I went quiet.
Last week nothing happened as planned and it was pretty good.
Those who may imagine I developed a Seraphim obsession because of an unexpected "trip" to New York that defied the "laws" of physics in four dimensions are incorrect. It's been far more remarkable than anything so banal.
I said "Oh goodness!" on finding today this particular VoW -- whose online journal is available for anyone with a taste for poetry and proof wisdom has nothing to do with age -- will be in Paris at the end of next week.
Sarah Fimm starts a European tour on Wednesday. I'm beyond astonishment. Sarah's doing this with Peter Murphy, widely described as a "gothic rocker", which says what dunces we are to stick labels on people.
I hope to meet both, if this is possible. Knowing what touring is like for musicians, many of whom are politer about journalists asking for interviews than they feel, I haven't.
There are less formal and more useful ways of saying "hello" and learning a few things, which include relaxing.
If anything comes of this you'll know about it.
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Decisions.
July can't be a month of which my bank manager will approve unless I'm careful. Caution consists in telling you I'd better not do concerts and also leap on every latest voice of a woman to take my fancy. But there's always somebody so remarkable that I'll buy the album anyway.
In the past few days, I've been listening and exploring the inspirations and different life stories of enough VoWs to keep me busy telling you about them for a long while to come .
I'll no longer say it's unlikely a 'Sting in the Lotus' screenplay about the story of the Quiet Revolution will see the light of day, because it simply won't. Ever.
I warmly thank everybody who's encouraged me to "get on with it", but have meditated on this for a long time and concluded the only way to pursue any 'Lotus Project' is to get on with the QR itself instead.
That's simple and constructive, while what you make of the words 'Lotus Project' will, I hope, for some, give a notion of what I'm about; I could also call it just "waking up".
When I see striking signs of what the QR is in action around us, I'll sometimes write about them, but decided it's wiser to stop blogging about unconventional things I seem able to do with my mind since it's too new and strange as a conscious exercise. Most of what I say will be nonsense until I've understood what's going on and hypothetical speculation is of no interest or consequence.
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I've no longer the questions I first wished to ask Sarah about networks -- she's clear enough. If you can be a net-working kind of person and do a bit to help people in your immediate vicinity discover a little more harmony in themselves occasionally, it's a sharing process and that takes some learning at any age.
I shall indeed write later about Sarah's other albums, since there are few such lucid markers to people's capacity for change and experiment and risking something new every time, but since she's coming to Europe, I'll say if it's humour you like, a marvellous sense of fun and a sharp ear for the absurdities of life, let me do potential listeners a favour.
All those reviewers full of comparisons and claptrap -- there are too many of them -- who find this lass "oh, so terribly dark," they're bonkers, I think. Quite potty. The first thing I realised about Sarah is how funny she is. It's blindingly obvious. If people are blinded when singers shed so much light on life, that's one of the strangest things about life. Or people, whatever...
I shall be going to that moored lightship on the Seine for warmth and the radiance. But now it's late and I've still got some musical things to do before I go to bed. I'm bound to say a bit about that Aimee Mann concert coming up on Friday, and somebody who's coming with me has three days to learn English.
Or so she fears. In past days, two people reminded me, as if I needed it, music doesn't have borders. One was a Senegalese stranger in Le Bouquet, my coffee hole, who said he didn't give a damn if people in Dakar think Youssou N'Dour changed too much for them when he came out with
'Egypt'.
"Blank those people in Dakar," this fellow said. "If they can't hear what's good when it's given to them, they may be sad with walls in their ears and sadder still with the fences in their minds."
I've forgotten to point out if you're interested in the musics people make without barriers, the 'Auralgasms' link in the blogroll is a place I visit very often because apart from having an appealing name, the site's frequently updated and one where musicians get a chance to introduce themselves without many people getting in the way.
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