Thursday 28 April 2011
Wednesday 27 April 2011
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Thursday 21 April 2011
Wednesday 20 April 2011
http://www.amazon.com/Memory-Palace-Matteo-Ricci/dp/0140080988
'The historian Jonathan Spence would describe how a seventeenth century Jesuit, built a ‘memory palace’ in his mind, which allowed him to learn thousand Chinese characters in a few weeks.' - Rory Stewart blog, 28/12/2010
Saturday 16 April 2011
Friday 15 April 2011
Thursday 14 April 2011
The Means to Attain Happy Life - Earl of Surrey
MARTIAL, the things that do attain
The happy life be these, I find:—
The richesse left, not got with pain;
The fruitful ground, the quiet mind;
The equal friend; no grudge, no strife;
No charge of rule, nor governance;
Without disease, the healthful life;
The household of continuance;
The mean diet, no delicate fare;
True wisdom join’d with simpleness;
The night dischargèd of all care,
Where wine the wit may not oppress.
The faithful wife, without debate;
Such sleeps as may beguile the night:
Contented with thine own estate
Ne wish for death, ne fear his might.
The happy life be these, I find:—
The richesse left, not got with pain;
The fruitful ground, the quiet mind;
The equal friend; no grudge, no strife;
No charge of rule, nor governance;
Without disease, the healthful life;
The household of continuance;
The mean diet, no delicate fare;
True wisdom join’d with simpleness;
The night dischargèd of all care,
Where wine the wit may not oppress.
The faithful wife, without debate;
Such sleeps as may beguile the night:
Contented with thine own estate
Ne wish for death, ne fear his might.
Wednesday 13 April 2011
Ae Fond Kiss - Robert Burns
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae fareweel, and then for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me;
Dark despair around benights me.
I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
Naething could resist my Nancy:
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met-or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest!
Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest!
Thine be ilka joy and treasure,
Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
Ae fareweel alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Ae fareweel, and then for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me, nae cheerful twinkle lights me;
Dark despair around benights me.
I'll ne'er blame my partial fancy,
Naething could resist my Nancy:
But to see her was to love her;
Love but her, and love for ever.
Had we never lov'd sae kindly,
Had we never lov'd sae blindly,
Never met-or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Fare-thee-weel, thou first and fairest!
Fare-thee-weel, thou best and dearest!
Thine be ilka joy and treasure,
Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!
Ae fond kiss, and then we sever!
Ae fareweel alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.
Tuesday 12 April 2011
Lincoln Second Inaugural Address
Fellow-countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented. The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it—all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully.
The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago, all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it—all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place, devoted altogether to saving the Union without war, insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war—seeking to dissolve the Union, and divide effects, by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war. To strengthen, perpetuate, and extend this interest was the object for which the insurgents would rend the Union, even by war; while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it.
Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease. Each looked for an easier triumph, and a result less fundamental and astounding. Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered—that of neither has been answered fully.
The Almighty has his own purposes. "Woe unto the world because of offenses! for it must needs be that offenses come; but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh." If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him? Fondly do we hope—fervently do we pray—that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, "The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.
Lincoln First Inaugural Addreess
'If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied, hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty. In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it."
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'
I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'
Comin' thro' the Rye - Robert Burns
Comin thro' the rye, poor body,
Comin thro' the rye,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
Comin thro' the rye.
Oh Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
Comin thro' the rye.
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body
Need a body cry.
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the glen;
Gin a body kiss a body
Need the warld ken!
Oh Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
Comin thro' the rye.
Comin thro' the rye,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
Comin thro' the rye.
Oh Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
Comin thro' the rye.
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the rye,
Gin a body kiss a body
Need a body cry.
Gin a body meet a body
Comin thro' the glen;
Gin a body kiss a body
Need the warld ken!
Oh Jenny's a' weet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry,
She draigl't a' her petticoatie
Comin thro' the rye.
Eternity - William Blake
He who binds to himself a joy
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Does the winged life destroy;
But he who kisses the joy as it flies
Lives in eternity's sun rise.
Monday 11 April 2011
A Man's a Man for A'That by Robert Burns
Is there for honesty Poverty
That hings his head, an' a' that;
The coward slave-we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an' a' that.
Our toils obscure an' a' that,
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The Man's the gowd for a' that.
What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, an' a' that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
A Man's a Man for a' that:
For a' that, and a' that,
Their tinsel show, an' a' that;
The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that.
Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord,
Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that;
Tho' hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a coof for a' that:
For a' that, an' a' that,
His ribband, star, an' a' that:
The man o' independent mind
He looks an' laughs at a' that.
