03 September 2005

- Friday Shuffle (Late Edition) -

Papa Don't Preach—Madonna
Sweet Lady—Queen
"Youth" from Das Lied von der Erde—Mahler
In My Room—The Beach Boys
"Reveige" from Des Knaben Wunderhorn—Mahler
Are You All Reet?—Cab Calloway
Jesse and Phil—Austin Lounge Lizards
Darn That Dream—Miles Davis
Wild Honey—The Beach Boys
Messaqe in a Bottle—The Policed

Daybreak

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Here [in Fidelio] and nowhere else music becomes a rosy dawn, militant religious, the dawning of a new day so audible that it seems more than simply hope. It shines forth as the pure work of Man, as one which had not appeared in the world surrounding Beethoven, a world that existed irrespective of men. Thus music as a whole stands at the farther limits of humanity, but at those limits where humanity, with new langauge and haloed by the call to achieved intensity, to the attained world of "we," is first taking shape. And this ordering in our musical expression means a house, indeed a crystal, but one derived from our future freedom: a star, but one that will be a new Earth.

—Ernst Bloch
The Principle of Hope