Moby - slipping away crier la vie, 2006

"Produced and remixed by MHC in London, "Slipping Away (Crier la vie)" is a dance version of "Slipping Away" adds French lyrics. On his blog on September 9, 2006, then in the December 16, 2006 edition of the French newspaper Le Parisien, Moby stated that Farmer came to his restaurant Teany in New York and suggested to him that they record a duet version of "Slipping Away", as she had heard the song on his best of and liked it. He explained that she wrote her lyrics in French and they worked together at a distance from each other (New York and Paris). The song was very regularly aired by all French radio stations, including Fun Radio which aired it several times every day. As the song was very successful, new remixes were made and a second CD maxi and vinyl were released on November 15."

Fait-divers by Vala Afshar

"Two things define us: 1) our patience when we have nothing, 2) our attitude when we have everything." (Vala Afshar)

Fait-divers

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells." (Dr. Seuss)

Fait-divers by Jung

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes." (C. G. Jung)

Fait-divers by Einstein

"I have no doubt that our thinking goes on for the most part without use of signs (words) and beyond that to a considerable degree unconsciously. For how, otherwise, should it happen that we sometimes “wonder” quite spontaneously about some experience? This “wondering” appears to occur when an experience comes into conflict with a world of concepts already sufficiently fixed within us. Whenever such a conflict is experienced sharply and intensely it reacts back upon our world of thought in a decisive way. The development of this world of thought is in a certain sense a continuous flight from “wonder.” A wonder of this kind I experienced as a child of four or five years when my father showed me a compass. That this needle behaved in such a determined way did not at all fit in the kind of occurrences that could find a place in the unconscious world of concepts (efficacy produced by direct “touch”). I can still remember — or at least believe I can remember — that this experience made a deep and lasting impression upon me. Something deeply hidden had to be behind things." (Albert Einstein)

Fait-divers: Brandolini's law (or the bullshit asymmetry principle)

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it." (Alberto Brandolini)

Fait-divers by Einstein

"There is, after all, something eternal that lies beyond the hand of fate and of all human delusions. And such eternals lie closer to an older person than to a younger one oscillating between fear and hope. For us, there remains the privilege of experiencing beauty and truth in their purest forms." (Albert Einstein)

Fleet Foxes - sunblind, 2020

"Throughout the track, frontman Robin Pecknold names off around nineteen artists that have both had an effect on Pecknold’s life and have passed away at a young age. Though the song deals with death, it never comes across as mournful, at least not in a traditional sense. Pecknold vows to carry on the legacy of Elliott Smith, Arthur Russell and a handful of others through his own music, celebrating and honoring by creating music under their influence. Instrumentally, “Sunblind” reflects the same idea, rising to a crescendo under sunny guitars and warm vocals."

Fait-divers by Thomas Merton

"Our culture is one which is geared in many ways to help us evade any need to face this inner, silent self." (Thomas Merton)

The Coral - distance inbetween, 2016

"The band wanted the sound to be minimal, direct and groove-based, with musical touchstones including Cypress Hill, Kool Keith, Portishead and Can. The album was also influenced by what Power referred to as "stuff that's happened," including the death of Alan Wills, the band's mentor and founder of Deltasonic Records, in a cycling accident. The band subsequently dedicated the album in memory of Wills."

Sintra, pôr do sol, ontem, 31 de julho de 2025

Fait-divers by Tolstoy

"For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite." (Leo Tolstoy)

Belle And Sebastian - play for today, 2015

"Belle & Sebastian’s Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance was released early in the year to little fanfare. Twenty years into their remarkable career, the Scottish septet doesn’t excite critics the way they used to. It’s a shame, because the record is solid start to finish, not the best thing they’ve ever recorded but better than pretty much everything else released in 2015. Guess that’s just shooting par for these guys. The 7-plus minute ‘Play For Today’ grabbed me immediately. Performed as a duet by B&S frontman Stuart Murdoch and Dee Dee Penny of the L.A.-based indie band Dum Dum Girls, the song uses theater as a metaphor for depression."

Fait-divers by Eugene Peterson

“Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.” (Eugene Peterson)

Fait-divers by Vala Afshar

Hard skills that require constant practice: 1 giving a sincere compliment, 2 listening with intent to learn, 3 talking less, but saying more. (Vala Afshar)

Fait-divers by Kafka

"People talk loud and long, in order to say as little as possible." (Franz Kafka)

Fait-divers on entanglement

"the emergence of classically connected spacetimes is intimately related to the quantum entanglement of degrees of freedom in a non-perturbative description of quantum gravity. Disentangling the degrees of freedom associated with two regions of spacetime results in these regions pulling apart and pinching off from each other in a way that can be quantified by standard measures of entanglement."

