Thursday, July 3, 2025
The Housemartins - the light is always green cheap version, 1997
"Raise the Flag" is a bootleg compilation album released in 1997 by Saturday Elephant Productions. This album is not an official release but a collection of B-sides, live tracks, and rarities from 1984–1988, featuring 24 tracks such as "Stand at Ease," "Coal Train to Hatfield Main," "You," and "Drop Down Dead (12" Version)." It includes an 8-page full-color foldout insert with a bio, band member details, and a complete Housemartins discography. The CD, cataloged as SE02-97, is considered a rare collector's item and is noted for its jangle pop and indie pop style.
The Go-Betweens - bachelor kisses, 1984
See also https://sintrabloguecintia.blogspot.com/2024/05/the-radio-dept-bachelor-kisses-cover.html. This is a fabulous cover version of this song by The Radio Dept. A dreamy and lo-fi cover, aligning with The Radio Dept.'s style.
Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Monday, June 30, 2025
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Friday, June 27, 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Monday, June 23, 2025
Sunday, June 22, 2025
Saturday, June 21, 2025
Friday, June 20, 2025
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Wednesday, June 18, 2025
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
Monday, June 16, 2025
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Fait-divers by Thomas Merton
The direct existential grasp of reality in itself can be presented in a parable, a fable, or a funny story. (Thomas Merton)
Fait-divers on happiness
Suffering was temporary until we started trying to make happiness permanent.
Fait-divers on the internet
The biggest trick the internet ever played is convincing people that humor is a substitute for argument.
Fait-divers on books again and again
Communists tried to dumb down people by banning books. Capitalism, however, lets you buy them so that you put off reading them forever.
Fait-divers on books
If you read for the purpose of education and not pleasure you'll end up with neither.
Fait-divers by Vala Afshar on time
Time doesn't wait for anyone, so don't wait for it. (Vala Afshar)
Saturday, June 14, 2025
Fait-divers by Sarah Kay on authenticity
"Authenticity is something that cannot be fabricated." (Sarah Kay)
Fait-divers on blue by Rebecca Solnit
The world is blue at its edges and in its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colorless, shallow water appears to be the color of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of this scattered light, the purer the water the deeper the blue. The sky is blue for the same reason, but the blue at the horizon, the blue of land that seems to be dissolving into the sky, is a deeper, dreamier, melancholy blue, the blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see for miles, the blue of distance. This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distance, the light that gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much of which is in the color blue. (Rebecca Solnit)
Fait-divers by HopeJahren
There isn’t anything in the world that can’t be fixed by some combination of love and work. (Hope Jahren)
Fait-divers on information and data
The meaning of the word "information" has changed from "learning" to "data", and we with it.
Fait-divers by Vinod Khosla
“The more credentials somebody has, the more assumptions they make, the less they test them, the more likely they are to fail” (Vinod Khosla)
Friday, June 13, 2025
Fait-divers on optimism and pessimism
Optimism is a form of pessimism because it assumes that there's something to improve.
Fait-divers on faith and despair
Optimism is an alienated form of faith, pessimism an alienated form of despair.
Fait-divers on books
A bad book is one you never finish reading. This is also what makes a great book.
Fait-divers by Lisa Randall on art
"Art allows us to explore the universe through a filter of human perceptions and emotions. It examines how our senses access the world and what we can learn from this interaction — highlighting how people participate in and observe the universe around us. Art is very much a function of human beings, giving us a clearer view of our intuitions and how we as people perceive the world. Unlike science, it is not seeking objective truths that transcend human interactions. Art has to do with our physical and emotional responses to the external world, bearing directly on internal experiences, needs, and capacities that science might never reach." (Lisa Randall)
Thursday, June 12, 2025
Fait-divers by Kafka
"Just be quiet and patient. Let evil and unpleasantness pass quietly over you. Do not try to avoid them. On the contrary, observe them carefully. Let active understanding take the place of reflex irritation, and you will grow out of your trouble. Men can achieve greatness only by surmounting their own littleness." (Kafka)
Fait-divers by Alexandra Horowitz
The thing you are doing now affects the thing you see next. (Alexandra Horowitz)
Fait-divers: humour?
Everything has been said before. But it would be worthless if you couldn't say it again.
Fait-divers on storytelling
Storytellers are concerned with the question of how to endow experience with meaning.
Fait-divers on reality by Kafka
“Reality is never and nowhere more accessible than in the immediate moment of one’s own life. It’s only there that it can be won or lost.” (Kafka)
Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Fait-divers by Seneca
If you would not have a man flinch when the crisis comes, train him before it comes. (Seneca)
Fait-divers on happiness, depression and sadness
The difference between happiness, sadness and depression? Happy people look sad, sad people look depressed, and depressed people look happy.
Fait-divers by Thomas Merton
We have what we seek. It is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us. (Thomas Merton)
Fait-divers by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Care granted to the sick, welcome offered to the banished, forgiveness itself are worth nothing without a smile enlightening the deed. We communicate in a smile beyond languages, classes, and parties. We are faithful members of the same church, you with your customs, I with mine." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
Fait-divers
We live in an age where we write and photograph everything, but read and look at nothing.
Fait-divers by Vincent Van Gogh on depression
“One feels as if one were lying bound hand and foot at the bottom of a deep dark well, utterly helpless.” (Vincent Van Gogh on depression)
Fait-divers on black holes
You wouldn’t even necessarily notice a black hole. You’d only notice when you tried to escape.
Fait-divers on humility by Thomas Merton
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility. (Thomas Merton)
Fait-divers by Thomas Merton on silence
Contradictions have always existed in the soul of man. It is only when we prefer analysis to silence that they become a insoluble problem. (Thomas Merton)
Fait-divers on wholeness
Wholeness does not mean perfection: it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life.
Fait-divers on emptiness
In true emptiness, there is no I to be confused and nothing to be confused about.
Fait-divers on happiness
Happiness doesn't require an activity just like boredom doesn't require the absence of activity.
Fait-divers on humour and internet
Internet privacy is amazing because humanity spent 5000 years to develop technology that lets you write things that nobody else read.
Fait-divers on attitude by Gerry McCann
The best reason to do something is simply because it is the right thing to do. (Gerry McCann)
Fait-divers on charity by Thomas Merton
Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose. (Thomas Merton)
Fait-divers on storytelling
Storytelling is the essential human activity. The harder the situation, the more essential it is.
Fait-divers on attitude
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes; he who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Fait-divers on attitude
In all things: let love guide you, let truth test you, let success humble you, let dreams awaken you, let meaning free you.
Fait-divers on listening
Listen to others with an openness that allows them to be as they are, or as they think themselves to be.
Fait-divers on humour
Humor is overrated. All it shows is that you are so privileged that you can afford to laugh.
Fait-divers by Milan Kundera
The absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air and his earthly being, and become only half real. (Milan Kundera)
Fait-divers on curiosity
Curiosity when looking up doesn’t take anything from you. This curiosity just gives.
Fait-divers on honesty and compassion
"Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honest, but subtle hostility." (Rose Frarnzblau)
Monday, June 9, 2025
Fait-divers by Thomas Merton
The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely. (Thomas Merton)
Fait-divers by Gerry McCann on Love
Hatred is the ultimate failure; it leads to total emptiness. Only Love can set us free. (Gerry McCann)
Fait-divers on art
One of the reasons we admire or like art, if we do, is that it reopens us in some sense.
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)