1.7.21 Mad World. Bowie Celebration concert info
Jan 7, 2021 3:07:20 GMT -5
Post by Q3 on Jan 7, 2021 3:07:20 GMT -5
Yesterday was a very odd {I could not find the right word} day in the USA. It was a day that will go down as a very sad, very dark day in American history. It seems like a "Mad World" to me.
I wanted to start off today with a piece of reality that Adam posted on IG, a song that captures the strangeness of this moment, a song about how I feel right now as I write this, and a song about how I hope I will feel in the morning.
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It is a "Mad World."
Adam actually capture the feeling of this moment in 2009.
Mad World (Top 8) LIVE - Adam Lambert
youtu.be/PfR0JGWX62E
Since I first watch this performance, I have listened and watch this performance about 1 million time. I played it tonight. It felt different. I noticed how the dreamlike state captured how I feel right now. Like this is not real.
Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide
No escape from reality
Open your eyes
Look up to the skies and see
At times I fell like someone should wake me up and make everything normal again. But there is no escape from reality.
How I feel right now.
It is midnight. I am tired and a bit sad. Sorry, this is very dark and very Jewish: "You Want It Darker" (Leonard Cohen) but somehow it is also fitting.
By the Montreal Symphonique with La chorale de la congrégation Shaar Hashomayim et Gideon Zelemyer
youtu.be/NGm8z0ykxdU
Magnified, sanctified
Be the holy name
Feel the fire, crucified
In the human frame
A million candles burning
For the help that never came
You want it darker
Hineni, hineni
I'm ready, My Lord
Hineni literally means "Here I am." The Hineni prayer is chanted by the cantor in synagogue on the Jewish High Holidays as a meditation prior to the Musaf (or additional) service on Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur. Unlike most of the high holidays prayers, it is worded in the first person singulal -- a one-on-one dialogue with God, asking that one's prayers be received favorably, despite any personal shortcomings.
But I have hope. More than hope, I am optimistic.
I am hopeful that some good may come from the COVID experience, we are certainly living with the bad. Maybe we can live better lives, more in harmony with the Earth. Millions started COVID vegetable gardens, took up hiking and baking, found out they like their families and partners. Maybe many will continue the good things when this dreadful disease is in our rearview mirrors.
Part of my hope comes form the fact that Millennials are stepping up and will help make things better. For example, the voters of Georgia elected the first Millennial U.S. Senator, Jon Ossoff. A man who is extraordinarily bright, a bit of a nerd, a "hot Jew" according to Vogue magazine, went to high school with Imagine Dragon's drummer Daniel Platzman, and who brings new, positive energy to DC. And may I give a shootout to his wife, Dr Alisha Kramer, an OB/GYN who spent *@#%$ night at the hospital instead of following the results with her husband and the campaign as he declared victory. She learned about who won from one of her patients.
And I am hopeful that in 13 more days #?!*# will be gone, the "grim reaper" will no longer be able to block voting in the U.S. Senate, and competent people will start running the US government. We have serious problems and it is time to start fixing them.
So, my hope is that it will all get better. Let me close with perhaps the most uplifting song ever. It is how I hope I will feel in the morning. I know that I am not alone in loving this version of this song -- the official YouTube video has over 1 billion views. So, if you want to smile, give this a play.
OFFICIAL "Somewhere over the Rainbow" Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwoʻole
youtu.be/V1bFr2SWP1I
Have a great day, and be safe and hopeful.
What do you think? Is there a song (by Adam, QAL, or anyone) or a meme that captures how you feel right now?
Tomorrow, Adam performance!
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David Bowie Remembered With ‘A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day’ Concert Livestream With Duran Duran, Adam Lambert, More
by Rachel West
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A livestreamed concert will mark the fifth anniversary of David Bowie’s death and what would have been the music icon’s 74th birthday this week.
A variety of musicians and celebrities will come together for “A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day”, a special virtual event in support of Save The Children. The event will feature artists who worked directly with Bowie and those who have been inspired by his music.
The all-star lineup includes Ricky Gervais, Gary Oldman, Adam Lambert, Duran Duran, Peter Frampton, Yungblud, Billy Corgan, Gavin Rossdale, Boy George, Gary Barlow of Take That, Slipknot’s Corey Taylor, Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters, Perry Ferrell, and more artists. Duran Duran is set to perform a cover of Bowie’s “Five Years” during the show.
Alumni of Bowie’s bands spanning from his 1969 self-titled album to his final album Blackstar will also take the stage to pay tribute to the singer during the event.
With $2 per ticket being donated to Save The Children, the three-hour event will be available online as of 6 p.m. PT on a loop for 24 hours to ticket holders and can be purchased online.
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