A price can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, an' a' that;
But an honest man's abon his might,
Gude faith, he maunna fa' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Their dignities an' a' that;
The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.
Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
That hings his head, an' a' that;
The coward slave-we pass him by,
We dare be poor for a' that!
For a' that, an' a' that.
Our toils obscure an' a' that,
The rank is but the guinea's stamp,
The Man's the gowd for a' that.
What though on hamely fare we dine,
Wear hoddin grey, an' a' that;
Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine;
A Man's a Man for a' that:
For a' that, and a' that,
Their tinsel show, an' a' that;
The honest man, tho' e'er sae poor,
Is king o' men for a' that.
Ye see yon birkie, ca'd a lord,
Wha struts, an' stares, an' a' that;
Tho' hundreds worship at his word,
He's but a coof for a' that:
For a' that, an' a' that,
His ribband, star, an' a' that:
The man o' independent mind
He looks an' laughs at a' that.
A price can mak a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, an' a' that;
But an honest man's abon his might,
Gude faith, he maunna fa' that!
For a' that, an' a' that,
Their dignities an' a' that;
The pith o' sense, an' pride o' worth,
Are higher rank than a' that.
Then let us pray that come it may,
(As come it will for a' that,)
That Sense and Worth, o'er a' the earth,
Shall bear the gree, an' a' that.
For a' that, an' a' that,
That Man to Man, the world o'er,
Shall brothers be for a' that.
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Oh my Luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
Oh my Luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!
That's newly sprung in June:
Oh my Luve's like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
Till a' the seas gang dry.
Till a' the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi' the sun;
And I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o' life shall run.
And fare-thee-weel, my only Luve!
And fare-thee-weel, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho' 'twere ten thousand mile!
The Tyger - William Blake
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare sieze the fire?
And what shoulder, & what art,
Could twist the sinews of thy heart?
And when thy heart began to beat,
What dread hand? & what dread feet?
What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
When the stars threw down their spears,
And water'd heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee?
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?
Saturday 9 April 2011
Quotes
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
— Dr. Seuss (I Can Read with My Eyes Shut)
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
— Dr. Seuss
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the dark" - In The beginning, Knann
“A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies."
Nil Desperandum - Do Not Despair / Never Despair
'Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day'
'The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly coloured, and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question - is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.' And we...kill those people. Ha ha ha. 'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride....' Bill Hicks
'The Doctor: The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things. ' - Doctor Who (Vincent and The Doctor)
'The triumph of hope over experience' - Dr Johnson on the subject of remarrying
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life” - Dr Samuel Johnson
'If the law supposes that,'said Mr Bumble...'the law is a ass, a idiot'
'"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people"-Eleanor Roosevelt
'When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead... True story !' - Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)
'Yesterday is history, tommorow is a mystery, Today is a gift that's why we call it present '
'Sanity is not statistical.' - George Orwell, 1984.
'The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.' - Hitchens, Feb 2004, Vanity Fair
'Almost every historic battle for free expression, from Socrates to Galileo, has begun as a struggle over what is and is not “blasphemy.”'- Hitchens - Feb 2009
'The phrase "Chasing Cars" came from Lightbody's father, in reference to a girl Lightbody was infatuated with, "You're like a dog chasing a car. You'll never catch it and you just wouldn't know what to do with it if you did."' - Wikipedia
''We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.' This is the famous explanation given by Victorian classicist and historian JR Seeley for the British Empire.' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/empiresofabsentmind_article_01.shtml
'There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he would have to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. “That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed. “It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.' - Catch 22, Joseph Heller
'... like a ballerina in a library, devoid of purpose, unable to perform' - Matt Harding, Where The Hell is Matt blog
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" - Shelley
'Love forever love is free. Let's turn forever you and me.' - Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
'So can you understand?
Why I want a daughter while I'm still young
I wanna hold her hand
And show her some beauty
Before this damage is done
But if it's too much to ask, it's too much to ask
Then send me a son' - Suburbs - Arcade Fire
'And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand' - Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
'And I'm weeping warm honey and milk. That you stay surrounding me, surrounding me.' - Missy Higgins
'Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.' - Jane Eyre
'He died with his hand on his Shakespeare' - Ian Hislop on Alfred Lord Tennyson, BBC documentary on the Poet Laureates.
'A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity' - Disraeli on Gladstone
'We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.' - Oscar Wilde
Abraham Lincoln
His hand and pen
He will be good but
God knows when
Abraham Lincoln is my name
And with my pen I wrote the same
I wrote in both haste and speed
And left it here for fools to read
"If charnel-houses and our graves must send / Those that we bury back, our monuments / Shall be the maws of kites" (3.4. - Macbeth
'Oh, woe is me,
— Dr. Seuss (I Can Read with My Eyes Shut)
"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not."
