This Janelle Monáe song is from last year but I just listened to it for the first time in ages. I had forgotten how good it was – and the video rocks as well.
Archive for the ‘What I'm listening to’ Category
Tightrope- Janelle Monáe
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged Janelle Monae, music, music video, Tightrope on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Spem in alium
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged Magnificat, music, Spem in alium, The Great Courses, Thomas Tallis on March 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Being musical is one of the many talents that I do not have. So in order to learn more I have been working through The Great Courses’ How to Listen to and Understand Great Music. The lectures by Professor Robert Greenberg make the subject so approachable that I have unexpectedly become a huge fan of [...]
Ozymandias
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged A History of the World in 100 Objects, British Museum, Egypt, poetry, Ramesses II, sculpture, Shelley on January 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
By complete coincidence I got to number 20 of A History of the World in 100 Objects – the British Museum’s statue of Ramesses II – as protests erupted in Egypt (incredible eyewitness photo). The giant statue inspired poet Percy Bysshe Shelley to create Ozymandias in 1818 – but it seems startlingly relevant to current [...]
A history of the world in my pestle
Posted in What I'm listening to, What I'm reading, tagged A History of the World in 100 Objects, British Museum, Neil MacGregor, Radio 4 on January 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
“When people come to the museum, they choose their own objects and make their own journey round the world and through time, I think what they will find, is that their own histories quickly intersect with everybody else’s – and when that happens, you no longer have a history of a particular people or nation, [...]
Unconditional love
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged This American Life on October 29, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Rather than a list of things that have inspired me this week I am just going to go with this amazing podcast from This American Life on unconditional love. Anyone who knows me will be very unsurprised to hear that it made me cry – which was embarrassing as I was walking down the street [...]
Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance
Posted in What I'm listening to, What I'm watching, tagged Bad Romance, Lady Gaga, music video on September 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Thought it was worth watching Bad Romance again after Lady Gaga won eight MTV Video Music Awards – including video of the year – although my preference is for Telephone:
New Orleans in New York
Posted in My photos, What I'm listening to, tagged Hurricane Katrina, Lincoln Center, music, My photos, New Orleans, New York on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Lincoln Center is not normally a place I associate with a dance party but last Sunday the place went wild at an outdoor concert commemorating the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. I don’t think there was a single person who stayed sitting down instead of getting up on their feet to dance. A friend [...]
Maxwell’s hot summer night
Posted in What I'm listening to, tagged BLACKsummers'night, England, football, Germany, Maxwell, music, World Cup on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I managed to do one non-World Cup* related thing last weekend and catch Maxwell in concert at Madison Square Garden. I loved his first album, Urban Hang Suite, way back in 1996 but then completely lost track of him. As a result I didn’t even realise it was Maxwell performing at last year’s BET Awards [...]
Varieties of religious experience
Posted in NY-LON, What I'm listening to, tagged In Our Time, Radio 4, religion, William James on May 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My favourite radio show, In Our Time, had a fascinating programme on American Darwinian-scientist-turned-psychologist William James, brother to novelist Henry James. In 1901, William gave a series of lectures in Edinburgh - The Varieties of Religious Experience – in which for the first time, there was an examination of religion not as a body of [...]
