LOVE IS THE ROOT OF ALL

where it all began

http://www.aliceleeholland.blogspot.com/

yes. people do dance on the other side of the globe. imagine that! and they are top-cellent.

http://learningtoloveyoumore.com/

Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designs and manages the web site.
Participants accept an assignment, complete it by following the simple but specific instructions, send in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and see their work posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments is intended to guide people towards their own experience.
Since Learning To Love You More is also an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant's documentation is also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. Past presentations have taken place at venues that include The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
Since LTLYM inception in 2002 over 2000 people have participated in the project.

Check this out. The ultimate. This what it all comes down to.
Kisses

woman in love - barbara streisland
show me heaven - maria mckee
the rose - bette midler
she - elvis costello
i would do anything for love - meatloaf
careless whisper - george michael
the power of love - jennifer rush
sade
this love - marroon 5
unchained melody - rightous brothers
sweet surrender - wet wet wet
unfinished sympathy - massive attack
kokomo - baech boys
slave to love - bryan ferry

from madame wicked stix

Well, the Celine show is next week. Amidst all that is happening in London, new jobs, new boyfriends, seeing friends and spending endless hours on London buses the piece is still as unknown as ever. It is evolving - and it is becoming clearer and clearer that the most fun and interesting way to make this dance is not in the studio. It seems the answer to maintaining sanity and and retaining the fun is by being in people's houses. A bit like working in a home office.

Like friends being bridges over troubled water love songs are keeping us afloat. They are our company in these troubled warm, not cold, polluted times. It seems strange that the most commercial and corporately propped up things are salvation indeed. Like we can't live without petrol and vehicles - we can't live without love songs. We can't live without Celine Dion, Prince, Simon & Garfunkel, Prince, Motorace, 1927, Lamb, Otis Reading, Eskimo Joe, Elvis Presley, Martha Tilston, Led Zeppelin covered by The Grateful Dead, Augiemarch and Kylie & Jason.

What is your favourite LOVE SONG and WHY?


I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston

and the sound when you geared up on the motorway sounded exactly like whitney when she goes up on and IIIIIiiiiiIIIIII have alwyus loved YoOUOUOUOUOUOU. so i was endlessly playing this game and my new girlfriend was completely in shock about how engulfed and boring a boyfriend could be.

Take My Breath Away by Berlin

Because the thought of Val Kilmer and Tom Cruise in the same video just amazes me infinitly. and that keyboard line seems kind of epic, right? I always wondered what she does mean with taking her breath away... With a kiss? So that she faints out of breath? Those issues are quite intriguing for someone not talking english as native
language.

What about love?! by Is it Bonnie Tyler?

I like the violence on the way she throws the question. Like someone demanding satisfaction and a clear response. Isn't that one of the perspectives of your project? I went through the blogs and found a great polysics video. That album is just amazing. I reviewed it. Great video.

Can't Help Falling In Love by Elvis Presley and occasionally by UB40

It's a song for irresistible love. That's three minutes of bliss - that brings back every memory of falling in love and makes all the tough stuff seem like absolutely nothing.

Lovely Day by Bill Withers

When you listen to it it's like those scenes in the movies when someone is walking down the street smiling to themselves because everything is all frosted, gold tinged and full of sunshine and absolutely perfect.

Especially For You by Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan

Because it's the first love song I ever learnt the words too!

Tears on My Pillow by ???

Well, everyone has shed a few tears on their pillow over love haven't they.

If I Could by 1927

My cat died the same day my boyfriend dumped me and it I listened to that song all night long. I threw the cd single in the bin the next day.


CALL MY NAME (i'm not sure of the title) - PRINCE

because my current love played it from the radio over the phone to me while he was at work and then gave me a cd with it on there.

Budge - Motorace.

I don't even know if its about love, but it gains more and more strength from the disaster of not knowing what to say and when to say it. Its perfect, like the complexity of knowing that you want to fix something, yet you just dont know how to do it.


Wake up - Eskimo Joe

About the ultimate love for someone- feeling absolutely blessed that you get to wake up next to this amazing person and know that he or she is your world.
Alex made me a mix CD when we did our 6 months of long distance relationship poo. This was one of the tracks on it. And I love it when he sings it to me. How mushy is that then!!!!!!!


Goreki by Lamb

Being in stupid adolescent style depressed love where when everything was falling apart and shit I would have been quite happy to die of malnutrition because nothing intersted me enough to get out of bed and have a life....
Love hurts and yet I keep going back for more.

These Arms of Mine by Otis Redding

I like it because I had a boyfriend when I was 13 and he was a basketball player and he would always listen to "Sittin on the Dock of the Bay" before a game to calm him. Well he was my introduction to Otis and once I discovered "These Arms of Mine"on the same album, I always associated it with him. Oh, the minutes I wasted away dancing to that in my living room/bedroom/car.
Other 'special' love songs include Since I've been loving you by Led Zeppelin
Good Lovin (Covered by the Grateful Dead) and Space by Martha Tilston
I'm sure I've got more, I'll have to let them come to me slowly


One Crowded Hour - Augiemarch

I have many. But this one because, my ex-boyfriend sent it to me when he was away once, I think it is the most romantic thing he ever did for me. It melted my heart. It's not even his genre of music.