Coil’s video for “Enjoy the Silence” on Facebook earlier. Enjoy the Silence Words like violence Break the silence Come crashing in Into my little world Painful to me Pierce right through me Cant you understand Oh my little girl All I ever wanted All I ever needed Is here in my …
Should we or shouldn’t we?
In Christianity Today there was a recent article: Barring Yahweh The Vatican gives orders to excise the name from worship. Do Protestants agree? Observant Jews have traditionally not used the name Yahweh, refusing to pronounce the so-called proper name of God out of respect, or to be sure they do not misuse it. Now neither …
I stand corrected
A helpful [sic] comment from Sheila pointed me to do a little more research on the song that was going through my head. Wikipedia said: When the song “Bitch” first hit the airwaves, most call-in listeners believed the song was by Alanis Morissette due to the similar sound and Morissette’s success in rock music at …
I am…
I feel somehow dirty. See, I really dislike Alanis Morissette and will leave the room if her music is playing. It was “hate at first sight” – she appeared on the Jools Holland show back in 1995 performing “You oughta know” – I remarked at the time that she sounded like an angst-ridden little harpy. …
Lest we forget…
Thanks for the link Merinda From the YouTube description: On November 11, 1999 Terry Kelly was in a Shoppers Drug Mart store in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. At 10:55 AM an announcement came over the store’s PA asking customers who would still be on the premises at 11:00 AM to give two minutes of silence in …
Acceptable worship
A recent article on Kingdom Rain caught my attention. Part way through it the author (Brent Helming) said: I think that a case is easily made that God’s gift of music, has an incredible and powerful ability to touch us at the deepest level of our being. Music stirs the heart and emotions like nothing …