— Dr. Seuss (The Lorax)
"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."
— Dr. Seuss
"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss
"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is better to light a candle than to curse the dark" - In The beginning, Knann
“A relationship, I think, is like a shark, you know? It has to constantly move forward or it dies."
Nil Desperandum - Do Not Despair / Never Despair
'Old men forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember with advantages
What feats he did that day'
'The world is like a ride at an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think that it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly coloured, and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time, and they begin to question - is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us. They say 'Hey! Don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride.' And we...kill those people. Ha ha ha. 'Shut him up! We have a lot invested in this ride. SHUT HIM UP! Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and family. This just has to be real.' It's just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: it's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings, and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride....' Bill Hicks
'The Doctor: The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things. The good things don’t always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don’t always spoil the good things and make them unimportant. And we definitely added to his pile of good things. ' - Doctor Who (Vincent and The Doctor)
'The triumph of hope over experience' - Dr Johnson on the subject of remarrying
'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life” - Dr Samuel Johnson
'If the law supposes that,'said Mr Bumble...'the law is a ass, a idiot'
'"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people"-Eleanor Roosevelt
'When I get sad, I stop being sad, and be awesome instead... True story !' - Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)
'Yesterday is history, tommorow is a mystery, Today is a gift that's why we call it present '
'Sanity is not statistical.' - George Orwell, 1984.
'The essence of tyranny is not iron law. It is capricious law.' - Hitchens, Feb 2004, Vanity Fair
'Almost every historic battle for free expression, from Socrates to Galileo, has begun as a struggle over what is and is not “blasphemy.”'- Hitchens - Feb 2009
'The phrase "Chasing Cars" came from Lightbody's father, in reference to a girl Lightbody was infatuated with, "You're like a dog chasing a car. You'll never catch it and you just wouldn't know what to do with it if you did."' - Wikipedia
''We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.' This is the famous explanation given by Victorian classicist and historian JR Seeley for the British Empire.' - http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/empiresofabsentmind_article_01.shtml
'There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one’s own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn’t, but if he was sane he would have to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn’t have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle. “That’s some catch, that Catch-22,” he observed. “It’s the best there is,” Doc Daneeka agreed.' - Catch 22, Joseph Heller
'... like a ballerina in a library, devoid of purpose, unable to perform' - Matt Harding, Where The Hell is Matt blog
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" - Shelley
'Love forever love is free. Let's turn forever you and me.' - Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
'So can you understand?
Why I want a daughter while I'm still young
I wanna hold her hand
And show her some beauty
Before this damage is done
But if it's too much to ask, it's too much to ask
Then send me a son' - Suburbs - Arcade Fire
'And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand' - Iris, Goo Goo Dolls
'And I'm weeping warm honey and milk. That you stay surrounding me, surrounding me.' - Missy Higgins
'Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.' - Jane Eyre
'He died with his hand on his Shakespeare' - Ian Hislop on Alfred Lord Tennyson, BBC documentary on the Poet Laureates.
'A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity' - Disraeli on Gladstone
'We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.' - Oscar Wilde
Abraham Lincoln
His hand and pen
He will be good but
God knows when
Abraham Lincoln is my name
And with my pen I wrote the same
I wrote in both haste and speed
And left it here for fools to read
"If charnel-houses and our graves must send / Those that we bury back, our monuments / Shall be the maws of kites" (3.4. - Macbeth
'Oh, woe is me,
T' have seen what I have seen, see what I see' - Ophelia, Act 3 Scene 1
'The problem is, that if you don't pay for osmething, you often don't value it (true love, beautiful sunsets and the ruined dreams of a hated rival notwithstanding)' - Natalie Haynes
'No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep'
'
'The problem is, that if you don't pay for osmething, you often don't value it (true love, beautiful sunsets and the ruined dreams of a hated rival notwithstanding)' - Natalie Haynes
'No one looks back on their life and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep'
'
“A misanthrope I can understand - a womanthrope never” - Oscar Wilde
The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed” - Bronte
Friday 8 April 2011
Wednesday 6 April 2011
Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair
Upon the straits; on the French coast the light
Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand;
Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.
Come to the window, sweet is the night-air!
Only, from the long line of spray
Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land,
Listen! you hear the grating roar
Of pebbles which the waves draw back, and fling,
At their return, up the high strand,
Begin, and cease, and then again begin,
With tremulous cadence slow, and bring
The eternal note of sadness in.
Sophocles long ago
Heard it on the A gaean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
Heard it on the A gaean, and it brought
Into his mind the turbid ebb and flow
Of human misery; we
Find also in the sound a thought,
Hearing it by this distant northern sea.
