So I've had a Sigur Ros obsession the past 24 hours or so. It's been working out really well. I stumbled across the album "Takk..." iniTunes and boy am i glad i did. Their music can be absolutely stunning and epic, just shimmering and alive. What more could you ask for? Well, maybe lyrics in English, if that's your thing. But honestly, I enjoy not understanding the words and just absorbing the parts and sounds. I like making it about what I want it to be about.
Anyway, I really got attached to the album in no time, and then did some snooping around. I came across this video for one of my favorite tracks off of "Takk..." called "Hoppipolla" (Icelandic for "jumping into puddles). The song was also used for a lot of movie trailers and such.
Even if you don't like Sigur Ros, watch it!
I think the reason this struck me so much is how simplistic it makes loving your life seem. It's easy to get wrapped up in school, work, relationships, whatever, to the point of no return....I love how this is about playtime. It's so important to remember to laugh and play and breathe and just be for awhile....
Sigur Ros clearly owns.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
10/15/08
I heart afternoon-driving-in-the-fall music, like this song, for example.
Not my favorite of theirs, but their YouTube selection was limited. They've got some really pretty songs. Their album, "Moo You Bloody Choir" has become a favorite of mine for "making breakfast" music.
Not my favorite of theirs, but their YouTube selection was limited. They've got some really pretty songs. Their album, "Moo You Bloody Choir" has become a favorite of mine for "making breakfast" music.
10/14/08
Hmm.
Minnesota Public Radio playlists have got me thinkn....
You can find the perfect song in the oddest places if you just google correctly, take a few chances and make a few wrong clicks. i'll probably never listen to these songs again, but that's okay. Jenny Dalton's "Married to the Sea" is working for now, and of course the damn song isn't on her MySpace.
She's okay, i guess. That other song was kind of haunting, these are kind of poppy.
But hey! Minnesota Public Radio!! Now i know where to go for entertainment.
Minnesota Public Radio playlists have got me thinkn....
You can find the perfect song in the oddest places if you just google correctly, take a few chances and make a few wrong clicks. i'll probably never listen to these songs again, but that's okay. Jenny Dalton's "Married to the Sea" is working for now, and of course the damn song isn't on her MySpace.
She's okay, i guess. That other song was kind of haunting, these are kind of poppy.
But hey! Minnesota Public Radio!! Now i know where to go for entertainment.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
10/12/08
The Internet is a funny thing....Never did I think approx. eight years of dialoguing and communicating and advertising myself through online means would become so vital to the way I live now.
So many embarrassments over the years--Myspaces, facebook posts, journals, profiles, whatever.
Damn you, archive.org!! You're a chronology of our adolescent/high school years, and lots of old photos.
Whatever. This:
DJ Shadow-What Does Your Soul Look Like
Preemptive Strike
I can't find a file anywhere, but it is on iMeem if you're a member. Album only purchases on last.fm and iTunes if you are members of either listening service (worthitworthitworthit).
shut the lights off close your eyes and breathe and listen.
walk around when it's raining, drive when it's raining night.
....aaaaand I'm out.
So many embarrassments over the years--Myspaces, facebook posts, journals, profiles, whatever.
Damn you, archive.org!! You're a chronology of our adolescent/high school years, and lots of old photos.
Whatever. This:
DJ Shadow-What Does Your Soul Look Like
Preemptive Strike
I can't find a file anywhere, but it is on iMeem if you're a member. Album only purchases on last.fm and iTunes if you are members of either listening service (worthitworthitworthit).
shut the lights off close your eyes and breathe and listen.
walk around when it's raining, drive when it's raining night.
....aaaaand I'm out.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
10/7/08
Radiohead Song of the Week??
The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold) off of Hail to the Thief.
Such an awesome song. Such an awesome word--gloaming. I don't know what it means, but I know exactly how it sounds and how it feels--shadowy, dark, foreboding and lurking from point a to point b. The song warrants a listen for even non-Radiohead fans (which really, pretty much everyone should be by now in one way or another). Even if it's just because it's a great example of how much energy a song can capture with relatively simple choices.
Whatever. Just listen to the damn song, especially if you can find a decent live clip. Now I'm listening to "Silver Spring" anyway, because it's been at least two weeks.
The Gloaming (Softly Open Our Mouths in the Cold) off of Hail to the Thief.
