i ended up buying up 2 cds to cover through the month. At first, i figured that would be the best way to go about things, especially if i end up ordering cds online, but now i'm thinking that it's too long of a wait for someone impatient like me. Plus, it will allow me to really soak in just the one album instead of multitasking like i'm so prone to do.
These weeks albums:
1) Modest Mouse - Good News for People who Love Bad News
i wasnt planning on buying it when i walked in but i love that Float On song and i just couldnt resist. My opinion of the cd is that it really wins with some songs and really loses with others. Float On and The View and Bukowski and The Ocean Breathes Salty are amazing cuts, but i dont think the rest of the album does it for me.
2) Mae - Singularity
i thought The Everglow was pure genius so i thought i'd give this one a try too. i dont like it as much as Everglow, but i'll allow some time for the album to soak in. i didnt hear as much of the creative and different drumming that i'm used to from the Mae drummer, but there were a few songs that reminded me why i would consider buying a Mae album. i think there's great writing on that cd.
i'm not sure what's up for the next purchase. i've been bouncing back and forth between whether or not i should plan or be spontaneous. Up til now its been a mixture of both.
The other day i listened to World Cafe and they played an Animal Collective song (that i'm not sure how i felt about) and then said that people are saying it's of Pet Sounds proportions. That's quite a claim so i have to admit that i'm super curious about that kind of hype. But i found this "My Girls" song on youtube and i think it's pretty impressive. It's grown on me, despite that i lack a fondness for more electronic-type music.
huh... maybe i'll give it a shot next time.
Sunday, January 25, 2009
Saturday, January 17, 2009
tics in my eyes
The past three days i've had a tic in my eye (is that how i spell it?)
My left eyelid twitches and twitches and twitches. My mom says it's from stress. Funny... i dont do anything these days. But, well, i can understand how i might be stressed.
Is that how that happens? Stress?
My left eyelid twitches and twitches and twitches. My mom says it's from stress. Funny... i dont do anything these days. But, well, i can understand how i might be stressed.
Is that how that happens? Stress?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Music is Joy
For me, i'm realizing how much joy music brings to my life. After experiencing so much loss lately i've needed a good way to cope. i'm not sure how i feel about coping, but i will say that sometimes, i just cant deal anymore with my overthinking of things and music just seems to be the healthiest escape for me.
Lately i've loved listening to Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise. The production on that song is incredible. i dont know anything about production, but i noticed it on that cut. And that says something.
So this year i've decided will be a year of music and finding joy in it because it seems like that is one of the few constant sources of joy in my life and to carry out my year of music i've decided to buy an album a week. Expensive, but right now (even though it's a vanity) the thought of buying a little bit of peace seems like it could possibly pan out this time. To quote Tobias,
So to start i bought Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Now whenever i hear the song Highway 61 Revisited i think of Joaquin (sp?) Phoenix in Walk the Line wandering crazily around his room blasting it. That's pretty much what i look like when i listen to music i really like.
As far as Kind of Blue goes, i'm not sure what i think. As a self-proclaimed Miles Davis fan i have to say i'm partial to his Gil Evans collaborations (such beautiful melodies and simply epic arrangement), but i know that Kind of Blue was an album that turned the jazz world topsy-turvy. Honestly, i just dont understand it. i figure it's kinda like reading On the Road. Today it seems plausible that someone would meander all over the place, but back then it was novel and special and that much crazier.
So what albums are next? i'm not sure. i've had a mental list for years, but limiting myself to two now that i've given myself permission to actually buy something feels like just a tease.
Right now i'm thinking about picking up some Wes Anderson film soundtracks. Or Pink Moon. Or some more Stevie Wonder. Or maybe some Led Zeppelin albums. Or perhaps that Mae cd i always wanted but never seemed to get around to picking up. Or maybe something that i've never even heard of before?
There's too much to keep track of these days.
Stay tuned for more album posts. It'll give me a good reason to blog consistently, even though the blog boat has blown by. In that case, maybe i'll just twitter everything so people will actually read all the way to the bottom.
Lately i've loved listening to Stevie Wonder's Pastime Paradise. The production on that song is incredible. i dont know anything about production, but i noticed it on that cut. And that says something.
So this year i've decided will be a year of music and finding joy in it because it seems like that is one of the few constant sources of joy in my life and to carry out my year of music i've decided to buy an album a week. Expensive, but right now (even though it's a vanity) the thought of buying a little bit of peace seems like it could possibly pan out this time. To quote Tobias,
"No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but...but it might work for us.Well, it might just work this time for me.
So to start i bought Bob Dylan's Highway 61 Revisited and Miles Davis' Kind of Blue. Now whenever i hear the song Highway 61 Revisited i think of Joaquin (sp?) Phoenix in Walk the Line wandering crazily around his room blasting it. That's pretty much what i look like when i listen to music i really like.
As far as Kind of Blue goes, i'm not sure what i think. As a self-proclaimed Miles Davis fan i have to say i'm partial to his Gil Evans collaborations (such beautiful melodies and simply epic arrangement), but i know that Kind of Blue was an album that turned the jazz world topsy-turvy. Honestly, i just dont understand it. i figure it's kinda like reading On the Road. Today it seems plausible that someone would meander all over the place, but back then it was novel and special and that much crazier.
So what albums are next? i'm not sure. i've had a mental list for years, but limiting myself to two now that i've given myself permission to actually buy something feels like just a tease.
