You've got a friend in Memphis

new note 9.28.2009 drafted sometime in the summer approx. 7.16.2009...published today, didn't mean to yet but that's ok...i was still drafting and then it suddenly appeared...and then i started reading...wow...and i just found out this evening...that it posted...interesting...now i'm reading my own forgotten post 8.23pm est. end note...

new note...9.28.2009 also...lots of new news, good news...it's finally fall...the leaves are changing....the colours are turning....and i'm feeling the new season coming again...and...i can't believe the news lately...i will write about it later...i pray for this week to go okay and you will see my old notes below...that was the original post end note....one more note...new band i like mute math, i heard the song you are mine makes my cry too....it's a beautiful song

MUTEMATH - You Are Mine 36,542

new note 9.28.2009 i hope i can write again...but if i don't write anymore...oh well...who cares...end note...9.33 pm est...9.2.28.2009

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Mute Math - You Are Mine - live 2005 I love the intro on this version of the song. I haven't seen them play it this way since. The distorted audio on this vid inspired me to purchase a mini-disc m...

Mute Math - You Are Mine - live 2005
I love the intro on this version of the song. I haven't seen them play it this way since.
The distorted audio on this vid inspired me to purchase a mini-disc mic with high volume tolerance.

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end note 8.28.2009 9.oopm est.

original note start: last night i was sad...it took me here...to a place well i'll talk about it later but now i'm here...
Freaky giant squid invading San Deigo - http://ow.ly/htrS 3:29 PM Jul 16th from HootSuite courtesy of ecstaticist very good hooter on his deck

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Walking in Memphis (Marc Cohn & Cher) 406,865 views

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February 21, 2008

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I just edited those two songs and put them together with some clips. So now, we can hear and see Cher and Marc Cohn sing "Walking in Memphis" together! Have fun! (And yes, they didn't sing in the s...

I just edited those two songs and put them together with some clips. So now, we can hear and see Cher and Marc Cohn sing "Walking in Memphis" together! Have fun!
(And yes, they didn't sing in the same key, I had to adjust Cher's voice. That's the reason why she might sound a bit strange sometimes in this song...)

Category: MusicTags: cher marc cohn walking in memphis soul rock pop ballad elvis presley king versus vs black white edit remix song lied

Four daisies appeared to me to form a constellation, with the starfield in back.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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Put on my blue suede shoes And I boarded the plane Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain W.C. Handy -- won't you look down over me Yeah I got a first class ticket But I'm as blue as a boy can be Then I'm walking in Memphis Walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale Walking in Memphis But do I really feel the way I feel Saw the ghost of Elvis On Union Avenue Followed him up to the gates of Graceland Then I watched him walk right through Now security they did not see him They just hovered 'round his tomb But there's a pretty little thing Waiting for the King Down in the Jungle Room (Chorus) They've got catfish on the table They've got gospel in the air And Reverend Green be glad to see you When you haven't got a prayer But boy you've got a prayer in Memphis Now Muriel plays piano Every Friday at the Hollywood And they brought me down to see her And they asked me if I would -- Do a little number And I sang with all my might And she said -- "Tell me are you a Christian child?" And I said "Ma'am I am tonight" (Chorus) Put on my blue suede shoes And I boarded the plane Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain Touched down in the land of the Delta Blues In the middle of the pouring rain i think my teacher hates me... :( i'm sad...that's ok, i still love my teacher

Ballad of Chris McCandless i love this man for life and...i have to get out...

linzk23 great creation first time i heard this, teary again...beautiful.............19,916 views
August 10, 2008There are lots of tributes to Christopher McCandless, but there's only one ballad!Category: EntertainmentTags: Ballad of Chris Mccandless McCandless Into the Wild Ellis Paul performing arts

THE HARVEST


new note i had another outburst again today after surfing again...because i love marc cohn's song, music and then i found out what happened, i know i've read it before sometime last year while first learning about how to find the most amazing music, photography and entertainment in the world, but reading again just isn't a good feeling...i can't do this anymore...and everytime i hear or read or see the devil's name, i get angry..., i can't do this anymore i'm sorry, but i feel like surrendering, i surrender...i can't have this here very long either...my head hurts...i surrender...no more...no more crying...

later on in the morning...

must watch original really good

universalmusicgroup 2,551,162 views
November 06, 2008

Music video by Guns N' Roses performing Don't Cry: Original Version
with Andy Morahan [Video Director], Warren Hewlett [Video Producer], Mike Clink [Producer], Guns N' Roses [Producer](C) 1991 Guns N' Roses under exclusive license to Geffen Records

Category: MusicTags: Guns N' Roses Don't Cry Rock GEFFEN Andy Morahan [Video Director] Warren Hewlett Producer] Mike Clink [Producer]

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October 19, 2006Guns N Roses live in tokyoCategory: MusicTags: dont cry gunsnroses live

Live performance, The Central, Hollywood, 1986.
Acoustic set, without Steven. Axl mentions that this is the first time they've performed "Don't Cry" acoustically. 259,009 views

after resting my pounding head later on in the pm, i don't even know what time is anymore...new notes below...