The Sea of Faith
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Was once, too, at the full, and round earth's shore
Lay like the folds of a bright girdle furled.
But now I only hear
Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar,
Retreating, to the breath
Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear
And naked shingles of the world.
Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Paintings/Sculpture
The Death of Marat - Jacques-Louis David
Madonna and Child, The Entombment, Narcissus - Caravaggiuo
Marraige a La Mode, Gin Lane. A Rake's Progress, The Harlot's Progress. Self-Portrait with Pug Dog - Hogarth
The Shipwreck, The Fighting Temeraire - Turner
The Bathers - Renoir
A Field of Poppies - Monet
Liberty Leading The People - Delacroix
Ophelia - Milais
Proserpine - Rosetti (Proserpine = Persephone)
Olympia - Manet
La Femme au Chapeau - Matisse
Vision of a Knight - Raphael
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey - Delaroche
The Thinker - Auguste Rodin
Dame (Alice) Ellen Terry ('Choosing') - George Frederic Watts
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah - John Martin
'David Garrick as Richard III' - William Hogarth - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/18c/hogarth.aspx
Death of Julius Caesar - Vincenzo Camuccini
Thetis Bringing Armour to Achilles1806 - Benjamin West
Achilles defeating Hector - Pieter Paul Reubens
Cressida - Edward Poynter
Saint Cecilia - Guido Reni
Saint Cecilia and the Angel - Carlo Saraceni
St Cecilia and the Angels - http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80869/oil-painting-st-cecilia-and-the-angels/
Pre-Raphaelites
Study of Venus for 'Pygmalion' - Edward Burne-Jones
Pre-Raphaelite (Late 19th Century) - Invaluable Guide
Study of a Girl Sitting in a Chair - Henry Wallis
Ariadne in Naxos - George Frederic Watts
Girl's Head Looking Down - Edward Burne-Jones
Knowledge Strangling Ignorance - John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope
Ophelia - Alexandre Cabanel
Midsummer Eve - Edward Hughes
The Valkyrie's Vigil - Edward Hughes
John Everett Millais
The Northwest Passage
The Princes in the Tower
The Return of the Dove to the Ark
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Sophie Gray 1857 - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-everett-millais-sophie-gray-1857.html
A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1852)
The Prosrcibed Royalist (Proscribed - Denounce or condemn, Forbid, esp. by law)
'The Black Brunswicker' (1860)
The Order of Release, 1746
An Idyll of 1745 (1884) - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/childhood/idyll.asp
William Holam Hunt
The Light of the World
John William Waterhouse
Study of a Female Figure with Rosary - John William Waterhouse
The Necklace (1909) - John William Waterhouse
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1893) - William Waterhouse
Opelia (1894)
"I Am Half-Sick of Shadows," Said the Lady of Shalott - John WIlliam Waterhouse
The Lady of Shalott - John William Waterhouse
The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot - Waterhouse
William Holman Hunt - Self-Portrait 1845
Flora and the Zephyrs - John William Waterhouse - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2010/10/john-william-waterhouse-flora-and.html
Destiny - John William Waterhouse - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/destiny-1900/
Miranda - JW Waterhouse - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/miranda-1875/
Sleep and His Half-Brother Death - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/sleep-half-brother-death-1874/
Ulysses and The Sirens 1891 - JW Waterhouse - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/ulysses-sirens-1891/
Apollo and Daphne - JW Waterhouse http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/apollo-daphne-1908/
Hylas and the Nymphs 1896 - JW Waterhouse ('The poet Ezra Pound referred to this painting as 'Foreboding in the Pool'' - from JW Waterhouse website.)
