{"id":49,"date":"2005-10-23T15:02:29","date_gmt":"2005-10-23T20:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/blogs\/ein2\/2005\/10\/23\/fortunes-favours\/"},"modified":"2005-10-23T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2005-10-23T20:02:29","slug":"fortunes-favours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/2005\/10\/23\/fortunes-favours\/","title":{"rendered":"[Fortune&#39;s Favours]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a <a href=\"http:\/\/brainstorms.rheingold.com\/\">Brainstorms<\/a> visitor on my blog the other day, who came courtesy of Glen Engel-Cox, another Brainstormer, who writes the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engel-cox.org\/\">Immediacy<\/a>.  I was wandering around Immediacy and came across a recent posting about Dead Can Dance, <a title=\"immediacy: Dead Can Dance at Strathmore Music Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.engel-cox.org\/sound\/dead_can_dance_at_strathmore_m.html\">Dead Can Dance at Strathmore Music Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid that I also have to confess to Dead Can Dance as being a &#8220;guilty pleasure.&#8221;  In fact, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/user\/Eingang\/\">LastFm<\/a> (AudioScrobbler), they&#8217;re my 7th most-listened to artist.  Lisa Gerrard does have a fanastic voice.  She does the vocals in <em>Now We Are Free<\/em>, that haunting track from the movie <em>Gladiator<\/em>, which I also love.<\/p>\n<p>Of the Dead Can Dance tracks I have, the one that sticks in my mind most lately is <em>Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book<\/em>, from the album <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B000002MQ7\/brainstormsfund\">Aion<\/a>.  Firstly, because it has a title which is, I think, rather cryptic, causing me to wonder about its origin and meaning.  The second thing is the orchestration, so vivid and so sharp, but so unmodern.  The lyrics too are unconventionally philosophical, as so many songs sungs by Brendan Perry are, highlighting the capriciousness of life and Murphy&#8217;s Law.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"einquote\">\n<p>When you expect whistles it&#8217;s flutes<br \/>\nWhen you expect flutes it&#8217;s whistles\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a Brainstorms visitor on my blog the other day, who came courtesy of Glen Engel-Cox, another Brainstormer, who writes the blog Immediacy. I was wandering around Immediacy and came across a recent posting about Dead Can Dance, Dead Can Dance at Strathmore Music Center. I&#8217;m afraid that I also have to confess to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[176],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mus1c","tag-dead-can-dance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/einiverse.eingang.org\/ein2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}