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Kishi Bishi's Bright Whites

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Kishi Bishi's Bright Whites:  Perhaps less catchy than Gangnam Style, but still worth a listen. Kishi Bashi- Bright Whites And for more Bashi… NPR's Tiny Desk for more on Kishi Bashi  ---  If you are pressed for time just jump straight to minute 8:45 to check out how musically creative Bashi gets. Very wonderful sounds I hope to hear more of in 2013.

Anna Karenina: the abbreviated edition & this blogger's addendum

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absorbing anna The abbreviated edition : “Anna spoke not only naturally and intelligently, but intelligently and casually, without attaching any value to her own thoughts, yet giving great value to the thoughts of the one she was talking to.”   Keira Knightley and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in  Anna Karenina And then she fell under a train. Everybody was very sad. - - Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina _____________________ absorbing anna: This blogger's  addendum: Except Anna's children grew up with a half of them still a part of her, and half of her a part of them, and this part would remain alive and shine brightly beyond all despair, hardships or even time. Like her, they would follow their own truth, but would be carried along with an invisible strength   -- a courage which only springs from having been loved by someone with such an open and loving heart.  T hey would know how to follow the faintest echoes of her lingering w...

Merry Christmas to all...

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…and to all a good night.

Apocalypse tomorrow? Ain't nobody got time for that!

For it is always Dickens in December on a cold winter's night

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". . . for it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child himself."   - Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol. "There is probably a smell of roasted chestnuts and other good comfortable things all the time, for we are telling Winter Stories - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us - round the Christmas fire; and we have never stirred, except to draw a little nearer to it."   - Charles Dickens,  A Christmas Tree. Our cold, quiet Christmas of 2012

This is us not listening to the news today, oh boy.

Today we will think about joy and light and being here in the present. Today we will choose finding joy even when darkness is all around. We are not choosing light because we do not feel pain, darkness or despair. No, we choose joy because it is what keeps us eternal. And in this bleak winter month we are required to do this with even more tenacity. Our lives challenge us to keep joy alive, however it is what anybody who ever loved us,  who ever walked this earth that we loved would demand we do.  They would demand  we choose joy, not despair. So listen to me, no matter how dire the news is, you trust the universe, okay?   And you find your joy. Because, because -- love is all you need -- Love is all you get. Are you listening to me?  LOVE IS ALL YOU GET. Don't squander it. Love really is what makes the world go round.  Not anger.  Not mean.  Not insecure.  Not fear.  Not money.  Not bitterness.  Love. ...

Beachmint's very groovy play list...

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So, work brought us up to Los Angeles yesterday to spend a bit of time in the always hip Smashbox Studios. There I was lucky enough to discover someone else spinning a dj list with precisely  my taste in music. I was forced to go make conversation asap and discover just who and what we were listening to for the day. The dj was very gracious and shared some of their extremely terrific playlist with me.  Naturally, I had to share it, here, as well.  (Too wonderful not to share the wealth.) Oh, one of the many thing's left off this list are selections from  a music duo from  France , called  Air. Hearing them is what got my attention to begin with. Never can get enough of them. However, yesterday he introduced me to even more tunes I loved but had not heard before: Such as  XXYYXX, etc.   So, a large muchas gracias to the awesome, Mr. Aaron, along with his stellar team at BeachMint. --  Rock on.