Juliet (AKA 'The Blue Necklace') 1898 - JW Waterhouse -http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/juliet-1898/
Victorian / Edwardian Paintings
Thoughts - Marcus Stone
Mother Depositing Her Child in the Foundling Hospital in Paris - Henry Nelson O'Neil
Never Too Late To Learn - James Hayllar
The Turtle Dove - Sophie Anderson
Reading Time - Sophie Anderson
Claudia - Sophie Anderson
A Stitch in Time - Walter Anderson
The Emigrant - Paul Falconer Poole
Girl with Lilac - Sophie Anderson - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-everett-millais-sophie-gray-1857.html
The Wish - Theodor von Holst - http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/painting+%26+drawing/ART308428
Madonna and Child, The Entombment, Narcissus - Caravaggiuo
Marraige a La Mode, Gin Lane. A Rake's Progress, The Harlot's Progress. Self-Portrait with Pug Dog - Hogarth
The Shipwreck, The Fighting Temeraire - Turner
The Bathers - Renoir
A Field of Poppies - Monet
Liberty Leading The People - Delacroix
Ophelia - Milais
Proserpine - Rosetti (Proserpine = Persephone)
Olympia - Manet
La Femme au Chapeau - Matisse
Vision of a Knight - Raphael
The Execution of Lady Jane Grey - Delaroche
The Thinker - Auguste Rodin
Dame (Alice) Ellen Terry ('Choosing') - George Frederic Watts
The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah - John Martin
'David Garrick as Richard III' - William Hogarth - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/walker/collections/18c/hogarth.aspx
Death of Julius Caesar - Vincenzo Camuccini
Thetis Bringing Armour to Achilles1806 - Benjamin West
Achilles defeating Hector - Pieter Paul Reubens
Cressida - Edward Poynter
Saint Cecilia - Guido Reni
Saint Cecilia and the Angel - Carlo Saraceni
St Cecilia and the Angels - http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80869/oil-painting-st-cecilia-and-the-angels/
Pre-Raphaelites
Study of Venus for 'Pygmalion' - Edward Burne-Jones
Pre-Raphaelite (Late 19th Century) - Invaluable Guide
Study of a Girl Sitting in a Chair - Henry Wallis
Ariadne in Naxos - George Frederic Watts
Girl's Head Looking Down - Edward Burne-Jones
Knowledge Strangling Ignorance - John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope
Ophelia - Alexandre Cabanel
Midsummer Eve - Edward Hughes
The Valkyrie's Vigil - Edward Hughes
John Everett Millais
The Northwest Passage
The Princes in the Tower
The Return of the Dove to the Ark
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
Sophie Gray 1857 - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-everett-millais-sophie-gray-1857.html
A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge (1852)
The Prosrcibed Royalist (Proscribed - Denounce or condemn, Forbid, esp. by law)
'The Black Brunswicker' (1860)
The Order of Release, 1746
An Idyll of 1745 (1884) - http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/online/exhibitions/childhood/idyll.asp
William Holam Hunt
The Light of the World
John William Waterhouse
Study of a Female Figure with Rosary - John William Waterhouse
The Necklace (1909) - John William Waterhouse
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1893) - William Waterhouse
Opelia (1894)
"I Am Half-Sick of Shadows," Said the Lady of Shalott - John WIlliam Waterhouse
The Lady of Shalott - John William Waterhouse
The Lady of Shalott Looking at Lancelot - Waterhouse
William Holman Hunt - Self-Portrait 1845
Flora and the Zephyrs - John William Waterhouse - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2010/10/john-william-waterhouse-flora-and.html
Destiny - John William Waterhouse - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/destiny-1900/
Miranda - JW Waterhouse - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/miranda-1875/
Sleep and His Half-Brother Death - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/sleep-half-brother-death-1874/
Ulysses and The Sirens 1891 - JW Waterhouse - http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/ulysses-sirens-1891/
Apollo and Daphne - JW Waterhouse http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/apollo-daphne-1908/
Hylas and the Nymphs 1896 - JW Waterhouse ('The poet Ezra Pound referred to this painting as 'Foreboding in the Pool'' - from JW Waterhouse website.)
Juliet (AKA 'The Blue Necklace') 1898 - JW Waterhouse -http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/pictures/juliet-1898/
Victorian / Edwardian Paintings
Thoughts - Marcus Stone
Mother Depositing Her Child in the Foundling Hospital in Paris - Henry Nelson O'Neil
Never Too Late To Learn - James Hayllar
The Turtle Dove - Sophie Anderson
Reading Time - Sophie Anderson
Claudia - Sophie Anderson
A Stitch in Time - Walter Anderson
The Emigrant - Paul Falconer Poole
Girl with Lilac - Sophie Anderson - http://preraphaelitepaintings.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-everett-millais-sophie-gray-1857.html
The Wish - Theodor von Holst - http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/painting+%26+drawing/ART308428
Tuesday 5 April 2011
Songs
Arcade Fire - Wake Up , Ready To Start, Suburbs, Rebellion (lies), No Cars Go, Intervention
