streetsoundz/streetsightz

5.11.08

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”

arthur danto

"In periods of artistic stability, there can be little doubt that works of art very frequently were found to have properties, the failure of which would call seriously into question their status as artworks. but that time has long passed, and just as anything can be an expression of anything, provided we know the conventions under which it is one and the causes through which its status as an expression is to be explained, so in this sense can anything be a work of art. Of course it does not follow from the fact that anything can be a work of art that everything is one. The typewriter I am writing on could have been a work of art, but it happens not to be one. What makes art so interesting a concept is that in nothing like the sense in which my typewriter could be a work of art could it be a ham sandwich, through of course some ham sandwich could be, and perhaps already is, a work of art."

(from The Transfiguration of the Commonplace)

la vie en rose by edith piaf

Hold me close and hold me fast
The magic spell you cast
This is la vie en rose

When you kiss me,
Heaven sighs
And though I close my eyes
I see la vie en rose

When you press me to your heart
I'm in a world apart
A world where roses bloom
And when you speak
Angels sing from above

Every day words
Seem to turn into love songs
Give your heart and soul to me
And life will always be
La vie en rose

I thought that love was just a word
They sang about in songs I heard
It took your kisses to reveal
That I was wrong, and love is real