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[taratemima]

It snowed. I walked then waited for the bus, since my work closed early. I drank hot chocolate and played on the computer. It was that scintillating. I found some quotations and links for today.



"Music moves very, very deep into the soul, into the psyche. It captures you," [Viktoria] Hertling says. "The Nazis really wanted to cleanse the German cultural arena from influence that they considered dangerous, subversive--that they considered non-German."
from http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/2001-11-15/pulse.asp, about a concert of music banned by the Nazis

"Everything in my life that I love
Could be swept away without warning
Yet the birds still sing and the church bells ring
And the sun came up this morning."
--Billy Bragg, "Rumours of War"

"dear sir: i have a complaint.
dear sir: i have a complaint.
can't remember what it is . . .
doesn't matter, anyway

doesn't matter anyway

stop whispering
stop whispering
stop whispering
stop whispering

start shouting"
--Radiohead "Stop Whispering"

http://www.mushycat.com/buttons/
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/
http://www.freemuse.org/03libra/subjects/islam01.html (Musicians in Islamic countries)
http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/MA96/mwtop_20.html
http://covers.wiw.org