Slowdive - missing you, 1993

"Despite its members’ youthfulness – averaging 19 years of age when they signed to Creation Records in 1990 – Slowdive arrived late to the scene eventually referred to derisively in the British music press as shoegaze. In many ways, the five-piece outfit was victims of circumstance. Following the excesses of My Bloody Valentine’s monumental Loveless (1991), which nearly bankrupted Creation, perceptions of the still-nascent genre turned a corner and initial champions turned their backs on the mop-topped gloom rockers. As part of Creation’s stable of early ‘90s dream-poppers, Slowdive managed only two LPs and a handful of EPs as a full band before the critical pushback against shoegaze and fickle fans effectively killed any chances at longevity."

Damien Jurado - dear thomas wolfe, 2018

"A taciturn sensitive-lumberjack type with a voice like something heavy he’s carrying on his back, Jurado also winds brambly acoustic guitar lines through abstract poetic language, incanting the names of small towns and vast states, mysterious women and disreputable men."

Fait-divers on compassion and generosity

Compassion and generosity can combat the rising tide of inequality. True wealth is happiness which comes from giving.

Fait-divers by the Dalai Lama on gratitude

"When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others." (Dalai Lama)

Fait-divers on attitude

What we practice and repeat in life becomes more automatic.

Fait-divers on courage

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Fait-divers by Niels Bohr

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." Niels Bohr

Fait-divers on the universe

The universe and human beauty standards are both shaped by the interplay of art and science in creating order.

Belle And Sebastian - the ghost of rockschool, 2010

"For 15 years, Belle & Sebastian have been releasing albums chock full of literate, gorgeous pop music. They’ve recorded so many string-and-horn embellished soft rock songs that it’s hard to believe there’s a melody or a trumpet solo out there that they haven’t hit on yet. But in 2010 they did it again. Their latest album, Write About Love, features a handful of tracks as good as anything the band has put out over the past decade. Par for the course. My favorite of the new songs is ‘The Ghost of Rockschool,’ a Stuart Murdoch special that weaves in his trademark religious references and a trumpet performance by band member Mick Cooke that makes me want to weep or cheer. I think I could attribute about 45% of my adoration of Belle & Sebastian to Mick Cooke’s trumpet playing. Invariably my favorite songs of theirs feature his sublime work. Note to all bands, both established and up-and-coming: Get yourself a trumpet player!"

The Big Moon - why, 2020

"Their piano galumphs along, their vocal harmonies are rowdy and imposing yet their quirks are tamed by keen, oddball structures, and a rare balance of enveloping dreaminess and emphatic insistence. At their spikiest, as on Don’t Think or Holy Roller, they can recall the great 2000s indie band the Long Blondes."

Slowdive - country rain, 1993

"They've found a way to be quiet, moving, and aggressive simultaneously, mixing trance-like beauty with the deepest delayed guitar sounds around, a sound at once relaxing, soothing, and exciting, and most of all harshly beautiful."

Fait-divers on happiness

Happiness is a sense of clarity where you forget yourself, lose track of time, and feel like you’re part of something larger.

Lily And Madeleine - hourglass, 2015

“As I attempt to further discover who I am as an individual, the way society wants me to define myself is becoming clearer. It seems to me that young people are the same everywhere, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic class. All young adults are in the same boat, trying to figure out what makes us individuals and trying to find our value in society.”

Tindersticks - how he entered, 2015

"They’re moments and entities once bustling with life, but which now exist as faded memories or shells of their former selves. And for so long as we pine to make them real again, there will be exquisite Tindersticks songs to help us fill the void."

Fait-divers by Alan Watts

"The desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath." (Alan Watts)

Charlie Haden Family And Friends - spiritual live, 2008

"Joining Charlie and Josh on stage are two other members of the Haden family. Petra Haden on violin and Tanya Haden on ‘cello. Tanya, by the way, is married to Jack Black. The only musical family member missing from this ensemble that performed on the Letterman show was bassist/keyboardist Rachel Haden. Rachel, Tanya, and Petra are triplet daughters of Charlie Haden; Josh is their older brother."

Fait-divers by Einstein

"Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought." (Einstein)

Fait-divers on black holes

"Beyond the event horizon, black holes curve into one of the darkest mysteries in physics. Scientists can’t explain what happens when objects cross the event horizon and spiral toward the singularity. General relativity and quantum mechanics collide and Einstein’s equations explode into infinities. Black holes might even house gateways to other universes called wormholes and violent fountains of energy and matter called white holes, though it seems very unlikely that nature would allow these structures to exist. Sometimes reality is stranger than fiction."

Fait-divers on dark matter

Dark matter helps make accurate predictions, but it could be epistemologically inaccessible. We know it works but we don't know how.

Fait-divers on the universe

To live in a universe that is largely inaccessible is to live in a realm of endless possibilities, for better or worse.

Fait-divers by Eleanor Brownn

"Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it’s gone for good." (Eleanor Brownn)

Belle And Sebastian - write about love, 2010

"The song features some singing from Oscar-nominated actress Carey Mulligan (An Education)."