Vespers (cover)
Composed for and broadcast on the A Mutual Respect February Music Month Challenge
It was years ago that I first heard the song Vespers, an original by grad school comrade-in-arts Nick Courage, and it stuck with me. I think he was having one of his raucous ecofeminist-poetry-jamz parties, and we were all drinking 40z out of champagne flutes and somehow the guitars came out and so did "Vespers" (I think I ended up humming along in off-kilter harmony or banging on a pot or something). It took me till now to get around to covering it, and I'm pleased how it's both new and old, "darker and more hopeful" as Courage himself puts it.
Guitar, vocals: Mark Fullmer
Poetry: Plath, "Daddy". Hopkins, "The Windhover". Ginsberg, "Howl". Courage, "PhDville burnt down"
Story: Hemingway: "Indian Camp"
Cover(!) art: a shot of my February home, in Taos NM
Comments
Perhaps my most favorite song
Mark, this was a provocative
Mark, this was a provocative discussion. I suppose as devil's advocate I would be less enthusiastic about some of the points you made, such as the reconceptualizing of knowledge. I think of the Atlantic Monthly cover article a few months back with the lovely title "Is Google Making Us Stoopid?"
Perhaps in the panel in June this might be what I should be doing: asking the philosopher's questions about the implications of Web 2.0.
WOWZERS, James's brother...
WOWZERS, James's brother... you have such a talented singing voice! And your Mandarin is excellent! As a native speaker of the Chinese language, I am very impressed. Mad props to you! :D
That's a cool thing.
That's a cool thing.
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