GOING THEIR SEPARATE WAYS

2 swans i saw floating away i found at the virgin music festival, was wanting to hear mgmt and foo fighters and so many more

i'm deleting everything Lord...it's doesn't matter honey...before they hated you they hated me first...i love you...it's ok no one read anyways...you're right, i think it's a good time to go now...but i'm sad, sad still i can't have this diary for myself and everyone to see...it's ok...don't worry about it, i'll take care of you from now on...ok...ok then...i love you...

you know really i have so many more stories to tell but i'm so hurt...new note........end note 9.29.2009 11.16pm est....and i would be insulted if anyone called me satan...i was angry but had to calm down again, i felt like 2pac again but had to refrain myself...from anger...

this is the renaissance medieval times section at the royal ontario museum, i just needed a keepsake for myself

All that glitters is Gold

Love going to the museum, you learn so much about our history from all cultures this is what I found, I just needed a keepsake to cherish

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john mayer you're the most beautiful songbird ever, if you're in the moody blues but he has silly songs posted too sometimes, i love your music and that's why everyone is following you because you know how to laugh but also feel too, i can feel it...so follow these gifted souls (there are too many though to mention but) to learn so much more about music johnmayer and photography treyratcliff i love their work, i feel this with his fotos and writing...that's why so many people love visiting his website, did you know he gets 350K visits per month? yes it's true...

Gravity - John Mayer Live in L.A. (with intro) 55,726 views

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February 10, 2009

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John Mayer Live in L.A., "Where the Light is", recorded the night of Dec. 8th 2007 and released in 2008 type "&fmt=18" at the end to watch in high def

Category: MusicTags: Gravity John Mayer Live in L.A. Where the Light is recorded Dec. 8th 2007 2008 Guitar Trio Acoustic Band Rock intro

later on in the night 10.04pm iestimated

Alicia Keys - The Thing About Love LIVE 253,808 views

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new song off of alicia keys new album, As I am,Performing　@ LIVE EARTH July 2007 Category: MusicTags: Alicia Keys Thing About Love LIVE Asiam live

akeys is in my heart and soul...i had to hear it again...this version is also very good....thank you youtube

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October 10, 2007

Live at Fashion Rocks 2007Category: MusicTags: Alicia Keys The Thing About Love Live music video r&b soul

my love playlist...(may change periodically so please don't get mad to whomever? mostly me)

candlelight dinner, slow dancing in a burning room to the man in the mirror 5,481,703 views i loved this song heard it on valentines day while at dinner and then recognized it, it's a beautiful song, never knew about it before...

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i remember the day very well when mr. obama won, because that day, in the east...there was a rainbow over the bloodshed east...and everyone stopped fighting and they walked away from their posts, at least for that one night...if i can remember correctly it was 2 weeks all together before another big news storm happened about the east...

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new note 8.28.2009 pm ok last note...oh yes...the only reason why this posted was...i remember the reason why now...was at a friends haus and they were playing marc cohn's song...walkin' in memphis which reminded me of my post from a while ago...this one...i am now adding to...so i decided to look it up again...and then started editing and i wanted to put it back on draft but somehow i didn't do this right...and now...i guess it was time to post...for the moment...end note...9.42pm est. AND VERY LAST NOTE...there's lots of good and bad news lately, actually there's news everyday...yes....so many things to be happy about through out everything....kk+ he took a foto yesterday of a spiritual advisor...WOW...and now he's in toronto...WOW :) tonight...WOW with his fierce kitty...WOW...i just loved her recent article again...and i have no more room for tags...again...end note...9.48pm est....ok last note....my other favourite...he wrote...again too....sigh...i love his writing too...mr.razamatazz... :) like i said so many good things to be happy about...there are so many others...end note...10.09pm est...also...my other favourite ron sombilon joined forces again he even took fotos of another favourite steve nash they also donated to charity WOW

ok more last notes...11.30pm est...my teacher's so serious these days...oh i can't wait for the book to come out...who knows i probably will never get to see it? oh well...i wonder if it will make it's way here...to canada...we'll see...also...sports is starting again...and snowboarding...probably very soon with these winters...but i'm excited to get some exercise...again...hope i can still...we'll see...goodnight...i love you

John Mayer - Free Fallin' (Where The Light Is) 3,554,271 views

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July 17, 2008

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Video from the current DVD/Blu-ray release.

Video from the current DVD/Blu-ray release.

Category: MusicTags: johnmayer freefallin mayer petty wtli wherethelightis

...new note 9.29.2009 11.20pm est...also ron sombilon took fotos of dalai lama also i can't wait to see the fotos...and a little more inspiration...

I'm Gonna Find Another You - John Mayer Live in L.A. 35,436 views

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January 13, 2009

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John Mayer Live in L.A., "Where the Light is", recorded the night of Dec. 8th 2007 and released in 2008

John Mayer Live in L.A., "Where the Light is", recorded the night of Dec. 8th 2007 and released in 2008

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Tags: i'm gonna find another you John Mayer Live in L.A. Where the Light is recorded Dec. 8th 2007 2008 Guitar Trio Acoustic Band Rock

end note 9.29.2009 11.25pm est. nite nite cyberworld...sweet lullabies...and i'd rather say hello...

end note...11.29pm est...ok last note...i really should post a new one...but we'll just keep everything here...

our tree at sunset

hiking up in northern ontario...the best thing about hiking in your favourite spots....is watching the seasons change....the colours are changing and a new season begins...the harvest...we're beside a farm near our hike of the bruce trails...

