Collections of randomness + sharing is caring, day one

[starlady]

I tried on this sweatercoat at Anthropologie the other day and want it desperately. It is $168, but as it is my favorite color and I could hear my mother's voice in my head saying that I should spring for it, since it looked cute on me, the price probably will not stop me for long.

I peeked in Delany's Trouble on Triton and saw that it is part one of "Some Remarks on the Modular Calculus" and could barely contain my squee.

rm said two things in this post that I thought were well put. This about creative people made me say, "So true!":

Believe you me, no performs, no one creates because they are entirely well, but because they are trying to be.

And this about New York made me think, Wow, what a cool idea.

There is a line, I always think of, about New York, that was included in a theater review of a thing that was like a scavenger hunt all over the city involving people cast as angels: It looked, I thought, like a holy city. This is what I live with, living in New York. Every day. This notion that we will one day, instead of forgotten, be legend.

Speaking of New York, today (yesterday) was that day again. For once the weather didn't do a complete rewind, which...did not make it easier to not remember things I will never forget. But the late John M. Ford, I thought, captured a lot of that day pretty well in this piece.

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So I'm stealing the Sharing Is Caring meme from awils1, esteemed fellow OTW volunteer. The rules:

For one week, recommend/share:

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

So, music. There are literally several hundred songs I'd love to recommend, all for equally valid and varied reasons, but I'm going to try for two. Yikes.

The first is Imogen Heap's "Tidal," off her new album Ellipse. Heap is a self-taught composer who's well known as half of Frou Frou, though I think her solo work is even better. This song is just amazing, both in its sonic effects and in its lyrics and that the song encompasses all of them. I am not skillful at talking about music, but check the GameBoy sound effects at odd, opportune moments. Her voice is amazing too.

The second is "Monkey", by Low, a so-called 'slowcore' band from Duluth, Minnesota. Slowcore supposedly embraces minimal arrangements and slower tempos, both of which only apply to Low some of the time, but whatever. I'm also posting "Hatchet" off their album Drums and Guns, which is remarkable as a sustained meditation on violence, though the song itself is remarkably light-hearted and witty.

And because comparing it to "Hatchet" makes me smile, here's Metric's "Gimme Sympathy" off their album Fantasies, the only other song I know that goes on about the Beatles and the Stones.

Comments

[onceamy]

Hatchet sounds nifty, so I will download it ASAP :).

Good on you for filling out the meme! I've been sitting here pathetically for the last hour or so trying to figure out which YouTube clip to share. I've got a quote from The Thing Around Your Neck that I'm also including, but YouTube has stumped me.

[onceamy]

Oh! And if you dig Gameboy sounds (which are oddly harmonic, as with most Nintendo music—I've always loved the music from the original Mario Party): Science Genius Girl by Freezepop is fantastic!

[starlady]

Awesome, thanks--I will check it out. This reminds me that I toyed with posting some Final Fantasy songs...another interesting group inspired by geeky things.

[starlady]

Definitely the hardest part is not thinking of things to rec but deciding things to rec. ^_^

[kaigou]

Believe you me, no performs, no one creates because they are entirely well, but because they are trying to be.

True. I prefer the Harley version of the phrase, though, as once told to my husband when he was just a newbie Harley rider:

Son, ya gotta be a wannabe before ya get to be a be.

[starlady]

I like that phrasing.

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

I'm dowloading the Low songs--thanks! I like the Sharing meme idea and will probably steal (or I guess I should say share) it too.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I like Low a lot. They're playing my college town (though not my college) tonight and I just was like, Oh, for a personal transporter...

But yes, they should be better known as far as I'm concerned.

[kindkit.livejournal.com]

I have a Christmas album of theirs, but that's all. What I've heard of theirs I like a lot ("Long Way Around the Sea" is the spookiest Christmas song EVER) but somehow I never think to acquire more.

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

I love that Christmas album. They definitely get at the sort of bleak, grey, spooky aspect of Christmas that is sadly under-appreciated.

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

lovely sweater coat.

..trying out the songs. :)

[socair.livejournal.com]

OMGtheruffle. I love it. And it would look cute on you. Do eet! :o)

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and the purple is a really lovely rich shade. I'm probably going to snag it next week. :-)