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Comment on Hallelujah by RACE

RACE — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 03:20:52 +0000

Well, Michael, I sincerely hope so. It would be a pity if such an excellent piece of musical poetry were to be diminished by dark motives.

Comment on Hallelujah by Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:24:18 +0000

RACE, I don’t think that is the case at all. In the words of Cohen himself:

“This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled, but there are moments when we can transcend the dualistic system and reconcile and embrace the whole mess and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah’. That regardless of what the impossibility of the situation is, there is a moment when you open your mouth and you throw open your arms and you embrace the thing and you just say ‘Hallelujah! Blessed is the name.’ And you can’t reconcile it in any other way except in that position of total surrender, total affirmation.

“That’s what it’s all about. It says that you’re not going to be able to work this thing out. This realm does not admit to revolution. There’s no solution to this mess. The only moment that you can live here comfortably in these absolutely irreconcilable conflicts is in this moment when you embrace it all and you say ‘Look, I don’t understand a fucking thing at all – Hallelujah!’ That’s the only moment that we live here fully as human beings.”

Comment on Hallelujah by RACE

RACE — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:42:00 +0000

…but have you considered the possibility of a satanic attempt to profane the unique praiseword for the Almighty Jehova? Why has no one commented on the explicit sexual references the song directly associates with that sacred word Hallelujah? Please play the original version again. Do you hear the ecstatic half-scream from the woman in a “broken Hallelujah”? And Leonard Cohen says that ‘it doesn’t matter’ even if he is taking ‘the name in vain’! Ask yourself why there was a necessity for claiming that the blaze in the word does not matter whether it is uttered ‘holy’ or ‘broken’ – apparently, to him, ecstacy is ecstacy whether it is offered ‘holy’ [sic, wholly as in 'Hallelujah'] to Yahweh or ejaculated ‘broken’ [as in 'aaargh...!'] to ‘the lord of song’ [Lucifer remember was the top angel of God and head of the heavenly choir, among other charisms before his attempted coup détat that ended in his fall from heaven]. If you conclude I am just another fundamentalist Christian out on yet another fanatical bellyache, ask yourself what Cohen intended by all those half-meanings, which mix the sacred with the profane…

Comment on Hallelujah by Joel

Joel — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 10:54:34 +0000

Jean … what does any of that have to do with Hallelujah? I’m with ya on the theory, but have you heard the song? It’s just a simple diatonic song.

Comment on Hallelujah by jean

jean — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:21:10 +0000

And diminished and dominant chords -

And whole tone scales/chords -

If you can wrap your head around it, much of it boils down to working with half steps, leading tones, that come from mixing together the tones from any dominant 7th scale and the dominant 7th scale built on its tritone -

As far as I know at the moment anyway -

CHeerrioo

Comment on Hallelujah by jean

jean — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:02:59 +0000

PSS -

you could also say it’s all about tritones – i.e. the flat 5 or #4 of any note -

Cheerio!

Comment on Hallelujah by jean

jean — Thu, 20 May 2010 17:00:43 +0000

PS -

Another way of talking about it is by talking about modes of the melodic minor especially the fourth mode of the melodic minor scale called the lydian dominant -

Comment on Hallelujah by jean

jean — Thu, 20 May 2010 16:58:37 +0000

very nicely written – but I think the secret is the Aflat (or G#) note added to the C major scale to create many secret chords – e.g. – E major leading into A minor (E, G sharp, B -* or C instead of B or whatever color note you want from the secret scale).

Another secret chord from the scale is G7 flat 9 – the flat 9 is the A flat – going into the C major -

See? The G# and Ab are the same note – you can create all kinds of beautiful chords by including that secret note into the C major scale -

Check out Barry Harris – he talks about it in jazz and calls it the C6 diminished scale – I think –

Gorgeous harmonies!

Comment on Mine is the night, with all her stars by Michael

Michael — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:41:52 +0000

Elizabeth: Thank you! Who are you? Your url doesn’t go to an actual site. Where is your blog?

Comment on Mine is the night, with all her stars by Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:35:49 +0000

I totally dig all your awesome comments on my blog – but I have no idea who you are! It’s driving me crazy. How did you find me? Let me know! :)

Comment on Eating at 3:00 AM by seven

seven — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:35:06 +0000

AWESOME.

My brother: He’s a genius, eh?

Comment on Web Design by Michael

Michael — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:36:35 +0000

No, I’m not really very familiar with what that is, but from the little bit that I do know, it doesn’t seem too hard to pick up.

Comment on Web Design by brandon

brandon — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:13:08 +0000

Do you code in rails?

Comment on Caramelized Shots by Michael

Michael — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 01:41:54 +0000

Pretty long, but I was never formally trained. Good to know, though! Thanks!

Comment on Caramelized Shots by DJK

DJK — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:29:26 +0000

How long have you been making coffee? When you pull a shot like that it’s called a “Cubano.”

Comment on Excuses and Updates by Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:40:58 +0000

@seven: Hi. ;)

Comment on Excuses and Updates by Michael

Michael — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 23:40:22 +0000

@Abby Elizabeth: Well, it’s still a work in progress, but basically, it’s about a crazy homeless guy who has hallucinations, and the meaning of life.

Comment on Excuses and Updates by Abby Elizabeth

Abby Elizabeth — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:11:20 +0000

Wait, you’re making a movie this summer too? Details please!

Comment on Excuses and Updates by seven

seven — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:49:17 +0000

I like how I knew none of these things.

Actually, I guess you told me about the movie. I just forgot.

This comment has no point.

Comment on About by Mary @ Giving Up on Perfect

Mary @ Giving Up on Perfect — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:35:10 +0000

I don’t know what’s funnier – that I clicked on the how to be a geek article…or the box that popped up when I did it!

Comment on Hallelujah by Michael

Michael — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:14:41 +0000

Ooop. Mah bad… Thanks for correcting that!

Comment on Hallelujah by jayme cowley

jayme cowley — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 08:27:29 +0000

leonard cohen is a canadian songwriter. NOT an american songwriter.

Comment on Moving Again by Abby Elizabeth

Abby Elizabeth — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 00:28:52 +0000

Just a new house.

Comment on Moving Again by Michael

Michael — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:18:36 +0000

Ooh, that’s exciting! Moving, like out of town? Or just to a new house?

Comment on Moving Again by Abby Elizabeth

Abby Elizabeth — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:06:08 +0000

I’m moving this month. To where I do not know.

Comment on Moving Again by seven

seven — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 07:11:53 +0000

Woot. You’ll have to have me over one of these days.

Comment on Sweet Deliciousness! by seven

seven — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 04:59:31 +0000

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Comment on I totaled my car… by Michael

Michael — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:11:55 +0000

Okay, so I exaggerated, but you remember the first wreck that car was in? I’m gonna put a link to that post in here…

Comment on I totaled my car… by seven

seven — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 02:58:37 +0000

Um, okay… what nose dive off of what cliff? It is probably better that I knew nothing about this until now.

Comment on Sweet Photos by Abby Elizabeth

Abby Elizabeth — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:14:57 +0000

Wow! Looks like Amy J’s into you! Score!

I was creepin the other day and saw those pictures. They are good. Nice to look at. You got to love those impromptu hang outs with photographers.