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the aftermath from the morning thru the trees the skeletons at sunrise house of the rising sun...

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November 22, 2008 (more info) Bob Dylan with Tom Petty and the HeartbreakerCategory: MusicTags: Bob Dylan Tom Petty Heartbreakers House of the Rising Sun

The Skeletons at Sunrise, originally uploaded by Stuck in Customs.
At one point when driving through Yellowstone a few weeks ago, I got out of the car and started walking right into the forest on the edge of the road. There was a thick fog and the morning sun was low, creating an unexpected box of light. I kept walking and walking until I found this area. It just felt right for whatever reason, so I set up to take this HDR.

In other news, I found out today the exact meeting location for our upcoming PhotoWalk at Sunset here in Austin. We will be meeting in the Victorian Room inside the Driskill Hotel on 6th street to gather before the walk.

The Queen's Study Casaloma

It's nice and air-conditioned in there, so we can save all the fun summer Texas sweatbox for the walk itself! Feel free to gather there between 7 and 7:30 PM on Thursday evening, August 6th. Once we're all gathered, I'll set the groundrules and then we'll be off! By the way, a few people have asked if they can bring their kids, and that should be just fine... no problemo.

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Nick Drake - From The Morning 192,123 views

good morning pretty rose buds,

ntfe...i love this...and this was kinda what i was feeling...recently...it's a beautiful sunrise again...it's foggy....i love seeing these visions....i'm glad you posted it today...makes me happy...and...the trees are still standing

....after the fire....i know i have some fotos of this too...and different trees....maybe i'm a treehugger? hehe jk...i don't know...but....have a blessed day everyone, i'm going to try n take some fotos of a beautiful carnival today...my first time! i hope i can find parking :(

One Tree Hill - u2 - The Joshua Tree 98,839 views

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February 26, 2008One Tree Hill by U2Category: MusicTags: one tree hill u2 joshua

We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill
As the day begs the night for mercy love
The sun so bright it leaves no shadows
Only scars carved into stone
On the face of earth
The moon is up and over One Tree Hill
We see the sun go down in your eyes

You run like river, on like a sea
You run like a river runs to the sea

And in the world a heart of darkness
A fire zone
Where poets speak their heart
Then bleed for it
Jara sang, his song a weapon
In the hands of love
You know his blood still cries
From the ground

It runs like a river runs to the sea
It runs like a river to the sea

I don't believe in painted roses
Or bleeding hearts
While bullets rape the night of the merciful
I'll see you again
When the stars fall from the sky
And the moon has turned red
Over One Tree Hill

We run like a river
Run to the sea
We run like a river to the sea
And when it's raining
Raining hard
That's when the rain will
Break my heart

Raining...raining in the heart
Raining in your heart
Raining...raining to your heart
Raining, raining...raining
Raining to your heart
Raining...raining in your heart
Raining in your heart..
To the sea

Oh great ocean
Oh great sea
Run to the ocean
Run to the sea

and thanks...i found nick drake again....i love this song and i love you everyone <3> my angel's voices playlist...i hope you enjoy...need to reorganize this...i have now over 175 songs in here i think...so maybe while ure drinking ure coffee or chai latte this morning you would like to listen to some soothing music <3.............................>

ok last note....and i love eva cassidy....songbird....i love singing this song....maybe (lightbulb) i'll hear what my voice sounds like on video? nah nevermind...that would be horrid

For you there'll be no crying
For you the sun will be shining
‘Cause I feel that when I'm with you
It's alright, I know it's right

And the songbirds keep singing
Like they know the score
And I love you, I love you, I love you
Like never before

To you, I would give the world
To you, I'd never be cold
‘Cause I feel that when I'm with you
It's alright, I know it's right

And the songbirds keep singing
Like they know the score
And I love you, I love you, I love you
Like never before

Like never before; like never before.



ok last last note...after eva cassidy is sarah mclachlan...and so on and so forth and so on....i will remember you after...etc...sweet as honey and milk...ok last last note...thanks to youtube and ilike sharing forum sites...and all this music shared...it's amazing.......when i first heard nick drake last year i fell in love again with this music....but i think it's a beautiful thing that i'm listening to him again...he has beautiful songs too...i love this post too...was nice to come to this, this morning <3>

nothing compares 5,736,385 views

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March 26, 2008

musica linda :)Category: MusicTags: sinead o'connor nothing compares

Sinead O'Connor - The House of the Rising Sun 462,597 views

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sweetuguesaApril 03, 2008 (more info)Sinead O'Connors version of this beautiful song.Category: MusicTags: Sinead o'connor world music pop soul soft rock

(first releasetraditional, arranged by bob dylan)

There is a house down in new orleans
They call the risin sun
And its been the ruin of many a poor girl
And me, oh god, Im a-one

My mother was a tailor
She sewed these new blue jeans
My sweetheart was a gambler, lord
Down in new orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time hes satisfied
Is when hes on a drunk

He fills his glasses up to the brim
And hell pass the cards around
And the only pleasure he gets out of life
Is ramblin from town to town

Oh tell my baby sister
Not to do what I have done
But shun that house in new orleans
They call the risin sun

Well, its one foot on the platform
And the other foot on the train
Im goin back to new orleans
To wear that ball and chain

Im a-goin back to new orleans
My race is almost run
Im goin back to end my life
Down in the risin sun

There is a house in new orleans
They call the risin sun
Its been the ruin of many poor girl
And me, oh god, Im a-one

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ok bye bye bye...have a nice day...ok last note i promise and gosh dang i just learned in depth about this song....thanks to my lovely internet...God i love you and i love music too...original by The Animals...

