My five favourite bits of songs right now:
1. La Vie a Deux — Manu Chao
"Ill est minuit a Tokyo, il est cinq heures au Mali, quelle heure est-il au paradis?"
2. California Stars — Billy Bragg and Wilco (words by Woody Guthrie)
"I’d like to dream my troubles all away on a bed of California stars. Jump up from my starbed and make another day underneath my California stars."
3. Perfect World — Liz Phair
"No need for Lucifer to fall if he'd learn to keep his mouth shut."
4. Head Like a Hole — Nine Inch Nails
"Let’s go dancing on the backs of the bruise."
5. Worthy — Ani di Franco
"What good is a poker face when you’ve got an open hand?"
Last words:
I took Anthropology of Healing at university. I was not an Anthropology student. Prof. Turner let me in this fourth year class because I knew what a middle "C" was. We studied why and how music heals and what kind of music heals. Sometimes I ache for the lyrics of a particular song to ease or celebrate my day. I learned in this exceptional class that actually I might be seeking a certain cadence, pitch, vowel or single strain, not the words at all.