Right now i'm thinking about picking up some Wes Anderson film soundtracks. Or Pink Moon. Or some more Stevie Wonder. Or maybe some Led Zeppelin albums. Or perhaps that Mae cd i always wanted but never seemed to get around to picking up. Or maybe something that i've never even heard of before?
There's too much to keep track of these days.
Stay tuned for more album posts. It'll give me a good reason to blog consistently, even though the blog boat has blown by. In that case, maybe i'll just twitter everything so people will actually read all the way to the bottom.
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Women
And maybe men say they're glad not to give birth, all the pain and blood, but really that's just so much sour grapes. For sure, men can't do anything near as incredible. Upper body strength, abstract thought, phalluses - any advantages men appear to have are pretty token.-from Choke by Chuck Palahniuk
Monday, October 6, 2008
Irony, Beer, and the death of humanity
i'll be the first to admit that the title might be a little overdramatic, but according to a science podcast i've been listening to (and the zeitgeist of the times as well as the emergent church movement), i need to present a narrative that will sucessfully compete for your attention.
Either way, i've been spending quite a bit of time at home since i'm job searching. This requires me to be on the computer a whole lot because that's my main way of looking for openings and applying for them (especially since i'm looking in the technology field). While on the computer today (although not looking for a job) i was listening to a science podcast called Radio Lab where part of their show was spent describing how the internet is disconnecting people from each other while also presenting a pseudo connectedness. This is not a new idea, but it did strike me that in that moment i was embodying their description and also at the same time nodding my head in agreement and disdain for the stupid internet that tears all those generic people in the generic world away from having lives. Irony.
Apparently, these days the average amount of picnics that Americans go on per year has declined quite a bit since 1992 and they've even seen a decrease in the attendance of bars. So apparently there is not as much beer flowing at bars. Unless the bar attending population is making up the difference (hopefully not), there is probably less beer being consumed at these bars. Beer.
All this spells the death of humanity to me. It seems like it's harder for me to be human when i put myself in situations where i'm happily placated and also have all these opportunities to further stunt my growth as a person. Again over-dramatic, but kinda true!
That's why i appreciate what the Tribeca Arts project people did this summer. i wish i had heard about it earlier, but i really like the idea of re-humanizing people! How much fun would it be to find some sort of community art project that could start to do this? i think this is why i'm so drawn to postsecret and a huge reason New Orleans was such a strange and appealing place to me.
So raise your glass to re-humanization!
Either way, i've been spending quite a bit of time at home since i'm job searching. This requires me to be on the computer a whole lot because that's my main way of looking for openings and applying for them (especially since i'm looking in the technology field). While on the computer today (although not looking for a job) i was listening to a science podcast called Radio Lab where part of their show was spent describing how the internet is disconnecting people from each other while also presenting a pseudo connectedness. This is not a new idea, but it did strike me that in that moment i was embodying their description and also at the same time nodding my head in agreement and disdain for the stupid internet that tears all those generic people in the generic world away from having lives. Irony.
Apparently, these days the average amount of picnics that Americans go on per year has declined quite a bit since 1992 and they've even seen a decrease in the attendance of bars. So apparently there is not as much beer flowing at bars. Unless the bar attending population is making up the difference (hopefully not), there is probably less beer being consumed at these bars. Beer.
All this spells the death of humanity to me. It seems like it's harder for me to be human when i put myself in situations where i'm happily placated and also have all these opportunities to further stunt my growth as a person. Again over-dramatic, but kinda true!
That's why i appreciate what the Tribeca Arts project people did this summer. i wish i had heard about it earlier, but i really like the idea of re-humanizing people! How much fun would it be to find some sort of community art project that could start to do this? i think this is why i'm so drawn to postsecret and a huge reason New Orleans was such a strange and appealing place to me.
So raise your glass to re-humanization!
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
umm... WHAT?!
Pay people to get their tubes tied huh?
i guess that's an idea one Lousiana representative is thinking through. Ok ok, i guess we should respect people who are actually giving solutions to problems that i must admit i have never bothered to even think through.
But this sounds plain funny. i'm sure he doesnt mean to wax eugenic, but that's the first thought that comes to mind!
There's got to be a better way to combat generational poverty!
To be fair, maybe this is just souped up sensational journalism...
i guess that's an idea one Lousiana representative is thinking through. Ok ok, i guess we should respect people who are actually giving solutions to problems that i must admit i have never bothered to even think through.
But this sounds plain funny. i'm sure he doesnt mean to wax eugenic, but that's the first thought that comes to mind!
There's got to be a better way to combat generational poverty!
To be fair, maybe this is just souped up sensational journalism...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Crazy in Love
Well, in perusing (for some reason the spelling looks horrible to me) YouTube i found two great videos. Here's some fun things to check out...
Actually, if you ask me the best part of this video (besides Switchfoot covering this song) is the opening line from their guitarist.
And it's time for another Randy Newman song. Jane from New Orleans told me about this song. i think she really agreed with its sentiment. A word of warning, there's some bad language in this one (which now that you've seen that warning, you'll actually check the video out). And also, like my friend/acquaintance from Mexico said about The Royal Tenenbaums "If you don't think it's funny, you're probably just not smart enough to get it."
Actually, if you ask me the best part of this video (besides Switchfoot covering this song) is the opening line from their guitarist.
And it's time for another Randy Newman song. Jane from New Orleans told me about this song. i think she really agreed with its sentiment. A word of warning, there's some bad language in this one (which now that you've seen that warning, you'll actually check the video out). And also, like my friend/acquaintance from Mexico said about The Royal Tenenbaums "If you don't think it's funny, you're probably just not smart enough to get it."
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