The Animals-House Of The Rising Sun [maplestory channel] SUbscribe 97,463 views

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please rain...

Dante's Prayer The Inner Membrane

THE MOSAIC LOUNGE

人生不相見， It is almost as hard for friends to meet

動如參與商。 As for the morning and evening stars.

今夕復何夕， Tonight then is a rare event,

共此燈燭光。 Joining, in the candlelight,

少壯能幾時， Two men who were young not long ago

鬢髮各已蒼。 But now are turning grey at the temples.

訪舊半為鬼， To find that half our friends are dead

驚呼熱中腸。 Shocks us, burns our hearts with grief.

焉知二十載， We little guessed it would be twenty years

重上君子堂。 Before I could visit you again.

昔別君未婚， When I went away, you were still unmarried;

兒女忽成行。 But now these boys and girls in a row

怡然敬父執， Are very kind to their father's old friend.

問我來何方。 They ask me where I have been on my journey;

問答乃未已， And then, when we have talked awhile,

兒女羅酒漿。 They bring and show me wines and dishes,

夜雨翦春韭， Spring chives cut in the night-rain

新炊間黃粱。 And brown rice cooked freshly a special way.

主稱會面難， My host proclaims it a festival,

一舉累十觴。 He urges me to drink ten cups –

十觴亦不醉， But what ten cups could make me as drunk

感子故意長。 As I always am with your love in my heart?

明日隔山嶽， Tomorrow the mountains will separate us;

世事兩茫茫。 After tomorrow – who can say?

—Du Fu, ^[191]

This is another shot of one of the coolest lounges in the world. It's called the Crimson Lounge in downtown Chicago. It has incredible textures and lights inside that are very hard to capture unless you use this HDR technique. At least, that's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Eye HDR 2 by ~ridethespiral1 on deviantART

Oh there is a murderess amongst usHer love is a violent spiralHurling in upon us, conjured upAt the birth of the worldDurga is a dancerMindless questions find no answersSlicing through the etherYeah she's gleaming like mother of pearlDirty little whirlwindCommander, controllerI found youDirty little whirlwindI am pinned by the heat of your swirlDirty little whirlwindDefender, destroyer I found youDirty little whirlwindTangled up in the flesh of a girlOh you could curl up beside meThe spark in your eyes belies the apocalypse inside youTwisting the pits from the particleSkull can't save faceSo shake the shame from itBurn me up inside youLet me churn in your furnace of whirlDirty little whirlwindCommander, controllerI found youDirty little whirlwindI am pinned by the heat of your swirlDirty little whirlwindDefender, destroyer I found youDirty little whirlwindAll caught up in the flesh of a girlAll that I ever wanted to be was destroyed at seaHurricane rescued me salvaged calamityDo not delay we stood in place for itTurn me up inside youUp and into the heart of your world

TV on The Radio - Dirty Whirlwind - Live @ The Showbox 31,363 views

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May 08, 2006

This is TV on The Radio performing Dirty Whirlwind at The Showbox in Seattle May 5th, 2006. If you would like to see other videos from this performance, check out TV On The Radio Live @ The Showbox playlist at the link below.

Playlist URL: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list...

Official Website:http://www.tvontheradio.comMyspace:http://www.myspace.com/tvotrShowbox Theatre:http://www.showboxonline.comVideo by prOOf TV:http://proof.tvCategory: MusicTags: tv on the radio seattle washington showbox kexp performance artist band live music song

John Frusciante The Empyrean New Album Dark Light 2009 27,150 views

johnfruscicante
January 13, 2009

AMAZING AMAZING AMAZING

John Frusciante

New Album: The Empyrean on Record Collection 1.20.2009

My Uncle knows a member of Record Collection, thats why I get it.

PLEASE BUY THE CD/LP

The Empyrean is my new record and will be released worldwide via Record Collection on January 20th 2009. It was recorded on and off between December 2006 and March 2008. It is a concept record that tells a single story both musically and lyrically. The story takes place within one person, and there are two characters. It contains a version of Tim Buckleys, 'Song To The Siren' and the rest of the songs are written by me. My friend Josh plays on it, as does Flea. It also features Sonus Quartet, Johnny Marr and The New Dimension Singers. I'm really happy with it and I've listened to it a lot for the psychedelic experience it provides. It should be played as loud as possible and it is suited to dark living rooms late at night.

