One of the gifts of time is the “filtering of beauty”. History directs us to these timeless masterpieces: J.S.Bach – Toccata & Fugue BWV 565 – 11 String Guitar Bach’s Mass in B Minor – Kyrie II Bach’s Little Fugue in G Minor Bach’s Two Part Inventions Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata Holst’s Brook Green Suite (Vilnius […]
We started with the best of intentions. Today was going to be Penguin Day at WLBOTT, but were soon thwarted in our efforts. Busted: WLBOTT Pleads Innocent of All Charges Let’s Dig Into This I Am The WalrusWritten by John Lennon and credited to Lennon–McCartneyI am he as you are he as you are meAnd […]
There is an iconic photo of Judy Collins on the beach, seagulls overhead, powerful waves behind her. She has an expression of spiritual bliss and ecstasy. We tried to recreate this scene with the HotPot image generator, using a simple prompt of “Judy Collins on the beach, large waves behind her, seagulls flying overhead.” It […]
While Spousal Unit and I were on a Three Initial Company (TIC) business trip to Taiwan, we took an enchanting trip across the country’s interior that included Taroko Gorge, Sun Moon Lake, and the hillside fruit orchards amidst the central mountains. After all those years, I remember the song that became fixed in my mind […]
She Belongs to Me – Bob Dylan She’s got everything she needs She’s an artist, she don’t look back She can take the dark out of the nighttime And paint the daytime black You will start out standing Proud to steal her anything she sees But you will wind up peeking through her keyhole Down […]
Joan of Arcby Leonard Cohen Now the flames they followed Joan of ArcAs she came riding through the darkNo moon to keep her armor brightNo man to get her through thisVery smoky night She said, “I’m tired of the warI want the kind of work I had beforeWith a wedding dress or something whiteTo wear […]
Yesterday’s BLOTT, about the childhood of Joan of Arc and the prominence of the Fairy Tree in her childhood, led the WLBOTT historical archives team to wonder: Just how bad-ass were fairies during the middle ages? These were not Tinker Bells[1], by any means. They could be pretty mischievous and sometimes wicked. Probably one of […]
One of my favorite albums from my youth was Once Upon A Dream by The Rascals. It represented an artistic leap of faith by The Rascals, as they experimented with new sounds, instruments, and album concepts – breaking away from the Top 40 format that had given them commercial success in the past. Once Upon […]
White Rabbit => Bolero Connection She said that the music was heavily influenced by Miles Davis’s 1960 album Sketches of Spain, particularly Davis’s treatment of the Concierto de Aranjuez (1939). She later said: “Writing weird stuff about Alice backed by a dark Spanish march was in step with what was going on in San Francisco […]
After a long day of manipulating twine futures, the WLBOTT staff likes to boogie! No one says it more succinctly than Alicia Bridges: I love the nightlife I got to boogie on the disco ’round, oh yea. Oh, I love the night life I got to boogie on the disco ’round, oh yea. Oh, I […]