Rants and musings, without care for substance.
Posted in music on Feb 9th, 2010
I missed this video on Sunday night. Listen on your stereo, though I wish there were an HD version.
I really like the arrangement with the orchestra, particularly with the strings and piano.
Posted in life in general on Feb 6th, 2010
The last big snow, we all bitched about how we couldn’t get out. In retrospect, that was nothing. We could have gotten out. This time around — with over three feet of snow in less than 24 hours — no one is going anywhere without a plow, although I just got a report about some [...]
Posted in music on Jan 9th, 2010
For the past couple days, the guys of Fools & Horses have been in the studio again. This video (the first six seconds NSFW, thanks Tim) is from their first day back.
The cabin in the mountains of Virginia may be secluded, but I wouldn’t consider it a retreat by any means. Even without lyrics, I’m [...]
Posted in life in general on Jan 8th, 2010
I’m not prone to losing things but recent events have gotten me thinking about other objects that have gone missing.
Evil Empire, an album by Rage Against the Machine. I miss the hard riffs, slapping bass, and electric guitar effects. I think it was lifted from my CD wallet by a student while working at Severna [...]
This weekend’s snowfall gave me plenty of time to relax.
I’ve been enjoying First Stint, a free 22 track album released by Ben Youngs. Well-composed soundscapes dominate the album, with a few remixes thrown in for variety. A few remixed Fools & Horses tracks are included, as is a really addictive track by Kaitlin Sweeney.
The last [...]
Posted in music on Oct 16th, 2009
This week’s duties complete, I’m kicking back and enjoying a live recording of Pete Francis and Boo Reiners. Though they played the Grand Ballroom almost two years ago, I still haven’t grown tired of the 74 minute acoustic set. It’s a semi-permanent fixture in my home CD player.
Music is a fixture of my life, in [...]
There’s this song called All Things, by The Cinematic Orchestra. It’s driving me nuts.
A sample is available from Pandora. The full track on Last.fm, and according to a comment there, “at the beginning: samples from John Barry’s work on the soundtrack of Petulia (1968).”
I haven’t seen the movie. This song (and every other track on [...]
Posted in life in general, music on Jan 5th, 2009
They say that unpacking is best done one room at a time. I think cleaning is the same way, so this weekend I attacked the living room.
Violently.
Besides dust bunnies, I found some neat things.
In the course of moving a couch (in order to make room for three plants to be near the window) I found [...]
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