8 posts tagged “music”
I know I'm getting old when I've never heard of any of the bands being plugged in the Weekly Ticketmaster blast. Who is Mudvayne? Rahssan Patterson? Ron Hawking? Is he related to Stephen Hawking?
I saw the movie Interview (Steve Buscemi, Sienna Miller). A pretty interesting piece about a jaded foreign correspondent forced to interview a self-centered rock star and the mind games they play with each other. At the end of the movie, during the fade out to credits, the soundtrack was Boy Like A Time Bomb by Noonday Underground. I LOVE this song; her voice is oddly evocative of 60s era female vocalists. I downloaded (and then bought!) a bunch of their stuff.
A similar sounding group I found is the Sneaker Pimps. Love the name, like a few of their songs, especially 6 Underground. Here they are:
What song do you wish would never show up on a karaoke list?
All of them. I SO hate Karaoke. People with no musical training or talent making drunken fools of themselves in front of the entire world. This is closer to my definition of torture, than entertainment. Plus, it's usually shitty 80s music to begin with.
For those of you who bicycle, do you listen to music when you ride, or not? If you do, what kind or artists? I'd love to hear everyone's comments.
From my point of view, the issue can be bifurcated along the following lines:
- Yes to music. It helps pass the time on longer rides, keeps me energetic and pumping. If it's the right music, which I'm still searching for. Zeppelin and AC/DC seem obvious choices, but are pretty dated. I've heard everything Fat Boy Slim has done 10 times. And I'm not into rap or much of the punk revival that's going on. So what would you recommend?
Disadvantages include being less focused on your surroundings (including traffic), which can be dangerous. And less focused on form and technique.
- No to music. The purist approach. Become one with the road, with the environment around you. Be safe. Focus on your breathing and rhythm, and how you are part of the larger rhythms of people and things around you. Not to mention all the carbon dioxide from the cars.
Disadvantages include being really bored and tired on long rides with nothing to help stimulate the mind and legs and keep energy levels from flagging.
I've been pretty good about doing my nine-mile route four or five days a week (I just past the 200 mile mark on the odometer today). Wife and I are planning a bicycle trip in late August, probably to Duluth, MN, so we can ride the Willard Mungar State Trail. The section from Hinkley to Duluth is 63 miles of gorgeous, 8-foot-wide paved asphalt. I figure a few days riding up and down the trail, and a couple of days sitting in a park along the waterfront trying to finish at least one of the six books on my "to be read" pile sounds like a perfect week to me.
Oh, throw in a couple of good meals, lots of uninterrupted time with Wife, maybe even some nookie, and I'll be a happy, relaxed camper. At least that's the goal.
I don't know what made me think of these songs today. Maybe it was the gazillionth car bomb going off in Iraq, or the racial attacks by one separatist group on another, but here's what I've been listening to today. A bit dated, but they both get the point across very eloquently.
Finally, just because I really like Metric, I'm posting one my favorite songs of theirs, Dead Disco.
What I'm listening to today. Repeatedly.
This is an amazingly cool device from the Music Technology Group of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. It looks like it could be a wonderful music education tool, as well as a compositional and collaborative device. There are several other videos of it on Youtube -- just search for "reactable".