- John Frusciante, November 3rd, 2008

The Empyrean Track listing:
1. Before The Beginning2. Song To The Siren3. Unreachable4. God5. Dark/Light6. Heaven7. Enough Of Me8. Central9. One More Of Me10. After The Ending

JP BONUS TRACKS
11.Today12. Ah Yom

Category: Music Tags: John Frusciante Omar Rodriguez Empyrean Red Hot Chili Peppers Jam Album Solo Best

Now, if you really want to see the details, I will explain how to see the huge size. I sometimes expect people know how to do this, but many do not, so I am happy to explain. 1) Click on the photo, and that will go to the Flickr page. 2) Click on ALL SIZES+ above the photo. 3) Click on ORIGINAL. That will show the huge version... the only problem is it probably won't fit on your monitor! You can do that with all the photos I upload... I like putting the huge ones on there for people to enjoy, use as personal wallpaper on their computers, other non-commercial purposes, etc.

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John Frusciante The Empyrean New Album God 2009 2,735 views
So each day would be new I build you to sleep
That's the idea of dying but you'll just have to see
You can do what you want or so you think
But til you stop all your thoughts
you are ties to your surroundings
When the fog spreads out in the rainy season
It comes from my insides
When the thunderous lightning strikes down
You're seeing your real I
People
You blaspheme my name
But still I love you
Still I love you
I love you just the same
I hear all your prayers because I'm each one of you
Creations not something I did
It's something that I do
The reason for the bad is so there'd be such thing as good
Oh I'd do anything for you
You all know I would
Be for me Be for me Be for me Before me Before me Before me
You know that I try to repair and repay
As life goes by a thousand times
It gets a little better
All is belief, All is belief, All is belief, All is belief

LOREENA McKENNITT - Dante's Prayer 273,717 views

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February 13, 2008

LOREENA McKENNITT - Dante's Prayer Category: Music Tags: LOREENA McKENNITT Dante's Prayer

Loreena McKennitt - Dante's Prayer 37,488 views

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October 06, 2008

Live at the Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, september, 2006.

Category: MusicTags: loreena mcKennitt world music dante prayer

The Divine Comedy (Italian: Divina Commedia), written by Dante Alighieri between 1308 and his death in 1321, is widely considered the central epic poem of Italian literature, and is seen as one of the greatest works of world literature.^[1] The poem's imaginative and allegorical vision of the Christian afterlife is a culmination of the medieval world-view as it had developed in the Western Church. It helped establish the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard.^[2] It is divided into three parts, the Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.

Originally the work was simply titled Commedia and was later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio. The first published edition to add the word divine to the title was that of the Venetian Humanist Lodovico Dolce in 1555.^[3]

Contents [hide] 1 Structure and story 1.1 Inferno 1.2 Purgatorio 1.3 Paradiso 2 Earliest manuscripts 3 Thematic concerns 3.1 Dante's personal involvement 3.2 Scientific themes 4 The Divine Comedy and Islamic philosophy 5 Literary influence in the English-speaking world and beyond 6 The Divine Comedy in the arts 7 See also 8 Footnotes 9 External links

[edit] Structure and story

Albert Ritter sketched the Comedy's geography from Dante's Cantos: Hell's entrance is near Florence with the circles descending to Earth's centre; sketch 5 reflects Canto 34's inversion as Dante passes down, and thereby up to Mount Purgatory's shores in the southern hemisphere, where he passes to the first sphere of Heaven at the top.

The Divine Comedy is composed of over 14,000 lines that are divided into three canticas (Ital. pl. cantiche) — Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory), and Paradiso (Paradise) — each consisting of 33 cantos (Ital. pl. canti). An initial canto serves as an introduction to the poem and is generally considered to be part of the first cantica, bringing the total number of cantos to 100. The number 3 is prominent in the work, represented here by the length of each cantica. The verse scheme used, terza rima, is hendecasyllabic (lines of eleven syllables), with the lines composing tercets according to the rhyme scheme aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ....

The poem is written in the first person, and tells of Dante's journey through the three realms of the dead, lasting from the night before Good Friday to the Wednesday after Easter in the spring of 1300. The Roman poet Virgil guides him through Hell and Purgatory; Beatrice, Dante's ideal woman, guides him through Heaven. Beatrice was a Florentine woman whom he had met in childhood and admired from afar in the mode of the then-fashionable courtly love tradition which is highlighted in Dante's earlier work La Vita Nuova.

In Northern Italy's political struggle between Guelphs and Ghibellines, Dante was part of the Guelphs, who in general favored the Papacy over the Holy Roman Emperor. Florence's Guelphs split into factions around 1300, the White Guelphs, and the Black Guelphs. Dante was among the White Guelphs who were exiled in 1302 by the Lord-Mayor Cante de' Gabrielli di Gubbio, after troops under Charles of Valois entered the city, at the request of Pope Boniface VIII, who supported the Black Guelphs. This exile, which lasted the rest of Dante's life, shows its influence in many parts of the Comedy, from prophecies of Dante's exile to Dante's views of politics to the eternal damnation of some of his opponents.

In Hell and Purgatory, Dante shares in the sin and the penitence respectively. The last word in each of the three parts of the Divine Comedy is stelle, "stars."

[edit] Inferno

Main article: Inferno (Dante)

Gustave Doré's engravings illustrated the Divine Comedy (1861–1868); here Charon comes to ferry souls across the river Acheron to Hell.

