Archive for February, 2009
Making a YouTube video at TWISTER!
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
Teaching girls how to make a video fir YouTube. Rock on.
Bonnie & Baby Clyde wish you a sleepy Valentine’s Day
Saturday, February 14th, 2009
From the cushiony comfort of my home office chair. Bill paying can
wait.
Before Ghetto Smile, Frippertronics
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
- Cover of Sacred Songs
Never seen h monthly before, but they came up on a Google News alert for Daryl Hall (yes, I do care that much, shut up) and had a well-written quick review of Hall’s Sacred Songs album:
So, in perhaps one of the most befuddling pairings of all time, Hall teamed up with King Crimson’s prog-rock progenitor, Robert Fripp, for his debut solo album, Sacred Songs.
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The results of this unlikely pairing are strangely brilliant. Hall’s soaring vocal delivery is complimented by Fripp’s maniacal guitar work and layered production, and Fripp’s experimental touches offer some intriguing soundscapes that leave you to ponder what Hall and Oates would have sounded like if Fripp was in the group.
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Oh, and we can’t forget the glam-punk songs [...] that could have endeared Hall to the 70’s punk scene if the album had been released in 1977 (when it was recorded), instead of 1980 (RCA apparently didn’t know what to do with it and shelved it for three years).
It’s such a cool alternate reality to imagine.
On being in tune
Monday, February 2nd, 2009
- Image by lowjumpingfrog via Flickr
From an article on writing the perfect pop song in the Guardian:
For Echo and the Bunnymen’s Ian McCulloch, songwriting is not a choice, but a therapeutic necessity. “When I’m not writing songs, it’s cryptic crosswords and Countdown on the telly. Everything gets a bit fuzzy, a bit bleak.”
Yeah. I’ve been in a funk lately, and I think this is partly why. I need a healthy dose of songwriting fairly regularly to make sense of, well, everything else.
Is everyone like this in some way? Is there some thing that you need to do for the world to be right? What is your thing?
