. . .my heart a compass. . .

[bronze_ribbons]

Oof! Stuck in traffic for over an hour (behind a car with a "Give Blood: Skateboard" bumpersticker, no less). A good thing I'd given into impulse and compiled the following mix for myself over lunch (not worrying about order or balance, since it was for just me):

Hallelujah (Allison Crowe covering Leonard Cohen)
Jesse's Girl (Rick Springfield; thanks, qe2!)
Scarlover (Maria McKee)
Morning Theft (Jeff Buckley)
Breathe (Maria McKee)
I Love, I Love (Dar Williams)
Live With Me and Be My Love (Annie Lennox singing Marlowe)
Let Beauty Awake (Bryn Terfel singing Robert Louis Stevenson/Ralph Vaughan Williams)
Go 'Way Little Boy (Lone Justice performing Bob Dylan)
My mistress's eyes are nothing like the sun (Alan Rickman reading Shakespeare)
Ca Procella Tempestosa (Ann Monoyios singing Attilio Ariosti)
Live Again (Better Than Ezra)
Jesse's Girl (a cappella version by the Xtension Chords)
O Holy Night (Allison Crowe singing Adolphe Adam)
The Glory of the Arcadian Groves (Alfred Deller performing Jeremiah Clarke)
La Spectre de la Rose (Brigitte Balleys and the Orchestre des Champs Elysées performing Berlioz)
Chanson (Jill Martin singing Stephen Schwartz)
I Saw a Bird Fly Away (Dar Williams, with John Popper on harmony)
Ale Brider (Klezmer Conservatory Band with Itzak Perlman)

Judging from this, it seems I have a strong penchant for songs heavily flavored with both roses and rue. (Then again, this is news how...? *rolls eyes at self* Time to head back into the red Sharpie trenches...).

Comments

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Where can *I* acquare Alan Rickman reading Shakespeare? Sounds positively swoon-worthy...

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

My thoughts 'zactly.

I want the whole mix, actually. But it has Terfel AND Rick Springfield, so I'm pretty much sunk...

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Major. Icon. Love.

[kirbyfest.livejournal.com]

Courtesy of infinitemonkeys, from whom beautiful icons come.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Speaking of Muppets... (http://tv.msn.com/tv/DVD?GT1=6816)

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. And I want it.

P. brought my metal Muppet Show lunchbox out here with him--I need to figure out what I'd like to do with it. It's in pretty darned good shape, considering.

[mechaieh.livejournal.com]

Email me (mailto:mechaieh@gmail.com) your snail address...

[qe2.livejournal.com]

Or I could post a link to it either here or chez moi, if you like.

[agincourtgirl.livejournal.com]

Where does 'my heart a compass' come from? Great mix (Alan Rickman...)

[(Anonymous)]

Dar Williams, "I Love, I Love":

I heard love can fall so hard, it can bury a kingdom.
I heard it makes the spring appear out of season.
It’s a storm in a shadowbox -- a force to be reckoned with,
When it finds you -- and find you, it will.

And I’d not believed it til I loved -- I love.
The rivers sing and stars awaken above me
And the wind and the moon in fits of restless conspiring
Turn night to heaven for you.

But I am going to a far, far land --
I know it sure as I’ve a past and a future.
With my maps on the table, you see, I have lost many things --
So many I won’t turn back.

And were I a deadwood ship, my heart a compass,
I would leave with inanimate grace -- no love could touch me
But I live and I know that I’ll burn as I grow
Though it might break my heart to walk away

And so as a moon may adore you and remain high moon,
The wind may crown your head with leaves and keep blowing,
So I’ll stop, and I’ll watch you, for I love -- I love --
And then be on my way.