what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND?

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I like Joyce. I just find that he became "purposely obscure" after "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."

I wish there was music which expresses Stephen Daedelus' feelings when he listened to that Fire and Brimstone speech when he was in prep school (in Portrait of the Artist).

The guy was very good when he wasn't being "experimental."

To me, "Ulysses" goes beyond the pale, too.....I have to be in an especially expansive and flexible mood in order to enjoy it.

There was a nice exchange between the main character and a prostitute which took up about 50 pages.....

I'm adding her to the A-Z characters list lol

Expressing James Joyce in music----would be like presenting a complex jazz piece. Not classical.

I was always quite obsessed with this song

Man, it's a hot one
Like seven inches from the midday sun
Well, I hear you whispering in the words, to melt everyone
But you stay so cool
My muñequita, my Spanish Harlem, Mona Lisa
You're my reason for reason
The step in my groove

I don't see Joyce as being as consistently depressive as Chopin.

I see Joyce as being disembodied....but put well-together amid the disembodiment.

I like "Black Magic Woman!"

Anybody who can make up acoustic versions of "Men at Work" can't be all bad...

In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels

Yay! A fellow Echo fan!!

Still have Smiths in my system since you posted them yesterday, Isabella.