A Sense of Doubt blog post #1994 - Here Comes the Final Storm to end all STORMS - Musical Mix for 2008.03

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A Sense of Doubt blog post #1994 - Here Comes the Final Storm to end all STORMS - Musical Mix for 2008.03

There's a storm. It's here. We're in its maelstrom. It is hovering, remaining in place, an ever "widening gyre," swallowing everything.

And never has it been more true that the best of us lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity, to now partially quote two bits of Yeats' "The Second Coming."

This mix was not supposed to happen. It all came together quite randomly.

It started with finding Faulkner's Noble Prize speech when looking for the poem "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver (not featured). I was very taken with the speech and an extra bit of synchronicity as it was mentioned in the story I am reading, Haldeman's "Hemingway Hoax" an anthology of Hugo winners.

And so this mix that plays with the idea of rain, storms, and the dire end of all mankind ("when I will be blown up?") that Faulkner describes in his Nobel Prize speech from 70 years ago.

And have you heard of the band named Kent? Look at this:





It seemed just so right, and it just happened. YOU TUBE suggestion.

So I had a core mix already. I wanted to start with the classic Doors song "Riders on the Storm" and then I found that Snoop Dogg did a version, sampling the Doors, which seemed to provide classic bookends to the mix. I removed some stuff that didn't seem to fit and started assembling songs. I wanted to keep that mellow vibe of "Riders" and so I followed with Savages, Thelonius Monk, and Marconi Union.

I knew that the middle of the mix would get more upbeat and lyrical, but I wanted to sustain the feel of "Riders," and I like the composition of DJ Shadow, Thievery Corporation, and Sigur Ros that then culminates in a Hindi song by A.R. Rahman "Barso Re," which I found searching songs about rain and rain and Hindi came up.

The Kent song came up with "THE WOLF SONG" by Vargsången, which the software recommended following Sigur Ros. Other songs seemed to slot naturally into place coming out of a folder of saved favorites, such as Holly Herndon, Massive Attack, Cabaret Voltaire, Sevdaliza, and Lhasa De Sela.

I found several by "accident," YOU TUBE suggestion, such as Empire of the Sun, Radiohead, and Pink Floyd or found them in my favorites and forgot how I added them, such as Hasty Vespa, Lykke Li, and Bad Pilöt.

The mix came together beautifully and seems a good groove to soundtrack our work in month six of pandemic quarantine, month three of I CAN'T BREATHE and BLACK LIVES MATTER reinvigorated by the murder of George Floyd that took place on May 25th, in the countdown to the election (close to just 90 days away), month forty-four of the occupation of our house, the White House by that unfit and incompetent moron.

We're riding this storm, but soon, some of the storm cells may dissolve.

I am proud of this mix.

Here's some content along with an advertisement before the mix begins... :-)



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Nobel Prize Speech

by William Faulkner

December 10, 1950

I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work — a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this award is only mine in trust. It will not be difficult to find a dedication for the money part of it commensurate with the purpose and significance of its origin. But I would like to do the same with the acclaim too, by using this moment as a pinnacle from which I might be listened to by the young men and women already dedicated to the same anguish and travail, among whom is already that one who will some day stand where I am standing. Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only one question: When will I be blown up? Because of this, the young man or woman writing today has forgotten the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat. He must learn them again. He must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid: and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed — love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice. Until he does so, he labors under a curse. He writes not of love but of lust, of defeats in which nobody loses anything of value, of victories without hope and, worst of all, without pity or compassion. His griefs grieve on no universal bones, leaving no scars. He writes not of the heart but of the glands. Until he learns these things, he will write as though he stood among and watched the end of man. I decline to accept the end of man. It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

