I felt low and useless yesterday. It was grey and slushy, and I didn't feel up to facing Andrew Jackson and his anger issues again (the ms having just came back from its outside read),
so I went home and watched the final episodes of Due South, during which Mountie Fraser (Paul Gross) sings a couple rousing songs by a musician I'd never heard of---Canada's (famous) Stan Rogers.
Great song! ^ [and... sung by Stan Rogers]
So instead of working, I spent the afternoon listening to Rogers, and when I heard this song with its rousing chorus, "Rise again!" I thought, OK, I can face Old Hickory:
"The Mary Ellen Carter" [starts at 1:40, after a sailor tells how the song saved his life].
And this one, the amazing a capella "Northwest Passage" (which shapes the end of Due South) makes you want to head out on an adventure in spite of yourself, like Bilbo Baggins:
It's inspired by Franklin's lost expedition.
NASA played Stan Rogers's "Take It from Day to Day" --about working far from home--for astronaut Chris Hadfield in 2001, when he became the first Canadian to walk in space.
What do astronauts listen to in space?
This makes fascinating reading:
NASA's list of wake-up songs.
so I went home and watched the final episodes of Due South, during which Mountie Fraser (Paul Gross) sings a couple rousing songs by a musician I'd never heard of---Canada's (famous) Stan Rogers.
So instead of working, I spent the afternoon listening to Rogers, and when I heard this song with its rousing chorus, "Rise again!" I thought, OK, I can face Old Hickory:
"The Mary Ellen Carter" [starts at 1:40, after a sailor tells how the song saved his life].
And this one, the amazing a capella "Northwest Passage" (which shapes the end of Due South) makes you want to head out on an adventure in spite of yourself, like Bilbo Baggins:
It's inspired by Franklin's lost expedition.
NASA played Stan Rogers's "Take It from Day to Day" --about working far from home--for astronaut Chris Hadfield in 2001, when he became the first Canadian to walk in space.
What do astronauts listen to in space?
This makes fascinating reading:
NASA's list of wake-up songs.
photo by Vincent Fournier: General Boris V., Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), Russia, 2007--via
more at "We Are All Astronauts" Tumblr
"We are all astronauts" --R,
Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual For
Spaceship Earth (1968), in which he compared Earth to a spaceship
Thanks for the tunes.
ReplyDeleteIn reference to the astronauts, I had been thinking today "We are all from somewhere else", star nurseries and all that.
Not a privateer, a mutineer (featuring the very beautiful David Lindley):
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r0dVfaZxvw
Hey--wow, that's cool cover of Mutineer---thanks! --and a cool instrument---is that a steel guitar?
ReplyDeleteStar nurseries---yes.