Arthur, Joseph - In The Sun
Arkells, The - No Champagne Socialist
Athlete - Wires
Bart Lionel (lyrics) - I'd Do Anything (Oliver)
Beatles, The - Eleanor Rigby
Belle and Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo
Beta Band, The - Squares
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Blur - Song 2, Common People
Bon Jovi - It's My Life
Buckley, Jeff - Dido's Lament (cover), Hallelujah
Burns Covers - My Luve is like a Red Red Rose - Eddi Reader, A Man's A Man For All That - Nutini
Caesers, The - Jerk It Out
Cage the Elephant - Right Before My Eyes
Cardigans, The ft. Tom Jones - Burning Down The House (cover)
Cary Brothers - Ride
Cash, Johnny - One Piece At A Time, Hurt, Ring of Fire, A Boy Named Sue, The Man Who Comes Around, I Hung My Head
Cave, Nick - O Children, What Must Be Done, Song For Bob, Into My Arms
Cinematic Orchestra, The - To Build a Home
Citizen Cope - Sideways
Coconut Records - West Coast
Coldplay - Fix You, Warning Sign, Lost, Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, Yellow, A Message
Collin Hay - Hold on Hope, Waiting For My Real Life To Begin
Cooke, Sam - A Change is Gonna Come
Cullum, Jamie - Over it Now
Cure, The - Love Song
Dandy Warhol - Bohemian Like You
Dashbord Confessional - Stolen
Dave Matthews Band - You Might Die Trying
David O'Doherty - FAQ for the DOD
Day, Howie - Collide
Day, Ryan - Brand New Day
Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body, I Will Follow You Into The Dark, Transatlanticism
Deep Purple - Smoke In The Water
Diamond, Neil - Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon
Doves - Black and White Town
Drake, Nick - Day is Done
Dylan, Bob - Knocking on Heavens Door, Fourth Street, Like a Rolling Stone
Ed Sheeran - The A Team, Small Bump
EMF - Unbelievable
Empire of the Sun - We Are The People
Enya - May It Be
Elton John - Sacrifice, Rocket Man
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Featherstone, Michelle - God Bless The Child
Florence and The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
Foo Fighters - Pretender
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger,
Fray, The - She is, Look After You
Friendly Fires - Hawaiin Air
Frou Frou - Let Go
Gerrard, Lisa - Sanvean
Goo Goo Dolls - Here is Gone, Iris
Gorillaz - Feelgood Inc
Gothic Archives, The - Scream and Run Away
Goulding, Ellie - Starry Eyed
Grant, Eddy - Electric Avenue
Gray, David - This Year's Love
Green Day - Time Of Your Life
Griffin, Stwie - Rocket Man (cover)
Hank Green - Helent Hunt
Hard Fi - Hard To Beat
Higging, Missy - Warm Whispers, Where I Stood, Wrong Girl
Hill, Faith - There You'll Be
Hives, The - Hate to Say I Told You So, Tick Tick Boom
Jack's Mannequin - The Mixed Tape
John, Elton - Rocket Man , Sacrifice
Jon Schmidt - Love Story Meets Viva La Vida - Piano and Cello
Jordan, Rohnny - The Jackal
Joshua Radin - Closer
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Kasabian - Fire, Club Foot
Keane - Stop For a Minute, Everybody's Changing, Spiralling, Bedshaped, Somewhere Only We Know
Kerslake, Camilla - Il Mondo e Nostro (cover)
Kearney, Matt - Where We Gonna Go From Here
Knaan - In The Beginning
Kick Ass Soundtrack
Killers, The - Mr Brightside, All These Things That I Have Done, Somebody Told Me
Kinks, The - Lola
Klaxons - Golden Skans. It's Not Over Yet
Ladyhawke - My Delirium, Paris Is Burning
La Roux - Bulletproof
Maguire, Clare - Last Dance, The Shield and The Sword
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Mando Diao - Gloria
Macdonald, Amy - This Is The Life
Mat Kearney - Where We Gonna Go From Here
McGreogor, Ali - Creep (cover), Can't Get You Outta My Head (Cover)
Meester, Leighton - Inside The Black (cover)
MGMT - Kids (radio edit), Time To Pretend, Kids (Kooks cover)
Mock Turtles, The - Can You Dig It?
My Chemical Romance - Planetary (Go!)
Nada Surf - Always Love, Blankest Year
Nena - 99 Luftballoons
Newman, Randy - You've Got A Friend In Me
Nick Drake - Day Is Done, Strange Meeting II
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt, Hurt at Bridge School Benefit 2006 (Live)
NOFX - You're Wrong
One Night Only - Say You Don't Want It
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out, Champagne Supernova, Whatever Wonderwall
Pallot, Nerina - Love Will Tear Us Apart (cover)
Placebo - Running Up That Hill (cover)
Postal Service, The - Such Great Heights
Pretty Reckless, The - You Make Me Wanna Die
Primal Scream - Loaded
Prodigy, The - Stand Up
Raconteurs, The - Steady As She Goes
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees, Creep, Karma Police
Rakes, The- The World Was a Mess But His Hair Was Perfect
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie
Rocket Summer - So Much Love
Ronson, Mark - Stop Me
Royksopp - So Easy, Happy Up Here
Scala and Koclacny Brothers - Nothing Else Matters (cover), Creep (cover)
Semko, Jay - Due South
Sia - Breathe Me
Sigur Ros - Untitled 3
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight, Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Smiths, The - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, How Soon Is Now?
