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Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau (1923-2007)
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preternatural

pre·ter·nat·u·ral

adj. Beyond or different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; therefore, something which is strange, inexplicable, extraordinary, uncommon, irregular or abnormal.

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Exile

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Pretz

Soundcastles CoverartSoundcastles is a wonderful solo album by Pretz (aka Neil Cowley), the keyboardist from Zero 7. Jazzy, atmospheric chillout music. Top down, breeze-through-your-hair stuff. Give a listen to the track entitled Chapel Stile (my current favorite) courtesy of Last.FM:

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My Horizon

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Northern Rooms

Northern Rooms CoverartAnother Soma FM find…a tune entitled Spumante by the Scandinavian band Mindtrap. You can hear more (and longer) excerpts, as well as purchase their music, at CD Baby. Wonderful downtempo chill music with a touch of melancholy North. Here’s a quick listen from Last.FM:

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This Minute, Too

This minute, too, is part of eternity.

— Duncan Stuart
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Colores de Otoño

Colores de Otoño

Colores de Otoño from Odelot’s Flickr photostream
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villanelle

vil·la·nelle

n. A 19-line poem of fixed form consisting of five tercets and a final quatrain on two rhymes, with the first and third lines of the first tercet repeated alternately as a refrain closing the succeeding stanzas and joined as the final couplet of the quatrain.

[French, from Italian villanella, from feminine of villanello, rustic, from villano, peasant, from Vulgar Latin *vllnus, from Latin vlla, country house.]

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