not what I intended

[ellenkushner]

On desayunoencama's journal page, I read of the death of artist Trina Schart Hyman, and responded to it there.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/desayunoencama/79355.html
Des., thanks for the link to the obituary as well.

While (unsuccessfully) googling for the lyrics to "Give Me My Flowers While I Live" so I could dedicate them to TSH (I love the version sung by the gospel harmonica player Elder Roma Wilson - we used it at the end of our Sound & Spirit show on Flowers
http://www.wgbh.org/wgbh/pages/pri/spirit/alphabetical.html#033
) to my great surprise, on a Gospel Music site(!) I came across lyrics by Hugh Blumenfeld (a singer/songwriter I've really come to admire) for his goofy yet incisive "[Jesus was a] Longhaired Radical Socialist Jew"!

I thought some people might enjoy it, and as the host of Sound & Spirit I felt I should pass it along:
http://www.primecd.com/hblyrrs.htm#7

As the author of highly-regarded, well-reviewed, award-winning novels that don't exactly bring in the big bucks (yes, it's My Life as a Gilbert & Sullivan character), I'm kinda partial to HB "Mozart's Money," myself....
http://www.primecd.com/hblyrmm.htm#1

Comments

[carbonel]

I discovered Hugh Blumenfeld when "Raphael" was getting a fair amount of airplay (netplay?) on Spinner.com aka Radio@netscape.com. I bought one album on the strength of that song, and I intend to buy more.

I really like what he does with both lyrics and tune.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Oh, yay! Hugh Blumenfeld is a minor deity.

I'm particularly fond of "Shoot the Moon" and "Hugh's 30th Birthday Party."

"A quarter of a million miles isn't really that far / it took me two Chevys, but I've done it in my car."

[ellen-kushner.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of Bob Franke's quip to me once: "I'm paid to drive long distances from coffee house to coffee house, town to town . . . Then, when I get there, they let me sing!"

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

That's how I feel about writing, when it's not destroying my will to live. "They *pay* me to sit here and *tell stories*?"