Snow Patrol - Run, Just Say Yes, Open Your Eyes, You Could Be Happy, Chocolate, Crack the Shutters, Chasing Cars, Spitting Games, Set The Fire To The Third Bar
Space - Female of the Species
Specials, The - Nelson Mandela
Star, Mazzy - Into Dust
Sting - Fields of Gold
Strokes, The - Hard to Explain, Last Nite
Sugar Plum Fairy - Last Chance
Subways, The - Strawberry
Swift, Taylor - Love Story, You Belong With Me, Fearless
Syd Matters - To All Of You
Tammany Hall - Cindy
Tavener, John - Song for Athene
Temper Trap, The - Sweet Disposition
Tellier, Sebastien - La Ritournelle
Thrills, The - Big Sur
Ting Tings, The - We Walk, That's Not My Name, Great DJ, Shut Up and Let Me Go
Tim Minchin - The Pope Song, Some People Have It Worse Than I
Travis - Sing, Flowers In The Window
Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know, Something Good Could Work
Vampire Weekend - A Punk, Oxford Comma, White Sky
Vedder, Eddie - Hard Sun, Society,
Verve, The - Love Is Noise
Weepies, The - World Spins Madly On , Gotta Have You, Nobody Knows Me At All
Wolf, Patrick - To The Lighthouse
Wombats, The - Anti - D, Tokyo, Lets Dance To Joy Divison, Jump Into The Frog, Moving To New York
XX, The - Islands, Intro, Crystallized
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero, Heads Will Roll, Gold Lion
Yello - The Ragged Flag
Zimmerman, Roy - Two Brothers
Arthur, Joseph - In The Sun
Arkells, The - No Champagne Socialist
Athlete - Wires
Bart Lionel (lyrics) - I'd Do Anything (Oliver)
Beatles, The - Eleanor Rigby
Belle and Sebastian - I'm A Cuckoo
Beta Band, The - Squares
Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
Blur - Song 2, Common People
Bon Jovi - It's My Life
Buckley, Jeff - Dido's Lament (cover), Hallelujah
Burns Covers - My Luve is like a Red Red Rose - Eddi Reader, A Man's A Man For All That - Nutini
Caesers, The - Jerk It Out
Cage the Elephant - Right Before My Eyes
Cardigans, The ft. Tom Jones - Burning Down The House (cover)
Cary Brothers - Ride
Cash, Johnny - One Piece At A Time, Hurt, Ring of Fire, A Boy Named Sue, The Man Who Comes Around, I Hung My Head
Cave, Nick - O Children, What Must Be Done, Song For Bob, Into My Arms
Cinematic Orchestra, The - To Build a Home
Citizen Cope - Sideways
Coconut Records - West Coast
Coldplay - Fix You, Warning Sign, Lost, Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall, Yellow, A Message
Collin Hay - Hold on Hope, Waiting For My Real Life To Begin
Cooke, Sam - A Change is Gonna Come
Cullum, Jamie - Over it Now
Cure, The - Love Song
Dandy Warhol - Bohemian Like You
Dashbord Confessional - Stolen
Dave Matthews Band - You Might Die Trying
David O'Doherty - FAQ for the DOD
Day, Howie - Collide
Day, Ryan - Brand New Day
Death Cab For Cutie - Soul Meets Body, I Will Follow You Into The Dark, Transatlanticism
Deep Purple - Smoke In The Water
Diamond, Neil - Girl, You'll be a Woman Soon
Doves - Black and White Town
Drake, Nick - Day is Done
Dylan, Bob - Knocking on Heavens Door, Fourth Street, Like a Rolling Stone
Ed Sheeran - The A Team, Small Bump
EMF - Unbelievable
Empire of the Sun - We Are The People
Enya - May It Be
Elton John - Sacrifice, Rocket Man
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Featherstone, Michelle - God Bless The Child
Florence and The Machine - Dog Days Are Over
Foo Fighters - Pretender
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out
Fratellis - Chelsea Dagger,
Fray, The - She is, Look After You
Friendly Fires - Hawaiin Air
Frou Frou - Let Go
Gerrard, Lisa - Sanvean
Goo Goo Dolls - Here is Gone, Iris
Gorillaz - Feelgood Inc
Gothic Archives, The - Scream and Run Away
Goulding, Ellie - Starry Eyed
Grant, Eddy - Electric Avenue
Gray, David - This Year's Love
Green Day - Time Of Your Life
Griffin, Stwie - Rocket Man (cover)
Hank Green - Helent Hunt
Hard Fi - Hard To Beat
Higging, Missy - Warm Whispers, Where I Stood, Wrong Girl