Such an awesome song. Such an awesome word--gloaming. I don't know what it means, but I know exactly how it sounds and how it feels--shadowy, dark, foreboding and lurking from point a to point b. The song warrants a listen for even non-Radiohead fans (which really, pretty much everyone should be by now in one way or another). Even if it's just because it's a great example of how much energy a song can capture with relatively simple choices.
Whatever. Just listen to the damn song, especially if you can find a decent live clip. Now I'm listening to "Silver Spring" anyway, because it's been at least two weeks.
Thursday, October 2, 2008
10/1/08
I'm working playlists tonight!
These are just songs.
Just take them as music. Not songs that are the best anything, they're not this, they're not that. They're just...21st century popular music songs. How they sound under the context of that..it's so hard to define, isn't it?
Just read an essay about that--about the finesse of popular music that musicologists cannot make the right term for. It's not complicated or complex the way "classical"era music was. A new term will hopefully be made someday, probably in terms of times and eras. The Pre-Rock era/Post-Rock era? The switch is mid 20th century, 20s-60s? It's so bizarre, and hard to pin down, so I don't know why I'm taking classes in it.
Love is Real, Ode to Darryl, Newerwaves-Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
..other stuff unconsciously on shuffle
2)tonight, tonight--smashingpupmkins 40 sec.
which led to for me this is heaven-jimmy eat world (first 30 seconds), started over, finsihed, which led to Sympathy of the devil for a nice rolling stones marathon followed by feist, followed by sarah mclachlan for like 6 songs within 50 seconds, until the thing went on shuffle and picked Ckaustrophobic Sting by The Prodigy which actually fit the mood REALLY well. Fun, crazy shit is great to listen to sometimes. Followed by this song We Both Go Down Together by Colin Meloy that i found on a sampler from a Paste album, I think...which sounds eeriely like 'choosing my religion.'
I might do my pop music term paper on how music magazines pick the samplers.
Also, iTunes interface is killing me lately. It's not set up as well as the iPod touch. With that, you can do so much more--for example, when you're on shuffle and hear an artist you want the full album of you can get it pretty easily by clicking the list button on the upper right hand corner. If you click the arrow by the album title in iTunes, it brings You to the store. Goddamn it. That's cause it's free. i'd love to see a music playing program Apple put money into...
(If anyone knows a feature that would fix that--a button or a good program!-- let me know, and then if that's the case, istillloveyouApple! Steve Jobs, Keep it Up Buddy!!!!1)
These are just songs.
Just take them as music. Not songs that are the best anything, they're not this, they're not that. They're just...21st century popular music songs. How they sound under the context of that..it's so hard to define, isn't it?
Just read an essay about that--about the finesse of popular music that musicologists cannot make the right term for. It's not complicated or complex the way "classical"era music was. A new term will hopefully be made someday, probably in terms of times and eras. The Pre-Rock era/Post-Rock era? The switch is mid 20th century, 20s-60s? It's so bizarre, and hard to pin down, so I don't know why I'm taking classes in it.
Love is Real, Ode to Darryl, Newerwaves-Jimmy Chamberlin Complex
..other stuff unconsciously on shuffle
2)tonight, tonight--smashingpupmkins 40 sec.
which led to for me this is heaven-jimmy eat world (first 30 seconds), started over, finsihed, which led to Sympathy of the devil for a nice rolling stones marathon followed by feist, followed by sarah mclachlan for like 6 songs within 50 seconds, until the thing went on shuffle and picked Ckaustrophobic Sting by The Prodigy which actually fit the mood REALLY well. Fun, crazy shit is great to listen to sometimes. Followed by this song We Both Go Down Together by Colin Meloy that i found on a sampler from a Paste album, I think...which sounds eeriely like 'choosing my religion.'
I might do my pop music term paper on how music magazines pick the samplers.
Also, iTunes interface is killing me lately. It's not set up as well as the iPod touch. With that, you can do so much more--for example, when you're on shuffle and hear an artist you want the full album of you can get it pretty easily by clicking the list button on the upper right hand corner. If you click the arrow by the album title in iTunes, it brings You to the store. Goddamn it. That's cause it's free. i'd love to see a music playing program Apple put money into...
(If anyone knows a feature that would fix that--a button or a good program!-- let me know, and then if that's the case, istillloveyouApple! Steve Jobs, Keep it Up Buddy!!!!1)
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