Life's simple pleasures
Jan. 31st, 2009 09:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
randy_byersAt long last, here are a few items that have almost (but not quite) nothing to do with movies.
Had a lovely dinner with the co-editor of the north and his wife last night. We were celebrating some astonishing fund-raising numbers for Corflu Zed. Andy has truly been the hero of the convolution for his fund-raising. My credit card is breathing easier because of him.
Yesterday I received the soundtrack CD for Dil Se in the mail. (Yes, I'm one of the people driving Amazon's stock upwards.) "Chaiyya Chaiyya" really is an insanely catchy song. I could listen to it all day. According to Wikipedia, 'Composer A R Rahman has declared that "Chaiyya Chaiyya" is "a Sufi song". Its lyrics are notable for their use of religious (especially Islamic) metaphors to characterize love, including references to heaven, the Shahadah (Muslim declaration of faith), and a verse from the Quran.'
Sometimes (my beloved) flirts like a flower,
so fragrantly that you may see her scent.
Having made it into an charm, I will wear it.
She shall be obtained as a miracle is obtained.
She is my song, my declaration of faith
(My friend is like a priest to me.)
My song... my declaration of faith...
She moves like the dew.
She walks with the garden of heaven beneath her feet,
sometimes through the branches, sometimes amidst the leaves.
I shall search the wind for her trail!
Today my brother is coming up with his wife and younger son. My brother is picking up a part for his Hobie Cat at the Boat Show. My niece is coming up separately to visit a friend of hers who had a baby recently. All of us are going to get together at some point to visit our Yapese friends in Tacoma. It's been at least a year since we last saw them, I think, so it'll be great to get caught up on family and island news. We'll probably all dream together of going back to Yap some day. Then it'll be back to our house for a slumber party, as my niece put it. Somebody is going to have to sleep on the floor!
Well, better go sweep it then.
Had a lovely dinner with the co-editor of the north and his wife last night. We were celebrating some astonishing fund-raising numbers for Corflu Zed. Andy has truly been the hero of the convolution for his fund-raising. My credit card is breathing easier because of him.
Yesterday I received the soundtrack CD for Dil Se in the mail. (Yes, I'm one of the people driving Amazon's stock upwards.) "Chaiyya Chaiyya" really is an insanely catchy song. I could listen to it all day. According to Wikipedia, 'Composer A R Rahman has declared that "Chaiyya Chaiyya" is "a Sufi song". Its lyrics are notable for their use of religious (especially Islamic) metaphors to characterize love, including references to heaven, the Shahadah (Muslim declaration of faith), and a verse from the Quran.'
Sometimes (my beloved) flirts like a flower,
so fragrantly that you may see her scent.
Having made it into an charm, I will wear it.
She shall be obtained as a miracle is obtained.
She is my song, my declaration of faith
(My friend is like a priest to me.)
My song... my declaration of faith...
She moves like the dew.
She walks with the garden of heaven beneath her feet,
sometimes through the branches, sometimes amidst the leaves.
I shall search the wind for her trail!
Today my brother is coming up with his wife and younger son. My brother is picking up a part for his Hobie Cat at the Boat Show. My niece is coming up separately to visit a friend of hers who had a baby recently. All of us are going to get together at some point to visit our Yapese friends in Tacoma. It's been at least a year since we last saw them, I think, so it'll be great to get caught up on family and island news. We'll probably all dream together of going back to Yap some day. Then it'll be back to our house for a slumber party, as my niece put it. Somebody is going to have to sleep on the floor!
Well, better go sweep it then.
