Intro

We are the music makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams;—
World-losers and world-forsakers,
On whom the pale moon gleams:
Yet we are the movers and shakers
Of the world for ever, it seems.

-Arthur O'Shaughnessy

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Mens Sana in Corpore Sano

Mens sana in corpore sano, enough of the desultory philippics.  Losing one's mind, finding it, losing it again.  Wondering if you've ever had or even lost it or if you've had it to lose or if there is anything to lose at all.  Not really knowing anything...

Juvenal:

orandum est ut sit mens sana in corpore sano.
fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem,
qui spatium uitae extremum inter munera ponat
naturae, qui ferre queat quoscumque labores,
nesciat irasci, cupiat nihil et potiores
Herculis aerumnas credat saeuosque labores
et uenere et cenis et pluma Sardanapalli.
monstro quod ipse tibi possis dare; semita certe
tranquillae per uirtutem patet unica uitae.
(10.356-64)


It is to be prayed that the mind be sound in a sound body.
Ask for a brave soul that lacks the fear of death,
which places the length of life ultimate among nature’s blessings,
which is able to bear whatever kind of sufferings,
does not know anger, lusts for nothing and believes
the hardships and savage labors of Hercules better than
the satisfactions, feasts, and feather bed of an Eastern king.
I will reveal what you are able to give yourself;
For certain, the one footpath of a tranquil life lies through virtue.



"Track" "Name" "Artist" "Album"
1 "Life During Wartime" "Talking Heads" "Fear of Music"
2 "Mens Sana Intro" "Giosue Etranger" "Mens Sana"
3 "The Akara" "Beirut" "March of the Zapotec / Holland (disc 1: March of the Zapotec)"
4 "Losing My Mind" "Beastie Boys" "Mens Sana"
5 "Wildlife Analysis" "Boards of Canada" "Music Has the Right to Children"
6 "Hérésie" "Malajube" "Labyrinthes"
7 "Oh No!" "Camper Van Beethoven" "Telephone Free Landslide Victory"
8 "Peaches en Regalia" "Frank Zappa" "Hot Rats"
9 "Losing My Mind" "Beastie Boys" "Mens Sana"
10 "Dear Sons and Daughters of Hungry Ghosts" "Wolf Parade" "Apologies to the Queen Mary"
11 "the kind ropes" "nihiti" "faced with splendor"
12 "Shore Leave" "Tom Waits" "Swordfishtrombones"
13 "Losing My Mind Dear …" "Beastie Boys" "Mens Sana"
14 "They Done Wrong / We Done Wrong" "White Rabbits" "It's Frightening"
15 "Trap Doors" "Broken Bells" "Broken Bells"
16 "Bury My Body" "The Animals" "The Singles Plus"
17 "Zebra (Man Man)" "Man Man" "The Man in a Blue Turban With a Face"
18 "Zebra (Beach House)" "Beach House" "Teen Dream"
19 "A Simple Desultory Philippic (Or How I Was Robert McNamara'd Into Submission)" "Simon & Garfunkel" "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme"


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