Hill, Faith - There You'll Be
Hives, The - Hate to Say I Told You So, Tick Tick Boom
Jack's Mannequin - The Mixed Tape
John, Elton - Rocket Man , Sacrifice
Jon Schmidt - Love Story Meets Viva La Vida - Piano and Cello
Jordan, Rohnny - The Jackal
Joshua Radin - Closer
Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Kaiser Chiefs - Ruby
Kasabian - Fire, Club Foot
Keane - Stop For a Minute, Everybody's Changing, Spiralling, Bedshaped, Somewhere Only We Know
Kerslake, Camilla - Il Mondo e Nostro (cover)
Kearney, Matt - Where We Gonna Go From Here
Knaan - In The Beginning
Kick Ass Soundtrack
Killers, The - Mr Brightside, All These Things That I Have Done, Somebody Told Me
Kinks, The - Lola
Klaxons - Golden Skans. It's Not Over Yet
Ladyhawke - My Delirium, Paris Is Burning
La Roux - Bulletproof
Maguire, Clare - Last Dance, The Shield and The Sword
Massive Attack - Paradise Circus
Mando Diao - Gloria
Macdonald, Amy - This Is The Life
Mat Kearney - Where We Gonna Go From Here
McGreogor, Ali - Creep (cover), Can't Get You Outta My Head (Cover)
Meester, Leighton - Inside The Black (cover)
MGMT - Kids (radio edit), Time To Pretend, Kids (Kooks cover)
Mock Turtles, The - Can You Dig It?
My Chemical Romance - Planetary (Go!)
Nada Surf - Always Love, Blankest Year
Nena - 99 Luftballoons
Newman, Randy - You've Got A Friend In Me
Nick Drake - Day Is Done, Strange Meeting II
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt, Hurt at Bridge School Benefit 2006 (Live)
NOFX - You're Wrong
One Night Only - Say You Don't Want It
Oasis - Stop Crying Your Heart Out, Champagne Supernova, Whatever Wonderwall
Pallot, Nerina - Love Will Tear Us Apart (cover)
Placebo - Running Up That Hill (cover)
Postal Service, The - Such Great Heights
Pretty Reckless, The - You Make Me Wanna Die
Primal Scream - Loaded
Prodigy, The - Stand Up
Raconteurs, The - Steady As She Goes
Radiohead - Fake Plastic Trees, Creep, Karma Police
Rakes, The- The World Was a Mess But His Hair Was Perfect
Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Adventures Of Rain Dance Maggie
Rocket Summer - So Much Love
Ronson, Mark - Stop Me
Royksopp - So Easy, Happy Up Here
Scala and Koclacny Brothers - Nothing Else Matters (cover), Creep (cover)
Semko, Jay - Due South
Sia - Breathe Me
Sigur Ros - Untitled 3
Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight, Bullet with Butterfly Wings
Smiths, The - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out, How Soon Is Now?
Snow Patrol - Run, Just Say Yes, Open Your Eyes, You Could Be Happy, Chocolate, Crack the Shutters, Chasing Cars, Spitting Games, Set The Fire To The Third Bar
Space - Female of the Species
Specials, The - Nelson Mandela
Star, Mazzy - Into Dust
Sting - Fields of Gold
Strokes, The - Hard to Explain, Last Nite
Sugar Plum Fairy - Last Chance
Subways, The - Strawberry
Swift, Taylor - Love Story, You Belong With Me, Fearless
Syd Matters - To All Of You
Tammany Hall - Cindy
Tavener, John - Song for Athene
Temper Trap, The - Sweet Disposition
Tellier, Sebastien - La Ritournelle
Thrills, The - Big Sur
Ting Tings, The - We Walk, That's Not My Name, Great DJ, Shut Up and Let Me Go
Tim Minchin - The Pope Song, Some People Have It Worse Than I
Travis - Sing, Flowers In The Window
Two Door Cinema Club - What You Know, Something Good Could Work
Vampire Weekend - A Punk, Oxford Comma, White Sky
Vedder, Eddie - Hard Sun, Society,
Verve, The - Love Is Noise
Weepies, The - World Spins Madly On , Gotta Have You, Nobody Knows Me At All
Wolf, Patrick - To The Lighthouse
Wombats, The - Anti - D, Tokyo, Lets Dance To Joy Divison, Jump Into The Frog, Moving To New York
XX, The - Islands, Intro, Crystallized
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero, Heads Will Roll, Gold Lion
Yello - The Ragged Flag
Zimmerman, Roy - Two Brothers
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