it conveys it’s meaning…. i’ve always liked the word

Happy Sunday, you magnificent house parties featuring five kinds of nachos, it’s the weekend, and that means I’m going to write about some music stuff. This week I’m going to talk about the song-writing process a little bit. Hopefully it’s interesting – so much so that each of you quits your day job to start a career in the music industry. Ready? Cool.
Happy Sunday, you brand new packs of Lifesavers, it’s fancy-pants music Sunday. I’m your host Sobek, and today I’m going to focus on one specific music technique. Ready? Awesome!
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as youse’ll’s are aware – i try to scour teh intertubes for awesome… or something: items to entertain and enlighten.
Today we get to follow up on vomit inducing food items — and i dont mean jay’s scandi-apple-frumundas.
This bit of awesome is Casu Marzu.
Continue readingHappy Sunday, you merry little smurfs. It’s the weekend, which means it’s time to learn something about music. I’m your host on this aural adventure, and today we’ll be covering English composer Gustav Holst, and in particular his most famous piece of music, The Planets. Ready? Good, we’re doing this thing.
The first couple songs I ever heard by the band Chevelle were Vitamin R (Leading Us Along) and The Red, and I thought they were okay. Then the radio starting playing this song called The Clincher, and when I found out it was the same band it blew my mind. Listen to the bass guitar on this track:
Happy Sunday, I’m here to write a post about music and talk s**t about Total, in no particular order.
This week I went to the library with the intention of getting music CDs I would not ordinarily consider and listening to them all the way through at least twice. The first one I grabbed was called Tranceclassical by Maya Beiser, and based on literally no other information than the title I assumed someone had arranged classical music over trance beats. The first track on the disk was Bach’s “Air on the G String,” and it was just an electric cello playing the Bach piece, with nothing else added, so I figured maybe it was just an album of classical tracks that are calm (hence the “trance”). But no, that wasn’t it either, because the next one had too dark of a tone for that, and then a few more tracks later was a cover of Heroin by The Velvet Underground, so by the end of my second run through the album, I’m as confused as ever. But the standout from the album was Kol Nidrei, which is a recitation spoken before the evening service on Yom Kippur. Point is, I don’t know how to classify Beiser’s music, but check this one out anyway:
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