Archive for the ‘Music’ Category
4 Nov
You Know Who We Are
29 Oct
Mini-Reviews
As changes the weather, so alter my listening habits. The weather is cold going on icy, meaning more and more I’m driving to work. Also, I’m making what is turning into a weekly jaunt to Madison. Driving means car. Car means CDs.
Not just any CDs. Either a mix CD or an album which is solid throughout, because hitting ’skip’ 8 times, listening to 3 tracks, and [...]
9 Oct
Thoughts On The Week
If giving Obama the Nobel Peace Prize is to help him accomplish something worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize, would giving him a Heisman make him a better football player?
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Though Death Cab for Cutie has shattered my confidence in – well, humanity in general – by creating a song exclusively for Twilight, this here video did make [...]
5 Oct
Markers of Society’s Evolution. Frankly, I’m Encouraged for My Generation
Allow me to take a break from our regularly scheduled programing about programming to note some contrasts in various poetic works
By Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher (Full text of The Scornful Lady here)
“He was a man
I knew but in his evening; ten suns after
Forc’d by a tyrant storm, our beaten bark
Bulg’d under us: in which [...]
27 Jul
Miss Miss Bang Bang
On the recommendation of a friend, based solely on the weight of his musical taste and a few youtube videos, I accompanied said friend to a concert-ish event last night.
Concert-ish definition: music was played, people listened. The vibe was more street corner performance art, with mandatory donations to the guitar case or hat. (Not that I have [...]
18 Jul
If I Weren’t A Rich Man
Say I had a cash flow which was significantly smaller than my desire for enrichment through music, movies, books, and various other media.
What would I do in this theoretical situation?
I could make multiple visits to the library.
I could share my purchased acquisitions with friends – here, have a stack of cds/books/movies, bring them back when [...]
15 Jul
So I Tend To Romanticize Things
I have this compulsion to think I should tell of my concert-going experience yesterday. I could explain . . .
mind-wracking when my car decided to hurl on the side of the road, then dry-heave intermittently for the next two hours.
praying ‘Come on baby, you can’t give up the ghost until we get there. Once you regurgitate us onto the [...]
19 Feb
Happy The Man
who has his mp3 device of choice filled with good music.
And this is good.
This is The Guggenheim Grotto.
And if forced to choose, I’d have to say ‘this’ is my favorite band currently recording. It’s not just about their music (which is varied but often minimalistic). Music is good, but when sounds are so different, it’s [...]
2 Dec
So Many Movies . . .
When I made my manifesto that I would be covering culture for a month, I knew it was a big undertaking, but it has grown like The Blob. Picking just a few classic movies is impossible, so I find myself breaking everything down into smaller and smaller categories. I was going to do drama, romance/romantic comedy, suspense, [...]
28 Nov
Bring In The Noise Bring Down The House
To continue our month-ish of introduction to culture, it seemed only logical to go from TV comedy to TV drama or movies or books (many books inspire shows). So of course we move on to music. For this first post we’re going to ignore classical and current and hard rock, and just go for the [...]
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