The poem begins on the night before Good Friday in the year 1300, "halfway along our life's path" (Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita). Dante is thirty-five years old, half of the biblical life expectancy of 70 (Psalm 90:10), lost in a dark wood (perhaps, allegorically, contemplating suicide—as "wood" is figured in Canto XIII, and the mention of suicide is made in Canto I of Purgatorio with "This man has not yet seen his last evening; But, through his madness, was so close to it, That there was hardly time to turn about" implying that when Virgil came to him he was on the verge of suicide or morally passing the point of no return), assailed by beasts (a lion, a leopard, and a she-wolf) he cannot evade, and unable to find the "straight way" (diritta via) - also translatable as "right way" - to salvation (symbolized by the sun behind the mountain). Conscious that he is ruining himself and that he is falling into a "deep place" (basso loco) where the sun is silent ('l sol tace), Dante is at last rescued by Virgil, and the two of them begin their journey to the underworld. Each sin's punishment in Inferno is a contrapasso, a symbolic instance of poetic justice; for example, fortune-tellers have to walk with their heads on backwards, unable to see what is ahead, because that was what they had tried to do in life:

"they had their faces twisted toward their haunches
and found it necessary to walk backward,
because they could not see ahead of them.
…and since he wanted so to see ahead,
he looks behind and walks a backward path.^[4]

Allegorically, the Inferno represents the Christian soul seeing sin for what it really is, and the three beasts represent three types of sin: the self-indulgent, the violent, and the malicious.^[5] These three types of sin also provide the three main divisions of Dante's Hell: Upper Hell (the first 5 Circles) for the self-indulgent sins; Circles 6 and 7 for the violent sins; and Circles 8 and 9 for the malicious sins.

[edit] Purgatorio

Main article: Purgatorio

Dante gazes at Mount Purgatory in an allegorical portrait by Agnolo Bronzino, painted circa 1530.

Having survived the depths of Hell, Dante and Virgil ascend out of the undergloom, to the Mountain of Purgatory on the far side of the world (in Dante's time, it was believed that Hell existed underneath Jerusalem). The Mountain is on an island, the only land in the Southern Hemisphere, created by the displacement of rock which resulted when Satan's fall created Hell.^[6] At the shores of Purgatory, Dante and Virgil are attracted by a musical performance by Casella, but are reprimanded by Cato, a pagan who has been placed by God as the general guardian of the approach to the mountain. The text gives no indication whether or not Cato's soul is destined for heaven: his symbolic significance has been much debated. (Cantos I and II).

Allegorically, the Purgatorio represents the Christian life. Christian souls arrive escorted by an angel, singing in exitu Israel de Aegypto. In his Letter to Cangrande, Dante explains that this reference to Israel leaving Egypt refers both to the redemption of Christ and to "the conversion of the soul from the sorrow and misery of sin to the state of grace."^[7] Appropriately, therefore, it is Easter Sunday when Dante and Virgil arrive.

The Purgatorio is notable for demonstrating the medieval knowledge of a spherical Earth. During the poem, Dante discusses the different stars visible in the southern hemisphere, the altered position of the sun, and the various timezones of the Earth. At this stage it is, Dante says, sunset at Jerusalem, midnight on the River Ganges, and sunrise in Purgatory.

[edit] Paradiso

Main article: Paradiso (Dante)

Dante and Beatrice speak to Piccarda and Constance of Sicily, in a fresco by Philipp Veit, Paradiso, Canto 3

After an initial ascension (Canto I), Beatrice guides Dante through the nine celestial spheres of Heaven. These are concentric and spherical, similar to Aristotelian and Ptolemaic cosmology. Dante admits that the vision of heaven he receives is the one that his human eyes permit him to see. Thus, the vision of heaven found in the Cantos is Dante's own personal vision, ambiguous in its true construction. The addition of a moral dimension means that a soul that has reached Paradise stops at the level applicable to it. Souls are allotted to the point of heaven that fits with their human ability to love God. Thus, there is a heavenly hierarchy. All parts of heaven are accessible to the heavenly soul. That is to say all experience God but there is a hierarchy in the sense that some souls are more spiritually developed than others. This is not determined by time or learning as such but by their proximity to God (how much they allow themselves to experience Him above other things). It must be remembered in Dante's schema that all souls in Heaven are on some level always in contact with God.

While the structures of the Inferno and Purgatorio were based around different classifications of sin, the structure of the Paradiso is based on the four cardinal virtues and the three theological virtues.

[edit] Earliest manuscripts

First printed edition, 11 April 1472.

According to the Società Dantesca Italiana, no original manuscript written by Dante has survived, though there are many manuscript copies from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries (more than 825 are listed on their site^[8]). The oldest belongs to the 1330s, almost a decade after Dante's death. The most precious ones are the three full copies made by Giovanni Boccaccio (1360s), who himself did not have the original manuscript as a source.

The first printed edition was published in Foligno, Italy, by Johann Numeister and Evangelista Angelini on 11 April 1472. Of the 300 copies printed, fourteen still survive. The original printing press is on display in the Oratorio della Nunziatella in Foligno.