Resources

The William Faulkner Foundation

William Faulkner on the Web

Google Web Directory Listings for Faulkner












Here Comes the Final Storm to end all STORMS - Musical Mix for 2008.03

[1] The Doors - "Riders On The Storm" - Extended Remastered Version
[2] Savages - "You're My Chocolate"
[3] Thelonious Monk - "Misterioso"
[4] Marconi Union - "Weightless" (Official Video)
[5] DJ Shadow - "Midnight In A Perfect World"
[6] Thievery Corporation - "Forgotten People" (Live on KEXP)
[7] Sigur Ros - "Glósóli" [Official Music Video]
[8] A.R. Rahman - "Barso Re" (Lyric Video)
[9] Vargsången - "THE WOLF SONG" - Nordic Lullaby
[10] Kent - "Då Som Nu För Alltid"
[11] Massive Attack - "Unfinished Sympathy"
[12] Holly Herndon - "Frontier" (Official Audio)
[13] Cabaret Voltaire - "Afterglow"
[14] SEVDALIZA - "CLEAR AIR"
[15] Lhasa De Sela - "CON TODA PALABRA"
[16] Radiohead - "Street Spirit (Fade Out)"
[17] This Mortal Coil - "Song To The Siren" (Official Video)
[18] Empire Of The Sun - "We Are The People" (Official Music Video)
[19] Pink Floyd - "Wish You Were Here" (Alternative Version)
[20] Led Zeppelin - "The Rain Song" (Remaster)
[21] David Bowie - "Lazarus" (Video)
[22] M.I.A. - "Paper Planes" (Official Music Video)
[23] Are Sounds Electrik? - "Acid Moody Belgium Trips 1989"
[24] Bad Pilöt - "The Queen Ann's Revenge"
[25] Hasty Vespa ╺╸ "Blind"
[26] AL STEWART "Time Passages"
[27] Jeff Buckley & Elizabeth Fraser - "All Flowers In Time Bend Towards The Sun"
[28] Lorde - "In The Air Tonight" (Phil Collins cover in the Live Lounge)
[29] Lykke Li - "Hard Rain" (Official Video)
[30] Eddie Brickell and New Bohemians - "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall"
[31] Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart - "Here Comes The Rain Again" (Remastered)
[32] Peter Gabriel - "Red Rain"
[33] Snoop Dogg ft. The Doors - "Riders On The Storm"
[34] The Witch end song - "Isle of Wight"

THE VIDEO POD VIEWER FOR THE ENTIRE MIX:








THE YEAR IN NUMBER: 1994

I might have finished the Star Trek novel and shopped it and a teen romance novel via an agent in this year, but my files are back in Michigan, so I cannot confirm.

I am reasonably certain that I started a relationship that was semi-serious in this year, starting at my friend Helene's wedding, a relationship I managed to sabotage in 1995 and then I ghosted the very wonderful woman, who did not deserve to be ghosted.

I do remember spending nearly a week, a very lovely time, in Pittsburgh with that woman, a time when I discovered Sandy King's LIGHTEN UP motivational speech.

I finished my MA requirements either this year or the previous year while still teaching at KVCC and KCC. I would start teaching TECHNICAL WRITING at WMU in this year.

I would also start a gig that lasted a long time, writing theatrical and other arts reviews for the Battle Creek Enquirer, which I would do from Fall of 1994 until I moved out west in 2017.

Also, either this year, 1994, or previously in 1993, again without files, I cannot tell, I started my annual vacations in Traverse City at the Neahtawanta Inn, which I would do yearly until 2008.

1994 was a transitional year because many big things would happen in 1995.

1994 After many years the English Channel is opened joining England to France for the first time, this year also marks the 50th Anniversary of the Allied landings in France and the beginning of the end of the Second World War. Tensions start over Inspection of Nuclear Plants in North Korea. Rover in the UK is purchased by BMW. In the US the First Genetically Engineered Tomatoes become available and the use and sale of GM Foods is approved

Cost Of Living 1994 How Much things cost in 1994 Yearly Inflation Rate USA 2.61% Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 3834 Interest Rates Year End Federal Reserve 8.50% Average Cost of new house $119,050.00 Average Income per year $37,070.00 Average Monthly Rent $533.00 Cost of a gallon of Gas $1.09 Movie Ticket $4.08 Average cost of new car $12,350.00 Loaf of Bread $1.59 Dozen Eggs 86 cents Below are some Prices for UK guides in Pounds Sterling Average House Price 68,032 Gallon of Petrol 2.52 Yearly Inflation Rate UK 2.4% Interest Rates Year End Bank of England 6.13% FTSE 100 Average 3250

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My Mom was featured in a Merle Norman advertisement in 1994.

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