October 13, 2014

I like ice cream a lot. I can eat ice cream about as fast as anyone I know. It is a talent / quirk / genetic predisposition. It is so tasty and creamy and rich, and sometimes gives you a headache. I've been listening to a log of EDM music lately, especially when I'm heads down working, concentrating on something else, Bass thumping in my brain and no need to concentrate. That's like ice cream - especially the headache part... It's tasty, It's enjoyable. but when you take in nothing but that for days on end after a while you start to get tired of it. I still like the lazy energy and catchy electro-sounds in EDM, I'll still enjoy it from time to time, but today I flipped over to a pandora channel spun from the National. As those first crunchy guitars, forlorn horns, and above all, lyrics with depth and meaning I realized again that this is more my speed / more of what it takes to keep my brain in the right place.

Here's a few songs, some new to me, some old favorites.



Take me to Church - Hozier
Satellite - Guster
Neigborhood #3 (Power Out) - Arcade Fire
For Emma - Bon Iver
Gospel - The National
Gone for Good - The Shins
Neighborhood #4 (Kettles) - Arcade Fire
Family Tree - TV on the Radio
1901 - Phoenix
We're Going to be Friends - White Stripes
Fiery Crash - Andrew Bird
Holocene - Bon Iver
Feeling Yourself Disintegrate - The Flaming Lips
New Slang - The Shins
As Tall As Cliffs - Margot and the Nuclear So and So's




Plenty more to come in the days ahead.

May 7,8, 2013

Good weekend, and a day off on Monday. Listening to All Songs Considered "Moving On" podcast.


Ramble On - Led Zeppelin
Out On The Weekend - Neil Young
There's No Home for You Here - White Stripes


and from Tuesday, following the landmark passage of marriage equality by the Delaware Senate, which after being signed by the governor made Delaware the 11th state to approve same sex marriage. Of course I posted my support for this in a public forum and got quite a bit of kickback, some of it on the ugly side. So this section is aimed primarily at MN, LN, MM, BW, SS, and any other closed-minded, Homophobic, self-righteous bigots.

Fuck You - Lily Allen
Gimme Some Truth - The Beatles


I'm out for today. More to come.