[edit] Thematic concerns

The Divine Comedy can be described simply as an allegory: Each canto, and the episodes therein, can contain many alternative meanings. Dante's allegory, however, is more complex, and, in explaining how to read the poem (see the Letter to Cangrande^[9]), he outlines other levels of meaning besides the allegory (the historical, the moral, the literal, and the anagogical).

The structure of the poem, likewise, is quite complex, with mathematical and numerological patterns arching throughout the work, particularly threes and nines, which are related to the Trinity. The poem is often lauded for its particularly human qualities: Dante's skillful delineation of the characters he encounters in Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise; his bitter denunciations of Florentine and Italian politics; and his powerful poetic imagination. Dante's use of real characters, according to Dorothy Sayers in her introduction to her translation of the Inferno, allows Dante the freedom of not having to involve the reader in description, and allows him to "[make] room in his poem for the discussion of a great many subjects of the utmost importance, thus widening its range and increasing its variety."

Dante called the poem "Comedy" (the adjective "Divine" added later in the 14th century) because poems in the ancient world were classified as High ("Tragedy") or Low ("Comedy"). Low poems had happy endings and were of everyday or vulgar subjects, while High poems were for more serious matters. Dante was one of the first in the Middle Ages to write of a serious subject, the Redemption of Man, in the low and vulgar Italian language and not the Latin language as one might expect for such a serious topic. Boccaccio's account that an early version of the poem was begun by Dante in Latin is still controversial.^[10][11]

[edit] Dante's personal involvement

In his allegorical description of sin (in the Inferno) and virtue (in the Purgatorio and Paradiso), Dante draws on real characters from ancient Greek and Roman myths and history, and from his own times. However, his own actions often also illustrate the concepts he is discussing. For example, Dante shares the fleshly sins of the damned at several points in the upper circles of Hell. At the first circle where the virtuous pagans who pursued honor above all else are punished by eternally knowing they have fallen short for their lack of faith, Dante shares with them their love of honor, as evidenced by the word “honor” being used repeatedly in the Canto.^[12] Similarly, at the third circle where Ciacco and other gluttons are punished for their appetites, Dante’s appetite for political information about his fellow Florentines appears equally gluttonous:

"And I to him: I wish thee still to teach me,
And make a gift to me of further speech.

Farinata and Tegghiaio, once so worthy,
Jacopo Rusticucci, Arrigo, and Mosca,
And others who on good deeds set their thoughts,

Say where they are, and cause that I may know them;
For great desire constraineth me to learn
If Heaven doth sweeten them, or Hell envenom."^[13]

Conversely, in the Purgatorio, after leaving the terrace of the proud, Dante has learned from the example set by Omberto^[14] and suppresses his own pride, declining to speak of his achievements:

"And I: Through midst of Tuscany there wanders
A streamlet that is born in Falterona,
And not a hundred miles of course suffice it;

From thereupon do I this body bring.
To tell you who I am were speech in vain,
Because my name as yet makes no great noise."^[15]

[edit] Scientific themes

Although the Divine Comedy is primarily a religious poem, discussing sin, virtue, and theology, Dante also discusses several elements of the science of his day (this mixture of science with poetry has received both praise and blame over the centuries^[16]). The Purgatorio repeatedly refers to the implications of a spherical Earth, such as the different stars visible in the southern hemisphere, the altered position of the sun, and the various timezones of the Earth. For example, at sunset in Purgatory it is midnight in Spain, dawn in Jerusalem, and noon on the River Ganges:^[17]

Just as, there where its Maker shed His blood,
the sun shed its first rays, and Ebro lay
beneath high Libra, and the ninth hour's rays

were scorching Ganges' waves; so here, the sun
stood at the point of day's departure when
God's angel happy showed himself to us.^[18]

Dante travels through the centre of the Earth in the Inferno, and comments on the resulting change in the direction of gravity in Canto XXXIV (lines 76–120). A little earlier (XXXIII, 102–105), he queries the existence of wind in the frozen inner circle of hell, since it has no temperature differentials.^[19]

Inevitably, given its setting, the Paradiso discusses astronomy extensively, but of course in the Ptolemaic sense. The Paradiso also discusses the importance of the experimental method in science, with a detailed example in lines 94–105 of Canto II:

"Yet an experiment, were you to try it,
could free you from your cavil and the source
of your arts' course springs from experiment.

Taking three mirrors, place a pair of them
at equal distance from you; set the third
midway between those two, but farther back.

Then, turning toward them, at your back have placed
a light that kindles those three mirrors and
returns to you, reflected by them all.

Although the image in the farthest glass
will be of lesser size, there you will see
that it must match the brightness of the rest."^[20]

A briefer example occurs in Canto XV of the Purgatorio (lines 16-21), where Dante points out that both theory and experiment confirm that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. Other references to science in the Paradiso include descriptions of clockwork in Canto XXIV (lines 13–18), and Thales' theorem about triangles in Canto XIII (lines 101–102).

