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...Victoria Finlay's book, Colour: Travels through the Paintbox. A British author and adventurer, Finlay embarks on a quest for the origins of colors?her favorites, anyway. Finlay is part scholar, part mad scientist and always a sprightly and engaging storyteller. This search takes her, inevitably, to Sar-e-Sang mine in northern Afghanistan, the main source of lapis. "The first 20 meters would have given the stones for the Egyptian tombs," she writes. "A little later was where the Bamiyan Buddhas got their haloes." Deeper down was "where Titian may have got his sky from?a whole art history...
...fans, band members made direct eye contact and continuously dipped towards the mass of people, just short of throwing themselves into adoring arms. Stroud and Baker, founding members of the band, took turns singing lead and addressing the crowd. Despite declaring himself a little under the weather, Baker sang strongly...
Alex climbed into my bed. “Hi Ari!” she giggled. For the next two hours, Alex played hide and seek with my body, sang songs and jumped on me. When my eyelids closed, she helpfully opened them for me manually...
...your last show, they always sing ‘Happy Trails’ to you in the basement of the theater,” she reminisced. “But I really liked ‘Do You Hear the People Sing?’ and so they sang that for me instead of ‘Happy Trails.’ It was just a really, really nice thing...
...song. Pop lyrics are usually just convenient rhymes, but the demise of their author inspires many listeners to riffle through the back catalog in search of foreshadowing--the spookier the better. For instance, when Jeff Buckley, who walked into the Mississippi River one evening and never walked out, sang, "This is our last goodbye," he must have known he had a watery grave in his future, right? And when Kurt Cobain growled, "I swear that I don't have a gun," he was just being gruesomely ironic...