Sarah McLachlan is just fantastic.
16 responses to “Fumbling Toward Ecstasy”
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you r lucky & she rocks! =)
I should clarify: A skin buzz is A MA ZING! It is chiken skin but in a more sophisticated form (and name, actually).
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ah yes, this reminds me that scientists have studied this ‘chicken skin’….
From Steven Johnson’s Mind Wide Open:
"the shiver of pleasure we experience while listening to our favorite music is the release of endogenous opioids… Animals appear to have a chill response to music as well. In one widely cited study, he played dozens of records to chickens attached to equipment designed to record their shivers of pleasure. The chickens turned out to have the strongest postitive response to the late era Pink Floyd record The Final Cut."
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Fairly odd. A Sarah McLachlan piece had just started playing from an iTunes playlist when I saw this.
I was invited to join the group & this is my first visit.
With RE to the image, I’m quite envious of the experience ;), but it’s a very nice capture!
BTW, I like the Mind Wide Open quote. An old friend of mine from a college station where I was a dj stopped by my apt. a while back. At one point I was talking about a new CD, and he explained that music meant very little to him anymore (& his date felt the same way). I don’t get that at all. I would have a number of ways to phrase "the shiver of pleasure," but THAT I get.
Personally, I still g-e-t a "release" of "endogenous opioids" (Beta-Endorphins?) listening to Coltrane’s "Africa." Ms. McLachlan occasionally provides a fix as well. 😉
"Without music, life would be an error." ~Oh, just some crazy German-Swiss philosopher
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Beware of Sarah´s oddities, Mr T!!! Danger! She happens to make the weirdest dreams come true with her strange powers. But you will still think it was all a coincidence.
"If I could turn back time…"
I know, that is Cher. But I´d really like to live Sarah´s magic once again. Maybe I will have to comfort knowing that I was lucky to have experienced it at least one time in my life.
"If I could reach the stars…" =)
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Nice shot!! How lucky you were to have the opportunity to hear and see her in a small and relaxed venue.
Thank you for posting in the
Music Makers Thread at:
The World Through My Eyes -
Yes, that’s where I found it (thanks for posting that link too, I forgot!)
It was awesome to find it… you can imagine.
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It’s still on wikipedia as someone showed me tonight. She was just amazing, again tonight. And there was some guy in a rugby shirt #23 up front
short video of her on drums
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