Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Running up that Hill



So far I have now run up that %&## hill twice! In the spirit of full disclosure, I had to stop at the top to catch my breath...

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Fado

Fado is a Portuguese music style, generally sung by a single person (the fadista) along with a Portuguese guitar. The most popular themes of fado are saudade, nostalgia, jealousy, and short stories of the typical city quarters. Fado, and Saudade are two key and intertwined ideas in Portuguese culture. The word fado comes from Latin fatum meaning "fate" or "destiny". Fado is a musical cultural expression and recognition of this unassailable determinism which compels the resigned yearning of saudade, a bittersweet, existential yearning and hopefulness towards something over which one has no control.