Galileo Galilei is known to have lectured on the Inferno, and it has been suggested that the poem may have influenced some of Galileo's own ideas regarding mechanics.^[21]

[edit] The Divine Comedy and Islamic philosophy

In 1919 Professor Miguel Asín Palacios, a Spanish scholar and a Catholic priest, published La Escatología musulmana en la Divina Comedia ("Islamic Eschatology in the Divine Comedy"), an account of parallels between early Islamic philosophy and the Divine Comedy. Palacios argued that Dante derived many features of and episodes about the hereafter indirectly from the spiritual writings of Ibn Arabi and from the Isra and Mi'raj or night journey of Muhammad to heaven. The latter is described in the Hadith and the Kitab al Miraj (translated into Latin in 1264 or shortly before^[22] as Liber Scalae Machometi, "The Book of Muhammad's Ladder"), and has some slight similarities to the Paradiso, such as a sevenfold division of Paradise,^[23] although this is not unique to the Kitab al Miraj.

Dante lived in a Europe of substantial literary and philosophical contact with the Muslim world, encouraged by such factors as Averroism and the patronage of Alfonso X of Castile. Of the twelve wise men Dante meets in Canto X of the Paradiso, Thomas Aquinas and, even more so, Sigier of Brabant were strongly influenced by Arabic commentators on Aristotle.^[24] Medieval Christian mysticism also shared the Neoplatonic influence of Sufis such as Ibn Arabi. Philosopher Frederick Copleston argued in 1950 that Dante's respectful treatment of Averroes, Avicenna, and Sigier of Brabant indicates his acknowledgement of a "considerable debt" to Islamic philosophy.^[24]

Although this philosophical influence is generally acknowledged, many scholars have not been satisfied that Dante was influenced by the Kitab al Miraj. The twentieth century Orientalist Francesco Gabrieli expressed skepticism regarding the claimed similarities, and the lack of evidence of a vehicle through which it could have been transmitted to Dante. Even so, while dismissing the probability of some influences posited in Palacios' work,^[25] Gabrieli recognized that it was "at least possible, if not probable, that Dante may have known the Liber scalae and have taken from it certain images and concepts of Muslim eschatology". Shortly before her death the Italian philologist Maria Corti pointed out that, during his stay at the court of Alfonso X, Dante's mentor Brunetto Latini met Bonaventura de Siena, a Tuscan who had translated the Kitab al Miraj from Arabic into Latin. According to Corti,^[26] Brunetto may have provided a copy of that work to Dante. However, no evidence exists to support this speculation.

[edit] Literary influence in the English-speaking world and beyond

The work was not always so well regarded. After being recognized as a masterpiece in the first centuries following its publication,^[27] the work was largely ignored during the Enlightenment, with some notable exceptions such as Vittorio Alfieri, Antoine de Rivarol, who translated the Inferno into French, and Giambattista Vico, who in the Scienza nuova and in the Giudizio su Dante inaugurated what would later become the romantic reappraisal of Dante, juxtaposing him to Homer.^[28] The Comedy was "rediscovered" by William Blake - who illustrated several passages of the epic - and the romantic writers of the 19th century. Later authors such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, C.S. Lewis and James Joyce have drawn on it for inspiration. The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was its first American translator,^[29] and modern poets, including Seamus Heaney,^[30] Robert Pinsky, John Ciardi, and W. S. Merwin, have also produced translations of all or parts of the book. In Russia, beyond Pushkin's memorable translation of a few triplets^{[citation needed]}, Osip Mandelstam's late poetry has been said to bear of the mark of a "tormented meditation" on the Comedy.^[31] In 1934 Mandelstam gave a modern reading of the poem in his labyrinthine "Conversation on Dante"^[32]

New English translations of the Divine Comedy continue to be published regularly. Notable English translations of the complete poem include:

Year	Translator	Notes
1805–1814	Henry Francis Cary	An older translation, widely available online
1882	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	The first American translation, and still widely read, including online
1933-1943	Laurence Binyon	In an English version of terza rima
1949–1962	Dorothy L. Sayers	Translated for Penguin Classics, intended for a wider audience, and completed by Barbara Reynolds
1954–1970	John Ciardi	His Inferno was recorded and released by Folkways Records in 1954
1981	C. H. Sisson	Available in Oxford World's Classics
1982	Allen Mandelbaum	Available online
1967–2002	Mark Musa	An alternative Penguin Classics version
2000-2007	Robert and Jean Hollander	Online as part of the Princeton Dante Project
2006–2007	Robin Kirkpatrick	A third Penguin Classics version, replacing Musa's

Main article: Dante and his Divine Comedy in popular culture

Rodin's The Kiss represents Paolo and Francesca.^[33]

The Divine Comedy has been a source of inspiration for countless artists for almost seven centuries. There are many references to Dante's work in literature. In music, Franz Liszt was one of many composers to write works based on the Divine Comedy. In sculpture, the work of Auguste Rodin is notable for themes from Dante, and many visual artists have illustrated Dante's work, as shown by the examples above. There have also been many references to the Divine Comedy in cinema and computer games.

• List of cultural references in The Divine Comedy
• Allegory in the Middle Ages

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I wake in vain
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Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
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I dream of gardens in the desert sand
I wake in vain
I dream of love as time runs through my hand

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I dream of gardens in the desert sand
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Each of her veils, a secret promise
This desert flower
No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this

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This memory of Eden haunts us all
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This rare perfume, is the sweet intoxication of the fall