Showing posts with label tim minchin. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tim minchin. Show all posts
Monday, December 1, 2014
Music Mondays: Tim Minchin "White Wine In The Sun"
Coming in a little late today, but considering it is the post-Thanksgiving holiday, is that really a surprise? I hope those in the US had an amazing Turkey Day (and if you're out of the States, a lovely weekend!). It's getting to be that time of year, and I can't help but feel swept away by the impending holiday.
With that, I wanted to focus this month's music selections on the not-so-traditional songs that make this holiday so great. The first of which is one of my personal favorites from comedian Tim Minchin. His honest, funny, and touching poem-song "White Wine in the Sun."
I first heard this track a few years ago, and every Christmas since, I've been known to cycle through it on repeat like a crazy person, welling up with tears of happiness and satisfaction. I love how nontraditional the song is, but it still captures the true meaning of the holidays--at least what they mean to me.
If you're a fan of this Aussie, then you know how compelling his work can be. This is one of his tamer, more accessible songs, and I believe it is the perfect way to kick off this December month. Enjoy!
Artist: Tim Minchin
Song: "White Wine in the Sun" | download | stream
Album: Ready For This?
Tuesday, July 3, 2012
"Isn't this enough?"
Beautiful, complex
Wonderfully unfathomable, NATURAL world?
How does it so fail to hold our attention
That we have to diminish it with the invention
Of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters?
If you're so into your Shakespeare
Lend me your ear:
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw perfume on the violet…… is just fucking silly.
Or something like that.
Or what about Satchmo?!
I see trees of Green,
Red roses too,
And fine, if you wish to
Glorify Krishna and Vishnu
In a post-colonial, condescending
Bottled-up and labeled kind of way
Then whatever, that's ok.
But here's what gives me a hard-on:
I am a tiny, insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon.
I have one life, and it is short
And unimportant…
But thanks to recent scientific advances
I get to live twice as long
As my great great great great uncleses and auntses.
Twice as long to live this life of mine
Twice as long to love this wife of mine
Twice as many years of friends and wine.
- Tim Minchin, "Storm"
Wonderfully unfathomable, NATURAL world?
How does it so fail to hold our attention
That we have to diminish it with the invention
Of cheap, man-made Myths and Monsters?
If you're so into your Shakespeare
Lend me your ear:
To gild refined gold, to paint the lily,
To throw perfume on the violet…… is just fucking silly.
Or something like that.
Or what about Satchmo?!
I see trees of Green,
Red roses too,
And fine, if you wish to
Glorify Krishna and Vishnu
In a post-colonial, condescending
Bottled-up and labeled kind of way
Then whatever, that's ok.
But here's what gives me a hard-on:
I am a tiny, insignificant, ignorant bit of carbon.
I have one life, and it is short
And unimportant…
But thanks to recent scientific advances
I get to live twice as long
As my great great great great uncleses and auntses.
Twice as long to live this life of mine
Twice as long to love this wife of mine
Twice as many years of friends and wine.
- Tim Minchin, "Storm"
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